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Soma

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Got some pages from my sketchbook in my pics so check 'em out.

My Interests

Art, (Drawing- figures, portraits, cityscapes, etc, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Tattoos, Sequential Art, etc...) (Painters: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Rubens, Balthus, Lucien Freud, Winslow Homer, Hopper, Kandinsky, Velazquez, Van Gogh,) Gettin serious in the Kitchen, Music, Writing, Literature, Wing Chun Kung Fu, Philosophy, Science (Astronomy, Biology) Botany, Basketball, Guiness, Kentucky Bourbon, Kettle One gimlets, NYC, Travel, Animation

I'd like to meet:

Cool people

Music:

Yo La Tengo, Talking Heads, Mogwai, The Police, The Clash, Cat Power, Joy Division, The Cure, Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Dump, Modest Mouse, Belle And Sebastian, Explosions In The Sky, Bright Eyes, Against Me!, Mono, Johnny Cash, The Kinks, Pillows, The Smiths, Iggy Pop, The Replacements, U2, Cat Stevens, Bowie, The White Stripes, Interpol, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Sea And Cake, The Thermals, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Drake, Iron and Wine, Midnight Oil, Radiohead, Wilco, Al Green, Bach, Beethoven, Jazz, Blues, Hip-Hop,

Movies:

Kurosawa: Seven Samurai, Sanjuro, Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ikiru, Dreams, American Pop, Dark City, Metropolis, Battle Royale, Fight Club, Blade Runner, Rushmore, I Heart Huckabee's, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, 2001, The Shining, Jacob's Ladder, Being John Malkovitch, Shaun of the Dead, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, Dead Alive, Spriggan, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Jin Roh-The Wolf Brigade, Ghost in the Shell, Lord of the Rings (70's animated), Wizards, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Deer Hunter, High Plains Drifter, The Princess Bride, Labrynth, Life of Brian, Brazil, Stop Making Sense, American Splendor, City of Lost Children, Amelie, Altered States, Chariots of Fire, Empire of the Sun, Super Troopers, The Warriors, Office Space, Zardoz

Television:

The Simpsons, Futurama, FLCL (FOOLY COOLY!), Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks, South Park

Books:

The Brothers Karamazov, God's Man, The City, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Tao Te Ching, Cane, Shipwrecks, The Star Thrower, The Firmament of Time, Brave New World, The Doors of Perception, Dune, Soulcatcher, Destination Void, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Fahrenhiet 451, 1984, Slaughterhouse 5, The Lathe of Heaven, A Wizard of Earthsea, Neuromacer, Burning Chrome, Lone Wolf and Cub, Hellboy, Ghost in the Shell, American Splendour, Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, William Blake

Heroes:

Homer J. Simpson, William Blake, Rembrandt, Loren Eisley

My Blog

Bring on The Night

The Police- Friday, August 3rd.  Madison Square Garden.  Happy Valentines' Day to me.
Posted by Soma on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:21:00 PST

Artwork

It's been a while since I've posted any new artwork so I scanned a few images from my sketchbook and a recent watercolor. Most of the new works are studies of sculptures or paintings from the Met...
Posted by Soma on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:46:00 PST

Observation

I wrote this in October on a Monday. ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------It felt so good to cut out of work today.I said I had a headache.It was true, but it fel...
Posted by Soma on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

More SOC...

Its been a long time Its been a long time Its been a dead a long dead time. I'm about to be swallowed by xerox copies and paper-clips. On my way to being bitter. What a waste, an anonymous unive...
Posted by Soma on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Stream of consciousness exercise

People always talk-talking at me.... Like two folks having a conversation- back to back -speaking different languages, or maybe, just gesturing wildly. "What the hell did you say?" "I dont...
Posted by Soma on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My first break (Ha)

I wrote this in a writing class in my senior year at LIU. It was published in the Literary mag: Downtown Brooklyn which almost makes me sound like a legitmate NYC writer. I used to like it a lot. N...
Posted by Soma on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Blah blah blah...mmmm... self-pity

Semi-fiction from last year: The world was against me. This, I realized, had been going on since the moment I woke, but the fact had escaped me, untill now. The night before I had gone to bed after...
Posted by Soma on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

More stuff i wrote a while ago

tap tap night time rain on glass. the window sighs- i stir. hiss of tires, rain on the street -snakes along a cool breath, drawn to warm shadows in deep blue corners. yellow ligh...
Posted by Soma on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

5 summer haiku

Long days, full of sun. Brilliant white clouds, deep blue sky. Naps in the backyard. Girls dressed for summer stroll along Manhattan streets. tank-tops and short skirts. Thunder shakes the r...
Posted by Soma on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST