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Richard

In Good Hands

About Me

This is too hard... This "write about yourself and post it on the web" stuff can't compare to a chat-IM-email-snailmail-on-handmade-parchment-exchange between real people. I do, especially, appreciate hand-made parchment. Any letters written on it always go to my personals box, which has nothing to do with any computer. I like great poetry and song lyrics. Movies. Games. Heads. Games with heads. Big Bangs, and Cosmology too. Flyfishing and religion -- have you seen "A River Runs Through It" and I've lunched with the author. Politics is not boring, only politicians are boring. Radical revolutionary world-changing warriors are not boring. Uh, what else is there. Oh yeah, subgenius, pipe-smoking survivor of the 70s and 80s, wizard on the hill, and I had way too much LDS in the sixties, they slipped it into my Dr. Pepper... Spelling is correct...

My Interests

Photography, people, hiking, flyfishing, arts and crafts, herb, herbs, herbology, massage, shiatsu, tai chi, astrology, astronomy, cosmology, heuristics, chess, digital sound waveform interpolation software, games, computer games and computers. An' other stuff. Music died for me in 1981 when I bought my first CD player.

I'd like to meet:

Janet II. Uh, strike that. She comes with raging tempests and I think I've had my fill.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fULtU2NfPQA&feature= user

Music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cpSv2mNhhc is the profile song, and it brings tears to my eyes whenever I hear it; I don't like digitized music; I can hear the digital waveform and it can't compare to the analogue you get with vinyl, live or reel-to-reel; Yes (the best), Jethro Tull, Heart, The Police (before Sting's separation), Lisa Gerard & Dead Can Dance (my mother was singing tenor in Mozart's Requiem while pregnant with me, I love female tenors) AfroCelt, Wassis Diop, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ravi Shankar; these days I'm getting into Shiela Chandra, Blues Traveller and JPopper, bless his newly-skinny ass.

Movies:

GANGS. OF. NEW. YORK. Best movie ever. Also good are the whole damn Godfather trilogy, Greenstreet Hooligans, Lord of the Rings 123, Braveheart, Anne of 1000 Days and Gladiator. Yes, I admit it, Russel Crowe can act for a certain audience. He was also good in an obscure gem called "Romper Stomper". Cincinatti Kid, Cool Hand Luke, Contact, The Matrix, Lion in Winter, Panic Room.

Television:

Only good for target practice. Well, to be fair, I do enjoy the Family Guy, King O'Hill, Simpsons... For that I'll put away my gun...

Books:

"Dawn" by Ocavia Butler; "The Keltiad" by Patricia Kenneally (who got out of there alive, despite Jim...); "Between Good and Evil" by William Grey; "Beyond Good and Evil" by Nietzsche (the first book my dad ever gave me, bless his heart); and last but DEFINITELY not least, "The Practical Critique of Reason" by Immanuel Kant, great reading for anyone with interest in toppling the Ivory Tower neo-fascist intelligentsia.

Heroes:

Roxanne. She had a great ass. Conan. Way before Justice League. Super-Duperman. Oh! You mean REAL heros! Hm. Who, really, is my hero? Mr. Doke from gym class? Oh hell no. Jane Geidl from Vocab & Comp? Possibly. No, really. She was pregnant my senior year and everybody fell in love with the whole emotionality thing... But for real, possibly: KAROL VOJCEK (? VOTIVECJ?? Polish is so goddam hard to spell.) Gawd how do you spell his name. Pope JP II is up for sainthood. May the Vatican be blessed with true and proper insight.

My Blog

low day

Today I put down my cat. That is, I "surrendered" her to the Humane Society. It all started when I decided to take her to the vet to get spayed. Good move, right? Hah. Vets. Fuck'em. The economy being...
Posted by Richard on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:20:00 PST

what we have here, is failure to communicate...

I have the impression, God, that You are not very interested in me. All those Xian Fundamentalists who will spout "God loves you!" are falling on deaf ears, because I just don't believe it. Unles...
Posted by Richard on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:16:00 PST

makes cool cat kids

It's interesting to see the "mean-kitty" guy Osgood treat his sister with such gentility. He'll fight her or any other cat/human within range at the drop of a hat, but when she sits close in the kenne...
Posted by Richard on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:48:00 PST

cool cat mama

You learn about people from animals. * I have the coolest cat mama. She's the adult version of the kitten you see in my piccies section; I'll prolly upload an image of her an her kids. She's got two, ...
Posted by Richard on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:54:00 PST

In the shadow of an owl

On my day off I got up very slowly and crawled out of bed. Still slightly hung-over I rolled a cigarette to smoke outside, but the dog was in the backyard so I just got into my car and jetted. Got som...
Posted by Richard on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:11:00 PST

number nine... number nine... number nine...

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Posted by Richard on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:37:00 PST

Guernica

Guernica is a big part of my whole "dejua-vue" lifestyle. It's a classic Picasso painting, of course, the subject is a Spanish villiage where the German Junkers were divebombing just before WWII. Fran...
Posted by Richard on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:45:00 PST

Check out this video: Guernica

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Posted by Richard on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:09:00 PST

let me explain myself...

Poetry is a thing that can be experienced in ways other than by reading it on paper. Textual poetry is the traditional form, but artists have found many ways to express poetry: visually, by sound, eve...
Posted by Richard on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:14:00 PST

300

I put it there on purpose. It isn't spam. I think it's the next generation of great Greats, like Matrix I, LOTR, and I can't wait to see it. March 9 won't come soon enough.
Posted by Richard on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:33:00 PST