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benjamin charles

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About Me

i use my hands to smash drums and draw pictures and write till my fingers are sore. i am driven to give birth to some form of creativity every day. i use my eyes to process information and observe people and to indulge in what i deam "acceptible" entertainment. i like my personal space but i do not like sleeping alone. my ears listen to music and are more active than my mouth (sometimes). i live in minnesota where 60-75% (?) of all words exchanged refer in some way to the weather. I am cold in the joints and it feels great. i like friends that substitute for pieces of furniture (chairs, beds, shelves, etc). i should have been born in a different solar system lived on a hog farm, lived in lego-land suburb, lived in a dinghy apartment, lived in crumbling small town. would rather live on pluto if only it were a planet. im an oddball. I play in Canaveral and Atomic Annie. I own a pet tortoise named "Sherman". He's nice.

My Interests

hank williams, writing, reading, The Melvins, library book sales!! art, coffee, Paris, religious propaganda, and clanking on my drum kit while screaming my guts out with Canaveral and Atomic Annie

I'd like to meet:

Sharon Tate. Edouard Manet. Henry Miller. Vincent Van Gogh.

Music:

flipper, 13th floor elevators, misfits and cramps, syd barret-era pink floyd, black flag instrumentals, small white, shellac, butthole surfers, unicorn basement, X (wild gift), nomeansno (live), fu manchu, dirtyard, Gumbi

Movies:

I like next to nothing of the new. Im old school. I appreciate film history and consider it high art.

Television:

constant delay of gratification is no way to spend a lifetime

Books:

A Moveable Feast by Hemmingway, Lust for Life by Irving Stone, Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain, Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, The Name of the Rose, The Civil War by Bruce Catton, Kafka Kafka and more Kafka, Albert Camus (stranger & The Fall), private yankee doodle, Bukowski, John Dos Passos (1919), Henry Miller (tropic of cancer). Franz Kafka's diaries 1914-1923.FAVORITES: Vonnegut, Palanhiuk, Howard Zinn, American Psycho, anything by Phillip K. Dick, HENRY MILLER, Hemmingway, european/egyptian/america/art history, art books, books about artists, Shakespeare, Daniel Quinn, clockwork orange, Goethe, Tolkein, Neitzsche, Roal Dahl, poe, Helter Skelter, Honore de Balzac, Dr. seuss, anything about the Black Death, douglas coupland, civil war, holocaust/hitler, manson family, and my all time favorite book "STRANGE STORIES AND AMAZING FACTS" it has everything you need to know in life in it.

Heroes:

William T. Sherman, Heironymous Bosch, Michelangelo, Edouard Manet, Vincent Van Gogh, William Blake, Henri Matisse, EL Greco, Rembrandt, Picasso, Max Ernst, John Heartfeild, Gericault, kiki smith, Erich Von Stroheim, Henry Rollins, Dale Crover, Abe Lincoln, Kent Hrbek and the 1991 Twins, Jacques Lemaire, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Sharon Tate, don luccia

My Blog

Dinosaur Blood

KEEPING GUM IN MOUTH AND OUT OF HAIR She gives me gum. I discard the foil wrapper and chew the gum for awhile. The cinnamon flavor makes it's escape and soon the tasteless rubber flap smacking ...
Posted by benjamin charles on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:17:00 PST

ffffrance

DEC 24 2007 Today even the snowballs have a chance in Hell. Detroit does not sell alcohol from 9pm Dec. 24th until 7am Dec. 26th. I imagine a long line men and women with no income scraping together ...
Posted by benjamin charles on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:37:00 PST

logic of a dream or nightmare

scratch, rubbish.  thinking about words, a buttonhole into a pocket of safety from feeling blue.  je ne comprend pas.  Not going for entertainment this time.  Just words. &nbs...
Posted by benjamin charles on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:30:00 PST

do tell! fixed expression unhinged

SLEEP DIFFICULT, AFFIXED (ANYTHING) UNHINGED   Porch with a brimming cup of decadent, black coffee in hand. Coffee, most certainly not the best choice given the current level of anxiety. Sirens ...
Posted by benjamin charles on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:43:00 PST

keeping the amphibian trail blazed

Times like the smell of the fumes from a urinal cake/magnifying glass meltdown Some things I wrote during the last few daysssss:   KEEPING THE AMPHIBIAN TRAIL BLAZED Freeway lights like dragon f...
Posted by benjamin charles on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:25:00 PST

you have got to be fucking kidding me !?

To no one and everyone in particular: Snot and spit froth forth from me every day And now these words drip wet from the womb in my skull This is not reality? You have got to be fucking kidding me As ...
Posted by benjamin charles on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:55:00 PST

dreams with membranous wings - nnnneeew short fiction

I speak of dreams with membranous wings. I watch dreams about crashing cars, seeing diving meditation in person like a rock and roll concert, I dream of mystics. I have dreams about being a beast. In...
Posted by benjamin charles on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:17:00 PST

american sign language has priority over this machine

egg and cheese sandwhiched between two syrup-drenched pancakes hair pulling, tackling, two people beat with high heels hedonistic, out of control, do not get too old, nursing strange feelings inside, ...
Posted by benjamin charles on Fri, 11 May 2007 05:14:00 PST

un nerving quality of light just before the storm II

DOUBLE NECK GUITAR SOLO my friend timeless mary's house you enter the door, the entry way is empty.  there is a stack of shoe boxes behind the door and several mirrors leaning against the way, re...
Posted by benjamin charles on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:25:00 PST

washing broken dishes or the pocketknife (new short fiction)

I rest in the fetal position with blankets surrounding all parts that would require stability or support against gravity's nightly drag. Sleep beckons, and the tired lines around my eyes melt away li...
Posted by benjamin charles on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:19:00 PST