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Jaded

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About Me

moved here 8 months ago, still feel new. too much time at work, too few martinis. speaking of martinis, they stand for one of the few straight-up pleasures life can offer. one in the afternoon, two..... a manhattan is nice too. which is not to say i'm a cheap date, but possibly an easy one. oops. every morning, different theme, i work in a local cafe, read and write, then spend some afternoon in an office of sorts. paying the bills. there's a view of the city, the bay, part of the lake here that are sometimes stunning from where i live, but then i think, 'wait a minute, what am i doing insdie my apt?' thus, myspace, trying to simply meet some people around... capital hill would be nice since i'm here... just for low pressure hanging out, movies, someone who can stay out ALL night is good, and then can also just chill with a book and not notice the time pass--the two, in one, that's ideal. for some fun but... wait, i'm in the wrong section now....

My Interests

death(having lost)put on his universe / and yawned:it looks like rain / (they've played for timelessness / with chips of when) / that's your;i guess / you'll have to loan me pain / to take the hearse, / see you again. //Love(having found)wound up such pretty toys / as themselves could not know: / the earth tinily whirls; / while daisies grow / (and boys and girls / have whispered thus and so) / and girls with boys / to bed will go, / /// "66" - e.e. cummings (are you kidding me?)

I'd like to meet:

ok, so back on track.... someone who can be irresponsible and fun (not that one necessitates the other) and at the same time is not afraid to pick life's brain and figure out the basic philosophical question: what the fuck am i doing here? seriously. anyone who's willing to engage, drink some coffee, read, watch movies, listen to music--for hours at a time--and explore what it's about--then turn around and ignore whatever meaning there might be to it all, that would be nice. confident is good; overconfident is just about the worst thing i can imagine--though i've been told, a lot, that i come across as that way, or as aloof, my bad, i try, but.--a reader, thinker, listener, totally open minded, liberal at least--i can hang out with conservative if i must (since that's a prereuisite for spending time with my family, sigh, who all live in SLC, UT). too much god is a bad thing. sassy works... what the hell i'm just hoping to meet some people with amazing souls.

Music:

the slackers and the jumpstarts, elvis costello and tom waits, the jam and the who, minor threat-x-dk's-fear-circle jerks-descendents, charles mingus and chet baker, john coltrane and miles davis, monk and prez, most any bebop for that matter, most all reggae but roots reggae above all, counting crows and bob dylan, tribe called quest and beastie boys, 2pac and eminem, yep, it keeps going, this is not a fair question. i think, i might be a music snob, but in an odd way...

Movies:

Brazil - The Godfather 1, 2 - Apocalypse Now - Video Drome - all by Pedro Almodovare - Peter Greeneway - Death by Numbers - The Cook, The Thief, ... - Angel Heart - Holy Grail - Cinema Paradiso - Wim Wenders - My Own Private Idaho - Drugstore Cowboy - Nake Lunch (book too, moreso) - Barton Fink - Raising Arizona - The Great Lubowski - Fisher King - Time Bandits - The Decline of Western Civilization - Dance Craze

Television:

none--but if i could see only The Sopranos, i'd do it.

Books:

tops: Gravity's Rainbow, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Ulysses, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Underworld and Mao II--then generally, all Pynchon, DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, Faulkner, Carpentier, Jose Lezama Lima, dos Passos; poetry: John Ashbery (!), cummings, Richard Wilbur, James Merrill, Frank O'Hara (!).... shit there's too muchnot randomly picked: Louis Althusser's "For Marx," "Lenin and Philosophy," and "Reading Capital," Marx "Capital" v. 1, "The Grundrisse," "Philosophical and Economic Manuscripts," "The German Ideology," Delueze and Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus" and "A Thousand Plateaus," Fredric Jameson's "Late Marxism" and "Marxism and Form," Walter Benjamin "The Arcades Project," Foucault's "The Archeology of Knowledge" and "The Order of Things," then randomly: Franz Kafka Diaries, Vox (Nick Baker), Philosophical Method (Collingwood), A Voice through the Clouds (Welch), William Faulkner: American Writer (Karl), Trainspotting (Welch)Like the bible (but better)--e.e. cummings' Complete Poems

My Blog

bonesick regret...

"Bonesick Regret" --by Hwang Ji-woo (my translation) I am sad. Everyplace, where I have loved, lies in ruins. Bringing you to thoroughgoing ruin while being thoroughly ruined mysel...
Posted by Jaded on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

a fable on the growing threats of rain,

Growing Threats of Rain a Fable It hadnt rained for years in Bangkok, season after season, some thirty odd years of total disrespect for natural order and rhythm. Then I arrived. But, I didn...
Posted by Jaded on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

poem from boston about coffee, swine, cliffs, and joy

"The Boston Common" Jutting silently, stolid against the wispy sky's slate of thronging twilight clouds who glide away to a more pressing engagement than I, my steaming coffee cup, my empty par...
Posted by Jaded on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

still life, wine, man at window

Still life of man, with wine, at window. . . --for k.m.k. Rainy days in Seattle are any days but Boston / in the sun! Almost really, slight of cloud and brisk / of...
Posted by Jaded on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I am the dying king of a fallen dynasty....

it's raining in seattle. this is what i do. here is a translation of a Korean poet whose book i'm doing, to come out early next year. "Pulp Theater" by Hwang Ji-Woo I am the ailing, decre...
Posted by Jaded on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST