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T. Austin

You can't start a fire worried about your little world falling apart.

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To generalize is to be an idiot.
- Wm. Blake

Generality is the enemy of all art.
- Stanislavsky

"I ham a good egg."

Don't blame karma, don't come to me with some ancient Indian curse . . . The way I see it, God wouldn't fuck you up unless you fucked him first.

-Robert Dickerson

I'd like to meet:



The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
-Bertrand Russell

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply.'
But not in those words.

-Woody Allen

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
-H.L. Mencken

Music:



Shane MacGowan and the Popes

David Bowie

Franz Schubert

Nina Simone

Dionne Warwick

David Byrne

Smoke

Louis Prima

The Persuasions

Gilberto Gil

Opal Foxx Quartet

Storm and the Balls

Jerry Harrison

Aimee Mann

Jorge Ben

Tom Jones

Ennio Morricone

Chico Marx

Bernard Herman

Kurt Weill

Big City Sunrise

The Pretenders

Sondheim

Holly Golightly

The Pogues

Daniel Lanois

The Lounge Lizards

Bang on a Can

Carl Perkins

Marissa Monte

Jo Stafford

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

The Strokes

Talking Heads

The Coasters

Cake

Tom Tom Club

Leonard Cohen

Michael Penn

Lotte Lenya

The Nipple Erectors

Lou Reed

John Cale

Patti Smith

Brian Eno

The King

The Boss

The Young Immortals

Sam Cooke

King Crimson

Dion and the Belmonts

Tin Machine

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Interpol

Sergei Prokofiev

Franz Lizst

Deluxe Vaudeville Orchestra

Los Fabulosos Cadillacs

Iggy Pop

Jon Brion

Burt Bacharach

Marianne Faithful

Bjork

Harry Belafonte

Erroll Garner

Rickie Lee Jones

Harry Nilsson

Cake

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

PIL

Tom Waits

Johnny Cash

Kris Kristofferson

The Clash

Dean Martin

Ry Cooder

John Lurie

Movies:


Paris, Texas
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Affliction
Days of Wine and Roses
Mystery Train
Lost in America
Bad Day at Black Rock
Being There
Love and Death
The Fisher King
Down by Law
Talk Radio
The King of Comedy
Network
Swimming to Cambodia
Broadcast News
After Hours
Cache
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Straight to Hell
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Apartment
Requiem for a Dream
My Dinner with Andre
Rear Window
Roger and Me
Marathon Man
Midnight Cowboy
Short Cuts
The Verdict
Magnolia
Time Bandits
Manhattan
Wonder Boys
Rope
Swimming to Cambodia
A Shot in the Dark
Auto Focus
Strangers on a Train
Punch Drunk Love
An Affair to Remember
The Last Temptation of Christ
Drugstore Cowboy
The Deer Hunter
Brazil
Smoke
Irma La Douce
A Simple Plan
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
This is Spinal Tap
Memento
Dawn of the Dead
North by Northwest
Five Easy Pieces
City of Lost Children
Delicatessan
Phantom of the Paradise
Blow Out
Barton Fink
The Third Man
Terms of Endearment
Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
Zelig

Television:



"I find television very educating.
Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

- Groucho Marx

Your results:
You are The Amazing Spider-Man Peter Parker 99.3% Peter Finch 98.6% Matt Murdock 75.1% Pete's Dragon 52% Tony Stark 41.7% Clark Kent 30.4% Peter Keck 21.2% Peter Cetera 3.1% Diana Ross 15.9% Peter Paul and Mary 10.5% Bruce "Panty-Wad" Wayne 2.1% You are intelligent, witty,
a bit geeky and have great
power and responsibility.
You're also guilty as hell
for some unknown reason.
And Christ! You even carry a
camera 24/7!!
Click here to take the "What funny leotards would you be caught dead in" quiz...

Books:


some choice reading
Cards as Weapons by Ricky Jay
The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo
The Magus by John Fowles
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
The Enchiridion by Epictetus
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
A Practical Handbook for the Actor by Melissa Bruder, et. al.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Different Seasons by Stephen King
Three Uses of the Knife by David Mamet
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
. . . and then, these all around swell folks:
Raymond Carver
Tess Gallagher
Paul Schrader
Milan Kundera.
Federico Garcia Lorca.
e.e. cummings.
Theodore Roethke.
Sam Shepard
Tobias Wolffe
William James
Annie Proulx
Leo Tolstoy
Anton Chekhov.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: t
Birthday: december 19
Birthplace: portland, or
Current Location: georgia
Eye Color: blue
Hair Color: brown, sandy
Height: 5'8"
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: adopted (so I do a weekly drawing for this one . . . this week I'm Turkish)
The Shoes You Wore Today: Brown
Your Weakness: ideals
Your Fears: heights,
Your Perfect Pizza: round?
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: make a major decision
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: Do you have a beard, "Tiffany?"
Thoughts First Waking Up: I live here. What the fuck am I doing?
Your Best Physical Feature: hands, eyes?
Your Bedtime: bedtime?
Your Most Missed Memory: domesticity
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: Mac
Single or Group Dates: Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: neither
Chocolate or Vanilla: varies with Heritage (see above)
Cappuccino or Coffee: coffee
Do you Smoke: yes
Do you Swear: twat?
Do you Sing: yes
Do you Shower Daily: yes
Have you Been in Love: yes
Do you want to go to College: again: yes and perpetually: yes
Do you want to get Married: yes
Do you belive in yourself: somebody has to do it
Do you get Motion Sickness: no
Do you think you are Attractive: sometimes
Are you a Health Freak: no
Do you get along with your Parents: very well
Do you like Thunderstorms: yes!
Do you play an Instrument: I am an actor. My body is my instrument. Care to see me play? Heh.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: no
In the past month have you Smoked: yes
In the past month have you been on Drugs: no
In the past month have you gone on a Date: define "date"
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: no
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: yes
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: yes
In the past month have you been on Stage: no
In the past month have you been Dumped: no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been Drunk: yes
Ever been called a Tease: not sure . . . is that the same as "prick"
Ever been Beaten up: yes
Ever Shoplifted: yes
How do you want to Die: what a silly question
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: I'd be happy just growing up.
What country would you most like to Visit: Russia
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: no matter
Favourite Hair Color: makes no nevermind
Short or Long Hair: short (with a long wig close at hand. . . I'm fickle)
Height: no matter
Weight: just not "girthy"
Best Clothing Style: oh I don't know what IS this? you want fetishes? FINE: Catholic Schoolgirl or the Vintage Romanian Millworker look
Number of Drugs I have taken: enough to get you up to speed
Number of CDs I own: lots
Number of Piercings: one. my hole closed over though.
Number of Tattoos: zip
Number of things in my Past I Regret: let's not talk about this right now
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Heroes:



Eric Bogosian, Leo Tolstoy, Johnny Cash, Peter Sellers, Agnus Bowmer , Kurt Weill , Lou Reed, The Marx Brothers including Margaret Dumont , my Grandfather, Ricky Jay, Anton Chekhov, Milan Kundera, Lenny Bruce, John R. Freimann , Raymond Carver, Jim Jarmusch, Benjamin, Linda Wright , The Amazing Spiderman.

goodnight spalding

My Blog

The Betrothed

for helenNadya paced up and down the room for a long time, listening to Granny's crying, before picking up the telegram and reading it. It said that yesterday morning, in Saratov, Aleksander Timofeyi...
Posted by T. Austin on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:18:00 PST

I Can't Forget

For W.B. FarleyI stumbled out of bed, I got ready for the struggle. I smoked a cigarette and I tightened up my gut.I said "This can't be me. Must be my double". And I can't forgetI can't forget I...
Posted by T. Austin on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:59:00 PST

sometimes i am alive because with

sometimes i am alive because withme her alert treelike body sleepswhich i will feel slowly sharpeningbecoming distinct with love slowly,who in my shoulder sinks sweetly teethuntil we shall attain the...
Posted by T. Austin on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:59:00 PST

sweet light

After the winter, grieving and dull,I flourished here all spring.  Sweet light began to fill my chest.  I pulled upa chair.  Sat for hours in front of the sea. Listened to the buoy and ...
Posted by T. Austin on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 02:40:00 PST

A Fishy Affair

Strange as it may sound, the only carp in the pond near General Pantalykin's cottage fell head over heels in love with a holiday visitor, Sonya Mamochkin.  But is that really so very remarkable?&...
Posted by T. Austin on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:52:00 PST

My House

The image of the poet's in the breeze. Canadian geese are flying above the trees.A mist is hanging gently on the lake .My house is very beautiful at night.My friend and teacher occupies a spare room.H...
Posted by T. Austin on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:07:00 PST

The Ballet of the Fifth Year

Where the sea gulls sleep or indeed where they flyIs a place of different traffic. Although IConsider the fishing bay (where I see them dip and curveAnd purely glide) a place that weakens the nerveOf ...
Posted by T. Austin on Sat, 20 May 2006 08:33:00 PST

On the Value of Skepticism

Is it possible to preserve the lover and the poet without preserving the lunatic? In each of us, all three exist in varying degrees. Are they so bound up together that when the one is brought under co...
Posted by T. Austin on Mon, 15 May 2006 03:25:00 PST

Art and Sex

One of the favorite notions of the Puritan mullahs who specialize in this moral pornography is that the sex instinct, if suitably repressed, may be "sublimated" into the higher sorts of idealism, and ...
Posted by T. Austin on Wed, 10 May 2006 11:22:00 PST

Politics and the English Language

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.  Our civi...
Posted by T. Austin on Mon, 08 May 2006 02:12:00 PST