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Julian

I used to want to change the world, now I just want to leave the room with my dignity

About Me


I comment my own history as ridiculous. It’s like Machiavelli rewriting Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It involves a cast of thousands. It should star Charlton Heston... it’s like a pram that’s just been pushed down a hill. It’s always been fiery and tempestuous and really on the edge and it never stops. I don’t think it ever will.
On September 22rd 1966, at 6:28pm and 32 seconds, a bluebottle fly capable of 14,670 wing beats a minute landed on Rue St Vincent, Montmartre. At the same moment, on a restaurant terrace nearby, the wind magically made two glasses dance unseen on a tablecloth. Meanwhile, in a 5th-floor flat, 28 Avenue Trudaine, Paris 9, returning from his best friend's funeral, Eugène Colère erased his name from his address book. At the same moment, a sperm with one Y chromosome, belonging to an unknown Italian teenage boy, made a dash for an egg in his unwed lover. Nine months later, Julian Anthony was born.
I was born as a pantomime horse
Ugly as the sun when he falls to the floor
I was cut from the wreckage one day
This is what I get for being that way
I was conned by a circus hand
Tragic as the son of a superman
"I would die for the stars" she said
This is what I get for my beautiful head
As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll argue with a family member over words best forgiven and forgotten. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.
I've loved alot, did more than my share of debachary, and seen the death of many close friends. some fade in the distance with time, and some will always remain a scar upon me. I carry a razor blade carving on my forhead, given to me from one such dear friend, Rozz Williams. The person who changed my life, so many years ago back in San Francisco. He taught me never to be sorry.
I remember as a child, seeing David Bowie preform "Space Oddity" on the tele, wearing silver glitter. It all started from there, club kid, actor, musician, creator of arts, self made protagonist. I've taught myself to trust all with an open heart, and to never regret anything I've done, only regret things not done.
I like the cheese on top of French Onion Soup, the cracking of Brulee on Creme Brulee. I treasure the fact that I saw the Arena tour of Duran Duran, I admire sharks, and sea turtles and can watch them swim for hours. I like mail from strangers, even the mean and off notes. I adore long drives in night fog, the ocean, new clothes, but vintage shopping, antiques, the blue coloring of a peacock, listening to rain at night, falling asleep to a voice on the phone, and skipping with persons dressed as mascots.
I don't like the word "hate", messyness, angry people or those who yell at others, milk, soda pop, and hot weather.
I don't like to touch public items with bare hands, I pronouce the first "i" in vitamin, with a short sound, and I fall down alot.
I've always been attracted to people who actually think of themselves as stars, people who actually treat life like a film or a book.
There's a lot of shit going on, a lot of sadness in the world, and to actually get something out of it, I think, is the key to life. So trying to find a community within a fucked up world is quite a goal for me. I find the warmth of other people quite a commendable thing to strive for.
And when all your worldly possessions are gathered up in black bin-liners and you've faded away to some nursing home - having inspired people, and made people fall in love with you, it's a really worthwhile thing to do.
And though I create in as many medias as I aquire, I will never call myself an artist. This is a title deemed to you by others.

My Interests

Roller coasters, The ocean, Talented individuals, Fashion, Exotic animals, Picnics, Being read to, Getting lost on long drives...

I'd like to meet:

any and all glittery, shiny, fluffy, fuzzy, self medicated and self mutilating creatures.

Music:

David Bowie, Placebo, Suede, Mandy Moore, Pulp, Bjork, Portishead, Faith and the Muse, Nouvelle Vague, Bats for Lashes, Fiest, Soko, Unkle, Shiny Toy Guns, Muse, Electrovamp, The Ting Tings, Radiohead, IAMX, The Bravery, Robots in Disguise, Leonard Cohen, SoHo Dolls, Shivaree, Republica, Japan, David Sylvian, Tuxedomoon, Visage, Duran Duran, Shriekback, The Bolshoi, Classix Nouveaux, Altered Images, Gary Numan, Arcadia, Depeche Mode, Xmal Deutchland, Dead can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Morcheeba, Emilie Autumn, Sleeper, Garbage, Tori Amos, The Sneakerpimps, Strawberry Switchblade, Mono, Metric, Ivy, Olive, Jem, Transistor, Toyah, Danielle Dax, Sigur Ros, THC, Azure Ray, Crystal Castles, ADULT., The Heart Throbs, The Cranes, Lush, Coil, Clan of Xymox, Human Drama, Dresden Dolls, The Waterboys, New Model Army, Bel Canto, The Azoic, Assembage 23, Apoptygma Berzerk, VNV Nation, Wolfsheim, De/Vision, Beborn Beton, Covenant, And One, Ladytron, New Order, Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Sandie Shaw, Nina Simone, Sarah Brightman, Yma Sumac, Sylvi Alli, Amber Sadoy, Jessica Bowman

Movies:

Betty Blue 37°2 le matin, Gloomy Sunday, Amelie, Siesta, Trouble Every Day, Buffalo 66, Romance and Cigarettes, Smiley Face, Shallow Grave, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Man who Fell to Earth, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Shadow of a Doubt, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Gone with the Wind, Mirrormask, Legend, The Labyrith, City of Lost Children, Dogs in Space, Muriel’s Wedding, Killing Zoe, Leon-The Professional, Trainspotting, Wish You Were Here, Waterland, Damage, Aria, Dangerous Liasons, Donnie Darko, The Fifth Element, eXistenZ, Shawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Lemoney Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events

Television:

Spaced (UK), Couples (UK), Mighty Boosh (UK), I Love Lucy, Seinfield, Gilmore Girls, Popular (canceled), Arrested Development (canceled), Futurama, Pushing Up Daisies, Dead Like Me, Carnival, South Park.

Books:

Nick Bantock's Griffin and Sabine collection, Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, Grahme Greene's The Destructors, Bret Easton Ellis's The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho and Less Than Zero, Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn, Josephine Hart's Damange, Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, Kevyn Aucoin's Making Faces and Face Forward, David LaChapelle's Hotel LaChapelle

Heroes:

Erik Cristides RIP 1997
Rodger Allen Painter aka Rozz Williams RIP 1998
Isreal Medina RIP 1998
DJ Jenn RIP 2005
Schmee RIP 2006
Jaimie Manual RIP 2006
Michelle Winterburn aka Skye RIP 2007
Ann Baumann RIP 2007
Jessah Burks RIP 2008

My Blog

CJs Obituary from Morgan Hill Times

Charles Joseph Kantmann   August 3, 1943 - May 4, 2008 Beloved husband, father, brother, grandfather, uncle, cousin, godfather, and friend to innumerable humans and dogs, Chuck was an accompli...
Posted by Julian on Wed, 14 May 2008 01:07:00 PST

And yet another person in my life passes on.

CJ Kantmann, was the father of the family I grew up next to and together with his kids, Chris, Amie, Carrie, and Hillary, in my hometown of Morgan Hill. He was a second father to me, till my move...
Posted by Julian on Sat, 10 May 2008 10:51:00 PST

Bedroom to rent in open-minded 3 br+2bath house with pool, couple ok

" Bedroom to rent in open-minded 3br+2bath house with pool, couple ok. June 1st.North Hollywood near Burbank (Victory & Cahuenga). Close to freeways: 134, 170, 101, 5; the Redline Subway, and the majo...
Posted by Julian on Fri, 02 May 2008 12:56:00 PST

A mind is terrible thing to med

Take a scene in showing playing cards in quick succession and the person shown has to say what suit they are, but have the spades be red, and hearts be black. Few people would pass.... Experience has...
Posted by Julian on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:49:00 PST

R.I.P. Jessah Burks (Strawberry)

She was found dead in a Best Western Motel April 2nd. She was the girlfriend of my good friend, DJ Thad for 3 years. Which she soon won my heart as wellShe was the sweetest person, that I sp...
Posted by Julian on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:22:00 PST

Dreaming Tree

Standing here The old man said to me Long before these crowded streets Here stood my dreaming tree Below it he would sit For hours at a time Now progress takes away What forever took to fi...
Posted by Julian on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:19:00 PST

Ryme and reason...

Well so here we standBut we stand for nothingMy heart calls to me in my sleepNow can I turn to itCause I’m all locked up in thisDark place -- and I do not knowI’m as good as deadMy head a...
Posted by Julian on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:14:00 PST

I want this!

Mastodon skeleton link on EBay...
Posted by Julian on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:54:00 PST

Poems sent to me.

  If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, "I love her for her smileher lookher way Of speaking gently,for a trick of thought That falls in well wit...
Posted by Julian on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:43:00 PST

My Happy Valentine’s..2 new dinosaurs discovered!

Fossils of New Meat-Eating Dinos FoundThu Feb 14, 2008 12:18 PM ESTCHICAGO  Fossil hunters say they have discovered bones of two massive meat-eating dinosaurs in Africa. In the journal Acta Palaeonto...
Posted by Julian on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:15:00 PST