In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.-- Rumi
I'd like to meet:
The Genius of the Crowd
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day
and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love
beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average
but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect
like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock
their finest art
-- c.b.
Music:
post punk, no-wave, rock-n-fucking-roll, ethereal, shoegaze, death rock, post rock, industrial, experimental, new wave, punk, folk, indie, IDM, noise, hip-hop, electroclash, opera, baroque, classical. I squeal whenever i hear a song with kazoos, cow bells, or handclaps. I am a DJ and general manager at KCPR . I like too many bands to list bands, so I just go with genres.
Movies:
Alien(s), Manchurian Candidate, Dr Strangelove, How To Get Ahead in Advertising, Nightmare Before Xmas, Akira, Seven Samuri, Brazil, Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Boondock Saints, Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, Dead Alive, Meet the Feebles, Faust, The Princess Bride, Rear Window, Psycho, The Third Man, The Exorcist, Maniac, Bloodsucking Pharoahs in Pittsburg, Star Wars Trilogy, Bubba Ho-Tep, Tron, Say Anything, Better Off Dead, Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, Young Frankenstein, Frankenstein, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Dr. Strangelove, Dial M for Murder, Snatch, Godfather I & II, Good Fellas, Casino, Heat, Brazil, The Fisher King
Television:
I don't have a TV, but I will watch things on DVD: Twin Peaks, ..aries about history or animals, Aquateen Hunger Force, Kids in the Hall, Space Ghost, Invader Zim. I am a recent Arrested Development convert.
Books:
Vonnegut, Poe, Faulkner, Kafka, Wallace, Morrison, Tolkien, Asimov, Bradbury, Herbert, Bukowski, Dahl, Comics, Camus, Capote, Lawrence, Wilde, Orwell, Shakespeare. There are more, i'm just lazy.
Heroes:
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. -- KV
