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shell station

way to tell me that you signed me out last night, josh!

About Me

"His own heart seemed to him to be much like an arrow stripped of the flashing white feathers that gave it direction."

-Yukio Mishima

My Interests

bustin' toofs, riding bikes, choose your own adventure books, typewriters, giant beetles, sperm whale attacking giant squids, human anatomy, psychedelic owls, those little sea monsters on old world maps

Music:

antioch arrow, gang of four, brian eno, flin flon, lali puna, wire, mission of burma, the fall, magnetic fields, pram, david bowie, t.rex, new order, faust, john's children, the pop group, pere ubu, mum, can, syd barrett, tubeway army, young marble giants, stereo total, serge gainsbourg, pink mountaintops, silver apples

Movies:

akira kurosawa's dreams, happiness of the katakuris, woman in the dunes, kwaidan, deep red, harold and maude, the graduate, royal tennenbaums, man who fell to earth, battle royale, red sorghum, breaking away

Books:

kobo abe, kenzaburo oe, john fante, dave eggers, charles bukowski, philip pullman, michel foucault, jorge luis borges, howard zinn, william burroughs, william t. vollmann, thomas pynchon, richard brautigan, david sedaris, yukio mishima, haruki murakami, david foster wallace, ken kesey, vladimir nabokov, italo calvino, j.d. salinger, etc.

Heroes:

all my friends in the cities i've lived!royal oak, mi. taylor, mi. kalamazoo, mi. new brunswick, nj. gainesville, fl. richmond, va. chicago, il.

My Blog

because i can't stop giggling...

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Posted by shell station on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:41:00 PST

blood on my bike & staples in my scalp

here's a quick check list of last night's events:1. wiped out on my bike2. hit my head on the pavement3. bled all over damen & division4. got rescued by josh & jon (my heros)5. sat in the ER at s...
Posted by shell station on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:55:00 PST

(for those of you who haven't seen this yet)

just spreading a little holiday cheer...p.s. - sorry i'm such a shitty camera man, er, woman....
Posted by shell station on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:30:00 PST

raw with love by charles bukowski

little dark girl with kind eyes when it comes time to use the knife I won't flinch and i won't blame you, as I drive along the shore alone as the palms wave, the ugly heavy palms, as the living does n...
Posted by shell station on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:50:00 PST

open up a few corpses...

is my favorite chapter (thus far) in my new book:The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perceptionby Michel Foucaulti don't usually read a lot of philosophy, i'm the first to admit having...
Posted by shell station on Sun, 14 May 2006 02:39:00 PST

architeuthis!

alright, so i started a new book last night, "the search for the giant squid: the biology and mythology of the world's most elusive sea creature" by richard ellis. just as i cracked it open there wa...
Posted by shell station on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:17:00 PST

my vinyl collection

abc diablo - last... ac/dc - back in black add n to (x) - add insult to injury adult. - dispassionate furniture ep adult. - hand to phone ep adult. - don't you stop remix ep adult. - nausea ep ...
Posted by shell station on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i think i found my next tattoo!

i was thinking a chest piece without the words:
Posted by shell station on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST