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Richard

...things, which we feel to be so terrifically true, that it were all but madness for any good man,

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Whoever life drops in my lap.

Music:

Folk, grunge, psychedelic, cabaret, classic rock, jazz, indie, soul, blues, some hip hop, and just about anything offbeat .

Movies:

Interesting dialogue , good acting, and fun crime flicks, please .

Television:

Drop it.

Books:

Currently : The Sun also Rises, In Sierra Leone, Walter Benjamin's Grave, Untouchable. Previously: The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña, Fight Club, Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Choke, White Teeth, Woodcuts of Women, Muy Macho, Breaking Open The Head , Beloved, Ishmael, The Story of B, Iron John, Fahrenheit 451, The Intimate Economies of Bangkok, The Great Gatsby, Dress Your Family in Denim and Cordurroy, All Quiet on the Western Front, Jack Faust, The Massacre at El Mozote, short stories by H.P. Lovecraft , a few of Shakespearre's plays.

Heroes:

Viktor Frankl, Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, and Chuck Palahniuk...

My Blog

Report From New York

New Orleans -- Beautiful town, and I think very much that I will be returning there over the summer, to work with Common Ground. I gutted houses for two days, and by all accounts, landed tremendously ...
Posted by Richard on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:34:00 PST

Survey Dump

Rather than clogging up the bulletin board with this shit, I'm going to post any survey I'm actually lame enough to take in this blog. If you're BADASS enough to be someone who reads my blog, you will...
Posted by Richard on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 04:27:00 PST

Honeysuckle and Hatred

Current Mood: Bitter, and Exhausted .Music: "Good Golly Miss Molly" by Little RichardFeel the envy. I once read that no emotion can make you feel as degraded and alone as envy. The complete uncertaint...
Posted by Richard on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:42:00 PST

Report From Santa Cruz

(Please do not read this if you have ever uttered the words "TMI." Get over it. You've been warned)Well, I'm back from Transfer student orientation at UCSC. Oh man. Deer everywhere, and I even passed ...
Posted by Richard on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:55:00 PST

Baby, baby, these days, It's enough.

  Current Mood: THE CLAW  I'll just cut to the chase. The moral of the story is "Let Go of It." As in: "...
Posted by Richard on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:49:00 PST

My Old Blurbs

I didn't want to lose all this writing, so I'm putting it here. "About me" I've gotta be 40 in three years, and I'm all ready ~way~ behind schedule. I still need to fall in love and have my heart bro...
Posted by Richard on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:08:00 PST

Delegation Mitigation African Nation Demonstration Organization Rumination

So, this last sunday, I went to a little demonstration at my church. It was the CROP walk, which probably stood for something else, but pretty much amounts to Caring for Really Opressed People. Essent...
Posted by Richard on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:55:00 PST

Change Now. Now.

Ugh, I'm sick of this little boy garbage.  I'm tired of being a kid. Porn, phone sex, weed, unemployment and video games.  It's over. It needs to end now. All ready working on all of it, but...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

FUCK

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. Immature, I know. Fuck you, too. Debt is a shitty, shitty feeling. Yeah, I know, everyone has debt. That's the way life works: You go to school, you get ...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

mechanical bullshit.

You investigate yourself. You look through all the things you have in your room. Inventory. Examination of one's, you know, crap. These are the things that make you pathetic. Or strong, or whatever. I...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST