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Tarantula

Gesticulate Wildly

About Me

He dreams regularly of robbing country houses of their golden candlesticks and riding off into the distance on horseback with his accomplice, Lee Mavers ...

(I'm going to commit suicide on my fortieth birthday.)

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My Interests

LIVEJOURNAL. Weirdos, Peter Pan Syndrome, idiot savants, Punch and Judy, silent villains, crushing on Queen Maleficent, aimlessly schlepping round major U.S. cities, those brief and fading moments of transcendental clarity, showertime epiphanies, segassem lanimilbus, fun with speculums, daydreaming, liquid courage, psychadelic prose, librarians, sexual ambiguity, licking my wounds, raining on parades, being a dick (but mostly on the internet), people watching whilst avoiding eye contact, apologising profusely, dregs, dressing funny, cute shite, felix the cat, esoterica (to a certain extent), stepping on babies, riding the serpent (weeee!), archaic colloquialisms (gee whiz!), parentheses (obviously), affecting english accents 'n' all, taking the piss, linguistics, Japanese literature, jellyfishies, Postmodernism, Romanticism, Dadaism, clever girls, shyness, spontaneity, youth, dreams and dreamers, la luna, la mar, la corrida, matadores, v-words, sleep deprivation, lad culture, winos forever, ninjas, loners, rebels, sordid secrets, seedy situations, depravity, hedonism, schizofreenia, the romance of road flares in the night, belligerence as a virtue, pacing, The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Show, The Raiders, Emo Philips, channeling Morrissey, shinjuu.

I'd like to meet:

Our Kid (God), Michael Jackson, Patrick Stewart, Vincent Gallo, my better half, birds, Mephistopholes, valuable friends, my muse, my DENSITY, Bea Arthur, my maker?, folks to go to shows with, thrifting buddies, allz my intraweb frndzies yeh. And Jeff Mangum, where-e'er he may be.

Music:

MARVIN GAYE, heroin songs, Oasis, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sneaker Pimps, I Am X, Robots In Disguise, anything Chris Corner touches, Michael Jackson, The La's, Elliott Smith, The Smiths/The Moz, Soft Cell, The Autumns, Vincent Gallo, Pulp/Jarvis Cocker, Dntel, Strangulated Beatoffs, Bjork, Jeff Buckley, Duran Duran, My Bloody Valentine/Kevin Shields, Primal Scream, Spiritualized®/Spacemen 3, Brazilian Girls, Roy Orbison, POLYSICS, Afrirampo, Boredoms, Melt Banana, Thelonious Monk, Franz Liszt, Suicide, Autechre, Brian Eno, Nina Simone, Lee Hazlewood, Cock-Ho Twins (as i lovingly refer to them), pre-Covers Record Cat Power, Mogwai, David Bowie, The Stone Roses/Ian Brown, Brotha Lynch Hung, NWA/Eazy-E, Kinky, Ex-Models, Deerhoof, Hella, Numbers, Hayden, Sonic Youth, Tommy february6, The Faint, The Locust, Crass, Swans, Manchester music, Messican music, Bay Area/NorCal raps, populist music, sleazy synthpop records, retard music.

Movies:

Naked, The Man Who Fell To Earth, The Wicker Man, The Elephant Man, Dead Man, The Beaver Trilogy, Buffalo '66, Farewell My Concubine, Ikiru, Fire Walk With Me, Bartleby, The Neverending Story, What Is It?, Freeway, River's Edge, Paper Moon, It's A Wonderful Life, Back To The Future, El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Heathers, Fear And Loathing, Ratcatcher, Last Year At Marienbad, They Live, ROTLD, Cry-Baby, Arizona Dream, Out Of The Blue, Vanishing Point, New Wave Hookers, Tim Burton films (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Ed Wood, and Edward Scisshorhands especially).Directors: Mike Leigh, Tim Burton (doy), Terry Gilliam, Danny Boyle, Nicolas Roeg, David Lynch, Edward D. Wood Jr., Alain Resnais, F.W. Murnau, Tod Browning, John Waters, Alexandro Jodorowsky.

Television:

Duckman, Star Trek, The X-Files, Twin Peaks, The Daily Show, Michael Jackson specials, The Golden Girls, Space Ghost, Kikaida, select episodes of Dr. Who.

Books:

Faust; My Lady Nicotine; Good-bye and Other Stories; The Metamorphosis; The Little White Bird; The Thin Man; The Story of the Eye; Run, Melos!: And Other Stories; The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea; Confessions of a Mask; The Rum Diary; Ratman's Notebooks; The Catcher in the Rye; A Clockwork Orange; All Quiet on the Western Front :(

Heroes:

Our Kid, Our Sacred Virgin, Michael Jackson, Crispin Glover, me mam, Morrissey, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise, Howard Hughes, Janeane Garofalo, Bonnie and Clyde, Traci Lords, Jesus, Atticus Finch (and Boo Radley too, come to think of it), The Buddha. In that order, more or less.

My Blog

Mister Lonely

For not having read a single review from the Cannes premiere a few weeks back, and for only having seen a single frame that went with the Wikipedia entry for it, i think Harmony Korine's new film Mist...
Posted by Jean-Luc Retard on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:17:00 PST

Searching for Jeff Mangum

Here are some places i'd rather be at this moment, in no order:Avery IslandThe Salton Sea(at the bottom of) Jelly Fish LakeNeverlandPortlandatop the SuperstructureActually, dwelling on it, i wish, i l...
Posted by Jean-Luc Retard on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:09:00 PST

200 Bars

Just for kicks, or posterity, or whatever--i think i shall henceforth keep tabs on the music purchases i make. I really can't stop myself. This Tuesday it waaaaas as follows:At The Drive-In -- Relatio...
Posted by Jean-Luc Retard on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:50:00 PST

povre cita

Oh, New York City. I still very much regret not going to Times Square despite being there for New Year's Eve. A great mistake....
Posted by Jean-Luc Retard on Thu, 17 May 2007 01:34:00 PST

Cum one cum all

O my good heavenssssszzzz77777777....~~And yes, i DO own this album.
Posted by Jean-Luc Retard on Fri, 11 May 2007 08:37:00 PST

Where once it was lost...

...my Faith in Bjork hath been restored. Emotional landscapes--how very apt. But really, you had to have been there. Sound + Vision. Flooding the senses. The collective bliss of thousands upo...
Posted by Jean-Luc Retard on Thu, 03 May 2007 04:13:00 PST

A tragedy in two parts

I'm still mourning the loss of the guitar pick Vincent Gallo personally handed to me that one magic night long ago. Dunlop. Tortex. Purple. I lost it last Thursday night whilst, i presume, drunkenly r...
Posted by Jean-Luc Retard on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:10:00 PST

7 (for all mankind)

da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo(Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet)-St. Augustine
Posted by Jean-Luc Retard on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:46:00 PST

wreath of stars

Helen- I feel so far away and yet so near, and only want to say: I'm here! I'm here!Faust- I tremble, faint of breath, can hardly speak; all is a dream, and time and space have fled.Helen- My life see...
Posted by Jean-Luc Retard on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:17:00 PST

Pickle Surprise

---I get so restless these days. New York City did something to me....
Posted by Jean-Luc Retard on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:36:00 PST