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Antonuzzi

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About Me

I yearn to tell myself about myself--everything I do, I do to please myself. If I write something, it is to be able to read myself--we are constantly building and un-building ourselves. I'm always thinking. Thought is the greatest of pleasures--pleasure itself is really just imagination. With this in mind, I still expect nothing good from men. No treachery, no vileness will ever surprise me. I myself even like being angry; anger enjoys itself. I feel that I will live a very ordinary life in the world no matter what I do, but my life will always be extraordinary to me. I'd make a good shoe shiner, a good cab driver, a good craftsman of sentences or woodworkings, a good lawyer, there really is no need for me to try to live an extradordinary life.
I won't lie--I like luxury and lavishness, but also simplicity; women and wine, solitude and society, seclusion and travel, winter and summer, snow and roses, calm and storm; I like to love, I like to hate. Every contradiction, every absurdity, every folly--I harbor them all!
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My Interests

writing, reading, literature, poetry, vintage Italian scooters (Lambrettas), aesthetics, friends, enemies, music, after parties, Futurism, Transatlanticism, Anglophilia, MODernism, the 1960's, Fernando Pessoa, Tamara De Lempicka, learning Hangul, Korea/Korean food and culture, Shakespeare, punk rock, scooter rallies, travelling, , the Brooklyn Bridge, Italia, soccer (NY RedBull and Atalanta BC!) NYC, urban education, teaching, pantomime, 2-stroke tuning, re-inventing, getting lost.

I'd like to meet:



*UHURA*

Music:

reggae, dub, ska, rocksteady, punk rock, some brit-pop, soul, old blues and country, and yeah, and uh...some KPOP

Movies:

JAMES BOND FILMS
BOLLYWOOD
CARTOONS

Television:

*I don't own a television any more, but when I did I used to watch* Seinfeld, The Simpsons, and Jeopardy

Books:

Leaves of Grass--Walt Whitman, Women In Love--D.H. Lawrence, Still Life With Woodpecker--Tom Robbins, Lolita & Invitation to a Beheading--Vladimir Nabokov, Paterson--William Carlos Williams, The Bridge--Hart Crane, In Praise We Enter & Portable Winter--Joe fuckin' Weil, The Odyssey--Homer, A Good Man is Hard to Find--Flannery O'Connor, Hamlet--Shakespeare, The Labyrinth--Jorge Luis Borges, A Clockwork Orange--Anthony Burgess, American Beer, The Wanderers--Richard Price, P.B. Shelley, Coleridge, the short stories of Anton Chekhov...too many others,The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

Heroes:

A Hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich

My Blog

Are You Ever Gonna Forget Me?

             Anthony Tam is one of those students who's become a favorite of mine.  In September we started off on the wrong foot, possibly e...
Posted by Antonuzzi on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:19:00 PST

WAIT

     Kafka had "Wartezeit", German for "wait" written over his writing desk.  He put it up there to remind him that he must wait for his subconscious to bring to surface the s...
Posted by Antonuzzi on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:15:00 PST

The World is Not Enough (it’s never enough)

     Still awake--I haven't slept.  The stress of having so much to do, yet being unable to do any of it has gotten to me.  I yearn to stare off into space, to be lazy an...
Posted by Antonuzzi on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:11:00 PST

The Writing Life

"I hate this jacket--it's so ugly.  I only wear this jacket when it rains." said Erin today when we were eating lunch at the Comfort Diner.   According to Erik Erikson, it is this time of li...
Posted by Antonuzzi on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:34:00 PST

Men and Women

Despite both claiming that they don't understand each other, Men and Women know one another very well actually; it's just that after knowing the ways of one another, they'd rather not know one another...
Posted by Antonuzzi on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:50:00 PST

The Catcher on the R

R Train to Bay Ridge, 1:05pm      There's just something about the boy across the way from me on this subway car; something about how he just sits there reading "The Catcher in the...
Posted by Antonuzzi on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:58:00 PST

Philip Roth’s "Goodbye Columbus"

     Re-reading Philip Roth's Goodbye Columbus I am reminded of what incredible prose sounds like.  Everything, from his beautiful  descriptive passages, to his subtle in...
Posted by Antonuzzi on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:46:00 PST

Ovid’s "Art of Love"

     While I was attending a Classical Roman Poetry class in one of my last semesters at Rutgers, I remember my professor showing the class an article about how modern lovers ...
Posted by Antonuzzi on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:36:00 PST

Happiness

     For a change I feel that I can honestly say that I am happy--authentically happy...like really really happy.  I feel blessed to be where I am and doing what I am doing.&n...
Posted by Antonuzzi on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:00:00 PST

Bay Ridge Scene

Bay Ridge Scene July 29th, 2007 5pm                Despite the rain, the sun shines bright between the clouds.  I think of how down her...
Posted by Antonuzzi on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:35:00 PST