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About Me

I write, a lot, it's what I do to maintain some semblance of sanity. I try to take photographs of interesting shit that I see. I skate on occasion. I am an Anarchist, and I really try not to circle the 'A' in Asshole. I read, a lot, and a diverse bunch of books. I live in Minneapolis. If you see me in a bar feel free to come talk to me, provided the conversation is interesting, otherwise I'll just be annoyed - and I'll tell you that. I study Religion and Cultural Anthropology with a focus on the marginalized religions and sub-cultures of the world; I am going back to school to study these (...eventually). I'm a one time (or another): Pentecostal Born-Again Christian, Heroin Addict, Straight-Edge, Vegan, Miserable Fuck; now I'm just a Bastard. I play bass in a band called War//Plague ; We just recorded a 3 song demo at the House of Misery and it was fucking great! I also just released the first issue of "The Last Words of a Fucking Asshole" zine. I'm sure to make more, and soon because it was fucking fun! Copies are $1, ask me how to get one.

My Interests

Challenging the current social/economic/political/environmental norms. Challenging my own world of bullshit. I study and focus a lot of energy learning about these things: World Religions, Cultural Anthropology, Mycology, Environmentalism, History, Labor Studies, Situationism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Psychology, Anarchism, My Own Personal Neurosis and Anxiety. I'm also an expert at having Existential Crises. Writing, reading, photography, art of all sorts, music. Friends. Talking to random people on the streets. Beer. Altered States of Consciousness (both chemically induced and physical/psychological methods).

I'd like to meet:

Robert Anton Wilson. Comandanta Ramona. Emma Goldman. Arthur Rimbaud. Lenny Bruce. William S. Burroughs. Jack Black (not the actor, dolt, the yegg). Herman Hesse. (All dead, but not forgotten)

Music:

Currently: Pig Destroyer - Prowler In the Yard LP. Iron Lung - Sexless/No Sex LP. Leadbelly - The Legacy of Leadbelly LP. Big Black - Songs About Fucking LP. The Crystal Method - Legion of Boom LP. The Mob - Let the Tribe Increase LP. Nausea - Cybergod 7".

Movies:

(Terry Gilliam) Brazil. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Twelve Monkeys. (David Cronenberg) Naked Lunch. VideoDrome. (Alejandro Jodorowsky) Holy Mountain. El Topo. (Kenneth Anger) Lucifer Rising. Scorpio Rising. Invocation of My Demon Brother. Fireworks. (Takeshi Miike) Audition. Fudoh: The Next Generation. Gozu. Ichi The Killer. (Jim Jarmusch) Dead Man. Ghost Dog. Down By Law. (Quinten Tarintino) Pulp Fiction. Reservoir Dogs. (Mario Bava) Danger:Diabolik. Blood and Black Lace. (The Cohen Brothers) Barton Fink. Millers Crossing. (Neil Jordan) The Crying Game. Breakfast on Pluto. (Chan-wook Park) Oldboy. Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance. Lady Vengeance. (Sam Peckinpah) Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. The Wild Bunch. Straw Dogs. (Akira Kurosawa) Yojimbo. Seven Samurai. Hidden Fortress. (Toby Hooper) Texas Chainsaw Massacre. (John Gulager) Feast (RÃ©my Belvaux RIP) Man Bites Dog. (Rick Rowley) Fourth World War. I love Pinky Violence and girl gang (normal and biker) and women revenge films. Stuff like: Thriller a Cruel Picture, Sex & Fury, Female Yakuza Tale, Zero Woman, Lady Snowblood, She-Devil's on Wheels, Psycho A Go-Go, and so on. I'm a huge Herschell Gordon Lewis fan, he's fucking amazing. I Drink Your Blood. Werewolves on Wheels. Any movie from the 60's or 70's involving Bikers, Satanists, Werewolves, Witchcraft, or Copious Amounts of Drugs.

Television:

MST3K. Lost. Metalocalypse. Outer Limits. Twilight Zone. Kung Fu. Simpsons. Futurama.

Books:

I read my fucking face off. Seriously, I sleep in a Library. Here's a small list of authors I love: Arthur Rimbaud. Aldous Huxley. Kurt Vonnegut. Robert Anton Wilson. Henry David Thoreau. George Orwell. Herman Hesse. Emma Goldman. Henry Miller. Ursula Le Guin. William S. Burroughs. Howard Zinn. Simon Dwyer. Adam Parfrey. Donna Kossy. Raoul Vangiem. Guy Debord. Katherine Dunn. Grant Morrison. Alan Moore. Neil Gaiman. Aleister Crowley. Jules Verne. Hunter S. Thompson. Peter Kropotkin. Terence McKenna. I like most books published by, but not limited to, these publishing houses: Feral House, AK Press, Nabat Books, Disinformation, Charles H. Kerr Publishing, Autonomedia, The Non-Shitty New Falcon Press stuff, City Lights, Black Sparrow Press, CAL Press, 7 Stories, Soft Skull, Crimethinc Collective, and so on. I like books written by criminals, losers, junkies, the sad and downtrodden, people who fail, outlaws, renegades, those who feel like foreigners in their own land, the beaten down, people who see the possibility of a different world.

Heroes:

Donna Kossy! John Brown, Lenny Bruce. William S. Burroughs, Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, Leonard Peltier, Kurt Vonnegut, Zapatistas, The SI, Black Mask.

My Blog

Zine!

So I'm doing a zine. It will be done today and it's called "The Last Words of a Fucking Asshole." 16 pages long, it is full of me writing about different topics. Basically, it is my blogs with a bi...
Posted by Sunshine Sam! on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:25:00 PST

The Most Powerful Hallucinatory Substance Known To Man...

I have dreams; fucking tons of them. I have warehouse spaces in my head full of dreams: impossible, irreverent, unrealized, unknown, from the margins of the psyche all the way to the most primal desi...
Posted by Sunshine Sam! on Mon, 26 May 2008 03:34:00 PST

The Assault on Notre Dame.

"Today, Easter Day of the Holy Year, here under the emblem of Notre Dame of Paris, I accuse the universal Catholic Church of the lethal diversion of our living strength towards an empty heaven. I acc...
Posted by Sunshine Sam! on Sun, 18 May 2008 08:49:00 PST

I think I broke my soul

Timid. Maladjusted. Unsure. Blind. Redemptive. Frustrated. Obscured.To go off on a tangent - at this juncture - about how much displeasure I cause myself seems like a poor choice. Everyon...
Posted by Sunshine Sam! on Tue, 06 May 2008 11:11:00 PST

Yet another pain in my ass.

I completely and totally hate the smell of bin-fire smoke once I am away from the fire. That smell that just lingers in you clothes and hair and soul. I totally hate it. I don't want to have to was...
Posted by Sunshine Sam! on Sun, 04 May 2008 12:26:00 PST

If eating shit is what gets the job done...

then I really live in a buffet of the stuff!I start to truly question my own selfish motives - once out of any given situation. It must be too much to consider my actions and their consequences when ...
Posted by Sunshine Sam! on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:42:00 PST

What can you prove?

And who can you convince with said proof?Fuck it.I'm goddamn exhausted. Life is wearing me down and I feel no sanctuary from it at the given moment. Those things which used to offer me some reprieve...
Posted by Sunshine Sam! on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:55:00 PST

Who are you???

Shit, it's amazing outside. I went for a two hour bike-ride and it pretty much made my day. Things got weird, however, when I realized that I hadn't yet eaten. I woke up, showered, thought about ea...
Posted by Sunshine Sam! on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:24:00 PST

Wind and rain, pleasure, pain?

I got myself a fucking job. So watch yo back, fools. I’ll, from here on out, be known as a worker of the Ecopolitian Restaurant. Yep, you heard me right, slingin’ raw foods like it&rsqu...
Posted by Sunshine Sam! on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:51:00 PST

Art-core!

I rode my bike in the rain today, and it pretty much blew my mind. I walked around for a bit and that helped clear my head; life is often a confusing and nauseating thing, it’s really a wonder ...
Posted by Sunshine Sam! on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:00:00 PST