YOU KNOW MY STEEZ:
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OTHERWISE -- public broadcasting, the cleveland public library, film, reading, music, adrien piper, scholarship, marcel duchamp, finding art that makes me cum, living close to the water, perpetual higher education, being my own patron, missing lingua franca magazine, book design, performing, adolf caesar, adrian piper, albert ayler, being a perpetual student, being productive ("production" being whatever helps me sleep at night, whatever helps me not wake up haunted), bill gunn, black tactics, bobby womack, bookforum, cineaction, cineaste, cleveland, cleveland cinemateque, collinwood, colored folks, comfortable poverty, cultural studies, dna level c, duane jones, easy lover, edward said, ego trip, familial animosity, richard feynman, film comment, film geeks, film studies, going for myself now, gonzo porn, hubris, inebriation, the miers-briggs temperament sorter, kara walker, the keirsey temperament sorter, keeping my head above water, intps, laplace transforms, lingua franca, livejournal, lone wolf and cub, lonely christmas, book design, making a wave if i can, making shit happen, marcel duchamp, marleen clark, media studies, missing lingua franca, money for school, montreal, mourning lingua franca, my home, my own home, my video projector, nasa, national suicide day, netflix, nonlinear dynamics, north collinwood, not being hassled, not being hustled, people who buy drinks, plush situations, post-colonial studies, paul mooney, quantum electrodynamics, queer theory, rice milk smoothies, richard feynmann, riding my bike, sam waymon, scholarship, sellouts, shit-faced, stone-drunk, shoes without holes, st. clair heights, statistical mechanics, the collinwood soul group, the emotional marxian critique, the_end of uneccessary politeness, this moment in black history, time alone and unhungry, tracie morris, undercover sellouts, vernacular, wine, and working shit out, and i don't know how i got here, but i sure know what i'm getting.
I'd like to meet:
a living bill gunn . a living maya deren . my own personal george meda . sam waymon .
also, people who, every once in a while, will stay up all night to engage me in long, intense and rigorous conversation, listen to records, watch a movie or two, and maybe drink a little wine. or a lot. ok a lot.
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Music:
alice coltrane (r.i.p. sweet sweet woman), sonny sharrock, onieda, don cherry, black ox orkestar, moodyman, johnny paycheck, funkadelic, bad brains, susie ibarra, silver apples, nina simone, bobby womack, sexual harrasment, lee hazelwood, ike turner, little jimmy scott, willie nelson, infrared beat seekers, dove, iron maiden, prince, black dice, the bomb squad, augustus pablo, fela anikulapo kuti, kk null, reverend glasseye, the smiths, cooper moore, carl orff, snd, kuumba-todie heath, leo smith, sonic youth, liars, the mighty hannibal, serge gainsbourg, zoviet france, muslimgauze, r. kelly, oval, prince far i, big star, john cage, the frost, william hooker, albert ayler (was from cleveland), johnny paycheck, jimmy scott, rare earth, milford graves, a silver mt. zion, anthony braxton, eric b and rakim, larry young, om, sharon jones and the dap-kings, sunny murray, black merda, lee perry, burroughs' cut-ups, sam waymon, cheap trick, greg bandy, outkast, william parker, cymande, sleep, special ed, erland oye, public enemy, merzbow, esg, goblin, jake fields the sheriff, zeni geva, dub, jimmy smith, free jazz, merle haggard, the new music, philipbailey+phillcollins=rnrmagic
Movies:
70's horror, 70's sci-fi, ganja and hess, dawn of the dead, bob le flambuer, the last dragon, over the edge, punishment park, profondo rosso, franz fanon: black skin white masks, night of the hunter, monkey vs. robot, purple noon, to have and to have not, the last angel of history, possession (zulawski), videodrome, contempt, little otik, russian ark, master killer (aka the thirty-six chambers of shaolin), daughters of darkness, punch drunk love, derrida, space is the place, begotten, berlin: symphony of a city, the seven golden vampires, terror firmer, los olvidados, le samourai, the battle of algiers, the big red one, the killing, apeshit (leah gilliam), the conversation, superfuzz, pola x, z, starship troopers, oldboy, treasure island, american splendor, an actor's revenge, the legend of fong sai-yuk, millennium actress, harold and kumar go to white castle, dilwale dulhenia le jayenge, the world of apu, god told me to, the lone wolf and cub series, zardoz, antonioni, wong kar wai, tarkovsky, maya deren, dario argento, tsai ming liang, david cronenberg, kon ichikawa, lloyd kaufman, akira kurosawa, satyajit ray, clair denis, lars von trier, takeshi miike, seijun sezuki, pedro almodovar, alain resnais, peter greenaway, yash chopra, aditya chopra, chris marker, steven soderberg, robert banks, john woo, takeshi kitano, james fotopulos, john carpenter, luis bunel, nagisa oshima, hou hsiao-hsien, olivier assayas, julio medem, sam fuller, john stagliano, king hu, antonioni, stanley kubrick, hiyao miyazaki, larry cohen, catherine breillat, peter watkins, anything troma
Television:
homicide: life on the street, babylon 5, dragonball z, video psychotherapy, big chuck and lil john, superhost, the ghoul, cinemax after dark (circa 1986), iron chef, the wire, the muppet show, pbs reality shows on dvd, art:21 -- i tend to watch tv on dvd -- from netflix or the cleveland public library.
Books:
the motion of light in water, representations of the intellectual, hogg, times square red time square blue, erasure (percival everrett), orientalism, all the rest have died, rhinestone sharecropping, the watchmen, from hell, the pillow book of sei shonagon, charles bukowski, william burroughs, jorge luis borges, bill gunn, samuel r. delany, edward said, dennis cooper, grant morrison, hilton als, robert parker, junichiro tanizaki, franciose verges, franz fanon, alan moore, gilles deluze, vladimir nabokov, tricia rose, robert parker, phillp roth, kobena mercer, judith butler, joseph conrad, jean-piere melville, jane austen, david macey, hilton als, film diaries, comprehensive critical bios, critical cultural studies, science fiction, detective fiction, comics, plenty of magazines
