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Zach is speaking again

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About Me

It's my theory that all human connection is a hook-in-the-throat leading to lung cancer, liver failure and sadness. I won't go into its specifics here. I guess I'm on myspace just to meet more people.

My Interests

Cognitive science, Guitar, Philosophy, Politics, Poetry, Religion.

I'd like to meet:

Beautiful girls with curious hair who never wear pony-tails.

Music:

Jimi Hendrix, The Mars Volta, Rasputina, Django Reinhardt, Nirvana, Melt Banana,The Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters, The White Stripes, Albert King, Eric Clapton, Cream, Bob Dylan, The Smashing Pumpkins, Schubert, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, Black Sabbath, B.B King, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Aimee Mann, The Doors, The Sex Pistols, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Los Straitjackets, Mozart, Marylin Manson, Tech N9ne, Buddy Guy, Nuclear Rabbit, Dillinger Escape Plan, Kaki King, Death, Dugan Hos,

Movies:

Oleanna, Manhattan, City of God, The Seventh Seal, The Conversation, The Hairdresser's Husband, The Man on the Train, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, One Hour Photo, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, Exotica, Ready to Wear, The Kid (Charlie Chaplin), Metropolis, Smiles of a Summer Night, Kramer vs. Kramer, Midnight Cowboy, Pinero, Eyes Wide Shut, The Three Colors Trilogy, Punch Drunk Love, Alphaville, Kill Bill 1&2, Scarecrow, Crimes and Misdemeanors, September, Lost in Translation, The Dreamers. The Widow of St. Pierre, Ridicule, Being John Malkovich, Glengarry Glen Ross, House of Games, Things Change, Get Shorty, Intimate Strangers, Amelie, The Company, Battle Royale, Monsier Verdoux, City Lights, A Woman of Paris, Alice, Another Woman, Radio Days, September, Stardust Memories, Annie Hall, Coffee and Cigarettes, Bullets Over Broadway, Everyone Says I Love You, Broadway Danny Rose, Sweet and Lowdown, Melinda and Melinda, Intermission, Magnolia, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Rushmore, I Heart Huckabees, The Graduate, Garden State, Crash (David Cronenberg's and Paul Hagis's movies of the same title), Naked Lunch, Swingers, Made, Apocalypse Now, I actually liked Alexander, You're a Big Boy Now, The Sorrow and The Pity, The Fog of War, Mr. Death, Bowling For Columbine, The Big One, Roger and Me, Farenheit 9/11, Vanity Fair, May, Young Adam, Resevoir Dogs, Trainspotting, Jackie Brown, True Romance, Sin City, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Casino, After Hours, The Daytrippers, Dr. T and the Women, American Beauty, Chinatown, Knife in the Water, Amarcord, La Dolce Vita, La Strada, Mirror, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Best Man, Million Dollar Baby, Monster, The Good Thief, Mona Lisa, Felicia's Journey, The Good Girl, Waking Life, All The Real Girls, Happiness, Talk To Her, Drunken Angel, Baise Moi, Get Shorty, Aria, The Front, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Big Kahuna, Before Night Falls, Assasination Tango, The Apostle, The Dancer Upstairs, Sunshine State, The Long Goodbye, The Maltese Falcon, The Limey, Gangter No. 1, Ed Wood, The Man Who Wasn't There, Love the Hard Way, Pieces of April, Before Sunrise, The Boondock Saints, Mad Dog and Glory, 'Men Named Milo, Women Named Greta,' Basquiat, 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly', A Fistfull of Dollars, Pollack, Band of Outsiders, The Big Sleep, Henry & June, The Last Temptation of Christ, Lord of War, Broken Flowers, A History of Violence, Auggie Rose, The Impostors, Syriana,

Television:

The Sopranos, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Elimidate (when I'm high), The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Unscripted, Da Ali G Show, IFC, Sundance Channel, Carnivale, Real Time with Bill Maher, Rome,

Books:

Women, The Satanic Verses, Midnight's Children, Fury, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Heart of Darkness, Under Western Eyes, Naked Lunch, The Bell Jar, Waiting for Godot, Notes From the Underground, Crime and Punishment, Glengarry Glen Ross, Candide, Plato's Dialogues of Socrates, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Arthur Rimbaud, Seamus Heaney, Dostoevsky, Salman Rushdie, William S. Burroughs, Csezlaw Milosz, Voltaire, Sam Hamill, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Fredrich Nietzche, William Carlos Williams, Kierkegaard, Glengarry Glen Ross, To Have and Have Not,Buddhist texts, the Bible, Koran, Tao Te Ching,Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol; Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics; Ghandi: An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth; Endgame

Heroes:

Woody Allen, Bill Maher, Charles Buckowski, Socrates

My Blog

Tourist Stew

Dark hair, there's a pale glint in her eye;that's moon skin, displayed brazen by the pool side, and she's unattached, she's un-aligned:(and no matter who's in the battle---she's likely to be on the Ot...
Posted by Zach is speaking again on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:15:00 PST

Inter-rogation

He lit his cigarette like he was about to say something big. His mouth opened, as you'd think it would, if he were about to reveal his mind. But he didn't say anything, he just laughed."Your hand's bl...
Posted by Zach is speaking again on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:05:00 PST

A man not a friend, Mesmer

Among these citizens we may number:Those who lie, fuck, cheat, roll the wheel         & nbsp; down a narrow streetthe Spectators: Are not we  &nb...
Posted by Zach is speaking again on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:35:00 PST

a god writes about a dead book

Tho a vase seen lacks flower,is Presence: is flower-intention,not a thing, but is there. Iswhen you look backat what wasn't flower,you see what flower is.Yea one can't think 'to be,' without losi...
Posted by Zach is speaking again on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:31:00 PST

Source

Mind flourishes where you scatter it-Afraid. I am so damn afraid-Obsession, jealousy and shit-Never seen longrass greenerthan on Hell's Hill.Peaceful, all the same.-To fill my pockets full of stones,t...
Posted by Zach is speaking again on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:15:00 PST

Ingenit Purpose

The deep inhale, combusted fragments of Time's harvested soulsinhere in its abyss-----Sam's Oblivion of our ditches & our hideaways.The overman sum & purpose, kind&nbs...
Posted by Zach is speaking again on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:53:00 PST

Whos Calling My Master

So as a dog I abdicate the bonepinch chords, up the neck, perfect---- imperfect fourths:From Dominant to something below----To the Root:Tonic allow myself - no Juniper's Spiritto melt in chest an...
Posted by Zach is speaking again on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:14:00 PST

Chasing Eves

Son, we're finding what's sentient in the soul of sound: That woman, who gracesyr soft creature, enwombs itin that immemorial refuge a girl has but many of themdon't know-When she strokes your hair an...
Posted by Zach is speaking again on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:09:00 PST

Spectrum

I am Incapacity at the Full-mark, that what can be adduced from the Personality of Lack, the insular self which though          Untouched is dirtyLegion, l...
Posted by Zach is speaking again on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:07:00 PST

Winter Digging

Winter DiggingAround this time decomposing Sky, dead nowin the dole of gravity, bequeaths her lifeless substance: Icy now, crystals of what she was.So we accept it, we shovel a grave for her in the ...
Posted by Zach is speaking again on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:03:00 PST