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THE BETRAYER ASCENDANT

I am here for Friends

About Me

I like restaurants, alfresco style.Alas it is nearly winter, and being incapable of bending the chronos, I shall have to endure many months of brutal, immoderate weather before I can truly enjoy a meal outdoors again.I enjoy the art of conversation, and interaction in general.I wish to be a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles.I'm ham-handed, handling the people I love, but my intentions are always good.I am a blind cave fish.I'm cryptic.I dance exhuberantly when no one's around.Science is the tree of death, and art is the tree of life.My life is one, long, unflinching journey with no destination in sight.I'd rather not find a destination, quite frankly.Luck is trivial, and holds no bars against those who wish to accomplish something, and push their entire force into it.I as well as all men make my own luck.I tend to ramble...Peter forever, Phil never.

My Interests

Articulation, reading, writing, philosophy, music, beauty, ethereal peace, anarchism, b-movies, folk-art, craft shows, the logistics of situations, apples, threading the needle, tall grass, words that end in "ous."

I'd like to meet:

"I've already met her."

Music:

Have Heart, Tom Waits, Acid Mothers Temple, Boards of Canada, Television, Bob Dylan, Les Georges Leningrad, Portishead, Gang of Four, Pavement, Converge, La Quiete, MF Doom, Hellshock, Supertramp, Death, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, The Doors, Radiohead, Dinosaur Jr., Sloan, Rush, Elliott Smith, Matthew Good, Jedi Mind Tricks, Black Sabbath, The Byrds, Lucero, Modest Mouse, Indian Summer, Bad Religion, 9 Shocks Terror, Leftover Crack, Slayer, Rhapsody, The Decemberists, Quo Vadis, Ion Dissonance, Finntroll, Nifelheim, Tragedy, Dizzy Gillespie, Beck, The Blood Brothers, Pierce The Veil, GG Allin, Madball, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Mos Def, Van Morrison, Modern Life is War, Ryan Adams, Mental, Billy Bragg, The Pogues, Daughters, Jimmy Eat World, My Chemical Romance, K'Naan, The Toasters, Thursday, Bloc Party, Wilco, Willie Nelson, The Vandals, Bad Brains, Dayglo Abortions, Born/Dead, The Specials, Body Count, Grandmaster Flash, KRS-One, Sage Francis, Set Your Goals, Screeching Weasal, Fall Out Boy, Belle and Sebastian, Orchid, Electric Wizard, The Dresden Dolls, CocoRosie, Naked City, Fantomas, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Pink Floyd, Skid Row, Public Image Ltd., The New York Dolls, Stars, Van Halen, Yo La Tengo, Deerhoof, The Cure, Celtic Frost, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, The Stone Roses, Interpol, The Pixies, Kraftwerk, Fucked Up, Blind Guardian, The Black Crowes, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Velvet Underground, Anthrax, M83, Agalloch, T. Rex, David Bowie, Protest the Hero, Dissection, Motorhead, KT Tunstall, Broken Social Scene, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sly and the Family Stone, Battles, Wintersleep, Hair Police, Oi Polloi, Cuff The Duke, A Silver Mt. Zion, Jets to Brazil, Bon Jovi, Sonic Youth, Pantera, Rammer, Sacrifice, Immortal, City of Caterpillar, Metallica, Weezer, Off Minor, Dream Theater, The Mars Volta, Smashing Pumpkins, June of 44, The Pogues, Bark Psychosis, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Atheist, The Smiths, Talking Heads, Blondie, Jawbreaker, The Who, Pearl Jam, King Crimson, The Beatles, The Replacements, Neil Young, Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros, Morbid Angel, The Buzzcocks, Emperor, Jimi Hendrix, Ozzy Osbourne, Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Arab on Radar, The Flaming Lips, Spastic Ink, Fuck on the Beach, Frank Zappa, James Brown, Doom, Dillinger Escape Plan, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, George Fredric Handel, Mozart, Thrush Hermit, Joel Plaskett Emergency, Disrupt, Nausea, Luca Turilli, Manowar, Motley Crue, Duran Duran, Devo, In Flames, Crime In Stereo, Collective Soul, Days of the New, Refused, Bright Eyes, Husker Du... holy shit.

Movies:

Annie Hall, Manhattan, Crimes And Misdemeanors, Stardust Memories, Double Indemnity, Citizen Kane, Breakfast At Tiffany's, The Squid And The Whale, Kinsey, Army Of Darkness, My Fair Lady, The Doors, Born On The Fourth Of July, Star Wars, Dr. Strangelove, The Graduate, Goodbye! Lenin, Twelve Angry Men, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Rocky II, Patton, How To Steal A Million Dollars, A Clockwork Orange, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, A Bridge Too Far, Ichi The Killer, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Tommy, Cannibal Holocaust, Clerks, Mallrats, Footloose, Gangs Of New York, Grease, Doctor Zhivago, Batman Returns, V For Vendetta, Friday The 13th, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, The Phantom Of The Opera, Platoon, etc.

Television:

Satellite/cable should be free for subscribers. Advertisers pay networks enough for them to cover supply-costs. It's bad enough to have a large-portion of your subconscious dominated by messages you don't want to have there, but to pay for it is to be more submissive than I think most of us are comfortable with.

Books:

Quite the melange...Franz Kafka, John Steinback, Barbara Kingsolver, Miguel de Cervantes, James Joyce, C.S. Lewis, Noam Chomsky, Joseph Heller, Aldous Huxley, Vladimir Nabokov, Ken Kesey, Voltaire, Dante, Plato, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Thomas More, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jonathan Swift, Friedrich Nietzsche, William Boyd, William Blake, William S. Burroughs, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leo Strauss, Jean-Paul Sartre, T.S. Elliot, George Orwell, Homer, Dylan Thomas, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Virgina Woolf, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Yann Martel, Truman Capote, Jules Verne, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Stephen King, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Orson Welles, Ayn Rand, Leo Tolstoy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury, Lewis Carroll, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, Robert Burns, Luo Guanzhong, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joseph Conrad, Alastair MacLeod, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Bronte, Graham Greene, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Samuel Beckett, Arthur Rimbaud, Arthur Miller, Harper Lee, Lorraine Hansberry, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Tob Robbins, Stan & Jan Berenstein (hehe), Tennessee Williams, Saint Augustine, Gaston Bachelard, Henry Fielding, Robert Graves, D.H. Lawrence, Phillip K. Dick, William Golding, Wally Lamb, Aeschylus, Walt Whitman, Washington Irving, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Mikhail Bulgakov, Boris Pasternak, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Alexander Pushkin, Vasily Grossman, Mikhail Lermontov, Maxim Gorky, Ilya Ilf, Ovid, Plutarch, Lucan, Francisco De Quevedo, Benito Perez Galdos, Gordon Downie, James Douglas Morrison, Thomas Mann, Peter Handke, Herman Hesse, Goethe, P.J. O'Rourke, Jonathan Foer, C.D. Payne, Balzac, William Boyd, Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Edna Ferber, Ernest Buckler, Daphne du Maurier, Jan Wong, Sun-Tzu, Herodotus, John Locke, Julius Caesar, Julian of Norwich, Tacitus, Peter Abelard, Susanna Moodie, Aristotle, Jean de Joinville, Titus Livius Livy, Apollodorus, Wolfram Von Eschenbach, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Charlotte Bronte, Kahlil Gibran, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, e.e. Cummings, Hans Christian Andersen, John Milton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mary Shelley, Alexander Pope, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Keats, Aesop, Matthew Arnold, Lord Byron, Sir Thomas Brown, Kate Chopin, Alexandre Dumas, Stephen Crane, Joseph Addison, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, L. Frank Baum, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Daniel Defoe, Anthony Hope, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Bacon...OH YOU GET IT. I was bored, and felt like making the true paragon of a comprehensive list.

Heroes:

NO ONE. ICONOCLAST.

My Blog

Hahaha

All of my friends who decided to join MySpace after me (I won't name names) have failed MISERABLY at it. Hahahaha. Give me the laurels.
Posted by THE BETRAYER ASCENDANT on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:32:00 PST

FUCK AMHERST

WHERE THE FUCK WAS THE ESSO!?!?!?!? THAT FUCKING PODUNK FUCKING TOWN HAD EVERY OTHER FUCKING SHOP AND FUCKING SERVICEI WANT MY 20 BUX BACK FUCK
Posted by THE BETRAYER ASCENDANT on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:40:00 PST

And they said...

For those who cannot elucidate the meaning of "The Future," by the eminent Leonard Cohen, allow me.Dystopian gravitas.If you still don't understand, repent. -------------------------------------------...
Posted by THE BETRAYER ASCENDANT on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:23:00 PST

On Clinton and the Merits of "My Life"

A bright, shiny ducat to the person who can tell me what necessitates a large-print edition of Bill Clinton's snooze-fest "My Life."The last thing I need to see is that drivel... ENLARGED. Furthermore...
Posted by THE BETRAYER ASCENDANT on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:52:00 PST

One must surmise before they aggrandise (ramble)

I steadily pursue my own aggrandisement while following a precise line of conduct.A complicated way of saying that, when I do things for myself, I don't step over the line.This applies to me and my pe...
Posted by THE BETRAYER ASCENDANT on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:37:00 PST

Clown.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit...
Posted by THE BETRAYER ASCENDANT on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:44:00 PST

Uhhh.

Failing is what gives success flavor. A condiment.It's six in the morning and I'm delirious. Abandon the creeping meatball, kids.Maybe I'm afraid of the podium?I'm writing again. I'm afraid it's still...
Posted by THE BETRAYER ASCENDANT on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:12:00 PST

T2: Judgment Day

Write fifteen statements, intended for different people. Never tell which one corresponds to whom. Write things you've always wanted to tell people.1. You have a heart of gold, and you're far and away...
Posted by THE BETRAYER ASCENDANT on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 05:34:00 PST

Serve it up.

1) What side of the heart do you draw first?I start with the left ventricle...2) Can you dive without plugging your nose?Yes.3) What color is your razor?SILVER SURFER4) What is your blood-type?I hope ...
Posted by THE BETRAYER ASCENDANT on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 11:22:00 PST

Somebody shot the vicar.

Attack life, head-on.It's an idea I espoused long ago.Time for a new take on an old favourite.Sometimes I wish I were more like Nick. When reading or listening to his future plans (he always talks abo...
Posted by THE BETRAYER ASCENDANT on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:45:00 PST