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atif

consciousness... explodes.

About Me

...i cannot pretend...

My Interests

books, drums and percussion, music, painting, sculpting and anything else art related, skateboarding, staying up all night...................

I'd like to meet:

Innana (down in the underworld)

Music:

tool, verve, farflung, kyuss, bjork, the legendary pink dots, the tear garden, mike patton and all his projects, isis, the brian jonestown massacre, dead meadow, the gathering, the misfits, tiger army, mansun, skinny puppy, solitude aeturnus, dalek, cannibal ox, ghost, vent silence, ensan

Movies:

2001: a space odyssey, 12 monkeys, jan svankmajer films, dead man, fight club, devdas (w/ dilip kumar), lord of the bling, the man without a past, akira kurosawa flix, ladislaw starewicz, the warriors, the brothers quay, stanley kubrick flix, time bandits, triplets of belleville, jiri trnka puppet films, nosferatu, lone wolf and cub, spike and mike, transformers the movie (with all the cock rockin' guitar you can't handle)

Television:

cartoons and cartoons

Books:

the master and margarita, 2001: a space odyssey & arthur c. clarke, vladimir nabokov, the wind in the willows, the call of chtulhu & h.p lovecraft, carl jung, r.d. laing, michael sells, joseph campbell, the glass bead game (but not steppenwolf), the illuminatus! trilogy & schrodingers cat, johnny the homicidal maniac, cerebus, milk & cheese, the taqwacores, anything by kafka or ray bradbury, and of course, don quixote

Heroes:

heroes die like everyone else... sometimes worse

My Blog

yellow pt. II

but wait..... there is more. yea verily, my sanity hath not taken flight. although, yes, i do sit around and think about the chicken, sometimes. but there is a point. all too often (especially since m...
Posted by atif on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:27:00 PST

yellow pt. 1

a lot of people have been asking me lately (hmmm, well, maybe not a lot... let's just say :: "it has been asked alot") ::: "why did the chicken cross the road?" well, but first, let me say that i tho...
Posted by atif on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:06:00 PST

the hood

look here, see, i'm not trying to be wierd (weird?) or anything.....however, if the day comes that i pull my head out and become a well and proper ninja, (a stealth ninja, that is) i think that i woul...
Posted by atif on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:34:00 PST

the old ones

so, what exactly is true sincerity, or is there even such a thing among humans??maybe not.... i know that i have trouble being true even to myself. however, i am a poor example to base my thoughts on....
Posted by atif on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:12:00 PST

no difference

it occurs to me that if were to lay out a grid on my glasses which rendered everything pixelated, i might have an easier time with the basic definition of shapes and colors. i could make quiet notes i...
Posted by atif on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:04:00 PST

feel

i promised someone a while back that i would not self-inflict pain upon my person....  however, the good thing about skateboarding is that, sometimes, you fall.... the probability of this increas...
Posted by atif on Mon, 05 Sep 2005 01:42:00 PST

wakeful

i think the only reason i think i stopped smoking cigs is cos i ran out of papers... i'll see tomorrow how this goes again....  i think it will be difficult to paint without smoking though....&nb...
Posted by atif on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:56:00 PST

heaven 0

hi............. so, here we go.........
Posted by atif on Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:26:00 PST