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Kevin

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About Me

I made this sculpture based on a part of one of Bernini's fountains at the Piazza Navona in Rome. To see more of my work check out my pics.A Chronosynclastic Infindibulum.This is the Angel Oak just out side of Charleston, SC. It's supposed to be the oldest living thing east of the Mississippi, 1400 years.My Veronichka and the mind-blowingly accurate mural she painted of Michaelangelo's Libyan Sybil from the Sistine ceiling.

My Interests

Fire dance last Christmas Eve in Palenque.The Supernaturals

I'd like to meet:

You reach your destination but alas, there's a lack. You need some compensation to get back in the black. You take a morning paper from the top of the stack and read the situations from the front to the back. The only job that's open needs a man with a knack, so put it right back in the rack, Jack.

Music:

Fountains of Wayne, Pearlfishers, Pernice Brothers, Supernaturals, The Hussy's, Josh Rouse, Daniel Wylie, Kings of Convenience, The Shazam, Ok Go, The Zutons, Arctic Monkeys, Teenage Fanclub, Belle and Sebastian, The Rosenbergs, Candy Butchers, Ivy, Incredible Moses Leroy, Cosmic Rough Riders, Louis Jordan, Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Annette Hanshaw, George Formby, Boswell Sisters, Big Joe TurnerBanana Man

Add to My Profile | More Videos Tally Hall - Do you want a banana? Amos Milburn - Bad, Bad Whiskey!Check out the Boswell Sisters. They're unbelievable.Cab Calloway! Lightly, slightly and politely. Is you allreet? Here's the amazing Annette Hanshaw.Here's George Formby with Two Of Everything. Ethel Waters singing Taking A Chance On Love from Cabin In The Sky. (Don't miss the bit at the end when she almost lets loose!) Louis Armstrong - Dinah (Armstrong towers above the greats!)

Movies:

Shanghai Express, The Rocketeer, My Man Godfrey, Buffalo 66, Holiday, The Man Who Would Be King, High and Low, Lives of the Bengal Lancers, Black Narcissus, Igby Goes Down, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, China Seas, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Rain, The Old Dark House, Pygmalion

Television:

RCA with tubes. Zenith. Sony Trinitron. Kids in the Hall, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Ren and Stimpy, Antiques Road Show, anything on TCM "Would you like to play television?"

Books:

The Dreaded Comparison, Slaughterhouse Five, Night Runners of Bengal, Agony & the Ecstacy, A Princess of Mars, David Copperfield, I am Legend, The Thin Man, The Razor's Edge

Heroes:

Bugs Bunny, Bob Hope, Hawkeye Pierce, Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, C. Aubrey Smith, Mississippi John Hurt, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Charles Laughton, Kurt Vonnegut, Noam Chomsky, Alex Schomburg, Jack Kirby, Ishiro Honda Tamara de Lempika, Carole Lombard, Paul Jacoulet, Laurel and Hardy, George Harrison, Stan Lee..."Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age."

My Blog

Mississippi John Hurt

Born in 1892, and raised in rural Avalon, Mississippi, John Hurt first taught himself to play guitar at the age of 8. His mother occasionally boarded a lodger, by the name of William Henry, who was in...
Posted by Kevin on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:00:00 PST

Why Was Bin Laden Allowed To Escape At Tora Bora?

If Osama Bin laden had been captured or killed back in Nov., 2001 when he was known to be in Tora Bora, the American people's sense of justice, and indeed the world's, would have been greatly appeased...
Posted by Kevin on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:26:00 PST

Remembering Janice Pockett

It was Thursday. That didn't make any difference; it was summer. There was no school so Thursday felt just like any other summer day, practically endless. And summer itself; it went on forever, especi...
Posted by Kevin on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:28:00 PST

Mexican Cow Heads

My son and I were standing on the street in Tulum waiting for my wife, who had gone into a drugstore to get some sun glasses, when suddenly a man with a cow head on his shoulder ran past us and into t...
Posted by Kevin on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:55:00 PST

The Wayback Machine

"We'll just set the Waback Machine to just before the Iraq invasion..."...
Posted by Kevin on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:32:00 PST

The Snake Oil Salesman of San Cristobal

The snake oil salesman with his crowded onlookers,he has snakes and gives a little glimpse.He barks in Spanish and admonishes me, "No photographia!"   But there are photographs&   An...
Posted by Kevin on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:55:00 PST

A Pattern is Forming

Here are some enlightening quotes from our most recent Republican presidents. I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you ...
Posted by Kevin on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:06:00 PST

Bravo Captain Watson!

(The Sea Shepherd dogs a Japanese whaling vessel) Bravo to Captain Paul Watson and his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society volunteers for standing up to illegal Japanese whaling vessels! Their valiant e...
Posted by Kevin on Tue, 29 May 2007 10:18:00 PST

Grinders & Cargo Cults

Ok, so I walk into this place to get a grinder. The place is called Hogan's, you know like Hogan's Heros. I guess that was pretty clever calling it Hogan's 'cause now they've got this association ...
Posted by Kevin on Mon, 28 May 2007 11:47:00 PST