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Sal Paradise

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About Me


November Spawned a Monster
Swimming through Time..in a Cameo Role
I have a complicated relationship with simplicity..
fiercley independent,
I care about random people, usually too much. I'm loyal and most often to those that usually have no idea. if you have managed to understand it then my aim is True
I remember things and sometimes let you think i don't remember.
I'm a scorpio to the S
I'm a true Vegetarian
Music is my one untainted life force
I make memorable cameos
I often go on tangents..if you can stay with me.. i will return to the center..
"She Stood there, a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved, and deeply woven into my destiny, then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance." - Hermann Hesse - steppenwolf
"I like too many things and get all confused and hung up running from one falling star to another till I drop" -kerouac
"He Held it once he found it.He starts the first chorus then lines up his ideas and then he rises to his fate and has to blow equal to it. All of a sudden somewhere in the middle of the chorus he gets it! Everybody looks up and knows,they listen, he picks it up and carries it.Time stops, he's filling empty space with the substance of our lives. Rememberer's of ideas, rehashes of old blowing. Everybody knows its not the tune that counts but it!"
Jack Kerouac
Time is the reef upon which all our frail mystic ships are wrecked
Who's Your 80s Movie Icon Alter-Ego?
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My Interests



anomalies,
tangents,
intuition,
Jack Kerouac,
Going to shows,
raw unfiltered communication,
wearing an eye patch, finding the path..again,
Music..my one untainted life force,
Existentialism,
literature, Film,
Someone telling me I'm Smiling
& not knowing that I am..
Black Coffee When the EyeLids Open,
Black Tea at Dusk,
Red Wine at Midnight,
opening film sequences,
lullabies
letting go..,
Nostalgia,
magic carpet rides,
mind sparring,
dreaming too much last night,
not speaking,
the girl that got away.
understanding how i got away,
Vegetarian Food, Meeting other vegetarians,
my ipod,
knowing that you understand,
Observing, Mixing Records, Synthesizers,
writing,
Smoke signals,
Taking the road less traveled,
wine, knowing you from afar,
intelligence,
Meeting New friends that can emulate old ones,
the smell of gasoline,
the 15 minutes after a 15 minute nap,
string theory,
trying not to care
-you reading this and thinking its meant for you,
getting over my insomnia,
chips n salsa,
Listening to Angel baseball games on the Radio,
Understanding that I Understand,
Hearts of Space Programs,
Listening to Steve Roach's Structure From Silence
as much as I can.

I'd like to meet:

- its law of attraction
- Kerouac is tops
- Grandparents as kids
- Instant Message: etherwave00
- If you are emotionally weak, do not apply leave me alone
- people who can make intelligent observations
- other music snobs that are open minded
- someone with a flashlight
- if you're someone who never returns the question asked to them..forget it ... I may just walk away from you in midsentence....
- the shadow on the wall that dances like my soul
- people who have social grace, yes manners still mean something.
- really i just like to turn up the music and drink some good red wine,if you can hang well...

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" - Jack Kerouac

Music:

Elliott Smith, the SMITHS,
Wind in the Trees,
TV Static and refrigerator Hums,
the CURE, Bright Eyes,
SLOWDIVE, interpol,
appleseed Cast,
Bob Dylan,
the JAM,
Brian Jonestown Massacre,
the Ramones,
New Order, Nick Cave,
Radio Dept., the Arcade Fire,
Social Distortion,
My Morning Jacket, Ryan Adams,
the FAINT, ulrich schnaus,
the warlocks, Band of Horses,
Mojave 3, Red House Painters,
Velvet Underground & Nico,
Sigur ros, JAWBREAKER,
Cursive, Morrissey,
the National, ladytron,,
buzzcocks
Stellastarr*, MEW,
M83, Kings of Convenience,
Pinback, Shout Out Louds,
Bang Gang, the Stills,
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti,
the Sleepy Jackson, Joy Division,
Death Cab, Postal Service,
Neil Halstead, Mazzy Starr,
Nada Surf, My Bloody Valentine,
Misfits, Stiff Little Fingers,
Spiritualized, the Shins,
Black Heart Procession,
Tiger Army, Film School
Calla, mobius band, the elected,
Starflyer 59, the Doors,
AHA, the Cars,
elvis costello, Leonard Cohen,
yo la tengo, Longwave,
khonnor, Mull Historical Society,
The Notwist, Hood,
Bloc Party,
steve roach, Pete Namlook,
Brian Eno, psychedelic furs,
Mogwai, the DOVES,
Her Space Holiday, matisyahu,
styrofoam, CRANES, LAMB,
Royksopp, the comas,
iggy, rogue wave
Trembling Blue Stars,
Future Bible Heroes,
Jimmy Eat World,
Hall & Oats, Journey
mercury rev, Carissa's Wierd,
the album leaf,
LOW, Magnetic Fields,
the field mice, Sparklehorse,
Hope Sandoval, Lali Puna,
Cass McCombs, Faultline,
Donna Regina, Depeche Mode,
Weezer, the Police,

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind,
once upon a time in america,
mulholland drive,
David Lynch films,
John Hugh's films,
the deer hunter,
Donni Darko,
the Fountain,
Science of Sleep,
Watcher in the Woods,
True Romance,
Lost in Translation,
Midnight Express,
Walk the Line,
before sunrise,
before sunset,
High Fidelity,
Hottest State,
the departed,
Garden State,
Slackers,
requiem for a dream,
CONTACT,
Venice Venice,
Blow,
Trainspotting,
All the Real Girls,
Kicking & Screaming,
Waking Life
Altered States,
SLAM,

Television:

LOST,the Office, Freaks and Geeks, Family Guy, Seinfeld, Friday Night Lights, Conan Obrian, 24, Land of the Lost, American Dad, Wonder Years

Books:

anything by JACK KEROUAC or Hermanne Hesse,
especially On the Road & Steppenwolf,
Salinger, Poe, Ayn Rand, the Celestine Prophecy, CONTACT,
the Subterraneans, Be Here Now, Vonnegut, Big Sur, Off the Road,
Fountainhead, Siddhartha, the Alchemist, High Fidelity,
Some of the Dharma, Brave New World,Riders on the Storm,
Neuromancer, Diet for a New America, the Great Gatsby,
Choose your own adventure books, C.S. Lewis, Irvine Welsh, Bukowski,
Love is a Mixtape, the existential imagination, the Hottest State,
'Noone Gets Out of Here Alive', the Outsiders..stay GOLD..

Heroes:

my beating heart..takes a lickin and keeps on tickin my parents are pretty much the best too

My Blog

Tides

Morbid Mountain MossSoft inviting syrupentangled vines silent goodbyesdecidedisguisedseasons surprise myoh.. my natures designTime stretched Soulsubmerged in detourdeep in sleeptides confidesharing th...
Posted by Sal Paradise on Mon, 15 May 2006 02:48:00 PST

existence

Fragile blown bubble soaked in iridescent blackened ashtorn rarebreed of childin blades of grassgazing towards onwardsin the grey celled nightin its willow weeping agonyin the serene stillnessunder t...
Posted by Sal Paradise on Mon, 15 May 2006 02:42:00 PST

distracted wretch

I'm in Love with My Life and I'm sticking to it-I mean the belief in it. I may be a distracted wretch but I am still a man and I know how to fight and survive, I have before. Gods if not help me, if ...
Posted by Sal Paradise on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Out of sight is always out of mind

Out of sight is always out of mind I think out of mind is out of sight I was just looking for some peace of mind I just couldn't find a peace of mine They say that pride comes just before a fall...
Posted by Sal Paradise on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Iris Telepathies Pt.3 / Eyeliner deep ends

Iris Telepathies Pt.3 / Eyeliner deep ends Iridescent black lagoons Eyeliner deep ends And nostalgias sorrow Translucent waves of sadness Crash Crush Fracture The beating, my being...
Posted by Sal Paradise on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Iris Telepathies Pt.2 / Melodic melancholy

Iris Telepathies Pt.2 / Melodic melancholy IN Tune IN Time My mind IN time, languid lethargic Lagoons of copper window panes Humid hesitant waves of nerve penetrating prisons Mnemoni...
Posted by Sal Paradise on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Iris Telepathies

Iris Telepathies Iris Telepathies Cross Collide Inside Rewind The abyss The pearl Melancholy I miss Aching Eclipse Slow Saddener of self Absorb Black Pillow of despair ...
Posted by Sal Paradise on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

everything goes away from me like that now-

reflections again..i love kerouac "Now She goes- Beautifully with simplicity. It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go. Because everything goes away from me like that now- ...
Posted by Sal Paradise on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST