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OLIVER TWIST

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About Me

Everyone has his story about the oddest place to be born. I suppose I was in a quite hurry to check myself out of my mum’s hotel one cold September night in Karlsruhe. The nurse rushed my mum in her bed down the hallway at record-breaking speed to the lift. Whilst the lift churned its way down to the birthing room, I emerged out into the good, bad, and ugly world. Ah, that wondrous aroma of burnt grease from the lift, the stale air of cigarette smoke (people did smoke in the hospitals in Germany back then), the faint fragrance of nurse’s body odour, and the cold and harsh illumination from the fluorescent lamps. What a marvellous and most uplifting way to enter the human race! No wonder I feel I am God or Jesus resurrecting from the mum's womb.
During the formative years, teachers, speech pathologists, school nurses, and various staff at school sometimes snuck a look into my scalp to see whether I carry the Mark of Beast or not. I conspired and masterminded many plots and schemes to take over the world whilst growing up in Germany. The speech pathologists were my favourite target as I had no love for their cruel and unusual approach to speech therapy, their antiseptic-flavoured fingers probing my mouth, their mephitic breath, their impossibly high expectation of us to utter the perfect pronouncation with perfect German accent, etc.
I am reputed to make people bloviate, turn man of a few words into the loquacious talker, pry the most secretive of secret into the open, conspire the most stubborn of stubborn to do what I say. My interrogation sessions are unlike those nefarious dark room with glaring bright lamp shining in your face, faceless men with smoky voices messing with your mind, spent cigarettes on the floor, ok, ok, you get the idea. My classmates took the heat for me because they were too gullible to see it coming. Thenceforward, my expertise as éminence grise. No doubt about the spy organisations desiring my interrogation skills.
I sometimes frighten myself and people with my encyclopædic knowledge of many trivial stuff. My friends guard their credit cards very carefully and keep them close to their chests because my eidetic memory proves to be useful many times. I am connoisseur of avant-garde, bizarre, surrealist, experimental stuff, people, places, designs, films, writings, ad infinitum (thanks to the Uranus in Virgo in my natal chart).
I experience lot of paranormal shit that makes Exorcist look tame in comparison (not really but close), and pretty much lot of stuff in my life, including being a deaf waiter and sales associate. Many times do I improvise funny acts and have overacting imaginations. My friends have me instead of Prozac to brighten their mood with my jokes and funny stories.
Ah, here's the result of entering my name in the acronym generator.
O Outrageous
L Lucky
I Innocent
V Vigorous
E Enjoyable
R Relaxed
May your succulent earlobes ever flap about my knees like a thousand wooden pigeons fleeing the local sawmill. Ever so slightly, you remind me of a staircase falling exotically into a sea of spilled macaroni. Cretins and vermin cannot compare with the depths of your lassitude. Your nose hairs scare me. Optical delusions still themselves when you pass by in convexing pomp and sacral trance. Entranced by the bitter harmony of your lips, I gaze beyond reason to find the oasis of your ruptured soul.

My Interests

Art Galleries in Denver, Colorado(especially the opening receptions on First Fridays); Reading books and magazines; Energy and healing work; Dream Intepretation; Painting; Writing; Travelling (Road trips, overseas, camping, etc.); Advocacy and Politics; Films (Indie, foreign, occasional Hollywood); Friends; Typography; Conversations (I love talking with people from different walk of life); Cars (Encyclopædic knowledge and maniac about them!); Avant-Garde, Surrealism, Experimential people and things; Languages; Cooking (not the Mac-&-Cheese box type!) and experimenting with vegan/vegetarian cooking; Dining out with friends

I'd like to meet:

Pretty much everybody from different walk of life.

A friend (or perhaps a lover) possessing a 1963 Studebaker Avanti R3 receives a special attention from me! So do the people who are trafficking in avant-garde...

Music:

I don't listen to music as I am deaf. Yet, I enjoy dancing to the music as long as I can feel (and sometimes hear) the music.

If I'm inflicted upon to listen to the music, I'd say mostly tribal music, drumming, experimental/avant-garde, techno, industrial, and occasionally classicals.

I enjoy Philip Glass Ensemble, too. In Dallas, my deaf friend and I attended the screening of Powaqqatsi with his ensemble playing the score. Being the starving students, we bought the cheapest tickets, meaning the nose-bleed area in the auditorium. The sound was mediocre and film tiny from our vantage point. Once the ensemble commenced, the thundering sound catapulted the people from first three rows and deafened them. We scurried down to stake the claim there. Weird to sit in the middle of empty rows as if the ensemble was performing for two most important people in the world: me and my friend.

Most intense experience of feeling the energy from the speakers! After the show, we felt we had met God...

Movies:

Since my IQ exceeds what is the norm, I like the films that are cerebrally challenging. Bizarre and surreal films are brilliantly plus. Here's the list:
Metropolis, Steam Boy, What the Bleep Do We (K)now? (YOU MUST SEE THIS FILM! YOU'LL NEVER BE THE SAME AFTERWARD!), Mad Max Trilogy (that film trilogy made me obsessed about the rare right-hand drive American cars and Australia!), City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Amelié, Run, Lola, Run, Films by Akira Kurosawa, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Goonies, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Matrix Trilogy, Lord of the Rings Triology, Colour Trilogy (Blue, White, Red), Goonies, Moulin Rouge, Nasty Girl, La Femme Nikta, Dogme 95, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Clockwork Orange, Brazil, Donnie Darko, Memento, Satan's Brew (German), Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Shrek, Shrek 2, Cinema Paradiso, Exocrist, A Fish Called Wanda, Four Weddings and a Funeral, All About Boy, Requiem For A Dream, Bourne Identity, Strange Days, Ronin, American Beauty, Tampopo, Minbo, Adrenaline Drive, Star Wars, Fifth Element, Godfather Trilogy, Taxing Woman, Taxing Woman Returns, Ring (Japanese version), Spirited Away, Ocean's Eleven, Trainspotting, Willy Wonka and Chocolate Factory! (they filmed in a town 20 miles from my parents' home in Germany), Come Undone, ad infinitim.

Television:

No television in my domicile. Doctor's order ..cos I exceed the human threshold of radiation from vegetating out in front of television set too much and absorbing the radiation. Yep, I glow in the dark!
Well, I do have particular favourites if I ever bum at friend's or my brother's house: Real World, Road Rules, Trading Space, Keeping up the Appearance, Are You Being Served, Will and Grace, Star Trek (that vintage campy 1960s variety), Taxicab Confessions, Speed Racer (I gotta have that car! I would even sell my soul for that car!), Cops (I'm fascinated by the mephitic human nature on that programme), Iron Chefs, Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle, Futurama, The Nanny, Tiny Toons (best cartoon ever!), Twin Peaks (I humble before David Lynch, the O Holiness Avant-Garde), Murphy Brown (especially that episode about stupid art patrons blaring out the nonsensial art critiques), Anything But Love (I gotta have that bizarre boss!), and mostly BBC America, TLC, MTV, Discovery Channel, Food Network, Sci-Fi.
Too bad Comast is not carrying the International Channel with morsels of curious and bizarre programmes from Japan. C'mon, Comast, don't be so cheap! Now that I've moved back to Germany, the German television programmes are pretty shitty and don't have lot of subtitles so nothing to see on German tube.

Books:

I devour on the average of four to five books a week so I dunno what to include and exclude without making the list longer than the amazon.com or Library of Congress.
Here's my favourites in no particular order: Greg Iles (Sleep No More will make you paranoid schizophrenic so consider yourself duly warned), Douglas Coupland, Dan Brown (Angels & Dæmons is better than Da Vinci Code), JK Rowling (gimme credit for connecting with my inner child), Ayn Rand (not for faint-headed readers), George Orwell (quite fitting to-day), Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Christopher Rice (ah, he's so adorable! I'll never forget his gentle hand shake!), Franz Kafka, Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum novels for comic relief), virtually all of Calvin & Hobbes books, many non-fiction books on current events, spirituality, softwares, dream interpretations, deafness, cooking, art history, finances, whatever fascinates me.
I also collect wallpaper* magazines, too. Anyone have vintage wallpaper* magazines to give away? I've been good boy this year so lemme have ..em!

Heroes:

Nikola Tesla
Frida Kahlo
Salvador Dalí
Thierry Mugler
Alexander McQueen
Laura Anderson
Muhammand Ali

My Blog

Best Graffiti Writing...

During my recent visit to Munich, I happened to stumble into a typical coffee house which happened to be nameless to protect its innocence and vanity. I also happened to stumble into a typical washroo...
Posted by OLIVER TWIST on Thu, 31 May 2007 11:11:00 PST

Those Unbelievable Dutch Guys!

As most you have known or noticed, I live in Nuremberg, Germany, one of the WM2006 host cities. The advantage is seeing those fans rallying and having the best time of their lives in Marktplatz, Nurem...
Posted by OLIVER TWIST on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:25:00 PST

The latest in saga with my driver's licence mess in Germany...

I had an appointment with the medical specialist per Landratsamt (district office). The specialist thought the whole demand was "Geld- und Zeitverschwenzung" (waste of money and time) because I alread...
Posted by OLIVER TWIST on Thu, 31 May 2007 10:57:00 PST

My fabulous experience with Lamborghini in Paris!

I am certain most of you have known about my little fête in Paris earlier this month. One of my peculiar addictions, er, hobbies is to visit the auto shows to check out the latest in automobiles and t...
Posted by OLIVER TWIST on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:39:00 PST

Let there be love.

Today let there be love. Instead of fear, let there be love. Today when you see a mouse or a bat or a spider or a soldier, let there be love in your heart. You have forgotten the idea that you can lov...
Posted by OLIVER TWIST on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 04:31:00 PST

To 'Marry' or not to 'Marry', That is the Question

(With apologies to William Shakespeare.)This one was taken from a correspondence I wrote to a friend of mine in regard to the gay marriages.Being deaf afforded me another perspective, too. We have to ...
Posted by OLIVER TWIST on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Boxer Briefs in Technicolour!

An invisible hand dragged me into the Gap store on Pearl Street in Boulder! Either it is my angel or the figment of wild imagination. The People's Republic of Boulder is also very keen on maintaining ...
Posted by OLIVER TWIST on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hebeditunious Service at Denny's Restaurant

If I want to torture Queen Elizabeth II into revealing her state secret or into submission, I cannot think of better method than subjecting Her Majesty to eat at the Dennys restaurant. Granted, Denny...
Posted by OLIVER TWIST on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST