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mad cat

it's out there most days and nights, but only a fool would complain

About Me

I'm an antisocial, coffee drinking, comic book artist. Is there any other kind? I book bands and take photos.I am still not getting a cell phone. Stop asking.Madam X and CrewNervous BirdMadam XCatSawl

My Interests

I am interested in things such as: circus life, sea life, undersea life, cat life, DIY music shows and living, punk rock, discovering food (candy) from other countries, creating, surfing, blogging, vermont in the summer, coffee flavored soy milk, touring, booking, photoging, lapping waves, layer cake, reading, sleeping, rice milk but not rice, songs about historical figures, COFFEE.

I'd like to meet:

lolcats, threadless wearers, flickr takers, cuttlefish, Balthrop towns people, Ne'er do Evers, the procrastination nation, coffee drinkers, side show freaks and oddities, Madam X and Crew, Rocketship troopers, Professor Brothers, NO journalists, new schoolers, BAG ladies, Lucia girls, cephilopods, cats and the stuff on them, the story and the sound, Penny and her peacock arcade, Fall boys, the eternal buzz, Lady Stephanie's goats, the dreamland, minutemen, vampirates, exiles in broken land, DIY show makers/goers, those who can do The Kitty Cat Dance, margarita and the master, the sound fix, the anti star bucks, truth tellers and seekers, ZAP members, CHURCH goers, romantic vampires, exit stencil thinkers,

Music:

the ne'er do evers , balthrop, alabama , kyle fischer , bob buckridge , scary mansion , pascal , the tragically hip, james taylor, the BLOW , the minutemen, fIREHOSE, the decemberists, rainer maria, minor threat, gordon downie, mike watt, the EBBB , my bloody valentine, dinosaur jr, le tigre, chris buckridge , rilo kiley, this is my fist , el may , luna, the leader , el alto , kansas state flower , weezer, cake, built to spill, etta james, setting sun , folk implosion, the mountain goats, wire, marcy playground, the wipers, frank black, paul westerburg, john lee hooker, mansfields , walkmen, dan deacon, john coltrane, out of the miasma & sunshower orphans , rocketship park , bill whithers, husker du, mystery of two , morphine, the replacements, jack and the pulpits , witch, fugazi, the adolescents, pillow fighter , paper bells , caithlin de marrais , sebadoh, weezer, trouble books , dick dale and the deltones, creedence clearwater, zombies, the kinks, king of france, tiger cried beef , josh jesty , mission of burma, stella's family affair, soul coughing, butthole surfers, slow/dynamite

Movies:

the princess bride, the philadelphia story, ace ventura pet detective, rushmore, out of africa, serenity, point break, fight club, 12 monkeys, empire records, clue, dark city, tideland, lilo and stitch, the english patient, stray dogs, sleepy hollow, the royal tenebaums, jackass, batman returns, buckaroo bonzai, memento, midnight in the garden of good and evil, confessions of a dangerous mind, big bad swim, indian summer, we jam econo, the virgin suicides, endless summer 2, the prestige, teeth, never cry wolf, out of sight, charlie's angels, seven samurai, groundhog day, big trouble in little china, men in black, goodnight and good luck, american hardcore, evil dead 2, the quick and the dead, spiderman, the fifth element, secretary

Television:

buffy, firefly, jeeves and wooster, angel, northern exposure, sherlock holmes, red dwarf, freaks and geeks, globetrekker,

Books:

hitchhikkers guide to the galaxy, the restaurant at the end of the universe, life the universe and everything, so long and thanks for all the fish, mostly harmless, bunny modern, jitterbug perfume, the tale of benjamin bunny, survivor, cat's cradle, hellboy, even cowgirls get the blues, Y the last man, league of extraordinary gentle men, kabuki, good omens, jailbird, queer, the professor and the madman, bb and p pinc, weetzie bat, our band could be your life, batman: year one, the virgin suicides, bone, cannery row, a princess of mars, my side of the mountain, the complete adventures of sherlock holmes, the aviary, the tale of squirrel nutkin, timequake, skinny legs and all, the bee keepers apprentice, dirk gently's holistic detective agency, the long dark tea time of the soul, v for vendetta, slaughter house five, fear and loathing in las vagas, finding angel juan, another roadside attraction, scott pilgim, the haunting of l, the golden compass, vampirates, travels with charlie, black postcards,

Heroes:

Arther Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Douglas Adams, Mike Watt, D. Boon, George Hurley, Myeck Waters,

My Blog

Long Island Blues

Technically, I live on Long Island.Brooklyn is part of the bigger island, Long Island. But nobody really thinks of it that way.I have been out to the area of Long Island that is called that only once....
Posted by mad cat on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:26:00 PST

fiction

Fiction:"I take the tube from her. Our hands touch, the tips of our fingers touch. Just the tips. But a little spark travels between. I uncap it and spread it on my lips. It burns. As I inhale with th...
Posted by mad cat on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:50:00 PST

My Bloody Valentine

"The air was full of music. So full it seemed there was room for nothing else. And each particle of air seemed to have it's own music, so that as [one] moved his head he heard a new and different musi...
Posted by mad cat on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:11:00 PST

The Fire

While observing Shabbos, you can't ring your neighbor's doorbell.Even if your house is on fire, even if it might spread to theirs.A woman, not Jewish, from three houses down, rings the bell and shouts...
Posted by mad cat on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:15:00 PST

Sometimes I Miss the Quiet and Dark

I woke up way earlier than I was intending today. This is the first morning since being home that I could have slept in a little. Except that I couldn't bc there was street cleaning, garbage trucks, a...
Posted by mad cat on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:36:00 PST

Support the Newfane Commons! Listen to Pete Seeger...

I am sitting on the grass, the setting sun heating my back, listening to The Stockwell Brothers play folk tunes to a lively crowd. Mom and I just ate cold fried chicken, bread, four kinds of salad (po...
Posted by mad cat on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:40:00 PST

Right Now

Right now my life is all about:Being drenched in sunlight as I drink my morning coffee.The humming bird that comes every morning to drink from the flowers we have on the porch and look in at me as I d...
Posted by mad cat on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:21:00 PST

Because I promised...

Here is a little blog containing a little poem I wrote before I left for Vermont.The first part is true the rest is made up.I have the tendency to keep things wholeI like things as they arebut when I ...
Posted by mad cat on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:17:00 PST

A Letter to Chris Carter

August 8th 2008 Brooklyn, NY 10:...
Posted by mad cat on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:45:00 PST

Summer Love

"Summer is like a lost love, you remember the good times and how it used to be and how it made your heart pound and your head hurt and how it was just one long dreamy hazy phantasmagorical blur of adv...
Posted by mad cat on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:53:00 PST