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Chip

Hinting at the shape of monsters to come...

About Me

"90 percent of life is just showing up", Woody Allen once quipped. As of late, I've personally adjusted that credo to "90 percent of life is just getting up". Hopefully, the other 10 percent involves coffee and some occasional brief nudity. Thankfully, I just discovered the "no shitty bands" option on this thing.I sure do love Denny Digit... .. width="425" height="350" What the hell's wrong with you kids?

My Interests

Yoga, mainly ashtanga based vinyasa. Doing my radio show "Strictly Butter" on KFAI 90.3/106.7FM, every Saturday night from 1PM to 1AM. It's true, i am indeed the notorious Norton Fortune. Vipassana meditation.

I'd like to meet:

When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face;And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.-- William Butler YeatsMy World Visitor Map!

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Music:

Stooges, MC5, Mission Of Burma, Augustus Pablo, Glen Brown, King Tubby, Scratch the Upsetter and all heavy dub pressure, Dubstep: this is the fucking shit right now! (Youngsta, Loefah, Digital Myztiks, Vex'd, DJ Distance), Rhythm & Sound, Trans Am, Black Taj, Golden, Oneida, The Smiths, Tones On Tail, SunnO))), Earth, Slim Harpo, Dominik Eulberg, Kraftwerk, Neu, Joy Division, Gang of Four, Birthday Party, PIL, Slits, Raincoats, A Certain Ratio, Meat Puppets, Scott Walker, John and Alice Coltrane, Byrds, James Brown, Sly Stone, Jimi, Nick Drake, Slint, Funkadelic, Fennesz, The Bug, Kompakt, Perlon, Basic Channel, Shockout, Planet Mu, Boards Of Canada, Adam "Cheese" Johnson, Ravi Shankar, Deadbeat, Monolake, BJM, Davie Allan. This is the coolest fucking thing I've ever seen and please note that I put it up before the great man moved on to the next world. Take this all you emo screamos! .. width="425" height="350" ......

Movies:

The Thin Red Line, L’Avventura, The Big Sleep, Manhattan, Apocalypse Now, Easy Rider, Eat The Document, Red, For A Few Dollars More, Midnight Cowboy, Kubrick's Lolita, Blade Runner, The Hunger, Wings Of Desire, The Wild Bunch, Life Of Brian, Spinal Tap, Taxi Driver, Rushmore, Woody Allen, Polanski, Peckinpah, Peter Greenaway, Peter Sellers, Mystery Train, Diva, Elodie Bouchez.

Television:

mainly HBO stuff. The Wire is the best thing i've seen in a while except for Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Alan Partridge, Little Britain (Yeah but no but yeah but no but...), Deadwood, Curb, Sopranos, 6 Feet, old Python, Brass Eye, The Office, Jeeves and Wooster, Mr. Show, Strangers With Candy.

Books:

Catch 22, Lolita, A Fan's Notes, Crying of Lot 49, Deliverance, The Magus, anything by Andre Dubus, P.G. Wodehouse, White Teeth, Poe, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Faulkner, Conrad, Dylan Thomas, Woody Allen, David Sedaris, Lester Bangs, Rumi, Hart Crane, Eliot, Wilfred Owen, Neruda, David Foster Wallace, Capote, Willy The Shake, Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning. anything about The Beatles. Various yoga texts, Patanjali and the Upanishads. "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together..." that's straight out of the Upanishads, you know.

Heroes:

How much genius can you fit in the back of a cab? I believe your backing them... John Lennon, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Viktor Frankl, Paramahansa Yogananda, Bruce Lee, King Tubby, Bob Dylan, Chris Morris, my brother Grant, Arthur Guinness, the one and only John Peel. Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert. .. width="425" height="350" ....

My Blog

Hi international friends, let me hear from you!

So i check my little world visitor map from time to time and I see some views from many strange and wonderful places.  If you're from Prague or no time Toulouse or hell, any random place in the S...
Posted by Chip on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:00:00 PST

Mike Maran, peace to your soul

I found out from Grant that Mike Maran, an old DC friend of ours, died from brain cancer a few days ago. While I am loathe to start casting about ponderous and cliched sentiments, it really fucking s...
Posted by Chip on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:39:00 PST

New Burma LP tomorrow! Life is good...

yes indeed!  new Mission of Burma "The Obliterati" album release 5/23 on Matador.  so awesome to see these old guys still kicking out the jams and still innovating.  Clint still rocking...
Posted by Chip on Mon, 22 May 2006 08:01:00 PST

Ah, now that's fuckin' funny!

Three blokes are in a pub. They are talking about how drunk they got last night. "I got sooooo drunk last night", the first begins. "I climbed into my brand new car. So new that I hadn't finalise...
Posted by Chip on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:26:00 PST

Insight meditation class

"Insight meditation, an ancient practice originating in India over 2,500 years ago, shows people how to open to who they really are and to live from a place of self-understanding and completeness...
Posted by Chip on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:32:00 PST

Check out the new Strictly Butter Blog...

for playlists, etc. check out this stylin' shit: http://strictlybutter.blogspot.com
Posted by Chip on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST