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About Me

But first... how about a little music?

I love music, even though I don't make it, and film, which I'm starting to learn. I got a bachelor's in Mediterranean history, and am a year away from a master's in American history (featuring-- what else?-- immigrants!) I love other cultures, and travelling, and the new thoughts, friends, and surprises those kinds of things can bring. I also love late nights, strong coffee, and hot weather.
Rather than tell you all about all my contradictions, I'll just let them seep out over time, like they always do anyway. All you really need to know is, if I get a little moody at times (you know, Edgar Allen Poe-style), it's only because I really do care, and hate it when something blocks my ability to express my natural enthusiasms, burbling passions, mild obsessions, and loves great and small. It's these things that really make me who I am! And like the man said, the world is a vampire, baby...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Speaking of the cause...

I've already had the chance to meet some of the people I've really wanted to, including Arlo and Marjorie Guthrie, Allen Ginsburg and William S. Burroughs, Jello Biafra and Dave MDC, Judi Bari and some of the MOVE family, and I saw Vito Russo lecture "Rebel Without A Cause" once at UCSC, just by sheer luck. I've also met most of 99 Posse and the Ataraxia kids, two of my fave bands. I got to know Harry Hay a little bit before he died. I'd like to meet John Waters, Angela Davis, Cindy Sheehan.
My greatest heros are all tragically dead: Pasolini, Paul Robeson, Sal Mineo, Darby Crash, Derek Jarman...
SOME FAVORITE VIDEOS!
Here's a bit of what I'm listening to these days....

HERE ARE A FEW OLD CLASSICS THAT I JUST LOVE:
Comuntwist, by 99 Posse:

L'Anguilla (The Eel), by 99 Posse:

Open Your Eyes, by Lords of the New Church:

Reward, by The Teardrop Explodes:

Talk Talk, by Talk Talk:

Homosapien, by Pete Shelley:

Poetry Corner
A Dream
by Edgar Allan Poe, 1837.
In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream - that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star?

My Blog

Comrades In Arms wondered...

Hey, buddy... *hic*... can ya spare any part of 85 trillion cents? Anything'll help.... Here's another effing clip of my punk rock...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:17:00 GMT

CCCFilms Fall Production Schedule and Opportunities!

CCCFilmsPO Box 193095, San Francisco CA, 94119http://www. youtube. com/user/thavmatichttp://www. facebook. com/group. php?gid=23420179422Contact: Daniel Frontino ElashTel. +1.415.244.0619 ...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:34:00 GMT

Video Update from Daniel(e) re. CCCFilms, etc.

Hello my friends,Well, at least some of you were asked to become friends in anticipation of some video shooting this summer, which has yet to happen. Some of us have been globe-trotting, others attend...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:25:00 GMT

Once, if memory serves... I was in a punk rock band.

I was in a punk rock band called "Comrades In Arms." We were the first all-male, all-queer, all "out" punk rock band in history, to the best of our knowledge. Back then it was still called "Homocore,"...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:31:00 GMT

...what is 45 Grave?

"I am 45 grave No reason 45 grave What does 45 grave What is 45 grave" -- 45 Grave, "What Is 45 Grave," Sleep In Safety Of course, 45 Grave was one of the very first gothic-type punk bands, bac...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:41:00 GMT

The sky colored perfect, as the man slipped away...

Hi everyone, I'm quite happy to say that my college buddy Joshua (happy birthday!) is quite right-- the San Francisco Bay Area is currently enjoying perfect summer weather. I woke up this evenin...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:13:00 GMT

FILM REVIEW: Indiana Jones and the Commie Mind-Control Skull

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a/k/a Indiana Jones IV. (2008; dir. Steven Spielberg) Review by Daniel Frontino Elash, 25 May 2008 Blogged 4 June 2008 at http://MySpace.com/thavma...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:52:00 GMT

Why did this particular stranger MySpace-"friend" me?

Hi There, thanks for clicking through! I've invited you to be a MySpace "friend" because you go to SFSU or CCSF, or have a friend who does; and/or you're into art, or music, or film; and you may or ma...
Posted by on Mon, 19 May 2008 01:25:00 GMT

The Italian Left moves to unify in face of recent electoral results

Here's a recent translation I did for some MySpace friends. You can find their page (in Italian) at the "Comunisti uniti" icon in my "New Freinds" section. ---------- Communists Let's Star...
Posted by on Sat, 10 May 2008 01:40:00 GMT

What are you doing this May Day? Join us in the streets, parks, & union halls of San Francisco!

As people who are my friends likely already know, the First of May is actually Labor Day-- in every country except its country of origin, the USA (where we like to think of ourselves as special, and s...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:37:00 GMT