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Ari

Eat the Soma, Drink the Milk

About Me



My Interests

you, WRITING, lakers, changing the world from the ground up, taking pictures, alliteration, creation, crumbling cookies, quantum physics, ezra voccational program, live music, live music, recorded music, mental music, writing rhymes, writing times, unwinding in the sunlight of thousands living lives.if elements are stable, screwing with stability can turn your ability to balance to futility. seeing clearly is merely an excuse sometimes, when opening your eyes is all youve got to try. but if your eyes glue shut try by any means necessary, love or religion, education, hightened vision, addition or subtraction, multiplication or division, can add up to an addiction, for which there is no prediction, of the cure or the affliction, in so many possible directions __me

Music:

Talking Heads, David Byrne, Phish, Smashing Pumpkins, Fela Kuti, A Tribe Called Quest, Bela Fleck, Sublime, Say Anything, CSNY, Neil Young, Ozomatli, The Lovely Feathers, Cake, Beastie Boys, Mos Def, Wu Tang Clan, Blackalicious, Lyrics Born, Beck, Cannibus, Traffic, Trey Anastasio, Keller Williams, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Pearl Jam, Less Than Jake, Rancid, Unwritten Law, Simon and Garfunkle, James Taylor, Jim Croce, Nick Drake, Eric Clapton, Social Distortion, Method Man, J5, RJD2, Cannibus, Lee Scratch Perry, Steve Miller Band, Matisyahu, The Beach Boys, Gorrilaz, Janes Addiction, Rage Against the Machine, Particle, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog, The Fugees

Movies:

any good horror, plus The Great Escape, The Conversation, Stop Making Sense, What the Bleep to we know?, Ed Wood, The Man Who Would Be King, Shaun of the Dead, Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The City of Lost Children, The Seventh Seal, Run Lola Run, The Other Sister, Bittersweet Motel, Do The Right Thing, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Rear Window, Hotel Rwanda, American Splendor, Back to the Futures, I heart Huckabee, Best in Show, Willy Wonka, Hook, Ghostbusters 2, The Matrix, donnie darko, office space, The Sandlot, Aladdin, Indiana Jones, Primal Fear, Natural Born Killers, Mrs. Doubtfire, Das Experiment, Coffee and Cigarettes, Field of Dreams, Shawshank, A Clockwork Orange, The BigLebowski, Blood Simple, Full Metal Jacket, American History X, Garden State, Mystic River, Jacobs Ladder, Vertigo, The Eye, Pulp Fiction, Suspiria, half baked, in cold blood, the flight of the navigator, Millers Crossing, City of God, Silver City, the good the bad and the ugly, blow, INTERMISSION.....

Television:

MASH, Ghostwriter, Square One, Nova, Nature, Top Chef, LOST, NFL Films, The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Colbert, Rome, Sadly 24, Conan, Six Feet Under, OZ, Seinfeld, The Sopranos, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, Ali G, Exo-Squad, and obvious occasional others

Books:

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs, The SNEETCHES, Hop on Pop, Catcher with a Glass Arm, Hatchet, Goodnight Moon, A Clockwork Orange, Brave New World, Men at Work, Thinking in Pictures, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, My Losing Season, Beach Music, Behind Everyman, 1984, Catch 22, The Martian Chronicles, In Cold Blood, Going After Cacciato, The Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Truman Capote Short Stories, Minority Report, Once Divided,

My Blog

more thoughts

"what will be, will be," I said, "I didnt draw it."while you told me pictures can be altered,where those in the past have faltered,you would rather be martyredthen have never tried to trounce a re-ele...
Posted by Ari on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:04:00 PST

Philosophy notes in poetry (they came out like this, no joke)

Ritualistic requirements define the fate of an individual, spirituality not necessarily accepted by causality.  It's about deed, not creed, your beliefs don't mean shit, only what you do shapes t...
Posted by Ari on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:03:00 PST

Brain Bullet

Lay clear of the bricks, Lay clear of concrete, Lay clear of twenty four hour liquor stores, Graffiti riddled halls, Adolescents running free in the streets for long after the shadows spread from...
Posted by Ari on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:09:00 PST

a little poetry

Insane games played aimlessly by the lame named.  Untamed by fame, corrupted.  But what starts as rebellion for the rebellious hellish few, now grows to inflict our kids or teachers, our par...
Posted by Ari on Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:17:00 PST

elements

if elements are stable, screwing with stability can turn your ability to balance to futility. seeing clearly is merely an excuse sometimes, when opening your eyes is all youve got to try. but if your ...
Posted by Ari on Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:07:00 PST