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Vitus

A penny for the Old Guy

My Interests

Music:


Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, the Cure, the Smiths, Type O Negative, pre-Perfect Circle Tool, VNV Nation, Silverchair, Marilyn Manson, the Pixies, Tipper, the Postal Service, Nirvana, pre-Follow the Leader Korn, the Beatles, White/Rob Zombie, Sublime, Pantera, Stabbing Westward

Movies:

Titus, Dr Strangelove, Waking Life, The Dark Crystal, House of 1000 Corpses, Begotten, The Shining, Werewolf Women of the SS, the Alien series, Sid & Nancy, Troll, Holy Mountain, Velvet Goldmine, Labyrinth, The Crow, The Fifth Element, Pet Sematary, Kill Bill, Eraserhead, Empire Records, The Big Lebowski, and anything with Joe Pesci

Television:

The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Married With Children, Dexter, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, History's Mysteries, Taboo, Robot Chicken

Books:

My absolute favorite is Frankenstein, but I like anything that attempts to dissect the human spirit. Some other good ones are: Anything by H.P. Lovecraft, The Lucifer Principle, Chimpanzee Politics, The Selfish Gene, The Moral Animal, Venus in Furs, I Am Legend, The Agile Gene (Nature via Nurture), East of Eden, All Quiet on the Western Front

Heroes:

Francisco de Goya, Aleister Crowley, Gregori Rasputin, my grandpa, Master Shake

My Blog

Thelassophobia

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swellAnd the profit and loss.A current under seaPicked his bones in whispers. And he rose and fellHe passed the stage...
Posted by Vitus on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:27:00 PST

Io sono in pace

"Crystal Cave Save Thee"By Tiffany Brooke Savage (5 Dec 1981-1 July 1999) Passing corridors of memories plastered high,I take you in with me, myself, insideFinding beauty in all I seeWe become a union...
Posted by Vitus on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:25:00 PST

Dead Silence

Ok, I think the next time I go to the movies, I'll come equipped with a suicide bomb to spare myself and those around me the agony of sitting through another preview for "Dead Silence". You know, the ...
Posted by Vitus on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:25:00 PST

Happy Birthday

Kurt Cobain would have been 40 years old today. It's also the anniversary of my baptism (however long ago that was). Happy birthday to us....
Posted by Vitus on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:45:00 PST

The Divine Mystery of the Ace

How can an ace be one AND eleven, huh?!  What kind of God would allow THAT?! (Drunkenly attempts to throw a punch, misses, and then falls on the floor).
Posted by Vitus on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:24:00 PST

Intoxication of Deliverance

Intoxication of Deliveranceor, The Water Buffalo Upon the path my foot be setThe horizon grips my captive eyeLest my fragile mind forgetOr chest forsake its blissful sighSurrendered once Azrael i...
Posted by Vitus on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:30:00 PST

I Am

I AM   In time the thin path is worn wide - Soldiers with cripples on either side War on what was and what was not. Crumbling temples where gods reside, In unending rounds of growth and rot, Rep...
Posted by Vitus on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST