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Kids like Shane gotta be crazy...

Too young to hold on, too old to just break free and run...

About Me

This one here is a misanthropic humanist with a deep love for his mother, music and communications organic, analog and digital.

My Interests

hip hop, hardcore, punk, Leonard Cohen, poetry, politics, existing, activism, agnosticism, anarchism, art, atheism, buddhism, capitalism, catholicism, classical, country, creation, criticism, pacifism, poetry, socialism, taoism, I think you get the idea...if it's an "ism" I probably have some sort of love-hate relationship with it.

I'd like to meet:

Probably you. I imagine everyone is worth meeting, y'know? But YOU...you've got that shit that makes you...well...you. And I want to learn it.
Mostly, tolerant people with open minds and open hearts. My AIM is shanehall42 if you care to reach out like that. Feel free.
Oh yeah, and definitely hit me up if you are one of these people:..

"Given the chance I'd die like a baby on some faraway beach when the season's over. Unlikely I'll be remembered As the tide brushes sand in my eyes, I'll drift away "

"I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind..."

"Her sense of taste is such that she'll distinguish with her tongue the subtleties a spectrograph would miss"

"Just waiting, seasons change, ah hah, you'll see Some day these dreams will pull you through my door."

"The boy who tried to vanish to the future or past Is no longer here with his sad blue eyes."

"This race and this world. This feeling and this girl. This revolver, this fire - I'll hold it up higher."

Or this guy:..

"And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night: We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right."

"Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried, in my way, to be free."

"Yes, you who are broken by power, you who are absent all day, you who are kings for the sake of your children's story, the hand of your beggar is burdened down with money, the hand of your lover is clay."

"And she will learn to touch herself so well as all the sails burn down like paper."

"Take this longing from my tongue, all the useless things my hands have done."

"You were the manual orgasm, I was the dirty little boy."

"True love leaves no traces If you and I are one It's lost in our embraces Like stars against the sun"

"I looked for you in everyone And they called me on that too I lived alone but I was only Coming back to you"

"We were fighting in Egypt When they signed this agreement That nobody else had to die There was this terrible sound And my father went down With a terrible wound in his side He said, Try to go on Take my books, take my gun Remember, my son, how they lied And the night comes on It's very calm I'd like to pretend that my father was wrong But you don't want to lie, not to the young"

"And I'll dance with you in Vienna I'll be wearing a river's disguise The hyacinth wild on my shoulder, My mouth on the dew of your thighs"

Or:..

"This was the moment I feared..."

"I take dead bodies and I boost them up live So straighten up and be alert because the ruler's arrived"

"Now in these times, at least to me There's a lot of people out here tryin' to sound like Ricky D Not tryin' to cause trouble cause its really a small thing But they're bitin what I'm writin God it's great being the king Some sound allright, but then they act illy Try conquering my crown and that's really very silly"

"If goodness is what you're filling your soul with And wanna find a woman you can chill and grow old with Who keeps no secret, like who they creep with, realise early it's a 2 way street, kid"

Straight up, Rick. Straight the fuck up.

Music:

Agnostic Front,Against Me!,Shel Silverstein, No Redeeming Social Value, Brian Eno, Alving Youngblood Hart, Sick of it All, Dead Kennedys, Life of Agony (as well as Keith's solo efforts), Dresden Dolls and Ani DiFranco. I love gutter ass punk and rap...nerdy ass rap, and one particular song from The Godfather more than life. I have it trapped in a music box I keep on top of my piano. Beethoven, Mozart and the whole lot of them. Vincent Gallo, Wesley Willis, Reverend Horton Heat, Bad Brains, Biohazard, Dylan, Television, Leonard Cohen, Tree, Roxy Music, Sam Black Church, Aceyalone, KRS-One, Sheer Terror, Slapshot, Gravediggaz, Cage, Cannibal Ox, Capitalist Casualties, Pharoah Monche, Slick Rick, Tribe Called Quest, Atari Teenage Riot, Sage Francis, Cro-Mags, Bowie, Depeche Mode embarrasingly enough as well as Fiona Apple. Atmosphere, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Ellis Ashbrook, Brother Ali, Buck 65, Rufus Wainwright...have I repeated myself yet? Left Hand Does, John Cage, Roxy Music....I like stuff, y'know? Anything, really. Or anything like these things.

Movies:

Clockwork Orange, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC series or the new one), Star Trek movies (yeah yeah, I know), Saddest Music in the World, Chelsea Walls, Airplane!, What's Up Tiger Lily (and a lot of his other ones), I liked Pi but couldn't watch it a lot, Happiness, I kinda dug Suspiria because of the set designs, Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, Grindhouse (more Rodriguez' part) and NOT Kill Bill. Ha.

Television:

Not allowed in my house. I catch it while I'm out, and it makes me feel like I live on a different fucking planet.

Books:

Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, George Orwell's 1984, A Clockwork Orange, Celestial Chess (obscure fiction by Thomas Bontley - similar to HP Lovecraft in many ways), Noam Chomsky's political works, Howard Zinn, James Loewen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me". These are examples. I wish I had more time to read.

My Blog

Simple.

    "It isn't simple yet""Keep practicing.""Practice what?"Alright; proceed.Keep that going, please.  Don't let the record wind down, it's a hard test.A Jedi, I see....
Posted by Kids like Shane gotta be crazy... on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:48:00 PST

Hell yeah.

I bought the house that I lived in most my life this past year. It's a 19th century brothel once called "The Colonial Inn" in a New England mill town. Sound romantic? Don't be fooled. It's in disrepai...
Posted by Kids like Shane gotta be crazy... on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:19:00 PST

Fuck technology.


Posted by Kids like Shane gotta be crazy... on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:08:00 PST

Awesome picture.

This picture has my soul, and I'm not sure I want it back when it's done with it.
Posted by Kids like Shane gotta be crazy... on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:16:00 PST

Phorensics

When my heart misfires, it leaves no trace.No database matching residue to face.I'd have placed my pace around the head of the racebut alas, I suppose I was just "Lost in Space". They've identifi...
Posted by Kids like Shane gotta be crazy... on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:44:00 PST

Robert Anton Wilson has (or has not) died.

Yesterday Robert Anton Wilson is said to have died while in hospice care.Knowing full well that the hospice foundation was created when Dame Cicely Saunders and Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross met with the ...
Posted by Kids like Shane gotta be crazy... on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:20:00 PST

This weekend was very interesting.

I'm listening to a live version of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence".  What a pretty song (this version, anyway...the original is dope too, but much more synth-poppy).  You know what I thin...
Posted by Kids like Shane gotta be crazy... on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:31:00 PST

Addition, subtraction, and spiritual synthesis

It's a dark and overcast day here, and I'm of mixed spirits. "Mamas, don't let your boys grow up to be cowboys..." Motherhood is such a fickle dilemma.  Sons and daughters everywhere roll the dic...
Posted by Kids like Shane gotta be crazy... on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:35:00 PST

Title for my acoustic CD?

Hey everyone (that reads my blog). I'm making an acoustic CD and I'm not sure what to call it.  I have several ideas, I want everyone to pick one. Mike Wallace Wants My BodyChinese Food and Orang...
Posted by Kids like Shane gotta be crazy... on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:28:00 PST

The Wainwrights piss me off.

Yeah, it's true.  I said it. Rufus.  Martha.  What the fuck? You both make beautiful music, for a living, and have never had any chance to end up anything but a musician.  I love b...
Posted by Kids like Shane gotta be crazy... on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:21:00 PST