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Vang'Mar

May your house be safe from tigers.

About Me

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My Interests

Trundling. Writing. Achieving Nerdominion over the multiverse plural. Glow in the dark frisbee. Entheogens. Hiking. Subversion. Jogging. Dissent. Preparing for the End Times.

I'd like to meet:

Dick Cheney's heart surgeon. Sunny Lane. The federal agent who maintains my file.

Music:

Air, Morphine, The Herbaliser, Luna, Pavement, Malkmus, PJ Harvey, Spacemen 3, Pogues, The Fall, Devo, Cornershop, They Might Be Giants, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Ween, Flaming Lips, Gary Numan, The Cramps, Robyn Hitchock, Beastie Boys, Black Sabbath, The Beatles, Captain Beefheart, Le Tigre, Bikini Kill, Dead Kennedys, Flaming Lips, Julian Cope, Oasis, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Camper Van Beethoven, Oasis, Fluke, Eon, Stevie Wonder, T Rex, the Softboys, Bob Wills and his Country Playboys, Skid Roper, Mojo Nixon...the Clash, the Residents, Beck, Jamiriquoi, Bob Log III, the Minus 5...

Movies:

Chinatown, North by Northwest, Planet of the Apes 1-4, Soylent Green, Night of the Living Dead, Omega Man, The Truman Show, Ghost Dog,

Television:

Addicted to: Lost, Jericho, Washington Week, The Newshour. Partial to: Frontline, No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain, Globe Trekker.Guilty pleasure from excessive-viewing days of the past: The Flavor of Love & America's Next Top Model.I'm also a sucker for all this shit: Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, The Sopranos, Star Trek, Strangers with Candy, The Colbert Report, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.Yeah, it's like Plato was onto something with that whole allegory of the cave thing, huh?

Books:

Variations on a Theme Park by David Sorkin et al.,Breaking Open the Head by Daniel Pinchbeck. Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto, Vonnegut, Joseph Conrad, Bukowski, Orwell, Henry James, From Hell, Stray Bullets, The Invisibles, Transmetropolitan, World War Z, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Neil Postman, Clive Barker, biographies on John McLoughlin, Schaupenhauer, Jim Mahfood, books on Zen, Robert Stone, Walter Mosley, John Updike, Nelson Algren, Dr Strange comics, Hunter S. Thompson, Thom Jones, Robert Nozick, JP Donleavy, Celine, Dostoevsky, Philip Slater, Philip Jose Farmer, Reid Flemming: World's Toughest Milkman, Wayne Dyer's crap, Hemingway, The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler

Heroes:

The Flaming Carrot, Mojo Nixon, Harvey Pekar.

My Blog

"...its odd and interesting. Its part of life."

Truth is so stranger than fiction. This is an actual news story I read in the Oregonian. A guy in California who distributes and sells porn is being prosecuted under obsenity laws. Maximum penalty he ...
Posted by Vang'Mar on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:52:00 PST

What was up with those fing jets? Freaky.

I live in the Woodstock neighborhood in SE Portland. I just heard (at 10:13-10:14 PM) 2 jets scream by here at seemingly low altitude. That shit was loud - like just over my head loud and scary as hel...
Posted by Vang'Mar on Wed, 07 May 2008 10:27:00 PST

Audrey Kawasaki

I''ve stumbled upon this amazing artist, Audrey Kawasaki.  Very interesting work. It's at times both erotic and eerily creepy.   I love the wood backgrounds.  I added a few pieces ...
Posted by Vang'Mar on Thu, 01 May 2008 09:17:00 PST

Damn, Jack.

I keep forgetting that Jack totally pulled the trigger, executioner style, on Locke.  That's so over the top. Jack's a doctor for God's sake. He's a healer, right?  I realize everybody has i...
Posted by Vang'Mar on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:06:00 PST

"Gregariousness is the refuge of mediocrity." - Boris Pasternak

I found myself at the bar today between a drunken right-wing cabbie on my left and a soft spoken Irish immigrant to my right.  Should Interstate Ave. be renamed as Caesar Chavez Blvd? Or whatever...
Posted by Vang'Mar on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:06:00 PST

Black Sabbath and Me

People tell me I'm weird.  I agree, but I usually don't break things on purpose. It just happens that way sometimes.Some years ago I was attending a party of my director friend, Sara's. A friend ...
Posted by Vang'Mar on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:06:00 PST

In time for the Halloween season -

Necronomicon, meet Veganomicon. Hilarious. I'm sure it's a great book to pick up. I think it was the same author's tempeh bacon recipe that I used this morning.I have some really fond memories of this...
Posted by Vang'Mar on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:06:00 PST

On Earth by William Stafford - one of the best

On Earth by William Stafford Any sun that comes, even one not ours, could have these lakes to drink of, anytime. And other laws could come besides the ones we have, all springing from a force...
Posted by Vang'Mar on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:16:00 PST

There was a time when I thought I was a political blogger...

and this is the rather sad state things ended up at: democracyis.blogspot.com.  Be warned.  I find it interesting that most of the internet traffic that visits my old, semi-abandoned blog is...
Posted by Vang'Mar on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:46:00 PST

You heard about the vomit inducing light beam weapon, right?

 Wired article on new vomit gun
Posted by Vang'Mar on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:00:00 PST