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Kurt

If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution." - Emma Goldman

About Me

TOP TEN OF 2008 (so far):
Miss Lana Rebel & Her Band of Broken Promises - All I Need
Eleh - Homage to The Square Wave
Sunn 0))) - Domkirke
Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra - Secrets Of The Sun
Liz Durrett - Outside Our Gates
Silver Daggers - New High & Ord
POEM FOR KURT by Jess
Revolutions as in
minute turning away from
or turning towards
A direction: sew here,
along this crease.
It will stay together.
It will be soft.
A recipe: this many
tablespoons.
Press your cheek against
soft felt and turn
against her sleeping
smile. No objective,
only vectors.
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Vegan. Straight edge. Mayor of Awesometown.
I love each and every one of my friends like they are family. If you've met me, you know I'm a hug over a handshake kind of guy. I'm always up for random roadtrip action, provided that there are plenty of mixtapes and roadside diner coffee to go around.
aol:noworkkurt
VIRB?
fortune cookie prize
the art of success

My Interests

music, photobooths, roadtrips, mixtapes, coffee, silent movies, dadaism, futurism, hand-written letters, 60's fashion, typography, medium format, dancin'...

I'd like to meet:

someone who will keep my coffee cup full. ..

Music:

Hot funk, cool punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock'n'roll to me. Top 3 in rotating order depending on my mood: Clash, Costello, and Waits. Oh yah, I like my share of music that sounds like it was sold out of the trunk of somebody's Civic.

Movies:

Benjamin Smoke, Night On Earth, Instrument, Helvetica, We Jam Econo, Gummo.

Television:

Ace of Cakes, Family Guy, Austin Stories.

Books:

AUTHORS: Dave Roche, Aaron Cometbus, Dishwasher Pete, Ben Snakepit, Walter Benjamin, Al Burian, William Faulkner.

Heroes:

Joe Strummer, Mike Watt, D. Boon, Jean Michel-Basquiat, Margaret Kilgallen, and

My Blog

Takin’ the Infinite Challenge...

Alright, so I picked up a copy of what's been called the postmodern Ulysses, David Foster Wallace's 1,079 page tome, Infinite Jest. I've been meaning to read this since it was released over ten years...
Posted by Kurt on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:56:00 PST

Transmission from the front

The problem with music by Steve Albini This is an article from Maximum Rock n' Roll 133 written by Steve Albini, and it details the problems encountered when dealing with a major label. Reprint...
Posted by Kurt on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:41:00 PST

2008: Make A Leap of Action

2008 is a leap year  a fantastic opportunity to leap into something new. Are you gonna use your extra day like you use so many other days  toiling away at your job to make the bosses richer? Using...
Posted by Kurt on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:37:00 PST

Thank you

I'm totally co-opting this from a friend, but I thought it was too rad not to reprint.Thank you God.Thank you God for making this world, and making me to be a part of it. Thank you God for the sun and...
Posted by Kurt on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:24:00 PST

Until Every Cage Is Empty - Free the SHAC 7!

This may take a second, but it's worth it to read this:The SHAC 7 are 6 animal rights activists and the organization Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA (SHAC USA) who were convicted on March 2, 2006, ...
Posted by Kurt on Fri, 18 May 2007 12:19:00 PST

Fruitfest 2k7

Sarah and I bought a ton of fruit the other day from "Soapy", the local barber/fruit stand guy in town. We had no idea what to do w/ all the fruit, so we did the only thing we could. Here's a few ph...
Posted by Kurt on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:18:00 PST

everything will be okay

"beautiful" is the mind that thinks not of itself but for itself and of others. live for somebody else, chances are they'll do the same. love people and teach them to love. live selflessly and with jo...
Posted by Kurt on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:23:00 PST

MacKaye in '08

I never use this thing, so I guess now is as good a time as any. I found this video on YouTube, and wanted to post it up. To give a little background, a 17 year old girl was shot and killed last mon...
Posted by Kurt on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:47:00 PST

photos

Here's highlights from my first project for Intermediate Photography II. The assignment was to shoot up to 10 rolls (2 rolls a day for 5 days) and choose 7-10 photos out of those to create a "narrati...
Posted by Kurt on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:02:00 PST

Final photo project

For those of you who missed the show last Friday, I thought I'd post my final project for Intro to Photography. These are 35mm black and white prints. I've only scanned and resized them for web purp...
Posted by Kurt on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:26:00 PST