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stop plate tectonics!

shake, shake that mortal coil.

About Me

i have never been a silcon-based life form, although i hear they're nice. i have never been mauled by bears. i have always thought that "the little hand grenades that could" would be a great name for a group. i have power over words such as erythrophobia (the fear of red, or of blushing) to use against my enemies, beware.

My Interests

may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it's sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young

I'd like to meet:

curious, unpersnickety people with fierce obsessions for the unusual.

adopt your own virtual pet!

Music:

lonely spoons tapping, Lucinda, Joanna, jim O'rourke, DK, dogs panting, OpIvy, will Oldham, "wierd" Al, Wilco, the Boss(always), myron floren, mission of Burma, shudder2think, car doors clapping, minor threat, Minutemen, the finer noble gases, earlier Decemberists, edith Piaf, either of the moldy peaches' alternate personas, any project involving Stephen Malkmus or Rob Crow(especially Pavement and Heavy Vegetable!!) the tapering off to a tiny whorl of quarters as i roll them down the hall, one-by-one, until i'm broke, empty, paycheckless, and you bang on me with a drum stick.

Movies:

Buffalo 66', anything by the Coen brothers, Hitchcock, Jarmusch, Wholphin, Lloyd Kaufman:: lets make some art!! lately, however, it's my new roommates DVD collection including but not limited to: all 17 episodes of "the Prisoner," Coupling, and Invader Zim.

Television:

Marquee Moon was a great album.

Books:

McSweeney's review, Tin House anything by Nick Flynn or Lorrie Moore, Anne Carson and Ursula LeGuin, Mishima, Vonnegut. Howard Bloom, Hawking & BukowskiCummings (have you read the enormous room?) DeLilo, McCarthy, Bellow, and all the other old men. Louise Gluuck. amy hempel, amy bloom, aimee bender. littleBig. joyce carol oates. thomas pynchon & T.C. boyle. andrei Platonov's fierce and beautiful world is remarkable. really. and i am still thanking chris for William T. Vollman's 7 dreams series. other things informative and/or worded rightly. also pretty things like pictures.

Heroes:

i'm steve mcqueen while driving, james stewart daydreaming.

My Blog

something humming/flying fast.

"Readers are warned that the sketch-maps and boundaries here are provisional, approximate, unreliable and wrong.  Nonetheless, i have furnished them, for as my text is no more than a pack of lies...
Posted by stop plate tectonics! on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:30:00 PST

stop|and thank you, baby.

pure moods.  an impulse buy.  that has the X-files theme on it, right?  yes.  oh, jesus god, its so much better, the whole five minutes.  it just gets better and better. ...
Posted by stop plate tectonics! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

prom night.

channeling the dead, which i often feel i am doing in half-sleep. channeling from Tango class to prom when everything changed and i was left holding nothing and distance is the opposite of safety. ...
Posted by stop plate tectonics! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Rockettes to the stars...

so we opened a show for the beefheart cover band this last St. Patty's Day. the lead dude from elf power bought me a makers mark shot since it was my parents 28th wedding anniversary! thats longer...
Posted by stop plate tectonics! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

ABC... easy as fuck.

ive now completely renounced my collegiate future, it seems. after getting rejection slips for graduate study at UW-Madison and from the Iowa society of Arts & Letters i did what any left-brainer wou...
Posted by stop plate tectonics! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Not one.

Aderol is apparently making kids faint (and die!) when combined with exercise. Canada is in an uproar. there is, however, no need to worry (concerned american medical association insists) as childre...
Posted by stop plate tectonics! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Paper Wasp

Because trees grew thick & demon- full, you felled whole counties, built walls against the night. Shack gave way to city, city to skyscraper, forest to plain. All this time we've been bui...
Posted by stop plate tectonics! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

o! top heavy world

melty day after a snow. chris, clide, and i went out for breakunch. the nicest was just riding around to my old man's windham hill winter solstice cds and watching the steam. birds and the blip-b...
Posted by stop plate tectonics! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the piss of god.

sometimes a man falls asleep in the midst of buttoning his jacket, his fingers hanging on the last button. sometimes, embedded in hot asphalt, you see a key, shined by the soles of pedestrians' shoes...
Posted by stop plate tectonics! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

save the coal.

last night i dreamt of a video game called save the coal. the context was a little ninja trying to save his/her village from an evil overlord who was trying to steal all of the town's coal. when you...
Posted by stop plate tectonics! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST