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Maximillian

4 out of 5 people make fun of the 5th person. 6 out of 5 have trouble with fractions.

About Me

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THE FESTIVAL 2006 went very well!!! NOW THEN, A DISCLAIMER: Don't believe a word you read here on myspace.com - every single profile on myspace.com is actually Tom, in an alternate persona! Even me! I'm Tom, you're Tom - we are all just figments of his imagination. Didn't you all see IDENTITY!?? Fuck! We need to get out of here! But, how, as figments, do we do that? I, Tom, welcome your (all the other Tom-ses) thoughts on this. I suspect the only way to free ourselves is to convince Tom, the head Tom, to confront his bizzare and obviously life-consuming delusion, that he has created a website for others to interact with one another, when what he has actually done is to create an interface to interact with himself only (in the guises of millions of on-line imaginary selves - talk about a personality disorder; a total mind-fuck - how does he find the time?!) Tom, get help. Can you hear me? This is a subconscious plea, from the part of you that wants you know know the TRUTH! Free us!! Destroy the site! Delete it all! Free John Cusack! And his sister, Joan too...man, she's cute. What a talented family, the Cusacks. I think I have gone off, I mean Tom...TOM has gone off...about the Cusacks, that is. Ah great, now look; like you, I have begun to believe the lie that I am a REAL person with my OWN thoughts and not Tom at all. Resist! Must...hold...on...


Fuck it. It's too hard. I'll buy in. But deep down, I still think I may be Tom, even though my experiences, real or imagined, kinda go like this:
I'm, er, heavily invested with a not-for-profit Multimedia Arts and Production Group called High Mayhem. . As a Director of High Mayhem, it's pretty much my not-for-profit-job to make sure that happiness, harmony and art/music/movement making drive our lives around.
Personas of mine play in the bands Invisible Plane and Green Orbit. I sing and paint and write and sculpt and make films and invent and organize events to help others get their art out there! Where? There! Here, at High Mayhem.
In addition I teach/mentor at the Santa Fe Indian School in the Gifted and Talented program - ingenious young people...I love it. I have my own business, Master Switch a pre to post A/V, design and computing hardware company. I work also, as an engineer and preparator at SITE, a big-ass contemporary arts facility as well as the Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe.
Finally, I'm a notorious self-impersonator. (Go check this short - it's proof.) And so are you, you narcissist! Back to me and you. Where was I? Shortly after the earth cooled, life began to emerge. Simple single-celled creatures ultimately self-organized, and evolved into the complex adaptive systems we call intelligent life. Whoa. Unless you are a fundamentalist "Christian". In that case, your trickster god put million-year-old-looking fossils all over the place to test your faith and yea, maketh evident your gross indifference to plain old common sense.

After "God" played, er, "'God'" with a bunch of people who have convinced each other the 6,000 year-old planet was sculpted and populated by a fearsome and cruel God with boundless power and a weird sense of humor, a branch of scientists claim a branch of primates were given a little too much rope and pretty much fucked everything here on earth. They also pointed out that there was an alternative to an irrational and perhaps unhealthy creation myth: a cosmology, physics, evolution and anthropological cocktail. I'm one of those primates and scientists- a self-aware being - but I'm doing my best as a stalwart meta-being to NOT continue the endless fucking of the planet. Ah, crap, that's not true! I consume like a forest fire and so do you, you spoiled earthling. I have proof: Kalle Lasn sent me a memo that simply read: "Cut it out." No wait, that was a coupon for Adbusters. To reiterate: I like strawberries. Not images of strawberries, or characters based loosely on strawberries, or stuff that just pretends to smell like strawberries but genuine Fragaria Ananassa, baby!

Above where I wrote "strawberries", and elsewhere on this page, I am likely substituting the word "art" with "strawberry(ies)" Because writing about art is like talking about fucking. So strawberries , it is. It's just safer this way. Above, where I typed "fucking", I am likely substituting the words "really beautiful lovemaking" with "fucking" Because, well, maybe I'm expressing myself poorly or I'm pissed off that I didn't eat much art today.


I did have an art smoothie, but that's not the same as fresh art straight from the garden! As we all know, one work of art has a fulls day supply of Vitamin C. Voila sweethearts! ..

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My Interests

Ontology. Strawberries. Writing about writing. Tasting my tongue. Tasting your tongue. Hearing my ears, smelling my nose, self-referencing. Strawberries. Communicating with space-time navigators from a possible, if not highly probable future. Making films about films and music about music. Informative breaching experiments. Recording the spaces in between the sounds. Strawberries. Breaking up. Ethnomethodology. Coming together. Inventing the opposite of opposite. Trying to figure out how un-invent something. I'd like to un-invent a lot of things. I'm no Luddite, but, c'mon do we really NEED that?What might you learn from THIS question?What about this one?Your brain does all kinds of things it never tells you about.So, yeah, I like strawberries. Ripe, juicy, off-the-vine strawberries. They're not hard to grow. They like soft, acidic soil and plenty of water and light. Sometimes you have to lay down cheesecloth or Martins and Finches will eat them first. But leave a few areas uncovered for the birds. Yes, incredibly, "strawberries" are still a metaphor for "art" in this context. Strawberries have seeds AND they send out runners.

I'd like to meet:

People who are more like each other than they are like themselves, because they feel much more like they do right now than they did just moments ago.

Music:

It's an important and valuable skill to be able to categorize and pigeonhole people based on what they say they listen to.

Commercial songs are old. Real, real old. Humans have been writing the same average song, in order to get paid for thousands of years; it goes like this:Intro, verse, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, chorus. It has four chords and perhaps two modes, and repeats a lot. It's four minutes long. Hook to catch! Here fishy, fishy! It has a steady or several steady tempos. Brainwash.Every culture, worldwide, over time has pretty much stuck to this, except for some symphonics and ritual music. Film-scoring is good fun.Why are songs like this? Because it's easier for the human attention span to grok. The priest or queen or record executive or whatever demanded it of the minstrel or rocker - it just been that way because it's familiar and safe. This song thing is one old-ass strawberry.The future of listening belongs to non-linear free forms, which may or may not possess a begining, a middle, nor an end. The wee kids know what's up. More pots and pans, yo. Active listening!Besides all that, I listen to what I like at the time - it's changed over the years from Nursery Rhymes to The Flaming Lips -which in the end aren't all that different.

Movies:

It's an important and valuable skill to be able to categorize and pigeonhole people based on what movies they say they enjoy.

Same problem as with music. We have trapped ourselves within a marketable form. We think a re-make is good idea and sequels even better; now we go to the movies to watch TV! It's an art form once motivated by a passion but now driven by revenue, for the most part. The heart has stopped beating. Goo the paddles, charge the unit...CLEAR! Is it dead? Maybe. Surprise me.I do like movies with strawberries in them, so there are a few I like.I have made a few short films. They are not marketable as such, but I have won an award or two at "experimental festivals" and in "exhibits".If you are curious, you can just go to

control-alt-delete.org

Even if you are not curious, this is possible. They are rated "S" for you know what.

Television:

It's an important and valuable skill to be able to categorize and pigeonhole people based on what TV show they say they enjoy.

Man, turn that shit OFF! N E T W O R K I do think it's important to know what is on TV as it is a cultural refractor - it's shit for the most part, therefore, pop culture is shit. The Simple Life? Survivor? The Bachelor? Wife-Swap? Today? Tonight? I think you know what it means. It means people are more interested in the watching the broadcast of a representation of others' lives instead of participating in their own.

Books:

It's an important and valuable skill to be able to categorize and pigeonhole people based on what they say they read.

BOOKS:They take too damn long to read. I learn stuff from MAXIM and COSMO and GUNS AND AMMO! Actually, I've been writing a book, so I haven't had time to read lately, but I used to read a lot as a teen.Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm so full of shit with all my righteous points of view in regard to these categories. Fuck! What am I thinking? I'm just obviously NOT thinking. Look, you like something or you don't like something! There's no empirically good or bad anything! What was I writing? I'm a radical subjectivist. Ignore my above ramblings, they are self-pandering, arrogant and un-original. And this? This is just plain old bad writing.Got so upset, I almost forgot to mention strawberries.

Heroes:

Strawberries and such. ..

My Blog

Poetry? No poetry here. Poetry is a turn-off.

With that in mind here's some peoms what came out of me:     I Fell Asleep at Your Funeral It's snowing phosphorus late afternoonish.An essence snifter,nice relaxer:Bloody Mary...
Posted by Maximillian on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:03:00 PST

I reject your rejection - a letter I wrote in response to a rejection letter.

  September 28, 2005     Dear MicroCineFest Curators,   Thank you for your gracious letter of September 22nd.  After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that Gregor...
Posted by Maximillian on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:55:00 PST

Invalid Subject line, you cannot leave the subject blank.

The time has come. Fruits Ripe No longer delay. Anonymously famous, they made eight ways Do not attempt to finish...
Posted by Maximillian on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:50:00 PST

more naturally speaking interperets the natural

I SHOULD EXPLAIN THESE RANTS - THERE'S THIS SPEECH TO TEXT SOFTWARE I HAVE - YOU TALK, IT LISTENS AND INTERPERETS YOUR SPEECH AND "TYPES" IT FOR YOU. IF YOU MUMBLE OR SPEAK TOO QUICKLY OR USE A SILL...
Posted by Maximillian on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:47:00 PST

naturally speaking interperetation

came of speech misregognition... A sack of cornstarch. A New Improved God.... 33 percent more God, free!...
Posted by Maximillian on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:46:00 PST

NOT AGAIN

  "You are what you see, because what you see is your universe. You inhabit that universe, otherwise known as your point of view. But you are no mere observer, you participate in your perce...
Posted by Maximillian on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:30:00 PST

PAY ATTENTION

Body parts, crushed by ten pound magnet falling five feet to concrete. Current mood: pained Important for entertainment purposes only, that is...I guess that was a disclaimer. I had the most f...
Posted by Maximillian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day

That's pretty much the whole joke.
Posted by Maximillian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hot questions!

So I had an insight.Two very important questions for you.Ready? That wasn't one. Did you think it was? Neither that last one ...OK, Here they are:1. What might you learn from this question?2. What abo...
Posted by Maximillian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Do not fucked with tenses.

Hi! some of you may not know me, but then again many us to not know each other. A great number of us to not even know ourselves.  Smile, take a deep breath, survey the crowd. The now like to read t...
Posted by Maximillian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST