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About Me

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My Interests

Design, printmaking, book arts, music, literature, Macs, comics, good grammar, letterpress, typography, sex, food, ganja, beer, science fiction, zombie movies, metaphysical quandries, beautiful women, the Future, the Past, theatre, film . . .

I'd like to meet:

um, people, mostly. Although I have had ocasion to want to meet aliens, mole people, interesting-sounding pets, historical dead people (Jesus, Marley, Lennon, and Ghandi come to mind. That would be one hell of a resonin' session), sumatran rat-monkeys, zombies, or an honest politician (good luck on that one). A beer or two with an interesting real person wouldn't hurt, tho...

Music:

Marley, Cultura Profetica, Silvio Rodriguez, Bjork, CafeTacvba, Steel Pulse, Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sublime, Ozomatli, Luis Diaz, EA Flow, 79, Nes y el resto de los muchachos, Madlib, Manu Chao, Jack Johnson, John Brown's Body, Natiruts, Hector Lavoe, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Medeski Martin & Wood, Beastie Boys, Gombah Jahbari, Welmo, Wilco, Herbie Hancock, Gang Starr, Finley Quaye, Fela Kuti, Citizen Cope, Parliament Funkadelic, Weezer, Zap Mama, Weezer (thanks Liz!), M.I.A., Al Greene, El-P, L'Maestro Presents, Mos Def, Buju Banton, Jurassic 5, Radiohead, Sabina, Pacha Massive, Groundation, and on and on and on . . .

Movies:

Most anything directed by: Akira Kurosawa, Luc Besson, Michel Gondry, Jean Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro, Stanley Kubrick, Wong Kar Wai, Wes Anderson, pre-Hollywood John Woo, Bryan Synger, Fellini, Alfonso Cuarón, Werner Herzog, Darren Aronofsky, Danny Boyle, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodríguez, anything inspired by Frank Miller. . .

Television:

Family Guy, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Venture Bros., House MD, Lost, Arrested Development, Heroes, Entourage, Farscape, Lost...

Books:

Currently Reading: Spaceman BLues: A Love Story, by Brian Francis Slattery The Walking Dead trade paperbacks, by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard

Heroes:

Marti, Bolivar, Lenin, Guevara, Albizu, Newton, Marcos, and the rest of those rabble-rousing revolutionaries. Fidel Castro, Evo Moralez and Hugo Chavez, for keeping everyone on their toes. MAD PROPS to Rafael Tufino & Lorenzo Homar, and grudgingly to Martorell. Lennon, and more importantly, Harrison, cause he knew how to age gracefully. Rose Adler. Paul Bonnard. Alphonse Mucha. Frank Kozik, Shephard Fairy. Swoon. Isaac Asimov. Half-Cocked Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds, aka Quicksilver, aka l'Enmerdedeur. The crew of Serenity. Frank Miller. Alan Moore. Galielo Galilei. Richard Dawkins. The Devil. JM Turner. WA Dwiggins. Braque, 'cause Picasso gets all the credit and I'm a sucker for the underdogs. Velazquez. The Futurists. The Unabomber. Tyler Durden. Lolita Lebron.

My Blog

http://defendini.blogspot.com

http://defendini.blogspot.comfor more rants & raves.
Posted by [p] on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:19:00 PST

www.defendini.com

Finally, after much procrastinating, defendini.com is up. Go check out my work, and please excuse the rudimentary Flash work- I'm just now learning, and the site is very much a work in progress.
Posted by [p] on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:42:00 PST

goodbye to my laptop.

So I'm sitting here erasing any trace of my existence from my laptop. I have to give it back, cause the job it was attatched to is no more (that's a good thing). Long story short, I'm down one 12" Pow...
Posted by [p] on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:14:00 PST

yet another symptom of this pre-diluvian anxiety

Today was nice and cool. I love days like today. The sensation of coming out onto a surprisingly cool street from a still-sweltering subway was particularly nice. Everyone walks around with a sense of...
Posted by [p] on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 06:40:00 PST