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hellbent and whiskeybound.

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About Me

maps.books.fistfights.old school.dodger games.heatwaves.good friends.good times.the political history of latin america.mother speed.survival.etcetera.i work real hard and smoke dope after work and then i read nelson algren's never come morning and then i might write something on the walls of somewhere and then i just might want to hang out with you. you never can tell.

My Interests

Music:

ghostface.black flag.los crudos.slayer.bob dylan.2pac.bad brains.suicidal tendencies.minutemen.billy bragg.his hero is gone.public enemy.the clash.robert johnson.townes van zandt.buck owens.waylon jennings.anthrax.dillinger four.death.the clash.faith no more.geto boys.dinosaur jr.ice cube.tom waits.the ronettes.the shirelles.john frusciante.murs.the plugz.adolescents.negative fx.wu tang clan.john coltrane.love.woody guthrie.malo.bobby womack.megadeth.7 seconds.the game.prince.operation ivy.the miracles.jawbreaker.a tribe called quest.nina simone.the stylistics.ac/dc.neil young.

Movies:

easy rider.five easy pieces.amores perros.city of god.do the right thing.taxi driver.la bamba.fletch.repo man.the jerk.platoon.the good the bad and the ugly.bonnie and clyde.chinatown.apocalypse now.bottle rocket.boogie nights.the warriors.seven samurai.the apartment.unforgiven.friday.no country for old men.

Television:

the wonder years.public television.basketball.the boondocks.the a-team.

Books:

oscar zeta acosta.luis j. rodriguez.sandra cisneros.charles bukowski.wanda coleman.mike davis.raymond carver.john steinbeck.sherman alexie.gloria anzaldua.cormac mccarthy.hunter s. thompson.

Heroes:

fernando valenzuela.

My Blog

riding into town on the hood of a cutlass. victorious, half drunk and free.

victory is mine. praise god. or incinerate all traces of win loss or spirits flying around the room. it's your preference. but i'll keep what's mine. i'll let the window open up on its own and feel ni...
Posted by hellbent and whiskeybound. on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:58:00 PST

last years murder rate.

it begins like anything else i suppose during some big strange disaster laced with faraway thoughts and good times.  it comes on slow out of nowhere and the fog runs away and the night clutches m...
Posted by hellbent and whiskeybound. on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:28:00 PST

la vida dura / brohemity is a power chord.

had this vision, oh dearest one with open ears, ammunition filled, want to tell you the world and hear about yours, be concrete and brick, all this could be yours, no fucking around, think on it fine,...
Posted by hellbent and whiskeybound. on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:31:00 PST

cant stop. wont stop. stopped once. got fucked up.

sometimes while in some kind of transitional period where i have to keep my head up, like they say, to avoid running into walls eventhough i'd like nothing more than to run straight through them, knoc...
Posted by hellbent and whiskeybound. on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:21:00 PST

northside nine oh nine, what?

goddamn grown ups. and goddamn children. no inbetween these days, make your move, time is unforgiving.        "is he drunk?"  "i don't know, maybe we should..."...
Posted by hellbent and whiskeybound. on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:30:00 PST

the headline reads, "New Historical Study Proves Columbus Was a Punk-ass Bitch."

happy colombus day. god bless you or else go to hell. fuck him and fuck that history and fuck not being able to pay bills or retreat to a library or take your kid to a museum     what are we...
Posted by hellbent and whiskeybound. on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:49:00 PST

her name on your neck and a baseball for a bastard child

today i should have driven on down to san pedro to put in my good word with the man at the local 13, i have this blind connection at that union, need to see if it can work on up to oakland come first ...
Posted by hellbent and whiskeybound. on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:54:00 PST

dead, man.

end of the season. time to set things aflame. everything you do and write and say just sounds the same. at least to you. and isn't that who matters right now? or needs to for awhile. aren't you just t...
Posted by hellbent and whiskeybound. on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:09:00 PST

weary and wasted from excessive balladry.

my grandma would always yell at me to stop chewing my lip which is a nervous habit i picked up in the womb, the habit comes and goes like anything else, and it was about the only thing she would tell ...
Posted by hellbent and whiskeybound. on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:48:00 PST

fistfuck or fistfight

last night i stepped out for more soda pop and bubblegum and bourbon and non filtered cigarettes and walked down 16th where the usual line of crackheads some spitting some sobbing a sad reality everyo...
Posted by hellbent and whiskeybound. on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:43:00 PST