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About Me

Surrealist gesture
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My Interests

Surrealism, Writing, Reading, Film, Filmmaking, Painting, Music, Photography, Existentialism, the Avant Garde, DADA, Expressionism, Mise En Scene, absinthe, Abstract thought, people who do honest things.

I'd like to meet:

jesusfuckingchristANDCollaborators in any medium

Music:

some favorites: David Bowie, Tom Waits, The Cure, NIN, Radiohead, Prick, Miles Davis, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, The The, Bob Dylan, KMFDM, Skinny Puppy, Download, The Beatles, John Lennon, Portishead, Lucky Pierre, Tweaker, Elysian Fields, cEvin Key, Ogre, Pigface, Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine, Pig, Beck, Prince, R.L. Burnside, Telefon Tel Aviv, Mogwai, Rolling Stones, Coil, Gary Numan, The Damage Manual, Angelo Badalamenti, Die Warzau, Killing Joke, Error, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Marilyn Manson, New Order, Joy Division, Pink Floyd, Ministry, Billie Holiday, Massive Attack, Blur, Forrest Whitlow, Pixies, Tool, Louis Armstrong, Saul Williams, Rage Against the Machine, Django Reinhardt, Leadbelly, Charles Mingus, 12 Rounds, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Madeleine Peyroux, Marianne Faithfull, Murder inc., Tear Garden, Nino Rota, Nick Cave, Elliot Smith, Nirvana, X, Gang Of Four, Tori Amos, Bjork, Five Star Reject, A Perfect Circle, Alec Empire, Dr. Dre, Revolting Cocks, Wagon Christ, Thelonious Monk, Mike Patton, Lovage, Talking Heads, David Byrne, The Clash, DJ Shadow, Doubting Thomas, Edith Piaf, The Black Keys, Brian Eno, Jack Off Jill, Pop Will Eat Itself, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Gorillaz, N.W.A., Elvis, Eazy-E, The Black Heart Procession, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Blackalicious, Bogdan Raczynski, Roy Orbison, Aesop Rock, The Seatbelts, Atari Teenage Riot, Sneaker Pimps, T.V. on the Radio, Adrian Belew, Autechre, 13 & God, Plateau, Puscifer, Air, Garbage, Gnarls Barkley, Meat Beat Manifesto, Nat King Cole, Goon Moon, The Smiths, The Smut Peddlers, Iggy (and the Stooges), Sparklehorse, UNKLE, Thievery Corporation, Tom Petty, Wilco, Jack Off Jill, James Brown, The Jesus & Mary Chain, John Prine, ODB, Louque, The Swans, Wu-Tang Clan, U-Ziq, 2Pac, 1,000 Homo DJ's, Bartok, Satie, Orff, Beethoven, B.R.M.C, (me) ... many, many more...

Movies:

8 1/2, Eraserhead, The Exterminating Angel, Un Chien Andalou, Viridiana, Tristana, The Phantom of Liberty, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Milky Way, Simon of the Desert, L'age D'or, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Cries and Whispers, Through a Glass Darkly, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, That Obscure Object of Desire, La Dolce Vita, Sunset Boulevard, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Twin Peaks:FWWM, Blue Velvet, Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway, Shadows and Fog, A Zed and Two Noughts, The Draughtsman's Contract, Drowning by Numbers, The Belly of an Architect, Prospero's Books, The Cook the Thief His Wife Her Lover, Stardust Memories, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Quills, Being There, Satyricon, Nights of Cabiria, Repulsion, The Tenant, The Phantom of the Paradise, Fight Club, Seven, Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Requiem For a Dream, Pi, The Killing, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Deconstructing Harry, Fargo, Big Lebowski, HurlyBurly, Happiness, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Ice Storm, Crouching Tiger - Hidden dragon, The Night Of the Hunter, Songs From the Second Floor, The Holy Mountain, El Topo, I Will Walk Like A Crazy Horse, Viva La Muerte, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Down By Law, Mystery Train, Bottle Rocket, Videodrome, Dead Ringers, The Lost Weekend, Freaks, Metropolis, M, Shortcuts, Gosford Park, The Player, The Jerk, Young Frankenstein, Maitresse, Best In Show, Waiting For Guffman, A Mighty Wind, Kingpin, The Evil Dead Trilogy, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Maltese Falcon, In a Lonely Place, Salo, In a Glass Cage, Man Bites Dog, I Stand Alone, Citizen Kane, The Trial, Pan's Labrynth, INLAND EMPIRE, Pandora's Box, A History of Violence, Hard Candy, Match Point, Park Chanwook's "Vengeance Trilogy"...Anything by David Lynch, Luis Buñuel, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Peter Greenaway, Orson Welles, and Pier Paolo Passolini, Gaspar Noe, Jodorowsky, Arrabal, Coctaeu, Truffaunt, Renoir, Kurosawa, Woody Allen, Billy Wilder, Tod Browning, Fritz Lang, John Huston, Hitchcock, Altman, Kubrick, Erich Von Stroheim, Charles Chaplin, the Marx Brothers, P.T. Anderson, Kenneth Anger, James Whale, and of course most classic Hollywood, (pretty much) any Noir, anything where the men drink whiskey, the women shoot the men and they all chain smoke compulsively...

Television:

Shows with slow motion atomic explosions and monks chanting in the background

Books:

Sade, Dostoevsky, Breton, Voltaire, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sartre, Camus, Nietzsche, Lautréamont, Celine, Kafka, Gide, Tzara, Gogol, Goethe, Moliére, Twain, Engels, Stendhal, Ageyev, Apollinaire, Artaud, Valery, Vaché, Reverdy, Butler, Barbusse, Aragon, Hemingway, Swift, Milton, Dante, Cervantes, Orwell, Wilde, Bierce, Blake, Poe, Paine, Hume, Rousseau, Chekov, Chaucer, Hesse, Ovid, Jarry, Dawkins, Harris, Russell, Kosinski, Diderot, Proust, Balzac, Melville, Mann, Flaubert, Strindberg, Sagan, Bataille, Ingersoll, Huxley, Paz, Cioran, Donoso, Ungar, Nerval, Girondo, Mirbeau...

Heroes:

I I will be king And you You will be queen Though nothing will Drive them away We can beat them Just for one day We can be Heroes Just for one dayAnd you You can be mean And I I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers And that is a fact Yes we're lovers And that is thatThough nothing Will keep us together We could steal time Just for one day We can be Heroes For ever and ever What d'you sayI I wish you could swim Like the dolphins Like dolphins can swim Though nothing Will keep us together We can beat them For ever and ever Oh we can be Heroes Just for one dayI I will be king And you You will be queen Though nothing Will drive them away We can be Heroes Just for one day We can be us Just for one dayI I can remember Standing By the wall And the guns Shot above our heads And we kissed As though nothing could fall And the shame Was on the other side Oh we can beat them For ever and ever Then we can be Heroes Just for one dayWe can be Heroes We can be Heroes We can be Heroes Just for one day We can be Heroes We're nothing And nothing will help us Maybe we're lying Then you better not stay But we could be safer Just for one day

My Blog

Return to Babylon

The first teaser trailer I cut for Alex Monty Canawati's newest film, Return to Babylon: Befriend Monty on Myspace:Monty's personal 'space'Return to Babylon on Myspace...
Posted by Surrealist gesture on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:20:00 PST

A.I.R.

Subject: July 4, First Friday, Jonathan Douglas Duran at red-lightred-light323 Southwest Blvd.Kansas City, MO 64108816-421-1484 [email protected] 4, 2008  July 26, 2008Opening Reception: Ju...
Posted by Surrealist gesture on Thu, 22 May 2008 08:28:00 PST

A.I.R.

Subject: July 4, First Friday, Jonathan Douglas Duran at red-lightred-light323 Southwest Blvd.Kansas City, MO 64108816-421-1484 [email protected] 4, 2008  July 26, 2008Opening Reception: Ju...
Posted by Surrealist gesture on Thu, 22 May 2008 08:29:00 PST

Sounds

I Stand Alone...
Posted by Surrealist gesture on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:18:00 PST

Manufacturing Consent

Degradation is the enemy of intensities, endless, delirious and pitiless pursuer of honest passions. You must only concern yourself with your own head, writing what you hear, what you believe, what y...
Posted by Surrealist gesture on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:26:00 PST

Old short films...

Moving images from my past
Posted by Surrealist gesture on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:06:00 PST

still life

I don't really have the strength... it's one of those instances where you wish you could reach out to another individual who shares a commonality of disposition. Alone and enfeebled, all you want is a...
Posted by Surrealist gesture on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:55:00 PST

Enharmonic Interval (deceptive cadence)

Libido Sciendi
Posted by Surrealist gesture on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:13:00 PST

Villiers-le-Bel Manifesto For Youth Revolutionaries

..>..>..> To all my fellow Surrealists, by freely admitted ti...
Posted by Surrealist gesture on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:43:00 PST

a SURREALIST questionnaire

a SURREALIST questionnaire     Name: Jonathan Douglas Duran Party Affiliation: Independent as a hog on ice! (Voltairian Surrealist) "I'd never want to belong to any club that would have ...
Posted by Surrealist gesture on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:32:00 PST