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Altwin

It's times like these you learn to love again, it's times like these you learn to live again, it's t

About Me

Nothing is true, Everything is permitted....or as No Means No puts it on Mondo Nihilissimo 2000: Nothing means anything, everything's permitted--Nothing is permitted, so anything goes.--The Diagram of The Essentiality. The pure essence. My life and yr life and everything & everyone that is around us. The nucleus of the atom and its surrounding electrons. Pen. Ink. Here. There. Again. Metamorphosis. And the amore. The love. It is birth. It is death. It is one realm in eternal realms. Nothing true. Everything permitted. What we hear. What we see. The steady beat pulse of the metronome. Keep it...steady. Sound sends message down to hand and the hand so urgently needs to write. A place to form words...thoughts...meaning. Meaning. What meaning of meaning do we mean to say? Tell me how you mean it. Tell me how you meant to say it. The meaning is what I mean.

My Interests

skate for life, veggies for life, lust for life, laugh/cry for life, friends and love for life....do what you feel if it's real.

I'd like to meet:

individuals of all ages and genders who have a disdainment for mainstream cultural norms and media brainwashing...basically people who stick to their guns without selling out their individuality in order to "grow up." In the immortal words of Milo, "If growing up means being like you then I don't want to be like you." This basically means all of my friends from the old that are on here now. Missed and NEVER forgotten. And then of course, there's YOU and yr friends. I raise my glass and exclaim, "TO ALL MY FRIENDS!"

Music:

Music is passion is music is life is skateboarding is passion is a gate is a path is a prism is a ray of lights is the essence is a cell is an organism is life is harmacy is the essence is a burning spear. Sun, Verve, SST, New Alliance, Sub Pop, Wrong, Sudden Death, Sugar Hill, Alternative Tentacles, Dischord, Twintone, Frontier, 4AD, Shimmy Disc, Merge, Def Jam, No Idea...Look at it this way: I built a tape rack that holds 640 cassettes...then there's one wooden cd rack with a row of tapes which adds 70 to the 640 making 710....a 9 cubicle record cabinet....and two Olympia Stubbie (R.I.P.) boxes both filled with 7"s. Just ask.

Movies:

1991: The Year Punk Broke, We Jam Econo: The Story of The Minutemen, Sir Drone, Quadrophrenia, Instrument, The Blues Brothers, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Rock and Roll High School, This Is Spinal Tap, Blade Runner, Project Omicron, Freaks, Geeks & Tight Asses, Scrum 3, Scrum 4 Promo, Barfly, Factotum, Last Exit To Brooklyn, Animal Factory, Kung Fu Hustle, 25th Hour, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Lost In Translation, Smoke & Blue In The Face, ...Jim Jarmusch, Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jones, Sam Peckinpah, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Robert Rodriguez, The Evil Dead Trilogy, Quentin Tarantino, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Samuel Fuller, Russ Meyer, Jack Hill, John Waters, Tim Burton, Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, P.T. Anderson, Lloyd Kaufman & Troma, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Emile de Antonio, Frederick Wiseman, Woody Allen, Richard Linklater, Julie Dash, Dziga Vertov, Maya Deren, The Coen Brothers, Kenneth Anger, Bruce Conner, Raymond Pettibon, Dave Markey, Alex Cox, Mel Brooks, Spike Lee, John Hughes, Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright

Television:

not something I watch a lot...there is the actual device....it gets Fox in with rabbit ears attached...therefore what I do watch is with the household krew: The Fox Sunday Night Cartoon Lineup. Now there are shows I love and they're watched on DVD and VHS on the aforementioned actual device: METALACOLYPSE...really into the show these days. Kids In The Hall (+Brain Candy), The Young Ones, thanks Tish for finally after all of these years getting me to watch Faulty Towers, Robot Chicken, The Showbiz Show, Colbert, Daily, Metalacolypse

Books:

W.E.B. DuBois, Zora Neale Hurston, Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, Wanda Coleman, Ronald Takaki, Sole Woyinka, Iris Chang, Maxine Hong Kingston, Karl Marx, Fyodor Dostoevski, Franz Kafka, Susan Sontag, Haruki Murakami, Banana Yoshimoto, Yuko Tsushima, Dorothy Parker, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Henry Miller, Frank Miller, Charles Bukowski, Bruce Campbell, Tom Robbins, Henry Rollins, Joe Cole, Jack Brewer, Exene Cervenka, John Fante, Joseph Heller, George Orwell, Albert Camus, John Steinbeck, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and more

Heroes:

... my father and all of my other relatives and friends that are no longer walking the earth...My mother for raising Beau and I on her own. I wouldn't necessarily call them heroes but I owe my life to them so we'll leave it at that.

My Blog

The Ulcer That Proverbially Began Is Being Eaten Away

I haven’t eaten all day I’ve just realized. Until now. Got some Hungry Jack pancakes, a bowl of Amy’s lowfat minestrone and a pb & j. Been recording the Sonic Youth all day long s...
Posted by Altwin on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:26:00 PST

Living Vicariously For A Day

It all started with a 40. In my particular case, a 32 that we called a 40 so we could pass for being West Coast Stylee. That WAS--probably still IS--Florida for you. And this started way before 199...
Posted by Altwin on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:56:00 PST

Poetry In Motion: The Indian Runner {An "A" Paper 3/3/97}

***So I did write at the end of my "Memory Is A Muscle" piece last night, "Next up: poetry." What you are about to read is an essay I wrote on Sean Penn’s directorial debut "The Indian Runner."...
Posted by Altwin on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:19:00 PST

The Memory Is A Muscle: Part 3

Leon & I found a kool little house right on 6th Avenue here in Tacoma at the corner of 6th & Alder. Lease starts April 1 but both of our current leases have us in until April 30th. so we’re do...
Posted by Altwin on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:29:00 PST

Leon’s Morning Stoop Cigarette Projection/Altwin Two Morning Shits & Two Rolled Smokes Later

From idea from scene from Cinema, Aspirin & Vultures: People have gone to bed. Guy takes projector and zooms in on his hand thus focusing shot clearly on his hand. Thats in film (which I will be ren...
Posted by Altwin on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:01:00 PST

An Open Letter To Ben, 14 March 2008

yeah Ben~it loooks as if yr a 24 hour party animal. You do have to admit: you look a lot different. Still doing the casino, huh? Is that where you meet all of yr fine ladyfriends? I’ve been ...
Posted by Altwin on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:38:00 PST

The Memory Is A Muscle: Part 2

What's really kool is when you walk into a familiar place with friends i.e. a pub and you have no idea what the the night will throw yr way or what will walk into yr play. You just know that you don'...
Posted by Altwin on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:26:00 PST

Samantha’s Food For Anatomically Correct Thought

This is interesting info...You are what you eat, so eat well. A stupendous insight of civilizations past has now been confirmed by today's investigative, nutritional sciences. They have shown that wha...
Posted by Altwin on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:14:00 PST

The Memory Is A Muscle: Part 1

Sunday, 27 January 200811:00 a.m.Hilltop TacomaLiving RoomSunny & Cold"I got so much trouble on my mindRefuse to loseHere's your ticketHear the drummer get wicked." ...
Posted by Altwin on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:30:00 PST

The Memory Is A Muscle: Foreword

With Homer Simpsom slippers on my feet, a colorful robe wrapped around my 118 pound torso and a beanie covering my head, I sit, drink coffee, eat oatmeal and write preparing to get ready for Amy to pi...
Posted by Altwin on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:28:00 PST