Dustin - ProfilesArchive

About Me

What's to say but the fact that 1.) I tend to like the people who like me and 2.) am always down for the things that will lead me to my moments of clarity and maybe some adventure.

My Interests

To be quite frank, I like fried chicken, cherry coke and fat asses, and with that said, you'll see that outside of these three observable likes, I have almost no substance.

I'd like to meet:

Dimes.

Music:

Christopher Wallace, Shawn Carter, M. Ward, Antony and the Johnsons, Scissor Sisters, Electrelane, The Soft Pink Truth, Rufus Wainwright, Digable Planets, The Magnetic Fields, Songs: Ohia, Roxy Music and love songs written by Babyface

Movies:

John Cassavettes, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock, John Waters, Wes Anderson, Greg Araki, samurai flicks and anything Pixar.

Television:

Jeopardy, American Experience, Charlie Rose, So You Think You Can Dance and I LOVE NEW YORK

Books:

Don Delillo, David Wojnarowicz, James Baldwin, Lynda Barry, Yukio Mishima, Lois Ann Yamanaka, Kurt Vonnegut, JT Leroy (RIP), Johnathan Franzen, etc.

Heroes:

Angela Davis, Piri Thomas, David Wojnarowicz, My Grandparents and all of the good ones that came before.

My Blog

On Myspace

Myspace.com is a well-designed vortex. Well... a collection of vortexes, really. Yesterday I got sucked into the highschool classmate vortex, and what had started off as a quick glimpse at an old frie...
Posted by Dustin on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:58:00 PST

Tough Shit

At around 5:30 pm everyday, my Dad takes our dog, Kola, on one of her twice-a-day walks. Sometimes when my dad is too busy, he'll ask me to walk her for him. Like today. She'll lead me to the pockets ...
Posted by Dustin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Top 20

I've been going back and forth on this "Top Friends" thing, and...well as you can see, I caved in with the advent of a Top 24, and now what we have is a small chronology of people who know me well eno...
Posted by Dustin on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:57:00 PST

Phenomena

I write stories that occur around unusual natural phenomena (i.e. circular rainbows, volcanic smog that turns the air other colors, ghosts). It would be of great help to me if you could tell me about ...
Posted by Dustin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Yesterday

You'll be going about your life as you always do. Maybe the sun is occupying the 11:30am slot in the sky and you look at the face of your watch, and sure enough, it's more or less 11:30. Your neck...
Posted by Dustin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Other

The family gathered themselves near the rabbit who was laying, hind legs stretched, inside a thin strip of sun. The little milkweed plants and dandelions waltzed lowly in the warm afternoon air. T...
Posted by Dustin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Frontier Dialogue

Last night by the corner of the bar I meet Joe. "Nice to meet you Joe. How is your night going?" "Its going good thanks. Sorry, I didn't catch your name." "Dustin." "Justin?" "No, Dustin." "Well...
Posted by Dustin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Make a Wish

I'm driving up Aiea Heights drive and this incredible rainbow is arched above the hill. Its upside down lap is so broad and it rides the horizon-line clear out of my sight. Smoke is billowing in the v...
Posted by Dustin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

"The Gay"

Last night, everyone went to Fusions and I saw this kid that I thought was kinda cute. So I tell the Notorious E.V.E., "Yo, this boy is muy calienté and shit." Eve takes a look over, "Word. He's cut...
Posted by Dustin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST