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John

sincerity is the new irony

About Me

i started out poor and worked my way up to outcast.

My Interests

lameness, feral kittens, food, sleep, art, film, dirt, riley boones, irazero.blogspot.com , ohyesidid.com , youtube.com/trehaus

I'd like to meet:

el diablo, the nouveau riche, nihilists with good imaginations

Music:

giddy up, ssion, hona lee, susan maiorana on drums, yyy's, bjork, smiths, air, nina simone, godspeed you..., fugazi/minor threat, pj harvey, daft punk, e. badu, dolly parton, prince, velvet underground, jeff buckley, siouxsie, postal service, bikini kill/julie ruin/le tigre, radiohead, patrick wolf, johnny cash, young marble giants, hot chip, presets, vaselines, ac/dc, michael jackson, gorillaz, bright eyes, mum, explosions in the sky, lhasa, outkast, gossip, guns n' roses, portishead, cat stevens, the cure, missy elliot, erase errata, my bloody valentine, fiona apple, matmos, etc.

Movies:

great expectations (1946 - david lean), shift (ernie gehr), time being (gunvor nelson), tokyo story (yasujiro ozu), a clockwork orange/2001 (stanley kubrick), the mongreloid (george kuchar), double indemnity (billy wilder), vertigo (alfred hitchcock), by the law (lev kuleshov), imitation of life (douglas sirk), magnolia (p.t. anderson), edward scissorhands (tim burton), even dwarves started small/lessons of darkness (werner herzog), blood for dracula/flesh/trash/heat (paul morrissey), the big lebowski (coen brothers), metropolis (fritz lang), ritual in transfigured time (maya deren), baraka (ron fricke), nest of tens/me and you (miranda july), grey gardens (maysles brothers), manderlay (lars von trier), cremaster 3 (matthew barney), far from heaven (todd haynes), julien donkey-boy (harmony korine), jesus' son (alison maclean), harold and maude (hal ashby), l'atalante (jean vigo), mysterious skin (gregg araki), the dark crystal (jim henson), thundercrack! (curt mcdowell), etc., etc.

Television:

six feet under, alf

Books:

screwtooth (black olive), outlook: grim (black olive), big city love (russell ihrig), academic restructuring: the ascendance of industry logic in public higher education (patricia gumport), the waves (virginia woolf), sarah (jt leroy), air guitar (dave hickey), nightwood (djuna barnes), etc.

Favorite Artists

lesley reppeteaux, dan mccarthy, russell ihrig, cody critcheloe, francis bacon, gillian wearing, eva hesse, zak smith, ron mueck, louise bourgeois, gunvor nelson, tim hawkinson, miranda july, robert gober, nan goldin, ernie gehr, giuseppe penone, jenny saville, george kuchar, wim delvoye, maurizio cattelan, felix gonzales-torres

Heroes:

ilky sarkopupski, goethe

My Blog

irazero.blogspot.com

check it out sometime.
Posted by John on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:39:00 PST