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kipp surreptitious

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About Me

"Although [he] believes that he is deeply alienated, the manner in which he superimposes his "agony" on that of his favorite literary hereos makes him appear to be a complacent narcissist enraptured with his own "tragic" and literary image." -Tomi SuzukiI edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

picture postcards, malbecs, seasons, most bodies of water.

I'd like to meet:

"In other words, presence of ???? completely became good. This album hears many degrees also the ? to be deep this album to be, to try, because you think, that it reaches the point where it is understood when you hear with just one time, you think that it is useless. So, when you hear with just one time, good it is effective without fail, you think that it becomes. The feeling and others ? ?, the thought and others ??, this album is the male is completed. Day of rain it matches."

Music:

Chicago, Kyoto, Osaka

Movies:

Ishikawa Kon, Ozu, Koreeda, Teshigahara, Hitchcock, Wes Anderson, Gondery

Television:

Twilight Zone, The Prisoner, Lost, Twin Peaks... no thematic connections, whatsoever.

Books:

abe kobo, albert camus, dazai osamu, kurt vonnegut, oe kenzaburo, miranda july, george saunders.

My Blog

Owls like me

So I took the "which twin peaks character are you" quiz, which is something that I don't usually do. Anyway, I took two different tests, and I got two different results. Which Twin Peaks Char...
Posted by kipp surreptitious on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:03:00 PST

Kainan wears many hats

The city of Kainan wears many hats. The more I rummage through its closet, the more I'm impressed with its selection of fine vintage. I originally wrote part two of my series of blogs on the city of ...
Posted by kipp surreptitious on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:53:00 PST

NFL game pass

Well, Im off to meet the mayor of my town in about 5 minutes, but whats really on my mind is the pre-season.  Ive found what is called the NFL game pass, only available outside of the states. For...
Posted by kipp surreptitious on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:01:00 PST

This place called Kainan

My ambition or boredom has brought me half way across the world to a small town nestled between the mountains and the sea called Kainan. Although the rainy season is offically over here, high winds an...
Posted by kipp surreptitious on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:46:00 PST

Why you shouldn't trust an online translator

So I was hanging out with my friend Brett, and we were talking about how we tried to cheat in french class by using an online dictionary. We both got called out because, frankly, the translations suck...
Posted by kipp surreptitious on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:46:00 PST

Count me in...

So I just did the unthinkable... that's right, I purchased a three-day pass for the pitchfork music festival in July. Although I can't stand those guys, they certainly put together a pretty tempting e...
Posted by kipp surreptitious on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:51:00 PST

excerpts from a prophet

The Following is an article taken from www.nytimes.com Following are excerpts from the testimony of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed on March 10 in a Combatant Status Review Tribunal hearing provided by the Uni...
Posted by kipp surreptitious on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:33:00 PST

favorable positions, dangerous contradictions

  Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Cancer This astrological combination indicates sensitivity to nature and a generally apprehensive approach to life experiences. You are very economical, especially wi...
Posted by kipp surreptitious on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:17:00 PST

fuck this week

I hate february. It's always a bad month for me. I hate that my birthday is in february. It's a cold, shitty month, full of winsome, pseudo-romance. I found out today that it's going to cost 500 to fi...
Posted by kipp surreptitious on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:24:00 PST

okinawa project trailer

Hey, so I spent the last month working on this film as a PA and translating for the main actor, Erika Oda (see Hirokazu Koreeda's, After Life). It's written and directed by Chicago filmmakers and anti...
Posted by kipp surreptitious on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:26:00 PST