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Meric Slovaine

Proprietor of an Incapable Heart

About Me



Hunted By A Freak is still the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

Aaron said it best: "Oh, Chris. You are a delicious mess."

Current life soundtrack: "What the Snowman Learned About Love" by Stars ; "Perfect Speed" by 13 & God ; "Mountains Made of Steam" by A Silver Mt. Zion ; "Faultered Ego" by On! Air! Library! ; "Why I'm So Unhappy" by Dntel ; "Krkdll" by Johann Johannsson ; "Everything Is OK" by Halou ; "Forget" by Jolie Ruelle ; "Missed Medicine" by Her Space Holiday ; "Disaster Location" by Julian Fane ; "The High Seas" by Gravenhurst ; "Dumb I Sound" by Sufjan Stevens ; "Brooklyn Dodgers" by Xiu Xiu ; "Morningwatch" by Dolorean ; "Last Things Last" by Rachel's ; "Versicolor" by Commodo .

My Interests

-isms, accidental intimidation, aesthetically pleasing - in other words fly - people, arguing, believing in the power of words, below your lower lip, between your eyebrows, challenging others, dystopic quality of shopping malls and grocery stores, fine dining, higher-level thinking, instigating change, knowing how to have a good time but not doing so, mental/emotional disorders, people watching, performing, philosophy, piercings, puzzle games, reading, reconstructing the novel, sexual etiquette, shower solos, tattoos, teleportation, time travel, writing

I'd like to meet:

I operate through negation.

Who I do not want to meet:
Harry Potter fans, DaVinci Code supporters, backward Republicans, backward Democrats, gym-rats, people listing an Owen Wilson/Vaughn comedy as a favorite movie, self-described "psychotics", hypochondriacs, individuals who refuse to build their own self-esteem, fans of light beer, straight-edge mods, typical Emerson College students, townies, queer authors who only write comical pieces about themselves.

Music:

'i', !!!, 13 + God, 2 Skinnee J's, 65daysofstatic, 808 State, Aarktica, Abandoned Pools, Adult., Air, AK1200, The Album Leaf, American Analog Set, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Android Lust, Animal Collective, Antipop, Antony & the Johnsons, Apoptygma Berzerk, Fiona Apple, Arab Strap, The Arcade Fire, Craig Armstrong, Asian Dub Foundation, Audio Bullys, Ave Tare and Panda Bear, Howie B., Badly Drawn Boy, Bobby Bare Jr., Basement Jaxx, Baxter, Benzos, Beck, Beta Band, Black Eyed Peas, The Black Keys, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Bjork, Boards of Canada, Bonobo, Bran Van 3000, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Brokeback, Broken Social Scene, BT, Butterfly Jones, Can, Cardia, Cat Power, cEvin Key, Chemical Brothers, Chicks On Speed, Cibo Mato, Coldplay, Collide, Commodo, Cranes, Crystal Method, Cut Copy, The Dandy Warhols, Jack Dangers, Daugher Darling, Darling Violetta, DB, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Deepsky, Delerium, Dieselboy, The Dining Rooms, Dirty Sanchez, Dirty Three, DJ Keoki, DJ Rap, Dntel, Do Make Say Think, Dolorean, Rob Dougan, Mike Doughty, Doves, Nick Drake, Dresden Dolls, Missy Elliott, Brian Eno, Esthero, Explosions In the Sky, The Faint, The Fall, Julian Fane, Perry Farrell, Filter, Sarah Fimm, Fluke, Flunk, Fly Pan Am, The Folk Implosion, The For Carnation, Four Tet, Frou Frou, Garbage, Beth Gibbons, God Lives Underwater, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Goldfrapp, Gravenhurst, Jonny Greenwood, Gridlock, The Guillemots, Gus Gus, Halou, Helio Sequence, Her Space Holiday, Hooverphonic, Howlin' Maggie, Hungry Lucy, Hybrid, I Am X, Icon of Coil, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Jesus and Mary Chain, Johann Johannsson, June of 44, Juno Reactor, Kasabian, Kenna, KMFDM, Kronos Quartet, Labradford, Ladytron, Lali Puna, Lamb, LCD Soundsystem, Leftfield, Annie Lennox, Linkin Park, Liquified, Lo-Fidelity Allstars, Lolo, Lords of Acid, Lovage, Low, Low Frequency In Stereo, Lunatic Calm, M83, The Magnetic Fields, Mandalay, Aimee Mann, Clint Mansell, Maroon 5, Massive Attack, Matmos, Mazzy Star, Meat Beat Manifesto, The Merkin Dream, Metric, The Microphones, Amy Milan, Mirah, Moby, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Mojave 3, Mono (Japanese quartet), Mono (British duo), Monofader, Morcheeba, Mouse On Mars, Mum, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, Joanna Newsom, Nine Inch Nails, The Normal, The Notwist, Paul Oakenfold, ohGr, On! Air! Library!, Orbital, Our Lady Peace, Out Hud, Pale 3, Andrea Parker, Papa M, Peace Orchestra, Peaches, Pelican, A Perfect Circle, Phoenix, Photek, Piano Magic, Pinback, Plaid, Placebo, Poe, Portishead, The Postal Service, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Prodigy, Puracane, Rachel's, Radiohead, Rasputina, Red Sparowes, Happy Rhodes, Rilo Kiley, Robots In Disguise, Rodan, Royksopp, The Russian Futurists, Ulrich Schnauss, Scribe Machine, The Sea and Cake, Seabound, The Shalabi Effect, She Wants Revenge, Shellac, The Shipping News, Shivaree, Sigur Ros, A Silver Mt. Zion, Roni Size, Slint, Slowdive, Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, Smoke City, Sneaker Pimps, Solex, Soul Coughing, Sparklehorse, Spiritualized, Squarepusher, Stabbing Westward, Stars, Statik Sound System, Stereo Total, Sufjan Stevens, The Streets, Sun Kil Moon, Supersilent, Supreme Beings of Lesiure, T.H.C., Third Eye Blind, Tindersticks, Amon Tobin, Martina Topley-Bird, Emiliana Torrini, Tortoise, Tosca, Tosca Tango Orchestra, The Transplants Transporter, Trash Money, Tricky, TV On the Radio, Underworld, UNKLE, VAST, VNV Nation, Voltaire, Wagon Christ, The Weekend Players, Wilco, Windsor For the Derby, Josh Wink, Patrick Wolf, Britta Wolfrum, Xiu Xiu, Yume Bitsu, Zero 7, The Zutons

Movies:

28 Days Later, Abre Los Ojos, American Beauty, Audition, Better Luck Tomorrow, Better Off Dead, Chinatown, City of Lost Children, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Dark Crystal, Delicatessen, Der Krieger und Die Kaiserin, Donnie Darko, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Flight of the Navigator, Go, The Goonies, Harold and Maude, Heaven, High Art, I Heart Huckabees, I'll Take You There, Infection, Ju-Dou, L.A. Confidential, Labyrinth, Laurel Canyon, Legend, Leon, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lola Rennt, Mar Adentro, Memento, Morvern Callar, The Neverending Story, Nightmare Before Christmas, Opposite of Sex, Pi, Ravenous, Requiem For A Dream, The Ring, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Rubin & Ed, Saved!, Se7en, Sunset Boulevard, A Tale of Two Sisters, Traffic, United States of Leland, Urbania, The Usual Suspects, Vincent, Waiting For Guffman, Waking Life

Television:

Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Flight of the Conchords, Futurama, Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Rescue Me, Starved, Upright Citizens' Brigade, Mystery Science Theatre 3000

Books:

Alias Grace, At Swim-Two-Birds, Best American Short Story series, Best American Non-Required Reading series, Blindness, The Book of Lies, Brighton Rock, Catcher In the Rye, The Chosen, CivilWarLand In Bad Decline, The Crying of Lot 49, Death Kit, Everything Is Illuminated, Faith: Stories, Girl With Curious Hair, God: Stories, God-Shaped Hole, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Great Gatsby, Heart of Darkness, House of Leaves, I Am Legend, I, Lucifer, Invisible Monsters, Ishmael, Jesus' Son, Lady Oracle, Love & Napalm: Export USA, The Mezzanine, The Names, Nausea, No Exit, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Phantoms, The Power and the Glordy, The Rapture of Canaan, Rules of Attraction, The Sickness Unto Death, Solipsist, The Sound and the Fury, Still Life With Woodpecker, Thief's Journal, Tipping Point, Trash, Tropic of Cancer, Underworld, V., Vile Bodies, The Violent Bear It Away, The Virgin Suicides, The Wasp Factory, Where the Wild Things Are, White Noise, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Wise Blood
Short Stories: Entropy, Everything Is Green, Hills Like White Elephants, My Grandson the Homosexual, The Off-Loading of Mrs. Schwartz, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, The Yellow Wallpaper
Margaret Atwood, Nicholson Baker, Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, Soren Kierkegaard, Michel de Montaigne, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Evelyn Waugh

Heroes:

Chris Corner, Jim Jarmusch, Flannery O'Connor, Don DeLillo, Don Roos, Tom Tykwer

My Blog

The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time

I didn't like it one bit.  That is all.
Posted by Meric Slovaine on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:37:00 PST

Faux Pas

I did something so amazingly heinous/hilarious yesterday that is made ever more hysterical because of the fact that any normal person would most assuredly feel terrible for having done it.  I kee...
Posted by Meric Slovaine on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:04:00 PST

As A Heart Attack

I've apparently forgotten how to cry.  Or perhaps my state of ennui isn't enough impetus to have such a reaction. I need to get back to my friends and the cold misery of the northeast because I'v...
Posted by Meric Slovaine on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:50:00 PST

V For Vomit

Does the intelligencia behind Hollywood truly think of the viewing public at large as infantile blank slates?  There have been several movies in my life which prove that, yes, yes they do. V For ...
Posted by Meric Slovaine on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:27:00 PST

Surveys Are For Homos

If you are NOT gay you might not wanna fill this out!Lets get personal! 1. How old were you when you came out?19 2. What do you think of your first boyfriend?Before his refusal to have any self-esteem...
Posted by Meric Slovaine on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:33:00 PST

Bedroom Setlist

My singing voice in fucking phenomal tonight so I've decided to wake up the neighbors. My setlist: Beck Paper Tiger, Lonesome Tears Benzos All the King's Men, Glass Souls Coldplay Don't Panic, We N...
Posted by Meric Slovaine on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:52:00 PST

Suprapowers

I am so sleepless, unhappy and depraved, I am unable to find the appropriate reaction to the laundry list of quasi-tragic events being hurled at me. I feel subhuman.
Posted by Meric Slovaine on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:57:00 PST

Red Light

I've grown weary of mixed signals.  Over it.
Posted by Meric Slovaine on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:42:00 PST

A French Lesson

Me: Je ne t'aime pas. You: (tumbling toward your own elaborately devised suicide.)  Je ne regrette rien! Me: Fuff!  Quelle horreur... Repeat ad infinitum. Please.  You're much to...
Posted by Meric Slovaine on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:09:00 PST

The Robots of Our Age

In the twenty-first century, love is decimated, reduced to this: <3. I'm working on a story based on the following concept: [. . .] The scientific and technological advances that marked humanity'...
Posted by Meric Slovaine on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:17:00 PST