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czar nick

Mixing business and pleather

About Me

All Hail Czar Nick! I am the last Czar of Russia and was sent to the cyber-realm by the damn Soviets. I like to spend my time playing soccer three days a week or working on some kind of artistic endeavor. Kind of hard not to when I teach high school art and coach soccer. I can't think of a better way to make a living and I love my summers off. I'm really into sports esp. the Gamecocks and if Spurrier can't win a championship than Carolina should just give up. I enjoy meeting new people and hanging out with friends talking trash and laughing, whether it's about sports, politics or toilet humor.

My Interests

Any type of artmaking, Playing/Coaching REAL FUTBOL, and tennis. Surfing, Prog rock,(what would you expect from the czar)Bloodlettin', torturing the poor, and chillin' on the beach....

I'd like to meet:

Joseph Campbell, Larry David, Karl Marx. So I can smash his face for creating such twisted individuals such as Stalin, Lenin,, Polpot, Mao, and Castro (whoops, sorry I like him),,,

Music:

Yeah, I'm losing my edge. I'm losing my edge. The kids are coming up from behind. I'm losing my edge. I'm losing my edge to the kids from France and from London. But I was there.I was there in 1968. I was there at the first Can show in Cologne. I'm losing my edge. I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks. I'm losing my edge to the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978. I'm losing my edge.To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin. I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties.But I'm losing my edge. I'm losing my edge, but I was there. I was there. But I was there.I'm losing my edge. I'm losing my edge. I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks. But I was there. I was there in 1974 at the first Suicide practices in a loft in New York City. I was working on the organ sounds with much patience. I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band. I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime." I was there. I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids. I played it at CBGB's. Everybody thought I was crazy. We all know. I was there. I was there. I've never been wrong.I used to work in the record store. I had everything before anyone. I was there in the Paradise Garage DJ booth with Larry Levan. I was there in Jamaica during the great sound clashes. I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988.But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent. And they're actually really, really nice.I'm losing my edge.I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody. Every great song by the Beach Boys. All the underground hits. All the Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import. I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno hit - 1985, '86, '87. I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your computer out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables. I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.But have you seen my records? This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, the Germs, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, a-ha, Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL, the Fania All-Stars, the Bar-Kays, the Human League, the Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagra,Joy Division, Lower 48, the Association, Sun Ra, Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc,Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force ("just hit me"!), Juan Atkins, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Gil! Scott! Heron!, the Slits, Faust, Mantronix, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, the Swans, the Soft Cell, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.You don't know what you really want. (x15)

Movies:

Big Wednesday---- everyone should see, has William Kats (Greatest American Hero), Gary Busey (nuff said) & Jan M. Vincent (Air Wolf) as 60's surfer kids. Has great surfing and trip to Tijuana.......... Most recent: Irreversible and City of God, Cache, Asian Xtreme(Audition, Old Boy), bad taste, Spotless Mind, Shawshank Redemption,.......Stupidest/funniest: Starship Troopers, half baked, anything with Arnold S, Point break

Television:

The Office (British Version) and Extras, Arrested Development, Curb your enthusiasm, Deadwood, Dave Attell, Mr. Show (too bad it is off the air) Lost, Daily Show, Colbert Report

Books:

Pynchon

Heroes:



My Blog

Ole School Cola Town Punkers

Liqiud Sillies @ Grow Cafe Assfactor Four Third Eye Lounge @ Annie's Premonition...
Posted by czar nick on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:35:00 PST

Albrecht Durer views on art

"What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things." Albrecht Durer. "As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the gre...
Posted by czar nick on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:30:00 PST

Redneck Charlie Manson

Well it's been awhile since my last trip back to the "world of the living". But what has the Czar been doin' during his cyber-exile. Well I've been chillin' with Pee Wee Gaskins (Redneck Charles Manso...
Posted by czar nick on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:57:00 PST

Czar's 2nd challenge

here's the Czar's second challenge to the masses. To be an Imperial agent, my soldiers need to understand and converse with the lower classes of serfs. Go to http://www.psyclops.com/translator/ and c...
Posted by czar nick on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:15:00 PST

Czar's first challenge for army candidates

this is the first challenge for the czar's soldiers Go to the site: http://www.winterrowd.com/maze.swf Move the dot thru the maze w/o hitting the walls.
Posted by czar nick on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:46:00 PST

The Czar is building an army....

Ahoy, serfs of the cyber-world,The Czar was subject to the ramblings of many ex-Russian patriots this Sat. the Czar had forgotten the good times had during the earlier dayz before the mass exodus from...
Posted by czar nick on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:58:00 PST