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About Me

They call me the drunk monk. I stagger into town, eyelids drooped in the weight of my inebriation, and spittle out with nothing but vomit and curse words. Later I fall down pretty hard.

Maybe you did not know this about me? I've seen you out and about you say, and you seemed relatively sober, calm, quiet. You were wearing a sweater whose weaves screamed that you are available to care about someone's needs with straight leg jeans to boot. You were reading a big boring book about turtles.

I laugh when you say this. I don my hood and utter wise things, things like "It's a nickname stupid," and I vomit my drunk guts onto your shoes. That seems to do the trick.

Don't worry about your shoes though. It's invisible vomit. Sort of like invisible ink. You can only see it if you use lemon juice.

Avoid lemon juice.

My Interests

Good

I'd like to meet:

Lenore Beadsman

Music:

Love, Wire, This Heat, Joe Meek's production, Thomas Mapfumo, Positive Force, The Left Banke, Faust, the first three songs off of Loaded, the Terminator soundtrack, Godz, Music for Airports, White Noise, Fleetwood Mac, Bone Thugs, Bone Thugs sampling Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan

Movies:

Big Lebowski, Cool Hand Luke, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, Almost Famous, The Lost Boys, Roadhouse.

Television:

no

Books:

Books about Pete Rose...
Good short story collections that are cute and might make me cry occasionally...
aggresively athletic prose about lonely boys in their mid-thirties...
Something that might make me think the world is about to end, or wish it would.

William Faulkner, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Donald Barthelme.

I like reading technical manuals/anything with logarithims and/or infinite set theory.
Never read the weather.

Heroes:

My Friends

My Blog

Farewell to Chicago tour

  You're the reason that I'll be traveling on One lease left
Posted by c t ballentine reports from iron mountain on Mon, 14 May 2007 07:56:00 PST