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¡Benjaminista!

I am here for Dating, Friends and Networking

About Me


"He strikes the blazing match of his wit on the sole of stupidity's shoe."
- V. Khlebnikov
"A man of wealth and taste."
- Mick Jagger
"A miserable little pile of secrets."
- Andre Malraux
"One third genius, one third false, one third incomprehensible."
- Raymond Aron
"A selfish, narrow-minded, venal, treacherous, cruel ruler possessing all the despicable attributes of a feudal lord in the dark ages."
- Count Ciano
"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey, in the evening still dividing the spoil."
- Genesis 49:27
"One man in the name of Love."
- Bono

My Interests

Absurdism, Adventure, Agitprop, Anarcho-Monarchism, Aphorisms, Bazaars, Borderlands, Brazil, Coffee, Concerts, Constantinople, Day Tripping, Debauchery, Dogs, Dystopias, Eccentric Dictators, Ethiopia, Eurasia, Existentialism, Festivals, Folklore, Futurism, Greenland, History, Indian Food, Lost Cities, Lost Civilizations, Lost Tribes, Manifestos, Maps, Mythology, Next Level Shit, Occidentalism, Orientalism, Pan-Semitism, Photography, Psychodynamics, Romanticism, Rootless Cosmopolitanism, Ruins, Samizdat, Secret Societies, Situationism, Sublimation, Supervillainry, Surrealism, Terra Incognito, Transcendence, Travel, Used Book Stores, Used Record Stores, Utopia, World Conquest, Writing

I'd like to meet:



Visionaries, vigilantes, self-made monarchs, iconoclasts, warrior-poets, book wavers, soul savers... anyone lit to pop, anyone who feels more deeply than is fashionable.
I have a bloggggg.

Music:

Afghan Whigs, Alice in Chains, Arab Strap, Arcade Fire, At the Drive-In, Atmosphere, Bark Psychosis, Bauhaus, Big Black, The Birthday Party, Black Sabbath, Black Uhuru, Blood of Abraham, David Bowie, Catherine Wheel, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Chris Connelly, The Constantines, Cop Shoot Cop, Course of Empire, The Cult, Deconstruction, Doves, Eazy-E, Echo and the Bunnymen, Eels, Einsturzende Neubauten, Brian Eno, Faith No More, Filter, Firewater, Gang of Four, Girls Against Boys, Godflesh, Herman Dune, Interpol, Jane's Addiction, Joy Division, Killing Joke, The Kinks, Kino, Kraftwerk, Mark Lanegan, Lifter, Manic Street Preachers, Ministry, Mission of Burma, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, New Model Army, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Noir Desir, Outkast, Pavement, Pink Floyd, Plexi, Iggy Pop, Porno for Pyros, Pulp, Quickspace, Radiohead, Roots Manuva, The Sheila Divine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Smog, The Sound, Soundgarden, Stone Roses, The Stooges, Sunny Day Real Estate, Swans, Talk Talk, Talking Heads, Tool, Tricky, Truly, U2, Unwound, Violent Femmes, XTC, Young Gods

Movies:

24 Hour Party People, 25th Hour, A Boy and His Dog, Army of Darkness, Batman Returns, The Big Lebowski, Blue Velvet, Boondock Saints, Brazil, City of Lost Children, Cube, Dark City, Death Wish 3, Delicatessen
Der Untergang, Destiny of a Man, Dog Day Afternoon, Dr. Strangelove, Erik the Viking, Falling Down, Fargo, Fitzcarraldo, Heavy Metal, Jason and the Argonauts, Kanal, Killing Zoe, Life Aquatic, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Life of Brian, The Lost Highway, The Man Who Would be King, Metropolis, Mulholland Drive, Natural Born Killers, Patton, Pi, Predator, Pulp Fiction, Repo Man, Reservoir Dogs, The Road Warrior, Rocky IV, Run Lola Run, Rushmore, Spinal Tap, Stop Making Sense, Taxi Driver, Twelve Monkeys, Uranus, Wayne's World, Zulu

Television:

Chappelle Show, Colbert Report, Da Ali G Show, Daily Show, Family Guy, Lost, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Office, The Outer Limits, The Sopranos

Books:

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Aztec by Gary Jennings, Candide by Voltaire, Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders, Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake, Irrational Man by William Barrett, Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Orientalist by Tom Reiss, The Outsider by Colin Wilson, The Rebel by Albert Camus, The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset, Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, To the Land of the Living by Robert Silverberg, The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung, The Watchmen by Alan Moore

Heroes:


David Bowie (but just for one day)

Perry Farrell

Albert Camus

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Zog, King of the Albanians

Charles Bronson
Turkmenbashi

Ian Curtis
Andre Malraux

Judge Dredd

Leonard Cohen

Jorge Luis Borges

Franz K.

Iggy Pop

The 82nd Airborne

My Blog

ROBOTS ROBOTS

Let's be honest here. I don't know very many voluptuous insanely attractive women, so if you are a voluptuous attractive woman trying to add me I will assume you are a robot sent from the future to as...
Posted by ¡Benjaminista! on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:59:00 PST

Fuck Myspace

Too much spam, too many fake people, too many annoying songs that play on people's profiles and besides, no one gives a shit about common interests anyway. That's why so many people have private profi...
Posted by ¡Benjaminista! on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST

Iggylyric of the Day

Iggy Pop - Mask You're wearing a maskYou're wearing a maskYou're wearing a mask You look better that way You're wearing a maskYou're wearing a maskYou're wearing a mask You look better that way Are y...
Posted by ¡Benjaminista! on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:47:00 PST

A.E.I.O.U.

A.E.I.O.U. was the device adopted by Frederick V, Archduke of Austria (the Emperor Frederick III. - 1440--1493). Austria Est Imperare Orbi Universo.Alles Erdreich Ist Oesterreich Unterthan.Austria's ...
Posted by ¡Benjaminista! on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:27:00 PST

Prescient Lyrics o' The Day

Killing Joke - Obsession, released in 1988. I need a beautiful obsession. London, New York, Paris, Tokyo--All is one with the multi-nationals!Total monopolies, I can sink or swim Adrenalin is rushing ...
Posted by ¡Benjaminista! on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 05:22:00 PST

When History Was Grand

The two Emperors met at Tilsit on the 25 June 1807. Alexander, dazzled by Napoleon's genius and overwhelmed by his apparent generosity, was completely won. Napoleon knew well how to appeal to the exub...
Posted by ¡Benjaminista! on Tue, 23 May 2006 09:45:00 PST

Lyrics of the Day(break)

Firewater - Is That All There Is? (originally by someone or other) I remember when I was a very little boy, our house caught on fire.I'll never forget the look on my father's face as he gathered me up...
Posted by ¡Benjaminista! on Thu, 11 May 2006 04:45:00 PST

Serge Gainsbourg: Impressive Resume

His most famous song, "Je t'aime... moi non plus" (1969), featured simulated sounds of female orgasm. Originally recorded with Brigitte Bardot, it was released with a different female singer, future g...
Posted by ¡Benjaminista! on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:34:00 PST

Lyrik des Tages

Einsturzende Neubauten - Die Interimsliebenden (English translation) During one slip of the tonguethere is big bang and total entropyfrom red giants to white dwarfsthe whole scaleof cosmic dimensions ...
Posted by ¡Benjaminista! on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:45:00 PST

moving to brazil

i'm moving to brazil with just a backpack, to live an die in the slums of rio de janeiro. or maybe the otherworldly architecture of brasilia. i need a tropical climate, the beaches and jungles and car...
Posted by ¡Benjaminista! on Sun, 25 Dec 2005 11:41:00 PST