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About Me

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My Interests

My girlfriend (first and foremost), music, film, literature, philosophy, religion.

Music:

The following groups/artists/composers arouse my interest most: Whitehouse/Come; Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention/Frank Zappa (solo work); The Birthday Party; The Butthole Surfers; The Swans; Mars/John Gavanti/Don King; Red Transistor; Mission Of Burma; Embrace/Rites Of Spring/Fugazi; Rapeman; Bastro/Gastr Del Sol; Throbbing Gristle; U.S. Maple; Polvo; The Thinking Fellers Union Local 282; Experimental Audio Research; Merzbow; Karlheinz Stockhausen; The U-Men; Six Finger Satellite; Sonic Youth (I prefer their earliest work; from their Noisefest performance up to EVOL); Live Skull; The Dustdevils; The U-Men; Rat At Rat R; Of Cabbages And Kings; Ritual Tension; The Ex; Killing Joke; The Jesus Lizard; Scratch Acid; DJ Spooky; Aislers Set.

Movies:

Un Chien Andalou; Citizen Kane; My Life To Live; 2 Or 3 Things I Know About Her; Eraserhead; Blue Velvet; Shadow Of The Vampire; The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari; Tetsuo; Kids; Gummo; Julien Donkey-Boy; Alice; Pi; Requiem Of A Dream; Faust; Irreversible; the short films of David Lynch, Jan Svankmajer, the Brothers Quay, Maya Deren, Guy Maddin, Stan Brakhage, Jiri Trnka, Ladislaw Starewicz; the general work of Harmony Korine, Luis Bunuel, Gaspar Noe, Jean-Luc Godard, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Darren Aronofosky, David Lynch, Terry Gilliam, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lars von Trier.

Books:

I'll just list authors: William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Samuel R. Delany, Thomas Pynchon, William Gibson, Kathy Acker, Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Hubert Selby Jr., Leo Tolstoy, Robert Walser, Friedrich Nietzsche, Raymond Roussel, R. A. Lafferty, J.G. Ballard, Borges.

Heroes:

William Bennett (music; Whitehouse), Philip Best (music; Consumer Electronics, Ramleh, Whitehouse), Thomas Pynchon (author), Raymond Roussel (author), Mark Prindle (music, record reviewer), Richard Lowtax Kyanka (satirist; Something Awful), Michael Gira (musician, writer), Henry Rollins (vocalist, writer), Ian MacKaye (musician), Guy Picciotto (musician), Sumner Crane (music; Mars)

My Blog

For those that know Stefano...

I'll be honest. Whenever I see that someone is a part of that 'Just because Stefano is THE GREATEST' group, I become furious. In the first place, it's not ironically funny to pretend that ...
Posted by Frank on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:47:00 PST

Stories of the Jahwist - 04

Here's the fourth installment out of what will be seven installments in my attempt to separate the J text from the torah. Redactionist texts will appear in red, unknown or older texts will ...
Posted by Frank on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:58:00 PST

Stories of the Jahwist - 03

Here's the third installment out of what will be seven installments in my attempt to separate the J text from the torah. Redactionist texts will appear in red, unknown or older texts will appear...
Posted by Frank on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 08:11:00 PST

Stories of the Jahwist - 02

Here's the second part out of what will be seven parts in my attempt to separate the J text from the torah. Redactionist texts will appear in red, unknown or older texts will appear in blue.I ha...
Posted by Frank on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:11:00 PST

Stories of the Jahwist - 01

For those not familiar with the Documentary Hypothesis, it hypothesizes that the Torah (and possibly the Deutoronomic histories such as Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings) are redactions of stories by...
Posted by Frank on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:36:00 PST

Utah

I'm heading over to Utah at 1:30 here with Lexie, so don't bother messaging me hoping for a response. When I get back, I intend on reviewing all 18 of Whitehouse's albums, as well as albums by S...
Posted by Frank on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:45:00 PST

Zesty flavor.

I like-a to eat-a the baby. .. .
Posted by Frank on Sun, 20 Nov 2005 04:10:00 PST