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Carl Atiya

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About Me

I have an apartment and no cats, a typewriter with no ribbon and empty bottles of Johnny Walker. I love lots of things and occasionally find it overwhelming. I don't believe in astrology but I'm an Aries. I love the Constitution and small towns and freeways but the parts and the whole don't jibe for me sometimes. I can be conflicted. Give it some time, but sometime you have to choose. That time is coming up hard.

Images from "show", my Senior Thesis Exhibit for the University of Southern California, at compact/spce gallery website here.

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My Interests

All sorts of things. Probably things you are interested in to. Or not. If not, I'll probably tell you, or hear you out, because it may be useful to know later.

I'd like to meet:

Someone with similar shapeshifting and crosstalking abilities. A magician, a clown. Someone for whom the night is a soft velvet shawl. Icarus and Aphrodite. height="366".. Current top friends: The instance of Michaelangelo's God and Adam.

Music:

Anyone making courageous noise.Why is there no "art" section? I wanna meet Romare Bearden and Kara Walker. I also want to have a threesome Bjork and Barney, but that may be another issue.

Movies:

Lynch (esp. Mulholland Dr.) Gondry (esp. Daft Punk videos) All the Andersons (Wes and Paul Thomas) Anything touched by Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jonze, Quentin Tarantino (and, by extension, Robert Rodriguez) Lost in Translation, Garden State, Blade Runner, Fight Club, Romeo + Juliet, Shakespeare in Love, the work of Darren Aronofsky (pi and Requiem for a Dream), Johnny Stecchino, Down by Law, Broken Flowers, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Gladiator, Syriana

Television:

Stephen Colbert's speech at the White House Correspondants Dinner. YouTube.

Books:

Roald Dahl (for young ones and adults), Chuck Pahlianuk (definitely adult), Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, the litany of Beats, Amiri Baraka, Bukowski (Asshole 101), Italo Calvino, Milan Kundera, the legible work of Immanuel Kant and Jean-Paul Sartre, Kierkegaard, paper and words as a sheild and sword against the world.

Heroes:

The Mad Ones. The Joyous Ones. The Soft and Broken Ones. Voiceless Ones. Raucous Ones. You and Me Together.

My Blog

What the hell is this?

It's not a Poesy, it's not an Elegy, I don't know what it is. Some Beat prophylactic for my uknowing and expaned desire; some panegyric head-butting; maybe throwing my riffed shoulder against a wall ...
Posted by Carl Atiya on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:58:00 PST

Two unfinished poems

I have been working hard, in this time, to get Clapperclaw to the fullest it can be. Check it out at: www.clapperclawfestival.comThese are two poem written in the meantime. They will be changed.Inte...
Posted by Carl Atiya on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:30:00 PST

Johnny Walker Red

A table laid with such a bitter feast,words placed so gently on bone china,the gilt rims of dinner plates and crystal glasseswith three forks and enough knivesto finish off any meat there....
Posted by Carl Atiya on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:10:00 PST

Early Morning

I was going to blog about Idigaragua, but I'm selfishly holding onto it. I shot two movies yesterday- one a chase sequence for a friend of mine, and then I tracked Gob Squad around as they shot their...
Posted by Carl Atiya on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:22:00 PST

Check out this event: IDIGARAGUA

Hosted By: Fort Wilson Riot/Bedlam TheaterWhen: Thursday Sep 06, 2007 at 8:00 PMWhere: Bedlam Theater1501 S. 6th Street, on the West BankMinneapolis, MN 55400United StatesDescription:Fort Wilson Riot/...
Posted by Carl Atiya on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:53:00 PST

Letter to Editor published in Minneapolis Star Tribune!

Katherine Kersten, the Minneapolis Star Tribunes resident conservative quack columnist, has been out there gunning for Minneapolis Rep. Keith Ellison, the U.S.'s first muslim member of Congress from t...
Posted by Carl Atiya on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:35:00 PST

Wind Exercises

Two Poems. A head full of discontent, a heart trying to fly away. Bedlam Theater. Butoh games. Two Poems.Elegy 7A city at nighthas spots and floodsthat turn themselves on,illuminating graffiti, fa...
Posted by Carl Atiya on Thu, 24 May 2007 09:09:00 PST

Dam' astrologie

Jojo posted her astrology blog, and threw down for others to post up. This is what I got, and damn if sometimes it isn't a little close to home. And in a wonderfully affirming sense too. After a pe...
Posted by Carl Atiya on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:31:00 PST

The 11 things tag across MySpace to YourSpace

I was tagged by R..CHEL beatrix agloanema lima bean BR..NWEN, and I faithfully play on, listing 11 odd/interesting things about me. (You can also backtrack and read other people's, which is excellent....
Posted by Carl Atiya on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:52:00 PST

Time to go at it/got at time

I just put the whiskey back in the fridge so I could write a cogent post in the six minutes beofre I go to bed. Or back to work. One or the other. January was one intensive blur. I love you all and...
Posted by Carl Atiya on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:20:00 PST