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Kevin Black

The only way to understand death, Otto, is to fuck life in the galbladder.

About Me

"[Music] creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one's tears." ~ Oscar Wilde.

And how true...

...especially when it is wearing shiny gloves and falling through glass windows.

..

My Interests

love or destruction. depending on what mood i'm in.

I'd like to meet:

the mad and the literate.

Music:

mind or dance enhancing fare.

Movies:

Hardcore Logo, La Chat Dans le Sac, Amelie, Zed & Two Noughts, Quadrophenia , If..., Battle Royale, Breakfast at Tiffany's

Television:

Great band.

Books:

Leonard Cohen. Al Purdy. Irvine Welsh. Oscar Wilde. John Wilmot. Franz Kafka. Albert Camus. Fyodor Dostoevsky. Max Beerbohm. Herman Hesse. I think the upcoming Zephyr looks worthwhile as well.

Heroes:

Most people.

My Blog

turning the other cheek

today i was getting a coffee at a downtown coffeeshop.  studying.  i saw a man sitting and leaning against a wall across the street, down on his luck, begging for money.  another man wa...
Posted by Kevin Black on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:27:00 PST

small jailbirds

i was just walking down richmond and i saw two cops arresting a midget.  were two of them really necessary?
Posted by Kevin Black on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:08:00 PST

kerrrrrr-akkk

this is the sound of tectonic plates shifting.  it just happened.  and i think that it might have had something to do with a grande coffee that i drank today.  the earth is a delicate l...
Posted by Kevin Black on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:53:00 PST

March 26, 2:44am, 2006.

On the way home today at 2:30am I saw two Loons and two pairs of Mallards on an island in the middle of the Thames River.  They were just motionless, as the water silently surrounded th...
Posted by Kevin Black on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:47:00 PST

there was this one time on the dance floor when something very unusual happened...

so, I have learned a very IMPORTANT piece of information tonight: the fly on my new pair of jeans opens when i'm dancing at call the office with a group of six certain very fun and important peop...
Posted by Kevin Black on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:34:00 PST

i think my adrenaline levels are depleted...

...so don't expect me to save babies from burning buildings any time soon.  just maybe ants from sailing down the drain with tap water.  but i don't feel that moral.  no one reads these...
Posted by Kevin Black on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:12:00 PST

reportage journalism .1

tonight at the bar we saw three very unique characters dancing on stage who we dubbed the "brokeback trio".  their identities were as follows: a) "cowboy": the primary member of the tri...
Posted by Kevin Black on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:27:00 PST

a train of some grains

well, this is i guess the emotional plateau of slack week. I think I have reached a relative realm of zen because everything is just balanced out like this >>______________________  ...
Posted by Kevin Black on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:35:00 PST

haiku in prose .2. (disclaimer warning - i reserve the right to deny i wrote this shit)

you can waste so much time on here.  especially when you're wasted.  it's called wasted time.
Posted by Kevin Black on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:22:00 PST

a haiku in prose

I saw a rich girl with a gold i-pod today. She was ugly. But the gold i-pod didn't make up for it.
Posted by Kevin Black on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:34:00 PST