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buckle up, kids!

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About Me

For the next year or so, it's all about my dog, Mike Graveezy...please support him in any way you can.

My Interests

Alchemy, Archetypes, Astrology, Cats, Circuit-Bending, Collage, Contraptionism, Existentialism, Humanism, Music, Painting, Psychology, Surrealism, Writing...Resisting Conditioned Thought and Action

I'd like to meet:



"With what's going on in the world today,
if you're not angry, you have no heartbeat."
-Mike Gravel

Music:

(a partial list) adult, africans with mainframes, afrika bambaataa, alton ellis, anne clark, atom heart, augustus pablo, barrington levy, black sabbath, black uhuru, break, breakage, cabaret voltaire, capleton, cerrone, chris & cosey, chris connelly, cocteau twins, coil, confunkshun, cybotron, dana dane, danzig, david bowie, depeche mode, digital, doc scott, dom & roland, dr. alimantado, egyptian lover, einsturzende neubauten, fad gadget, franz liszt, gang of four, gary numan, giorgio moroder, grandmaster flash, goblin, gregory isaacs, hawkwind, horace andy, invisible skratch piklz, jamie principle, japanese telecom, joy division, juan atkins, kemek the dope computer, king tubby, klein & mbo, klute, kruder & dorfmeister, lee "scratch" perry, leftfield, lemon d, le syndicat electronique, linton kwesi johnson, liquid liquid, london suede, lustmord, mad professor, magazine, marco passarani, mary jane girls, massive attack, meatbeatmanifesto, metro area, midnight star, model 500, more rockers, morgan geist, mr. oizo, muslimgauze, new order, newcleus, nico, nick cave, niney the observer, pepe bradock, pigface, pink floyd, pharcyde, photek, planet patrol, porn darstellar, prince, prince far i, prince jammy, quasimoto, ray keith, renegade soundwave, rockers hi-fi, ruff cut, s.o.s band, schooly d, severed heads, sheila e., shostakovich, siouxsie and the banshees, sly and robbie, smith & mighty, soul II soul, starfish pool, syd barrett, teebee, the birthday party, the cure, the glove, the heiroglyphic being, the jesus & mary chain, the pogues, the scientist, the sisters of mercy, the stone roses, the time, throbbing gristle, timex social club, tuxedomoon, twilight 22, ultravox, u-roy, utfo, whodini, wire, yellow magic orchestra

Movies:

Godzilla vs. Mothra, Jacob's Ladder, Rad, Se7en, Silence Of The Lambs, Suspiria, Tenebre, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Thrashin', Trick or Treat

Television:

The Riches, The Late Late Show w/ Craig Ferguson, Chappelle's Show, Dr. Who, Hawaii-Five-0, WKRP, Are You Being Served?, Mr. Bean...other than that, television is the DEVIL!!!

Books:

(authors, rather) albert camus, aldous huxley, andre breton, antonin artaud, carl gustavus jung, dylan thomas, franz kafka, hermann hesse, jean genet, william s. burroughs

Heroes:

my grandfather, Eddie Izzard, Rod Serling, Van Gogh, all of the musicians, writers, and artists who have shown me that it is okay to be slightly "touched", all the dj's and listeners who've encouraged me to play what I feel without second-guessing myself (more later?)

My Blog

A Silent Revolution?

A Silent Revolution? "Hell consists of falling into enemy hands, into the hands of the virus power, and heaven consists of freeing oneself from this power, of achieving inner freedom, freedom from con...
Posted by buckle up, kids! on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:49:00 PST

Democrats Are Cowards

I'm almost blue (get it&blue?) in the face from saying it at this point, but I don't believe there is any real difference between the Democrats and Republicans at this point. The two parties are made...
Posted by buckle up, kids! on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:53:00 PST

SNL and Gravel

This past week on Saturday Night Live, there was a sketch featuring the Democratic presidential candidates sitting in a room before a debate. The candidates were flat out told that the media had alre...
Posted by buckle up, kids! on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:39:00 PST

Dont Be A Pussy!

Something I read recently prompted me to examine my motivations for trying to do anything to make the world a better place. I had to ask myself "Why do I care if the world goes to hell?" The absolut...
Posted by buckle up, kids! on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:55:00 PST

Getting Gas

I saw a man tonight in a gas station window. He was a large man and it was a small gas station...the bull in the china shop. Now that we can pump our gas without going inside the store, my only inte...
Posted by buckle up, kids! on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 07:28:00 PST

Saturn goes direct (don't shoot the messenger)

Saturn went direct today, so for everyone born from about the latter part of 75 to early 78, this means your "Saturn Return" is effectively back "on" after about 4 months of the relative ease of retro...
Posted by buckle up, kids! on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:51:00 PST

Love is a vitamin, Oprah

I just saw Oprah's interview with Dave Chappelle and that shit was heavy.  Aside from appreciating his sense of humor (and a certain intelligence behind it that a lot of people probably miss...
Posted by buckle up, kids! on Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:06:00 PST

intentions

I really should be getting to bed, but I think I need a little mental catharsis before I can do that.  Things are fairly intense right now and I had a very long conversation with an old friend la...
Posted by buckle up, kids! on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:30:00 PST

we are glass

So...an attempt at a sincere personal statement:  Much has changed for me in a short amount of time...I guess it is the culmination of everything that has come before, but sometimes it just feels...
Posted by buckle up, kids! on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:07:00 PST