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...and the dying comes in waves...

...the streets were always--inexplicably--covered with confetti...

About Me

i'm not at all interesting, so its probably in your best interest not to even bother. having said that, if you enjoy reading poetry, please feel free to check out my BLOG page. as a result of my not being interesting, i post my poems there, as opposed to the ubiquitous narrative entries or those retarded, played-the-fuck-out questionnares. soooo, yeah. let me know what you think if you're so inclined... about the poetry i mean. thanks.PS: if you want to, please send me some of your own material and we can play "workshop" if it suits you. feedback is my favorite for sure.

My Interests

writing, music, studying the concept of "hyphy" as it pertains to the culture of the greater Yay Area, alcohol, being a total buzzkill, reading, record shopping, weeping (openly and often in public), the motherfucking Oakland A's, Lieutenant-Lieutenant-Lieu-Lieu-Lieutenant-Roast-A-Botch, substance abuse, pool, ruining everything i get my hands on, basketball, sleeping, not waking up, playing guitar/bass/synths (i might also note that i'm classically trained in air-guitar, air-bass, as well as the air-drums), alienating those closest to me, YOUR creative process!!

I'd like to meet:

earl "jackin' his slacks" stevens, tim kasher, david fincher, 40 watter, bret easton ellis, armisted burwell smith IV, charlie hustle, chuck palahniuk, trey parker, 40 fonzarelli, like-minded aspiring writers, anyone with a bottle of jameson who's into sharing...

Music:

Cursive, The Blood Brothers, Pinback, Pelican, Death Cab For Cutie, Minus the Bear, John Vanderslice, Alkaline Trio, E-40, Converge, Raekwon the Chef, These Arms Are Snakes, The Arcade Fire, Aphex Twin, Botch, Dethklok, Norma Jean, Subtle, The Smiths, State Route 552, Casual, Queen, Notorious B.I.G., Nirvana, Mistah F.A.B., The Cancer Conspiracy, MF Doom, Texas is the Reason, The Paper Chase, At the Drive In, Waxwing, The Cure, Sharks Keep Moving, Interpol, DJ Shadow, Boards of Canada, Daughters, Honorary Title, Explosions in the Sky, Pavement, David Bowie, The Decemberists, Madvillain, Jay-Z, Modest Mouse, Quasimoto, Peanut Butter Wolf, RZA (Bobby Digital), The Advantage, Cage, cLOUDDEAD, Del(tron 3030) the Funky Homosapien, The Anniversary, A Wilhelm Scream, Rocky Votalato, Lil Wayne, The Good Life, Coheed and Cambria, Clipse, Tristeza, J-Dilla, Red Sparrowes, 2Pac, All-Time Quarterback, Chiodos, Keak Da Sneak, Watchmaker, Genghis Tron, Knut, Flossin, Odd Nosdam, Four Tet, Some Girls, Saves the Day, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Neon Blonde, Prize Fighter Inferno, Smoke or Fire, Madlib, Mars Volta, From Monument To Masses, Party of Helicopters, City of Caterpillar, Hella, Tusk, Screw 32, Fugazi, Fear Before the March of Flames, Isis, Jel, The Suicide Note, Jimmy Eat World, Milemarker, Postal Service, 764-Hero, Ghostface Killah, Bjork, Far, Mogwai, Squarepusher, DnTel, Refused, Luniz, Reversal of Man, JR Ewing, Eyes of Autumn, The Notwist, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Pernice Brothers, Jawbreaker, Ugly Casanova, Three Mile Pilot, Fall of Troy, The Coup, Alias, The Rentals, Fiona Apple, Bear vs Shark, Elton John, Red Stars Theory, Talking Heads, The Banner, Chin Up Chin Up, Two Gallants, Mew, Mu, Wolf Parade, 13 & God, The Velvet Teen, The Black Heart Procession, Turf Talk, Pig Destroyer, The Chariot, Girl Talk, Sonic Youth, Baroness, Bark Bark Bark, The Boats, Themselves, The Holy Fire, Q & Not U, The Dismemberment Plan, Jesu, Russian Circles, Pulseprogramming, Xiu Xiu, Rage Against the Machine

Movies:

The Life Aquatic, Amores Perros, Jaws, The Departed, South Park: Bigger Longer Uncut, There Will Be Blood, Superbad, Ratatouille, Waiting For Guffman, Seven, Blue Velvet, Donnie Darko, The Cell, Amelie, Requiem for a Dream, Batman, The Machinist, Groundhog Day, Best In Show, Godfather I & II, Pulp Fiction, Session 9, Royal Tennebaums, 28 Days Later, Batman Begins, The Exorcist (I & III), Boogie Nights, Sexy Beast, Lost in Translation, Fight Club, Wet Hot American Summer, Leon, Beetlejuice, Punch Drunk Love, The Big Lebowski, Syriana, City of God, 21 Grams, Insomnia, Goodfellas, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Jackie Brown, Garden State, Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, A Shot in the Dark, Three Kings, Zoolander, Magnolia, Fargo, The Incredibles, The Ring, Finding Nemo, Rushmore, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Ghostbusters, A Mighty Wind, Kill Bill, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Ladykillers

Television:

CHEATERS!!!, Family Guy, Mr. Show, South Park, Sea Lab 2021, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Stella Comedy, Chappelle's Show, Strangers w/ Candy, Upright Citizens Brigade, The State, The Simpsons

Books:

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit, Glamorama, Survivor, Pet Semetary, Hideaway, American Psycho, Slaughterhouse 5, Requiem for a Dream, 77 Dream Songs, Tell Me, Bright Lights Big City, Choke, Ariel, Deaths and Entrances, Less Than Zero, The Great Shark Hunt, The Willow Tree, His Toy His Dream His Rest, What Is This Thing Called Love, The Demon, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, The Bell Jar, Diary, The Informers, Vicious Spring, Invisible Monsters, The Divine Comedy, Lunar Park, Story of My Life, The Demon, Codex, Lullaby, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Jaws, Blood About the Heart, The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dr. Faustus/Faust, The Shining, Henry's Fate and Other Poems, Twelve, The Pornographer's Poem, Haunted, The Third Brother

Heroes:

kurdt kobain, tim kasher, sylvia plath, bret easton ellis, chuck palahniuk, dylan thomas

My Blog

Questions in a Letter

Questions in a Letter   Shackles                 and lashes bent back my concrete frames, ripe with the winded mutterings of...
Posted by ...and the dying comes in waves... on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:56:00 PST

The Drip

The Drip The drip, first of wine, might rip (open):  tearing cold           through me.Sinking beneath this beaten water; beading   &nb...
Posted by ...and the dying comes in waves... on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:48:00 PST

Wings & Perhaps Claws

Wings & Perhaps Claws   I. Trouble on a nightly basis. (Backslide). The lisps that pile messily, clad in that ashen scene.         Cuffing vertebrae at onc...
Posted by ...and the dying comes in waves... on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:29:00 PST

Scaling the West

Scaling the West   These sleeves spread their wet fingers (like web silk) across the wall opposite the doorframe. Something black that begins to unfold just beneath the cages that encased us. &nb...
Posted by ...and the dying comes in waves... on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:25:00 PST

Three Years Spent Drinking Professionally

Three Years Spent Drinking Professionally   O, these trials of animated want crawling dark shrouds                 &nb...
Posted by ...and the dying comes in waves... on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:22:00 PST

A Game of Musical Ghouls

A Game of Musical GhoulsThey weld limbs along come callow path of chord and key. Repeat. Turning rust into another's lock and charred each passage that cannot curb wings into such faint cherubs. ...
Posted by ...and the dying comes in waves... on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:21:00 PST

Your Ghost & Me

Your Ghost & Me   Bells (Prologue) A babe screaming at the class collapse. Under weight of two emeralds, their smiles bought and begged for vertebrae. She could pray, prey and not resemble th...
Posted by ...and the dying comes in waves... on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:06:00 PST

The Amputee

The Amputee   Stems that our newest monsters flash at one another. Push the shelters not   into sleep, but wet with gnawing silences. Sprawled (almost) luckily: bare-handed and barely ...
Posted by ...and the dying comes in waves... on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:30:00 PST

Cool, Red Slits

Cool, Red Slits   Passing the blast furnace, our dances choke back want beneath more sober palms. Beneath each of these cool, red slits.   Then wedge the pulse that sweats from bones l...
Posted by ...and the dying comes in waves... on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:23:00 PST

Building a Canal

Building a Canal   The afternoons gore: icy like the settling suns. Sons who make click-chick sounds (the voices of munition) under their breath. The stink and then the whisper of power-l...
Posted by ...and the dying comes in waves... on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:00:00 PST