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Phoenix

Everything I do is Art

About Me

I'm pretty intense, generally. But I can also be really funny when I get out and feel like a smart-ass. It's skewed, sardonic humor; think of Dennis Miller Dane Cook, Doug Stanhope, and some Drew Carey combined. I can have as much fun on an adventure anywhere I end up as I do at home watching a movie or reading. I'm never bored. Only boring people get bored. Almost anything is interesting if you're inquisitive and adventurous.
Change is universal and constant; it's the alternative to stagnation and death. I seem to some to be a walking contradiction, because aspects of me seem to casual observers to be mutually exclusive but they're not. If I like you I'll be the nicest person to you, if not, you'll know it, because I suck at faking it. I'm no one's doormat or sidekick. Im a fiercely loyal friend and a violently hostile enemy. I always try to live the way I say we all should.

Warning: I am opinionated and mentally independent. If you seek polite agreement or apology, look elsewhere. If you seek adult conversation, I'm your huckleberry.
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Yeah, I'm pretty talented... :-)

My Interests

Living well - as an act of defiance. Almost everything at least a little. But mostly the following: Art, literature, music & movies; red wine, rum, vodka, tequila, tuaca, good food; rough sex, driving fast, weaponry, martial arts, comic books, video games, conversation, nature; tattoos, piercings; history, culture, science, philosophy, politics. I'm an admitted hedonist, and wannabe intellectual... :)

My score on The Politics Test :

Right Libertarian
(You scored 73% Personal Liberty and 80% Economic Liberty!)

A right libertarian believes in little to moderate government intervention on personal matters and little to no government intervention on economic matters. They generally believe in a government that is extremely small and limited to the extent of protecting people's liberty. They tend to be strongly opposed to war, police powers, victimless crimes, foreign intervention and what they consider to be a welfare state. They strongly support property rights and support self-ownership. They strongly support capitalism as an economic system. Libertarian thought is individualist in nature.

Link: The Politics Test ( OkCupid Free Online Dating )

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I'd like to meet:

Interesting cool people I can learn from; eccentrics, artists musicians... people who are smart and/or talented. People who can inspire me or improve me. I generally prefer the company of predators over the prey.

A large number of the Suicide Girls. Pauley Perette, Penn Jillette, Christina Ricci; I don't care what any of you haters say. Also Chuck Palahniuk, The Dali Llama, Shakespeare, Frank Herbert, Ronan Harris, Doc Holiday, Drew Carey, Doug Stanhope, Leonardo da Vinci, The Maker.
CURRENT MOON about the moon

Music:


In no particular order: Sisters of Mercy, VNV Nation, Front Line Assembly, Assemblage 23, :wumpscut:, Wolfsheim, The Chameleons, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Monster Magnet, Diary of Dreams, Decoded Feedback, Front 242, Dreadful Shadows, The 69 Eyes, Mozart, Suicide Commando, Dismantled, NIN, Icon of Coil, Terminal Choice, Marilyn Manson, Covenant, Apoptygma Berserk, In Strict Confidence, Sister Machine Gun, Funker Vogt, A Split Second, Hallucinogen, Collide, Dead Can Dance, Haujobb, Bryan Ferry, Johnny Cash, Roxy Music, Otis Redding, Robert Cray, Switchblade Symphony, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Lacuna Coil, Absurd Minds, Blutengel, Dance or Die, Die Krupps, Heretics in the Lab, A-Ha, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Billy Idol, Clan of Xymox, (early and middle) Ministry, Zombie, Neotek, Velvet Acid Christ, C-Tek, Gary Numan, Mesh, Alice in Chains, SPF 1000, Foetus, Vast, Rush, Beethoven, Wagner, Vivaldi...the list is not exhaustive, just the highlights.

Movies:

V is for Vendetta, Serenity, The Incredibles, 3:10 to Yuma, Children of Men, The Count of Monte Cristo, Batman Begins, Braveheart, Gladiator, Fight Club, Sin City, Gattaca, Munich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Libertine, Walk the Line, Outland, Zero Effect, The Order, 8mm, Unbreakable, Saw 1&2, The Road Warrior, Forbidden Planet, Boondock Saints, Starship Troopers, Constantine, Soldier, Riddick 1 & 2, Equalibrium, Red Dragon, Spiderman 1 & 2, The Crow, Rio Grande, Straw Dogs, Secretary, the Matrix trilogy, The Way of the Gun, Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball, Bruce Almighty, LOTR trilogy, From Hell, A Clockwork Orange, Seven Samurai, Army of Darkness, Seven, Dark City, Psycho, Demolition Man, Real Genius, Royal Tennenbaums, Grosse Pont Blank, Blade Runner, 12 MOnkeys, American Psycho, Shadow of the Vampire, Hamlet, Othello, Serenity, Dune '84, Frankenstein, Donnie Darko, Ferris Buehler's Day Off, Pirates o/t Caribbean 1&2, Slamdance, Keys to Tulsa, Playing God, Say Anything, Nosferatu, Dawn of the Dead '04, and so many more. I LOVE movies.

Television:

"The Family Guy" There is no funnier show on the idiot box. Also "Scrubs," "Lost", and "NCIS" (Pauley Perrette is worth every minute).

Books:

Books I love are even more numerous than movies I love. The most influential ones that affected me most profoundly would include: The Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert (my favorite novelist by far, which I read often) Fight Club, Choke, and Lullabye, by Chuck Palahniuk; Anthem, by Ayn Rand; The Bible; Brave New World, by Aldus Huxley; 1984, by Orwell; The Belgariad pentology & The Mallorean pentology, by David Eddings; The Count of Monte Cristo, by Dumas; Frankenstein, by Shelley; American Psycho, by Brett Easton Ellis, Modern Times Revisited, by Paul Johnston; The Vision of the Annointed by Thomas Sowell; Leftism Revisited by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddin; American Gods, by Neil Gaiman, numerous novels by Koontz, and books by Virginia Postrel, James Bovard, and other writers of fiction and non-fiction.

Heroes:

Since the line between them can be blurry, I'll include real and fictional ones: "Real:" William Wallace, King David, Jesus Christ, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, Benjamin Franklin, Davey Crockett, Doc Holiday, Chief Sitting Bull, Leonardo DaVinci, Julius Caesar, and Neil Armstrong. Pastor R.B Thieme, & Sifu John R. Allen. "Fictional:" Paul Atreides, & Duncan Idaho (from the Dune Chronicles), Gandalf (Lord of the Rings), Batman (Dark Knight), Edmond Dantes (Count of Monte Christo), Frankenstein's Monster, Howard Roark (The Fountainhead), & General Maximus (Gladiator).

My Blog

Obama’s Going to Win...

Not that it matters. Sure, hes a tre-red socialist. All his prior writings, the tutelidge of his mother, his prior and continuiong associations (Contrary to opinion, you can estimate a man by his coll...
Posted by Phoenix on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:15:00 PST

Morose Rambling

Today is the first day after Halloween. So? Well, Halloween has always been in very close competition for "favorie holiday" with Christmas for me. I love the decorating, the costumes, the parties, all...
Posted by Phoenix on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:12:00 PST

An Admission

This year, I will not vote. Some people may yawn. However, those who know me, know how passionate I have ever been about politics, and that I have never deliberately missed an election since turning 1...
Posted by Phoenix on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:53:00 PST

From Under the Rock

So, since having a new baby, it feels like there is no life outside the unending obligations to attend th eneeds of a brand new, and utterly helpless human. It has gotten easier, though, which is why ...
Posted by Phoenix on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:55:00 PST

Free at Last!

So. As some of you already know, LV and I had our son. That is to say, LaVonne had him, and I "helped." I think men are superfluous at that point, but she swears I helped by being there. We had a quic...
Posted by Phoenix on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:06:00 PST

Im Not Quite Dead...

My Paternal Grandfather... who, when it seemed he was just on the verge of recovery, suddenly felt the icy hand of death upon him! I know, it seems inappropriate to use Monty Python at a point like t...
Posted by Phoenix on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:47:00 PST

38 NOT EXACTLY true statements by Saint Obama, Savior of Us All

This is a direct repost of a blog by a friend of mine here, which I wanted to give more exposure to. I love it, and I find it disturbing in the extreme no one wants to address these matters of the can...
Posted by Phoenix on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:22:00 PST

Im Not Wearing Any Pants: Film At Eleven!

Sike, there's no film at eleven. My webcam is history, and I've no desire for a new one. Besides none of you cares, and even if you did, the supposedly pants-less portion is under my desk. That's the ...
Posted by Phoenix on Sat, 31 May 2008 02:27:00 PST

The Kangaroo Ballot

pardon me, in advance, for being overly negative, but I have been plotting a reasoned and thoughtful blog about the elections for some time, and researching into it has only made me totally bilious an...
Posted by Phoenix on Thu, 08 May 2008 12:35:00 PST

Progeny and Ancestry

All my life I used to spend a certain amount of energy making sure never to be who I really am. Making sure never to be "from there" or have "those roots," or really embracing in any way, where I come...
Posted by Phoenix on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:32:00 PST