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Iron Duke

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About Me

No future? Yep. They were right. We live in nothingness. I am nothing. Why are you even reading this? I'm not here, except for binary code representing "me." Ain't it a kick? At last my many communication failings have an explanation. None of us are, or ever will be, "here" in the first place. Ignore "me." "I" understand. I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Intensity.

Music:

Die Princess Die, Federation X, Unwound (with a gun pressed to my head, my all-time favorite band), Sonic Youth, Girls Against Boys, Festival of Dead Deer, T-Tauri, Hammerhead, Arcwelder, Part Chimp, Shotmaker, Navies, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Distortion Felix, Iron Cross, the Monorchid, Lightning Bolt, Heavens to Betsy, Fugazi, The Pope, Mission of Burma, Cockney Rejects, Flipper, Atari Teenage Riot, Alec Empire, Replacements, Sleater-Kinney, My Bloody Valentine, Clouddead, Dirty Three, Flying Saucer Attack, Big Black, Lync, Chavez, Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, Bedhead, Drive Like Jehu, Melt Banana, Mogwai, Dead Boys, Stooges, Really Red, Negative Approach, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, the Avengers, KARP, Pavement, Katie the Pest, Qui, godheadSilo, Trail of Dead (some of my most memorable shows ever), the Sleepers, the Walkmen, Wire, Helmet, Pelican, The Convocation of..., Frank Sinatra, Chopin's nocturnes, Mahler's adagios/andantes, a lot of Dischord stuff, much much more.

Movies:

The Decalog, Solaris (the Russian original), Paths of Glory, 8 1/2, Fellini Roma, The Devils (best British film ever made), Fellini Satyricon, On the Waterfront (Brando's performance is my favorite ever), Night and The City (the original with Richard Widmark), Chinatown, Apocalypse Now, The Green Ray, Seven Chances, The Deer Hunter, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Une Femme Est Une Femme, A Bout de Souffle, The Bride Wore Black, A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Vertigo, A Night at the Opera (Marx Brothers!), McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Nashville, To Live and Die in L.A., The French Connection, Slap Shot, Bull Durham, 1900, DOA (documentary about punk rock's initial explosion that gets better with each passing year), Le Crabe-Tambour (fantastic little-seen French film about a vanished war hero).

Books:

Journey to the End of Night, Ask the Dust, Tristessa, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Light in August, The Wild Palms, The Sound and the Fury, The Subterraneans, Notes from Underground, In Our Time (Hemingway's first and best), Dispatches, The Golden Bough, Man and Technics (Spengler made easy), Madame Bovary, A Season in Hell, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, Leaves of Grass, Humboldt's Gift, Seize the Day, Son of the Morning Star, Desolation Angels, Testaments Betrayed, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Farewell Waltz, The Joke, The Executioner's Song, The Prisoner of Sex, Ulysses (if only for a brief description of a frying kidney and an observing cat's meow), Something To Be Desired (all that remains of my Tom McGuane phase), Don Quixote, The Twelve Caesars, The Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor, the letters of Lord Byron, Keats, Chekhov, Camille Paglia, Joan Didion, Lester Bangs, Bukowski, the list goes on and on.

My Blog

MySpace is dead

I always knew it would happen. I only wonder why it's taken so long.Maybe the end has come because: 1) The band thing has worn out. The band thing really helped MySpace to take over from Friendster. ...
Posted by Iron Duke on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:17:00 PST

Idiotic 2007 Highlight Reel

1. I went up to Saskatchewan for a few days to shoot a small role in a movie directed by Jennifer Lynch  her first since what even she would describe as the Boxing Helena debacle. That was the bes...
Posted by Iron Duke on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:33:00 PST

A chance encounter at Ralphs

I wrote this a while back, meant to post it, and promptly forgot all about it. I found it again by accident a few minutes ago. What the hell, right? Might as well post it now, even though it...
Posted by Iron Duke on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:17:00 PST

Well, folks

My landlady took her "case" against me to a "legal assistant" who wrote me an eviction letter last week.  Hard to say how this will all turn out.  This legal assistant seems to know nothing ...
Posted by Iron Duke on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:40:00 PST

Quick

What do you suppose it means when almost every night you wake up repeatedly as you're sleeping, a grown man (or in any case adult), and think that that your family, meaning the family of you...
Posted by Iron Duke on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:41:00 PST

Year of the Rat

The other day, leaving my apartment, I noticed an official document taped to my door. It announced that the landlords needed to get inside my apartment to check and see if my smoke alarms were working...
Posted by Iron Duke on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:18:00 PST

No. 9 Dream

Haven't posted anything here in a long time. Much going on. The immediate details aren't interesting at all. The cumulative effect, I hope, will be. The other night I had a dream  the most interestin...
Posted by Iron Duke on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:19:00 PST

B'day ramblings

When I was a teenager, my dad used to say to me, "Why are you so rebellious?" I didn't see it that way at the time. I thought of myself as a typical kid, albeit one with what many people had always ...
Posted by Iron Duke on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:17:00 PST

Saskatchewan, 11 PM

You know, when you work in the so-called entertainment business, you go to places you'd never think to visit left to your own devices, and then you fall a little in love with them, and before you know...
Posted by Iron Duke on Tue, 08 May 2007 10:24:00 PST

Virginia Tech

My friend Mark, who lives and works in Moscow, wrote this article.  He also wrote a book, published last year, about workplace and school shootings, in which he argued that they're tantamoun...
Posted by Iron Duke on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:33:00 PST