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About Me

gurg . . .

My Interests

photography, sampling, beat construction, dancing like nobody's watching . . .

I'd like to meet:

groovy cats and kittens, with or without their mittens . . .

Music:

i ain't no square cat. actually, i'm closer to polygonal. big ups to some crews/labels in my playlist recently - rhymesayers, anticon, mush, quannum, rawkus, ninja tune, blue note, prestige, impulse, riverside, concord and all those hot blues riffs courtesy of jay, jeff, and the berkeley public library.

Movies:

some recent catches: coffee and cigarettes, bobby, truman, fear and loathing, the cockettes, 32 short films about glenn gould, when we were kings, naqoyqatsi, city of gods, los diarios de motocycletas, a bout de souffle, transamerica, kill bill, o brother, blood simple, you me and everyone we know, dead man, lone star, and turtles can fly.some directors i dig: fellini, cohen bros, godard, hitchcock, nolan, rodriguez, almodovar, taymore, sayles, eisenstein, scorsese, spike lee, nair, jeunet, jarmusch, tarantino, and altman.

Television:

f*ck t.v. --- but family guy, charlie rose, and jon stewart are alright.

Books:

chomsky, robbins, baldwin, wright, sedaris, pynchon, o'neill, brecht, kesey, kerouac, ginsberg, baraka, garcia marquez, borges, fuentes, asimov, tolkien, lewis, silverstein, bradbury, seuss, heinlein, thoreau, orwell, hwmingway, rousseau, sandel, rawls, machiavelli, foucault, eaton, said, hooks, kingston, kincaid, thompson, shakes, vonnegut, dostoevsky, and, of course, wilde.

Heroes:

it's batman or no man.

My Blog

aesop rock / def jux releasing NSP instrumentals & accapellas

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.... check this y'all. it ain't my blog posting an i know i haven't done that in a while, but i'm looking forward to this. L...
Posted by lev on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:14:00 PST

armourlight's poetry

6 plus billion people rushed ahead into the crowded crowds of herded herds so sure of what they saw not sure they getting what they deserve the sun is hot the air is shot the only waves and clouds are...
Posted by lev on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:40:00 PST

the mystery

This is from a bulletin my friend TJ posted.  It's worth a couple minutes of your time:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6TZk8yk7nA&eurl=
Posted by lev on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:52:00 PST

poetry

spell sound wrote this and posted it on sole's myspace page.  now i'm sharing it with you . . .=================================================dreams collide with universes inblack abysses where...
Posted by lev on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:00:00 PST

the beet

the beet is the most intense of vegetables.  the radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion.  tomatoes are lusty ...
Posted by lev on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:20:00 PST

mantra

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.-- Edward Abbey
Posted by lev on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:57:00 PST

saul's words

I am that timeless NGH that swings on pendulums like vines through mines of booby trapped minds that are enslaved by time. I am the life that supersedes lifetimes, I am. It was me with serpentine hair...
Posted by lev on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:43:00 PST

eavan boland

"How It Once Was in Our Country"   In those years I owned a blue plate,blue from the very edges to the centreocean-blue, the sort of under-wave bluea mermaid could easily dive down into and enter...
Posted by lev on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:55:00 PST

quotable notable

"you can live in a natural home, with pictures on the walls, or you can live in a fort; but it's a lead pipe cinch you can't live in both. it's in the nature of the overbraided brass to build walls ab...
Posted by lev on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 02:58:00 PST