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MacEzra

Scooter my daisies. Diddley-day.

About Me

Self-deprecating egotist, intelligent moron, ex-Mensan, fan of dichotomies, eccentricities, synchronicities, and "so much beauty in dirt", unpublished author of verbose gimmicks, concupiscent and distant, buddhistic and patient. If you put an infinite number of me in one room with an infinite number of typewriters you would eventually get something that reads something like the following, but fuck Hemingway; seemingly unrelated is the fact that if you put an infinite number of Schrodingers in a room with one cat the cat will eventually pen a conspiracy pamphlet in the voice of Charles Bukowski (an infinite number of Bukowskis, however, will always end in bloodshed). Phonetic spelling triggers my gag reflex. There is more truth in fiction than in history. Style is more important than story, prose should be poetry without metre. Objectivity is a myth; subjectivity means not caring who John Gault was (fuck Ayn Rand and Hemingway). The question is more important than the answer. I often have the urge to call "edge!" in a coin toss. Sometimes I doubt your commitment to SparkleMotion. I like to believe three impossible things before breakfast. I have serious reservations about our current perceptions of time and reality, but I hate math. I grant literature my tallest pedestal, but am also aware of the inherent uselessness of words; I write for a gesture. Everything is a work in progress, or, more specifically, a work of art is never finished, only abandoned. Being single is much more fun the first time around. My hair is dark (but slowly greying), my eyes are brown.

My Interests

Words, words, words (and the people who read them). I like books that have to be slowly digested, movies that require two or more watchings, songs that creep up on you and invade your sleep, albums that hit you five spins in, grey days and thunderstorms, run-on sentences (and parentheses), excess verbosity, peanut-butter, stupidities, inanities, flapdoodle, intentional catachresis and its counterpart (or antithesis) of this "is" this (which, by the way, it isn't), misinformation, fiction, philosophy (and, apparently, redundancy), irrelevance and idiocy, puns and wrod-play, societal taboos, contrabandists (contrabandits?), conscientious objectors, polite insurgents (in fact, anybody possessing the detriment of consideration), righteous indignation and casual acceptance, Jew food, the fact that light can be said to behave as though it has weight and that the earth does, in fact, have more mass today than it has had previously (seriously, look 'em up, but remember the semantics), semantics, a good, dry martini (Bombay Sapphire, no vermouth), beer in the evening, sex in the morning, and coffee at anytime whatsoever, the number five (23-skidoo), the search for the cosmic laugh. Something new. I do like pets of varying degrees, animals are groovy. Still, fuck Hemingway (and Ayn Rand, of course), but hail Eris. (All hail Discordia!)

I'd like to meet:

Myself coming up the down stairs. Natalie Portman in an elevator.
Music

Photography

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Music:

tripwater (morris, Kelley, and Santini), Mia Brine, William Fitzsimmons, Laura Jansen, Loren P. Nikkel, Elliott Smith, Grandaddy, Sufjan, Fruit Bats, Elysian Fields, Modest Mouse, Monster Magnet, Alice In Chains, Space Needle, Sonic Youth, Autolux, Einsturzende Neubauten, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Elvis Costello, Elbow, Low, Sigur Ros, Soul Coughing (Doughty, of course), Morphine, Beethoven, Henryk Gorecki, Badalemnti, The Brodsky Quartet, Jimmy Scott, Jody Grind (Kelly Hogan), Mr. Bungle, Massive Attack, Portishead, Radiohead, Beta Band, Tricky, Tiger Lillies, Diamanda Galas, Bauhaus, Joy Division, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Doors, Floyd, Beatles, SRV, S&G, Cowboy Junkies, Cat Power and Cat Stevens, Skinny Puppy (Rabies), Rachmaninoff, cellos, didgeridus, occasional theremins, random objects used as a supplement to existing instruments, toy pianos, breaking glass, diesel engines, birds singing, worms turning, discordancy, and thunder (especially thunder).

Movies:

Lynch, Jarmusch, early Raimi, Corman, Burton until whatever the hell happened to him, Emir Kusturica (Arizona Dream), City of Lost Children, Tourist Trap, Immortal Beloved, Buckaroo Banzai, Flash Gordon, Bubba Ho-Tep, The Life Aquatic, The Triplets of Belleville, Dazed and Confused, Who's the Man?, The Bride with White Hair, Harvey ("My mother told me that in this world you have to be oh, so smart or oh, so pleasant. I tried smart and I recommend pleasant."), Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, My Bloody Valentine (that should be under music, too), Labyrinth, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (Riverbottom Nightmare Band!), Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Carpenter's remake of The Thing, Branagh's Hamlet (and, for that matter, his Henry V), Harold and Maude (for the soundtrack), Sid and Nancy (for the acting), Pink Flamingos (for the sheer tastlessness), Slaughterhouse 5 (for somebody trying), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (for the same reason), Lonesome Dove (superb adaptation), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Singing in the Rain, Ski School (occasionally part II), Breakin' (and Electric Bugaloo), Twice Upon a Time ("Foolish, little figs; happy as rats, they are. They tap dance not neither do they fart."), The Last Unicorn, The Tune. It may be that I like Fellini's Satyricon, but I've been having my doubts lately.

Television:

As little as possible, it wears me thin. Family Guy's groovy. I miss The Tick. I really miss saturday morning cartoons and afternoon movies.

Books:

Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Anton Wilson, Hunter S. Thompson, Shakespeare, William Faulkner, Steinbeck, Joseph Conrad, Camus, Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Phillip K. Dick, Chuck Palahniuk, Homer, Ovid, Euripides, Petronius, Neitzsche, Schopenhauer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, James Joyce ("He lifts the lifewand and the dumb speak."), Gunter Grass, Hermann Hesse, Ken Kesey, Dorothy Parker, ee cummings, Thomas Hardy, I give Dickens Great Expectations, but nothing else, Sylvia Plath, Robert R. McCammon (Swan Song still swings), William S. Burroughs, William Blake, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, but never Hilda Doolittle, Lewis Carroll, Joseph Heller, Jeff Vandermeer, Paul Quarrington, Isaac Asimov, Stanislaw Lew (which is almost as fun to say as Shostakovich), Stephen Hawking, Christopher Moore, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Anne Rice, I honestly wanted to like DeSade, but don't really, Arthur C. Clark, Ray Bradbury, Dostoevsky, Richard Adams (Watership Down), Stephen King (Four Seasons stands on three strong legs), Dean Koontz (still dig some Phantoms), and there are these groovy cats N. Frank Daniels and Josh Kilmer-Purcell (you'll find them here on myspace).

Heroes:

Roget and Webster (but, fuck Hemingway {and Ayn Rand}).

My Blog

Some of the following may appear in this blog...

I. Callous Athena.II. Tempus fuggit: time flies, but I don't care.III. Rome wasn't burned in a day.IV. Misanthropy and love.V. The glass hammer.Having not made myself clear in an email I wou...
Posted by MacEzra on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:47:00 PST

Another Lesson.

"Li Po died a death worthy of a poet," I say. "He got drunk and tried to embrace the moon in a river."His eyes still too large in his head, he doesn't understand, but his response is so cuttingly inc...
Posted by MacEzra on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:12:00 PST

Bad form and filling space.

I've no idea whatsoever about what it is that I wish to write about.  So, fair warning, the drivel and dribble that may or may not follow could well be lacking in both substance and f...
Posted by MacEzra on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:38:00 PST

Witless Verbosity or Too Many Titles

I had recently forgotten that any artist, even a self-titled one, loves destruction; is, in fact, wedded to it. Every wielder of the pen looking to invent words and create ideas looks to destroy some...
Posted by MacEzra on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:50:00 PST

The foole at the edge of the universe or Old jokes, New laughs.

Times is hard, friends. No lie. But, what use is a joke of hopefulness who just mopes around entertaining thoughts that he deserves more? Any proper fool (or George Carlin's preferred Foole) laughs...
Posted by MacEzra on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:19:00 PST

Bisexuality is for fags.

Where the hell have I been? Good question and I'm glad you asked. Honestly, I don't know. At best, I can tell you that I've been in that Lennon conundrum of "life is what happens when you're busy m...
Posted by MacEzra on Thu, 29 May 2008 01:58:00 PST

An unnamed magazine will not be publishing this,

and with no righteous indignation from me, but, rather than leaving it to sit on its haunches, gathering virtual dust, in the dim coffers of my hard drive, I thought I'd foist on you vastly kind and u...
Posted by MacEzra on Fri, 02 May 2008 08:21:00 PST

Thoughts on a scene.

There's a cold calculation in her movements as she holds him close to her breast, as she consoles and eases him towards sleep. His movements greedy and staccatoed as he returns her embrace and moves ...
Posted by MacEzra on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:42:00 PST

Lubricated dolls (bitching about work).

The lesbians grow younger and younger and more and more prolific everyday. It’s spring break somewhere and buses off load children by the scores. They amble and shuffle in orbital clusters of ...
Posted by MacEzra on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:24:00 PST

Ego-driven ego drivel

Should you like something to listen to while you read the following, this tune’s nice. I’ve often wondered if I should feel like myself. Or, at least, more like myself.It was ine...
Posted by MacEzra on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:59:00 PST