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trouble & strafe

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About Me

MORE ART LIVES HERE ON MY deviantART PAGE....

My Interests

I usually go out to drum and bass, jungle, ragga and dirty grinding booty hip-hop..... I've been into stencils for a few years now and I'm trying gain some can control so I can graff.I also have heightened appreciation of tropical plants and succulents, premium vodka in good company and colourful turns of phrase.UN-INTERESTS = pubs, scenesters, inane smalltalk, the nesting instinct and my own procrastination.

I'd like to meet:

Artists. People who can retain my interest. Belligerent motherfuckers.

Music:



Hip hop, ragga, dancehall, jungle, D&B, dubstep, grime, garage. Generally, if it's smutty or at least fat and macho, I'll be down.. Cheesy is sometimes ok, though I am not sold on ghetto tech....

Movies:

This is my section where I go nuts. SEMINAL FILMS: The Labrynth, The Dark Crystal, Apocalypse Now, A Clockwork Orange, Dr Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, The Ice Storm, Eraserhead, Rashomon, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, The Third Man, Basquiat, Russian Ark, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull, Rear Window, Morvern Callar, Lilya 4 Eva, Nobody KnowsAUS FILMS: Picnic at Hanging Rock, Lantana, Chopper, In the Winter Dark, Praise, The Boys, Rabbit Proof Fence, Beneath Clouds

Books:

The Outsider ,Trainspotting , The Unbearable Lightness of Being , Crime & Punishment, The Master & Margarita, The Clay Machine Gun, Catch 22, My Name is Asher Lev, 100 Years of Solitude, The Art of Travel, Kokoro, The Fat Man in History (short stories)...... oh, and blackbooks are good too.......

My Blog

ya nye znayu

I am slowly getting my head around Russian, but it's a bit of an almighty stretch to fit in any revision most weeks. Luckily the other two people in my class don't have a great deal of aptitude for la...
Posted by trouble & strafe on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:07:00 PST

The Current State of Affairs

Ok, so this is one of those lame update entries, that are as much about getting shit straight in my own head as providing any vague semblance of entertainment or nourishment for the reader. Went on a ...
Posted by trouble & strafe on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:13:00 PST

2007 Masterplan

It's taken me a while to get this sorted, but I have finally made up my mind about this year.I knew I needed to make a major change in direction, but I was pretty torn between setting up this business...
Posted by trouble & strafe on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:09:00 PST

Over my head.....

Well I can't say this hasn't happened before, but I will say it's the first time in a while I've been really phased by the work ahead of me. I'm having a lot of trouble churning out these ideas for th...
Posted by trouble & strafe on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:07:00 PST

Sometimes you can hear prostitutes crying......

The godforsaken house hunt continued last weekend, with a broad range of abodes viewed. Bayes and I managed to get around to a good many just on our bikes on Saturday, but the usual pro...
Posted by trouble & strafe on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:45:00 PST

Fish Holocaust

Right so I'm currently house sitting in North Fitzroy for this random woman. She has 4 cats, umpteen fish, and a whole lotta kitsch along the lines of innumerable cat ornaments, cutesy framed cat pict...
Posted by trouble & strafe on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:52:00 PST

Torrential Rain

Arghhh, I'm marooned... it's pretty fucking sloshy outside, and I am kinda loathe to venture back home in this downpour. I reckon the last tram's already gone, too, so now I'm playing all or noth...
Posted by trouble & strafe on Tue, 02 May 2006 07:14:00 PST

Moet Champagne and 2 minute noodles

Yes, that really is what I'm consuming for dinner, and what an excellent symbol of things right now that is. Some days it feels like I'm scrimping to afford the basics and I am so frustrated, and...
Posted by trouble & strafe on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:47:00 PST

Sold all my work.

Cool, some random guy just rang to say he wants all my canvases from the E55 Show, and didn't want to haggle on the price, so that means for once I'm not out of pocket...... Better yet, he seems like ...
Posted by trouble & strafe on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:22:00 PST

Commonwealth Rant

So the militant 'keep our surburbs beautiful' groups finally got some airtime recently as part of Melbourne's new crack-down on graffiti. I read it in the Herald Sun, and was impressed anew by&nb...
Posted by trouble & strafe on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:56:00 PST