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kiowa

a chicken with his head cut off gathers no moss

About Me

I'm just one in a growing number of culture shocked nomads desperately searching for their own personal beulah-land within the consumer muck. Besides trying to be an all-around "Zarathustra" type, I'm also a listener of woes, archivist of the insignificant, and lover of stuff in general and specific. I'm a city dweller who gets excited when he finds discarded photographs and letters. I like seeing and making art, as well as playing obnoxious sounds on my saxophone at high volume. I have a resume of interests, but I try not to be defined by them. My main aspiration is to be the philosopher stone for myself and the people I care about (and maybe the random passer-by).

My Interests

non-apathetic discourse, movement, discarded personal photographs and letters, smells, comic books, nostalgia, winchester mystery house, loud noises, making/playing sounds, art, the human condition, booze, museum of jurassic technology, bawdy humor, interpretive dance moves, comfortable moments, awkward moments, sleeping...

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet as many people as possible. I'd especially like to meet anyone who likes my schtick and who thinks outside the box.

Music:

velvet underground, thelonious monk, daniel johnston, mississippi john hurt, the red krayola, albert ayler, elizabeth cotton, the zombies, anthology of american folk music, deerhoof, red red meat, faust, leonard cohen, jim o'rourke, django reinhardt, wire, christian fennesz, nina simone, steve lacy, chavela vargas, the stooges, charlie patton, sun ra, the ethiopiques series, morton feldman, john fahey, shudder to think, chicklet confetta, the kinks, boredoms, suicide, wolf eyes

Movies:

the big lebowski, satyricon, grey gardens, spirited away, in the mood for love, fox and his friends, the saddest music in the world, the sacrifice, even dwarves started small, chinatown, mondo trasho, last year in marienbad, eyes wide shut, breathless

Television:

twin peaks, six feet under, the simpsons, general hospital, fishing with john, family guy, aqua teen hunger force

Books:

like a velvet glove cast in iron, labyrinths, crime and punishment, dhalgren, genealogy of morals, the box man, the invisible man, pattern recognition, the new york trilogy, a scanner darkly, high rise, heart of a dog, the naked city, banvard's folly, lolita, sculpting in time, wisconsin death trip

Heroes:

philip marlowe, emperor norton I, the dude, john coltrane, harry smith, joan of arc, walt whitman, huck finn, sue hammons

My Blog

a chicken dreams of face

So I had an incredible dream a fortnight ago. Perhaps this is a true vision of the future, or some kind of unconscious vision of my inner landscape--feel free to decide... The dream begins with a sho...
Posted by kiowa on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:29:00 PST

Hoots, Hollers, and Hellos

I don't think I've ever talked to a person that hasn't admitted or boasted about being obsessive. I guess it's sort of the standard neurosis, and I even know some people who like to show theiry mild m...
Posted by kiowa on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:30:00 PST

headless chickens still have ears

Ahh yes, so although the illusion of safety that is a san francisco indian summer drags on, the browning leaves, the smell of crisp wood burning (where exactly does that smell come from, I mean who ha...
Posted by kiowa on Sat, 08 Oct 2005 03:08:00 PST

chicken with his head cut off's new burial plot

Hi to anyone bored or interested, So I've decided to rant on this site rather than my other blog site, mainly because most of the people who I'd want to know about my dailey misgivings, exposes, rant...
Posted by kiowa on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:48:00 PST