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42

Mega-churches make me wet.

About Me

I live in Chicago, breed conspiracy theory, design my ass off and party like there's no tomorrow.

My Interests

Art, Music, Film, Design, Game Development, Literature, Travel, Bowling, Billiards

I'd like to meet:

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Terry Gilliam, John McCrea, Barack Obama, Beth Gibbons, Harlan Ellison, Richard Dawkins, David Lynch, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, The Flying Spaghetti Monster

Music:

Cure, DM, Joy Division, Portishead, Cornelius, Telefon Tel Aviv, Starlight Mints, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Skeleton Key, early NIN, Tori Amos, Prefuse 73, Battles, Ministry, Claude Debussy, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Mahler, Stravinsky, Radiohead, Stereolab, Isan, Mum, Aphex Twin, Cake, early Violent Femmes, Jesus Lizard, Godspeed You! Black Emporer, Weezer, Tom Waits, Ween, 80's, Oscar Aleman, Django Reinhardt, Eluvium, Tycho, Humanwine, The Breeders, Styrofoam, Isan, Lords of the New Church, Mazzy Star, My Bloody Valentine, Air, Nouvelle Vague, The Pharcyde, Unicorns, Zero 7

Movies:

2001: A Space Oddysey, Brazil, Dead Man, The Third Man, Rope, The Big Lebowski, Dr. Strangelove, Shawshank Redemption, Blue Velvet, Ran, Donnie Darko, Royal Tenenbaums, I Zombie, Suspiria

Television:

Being as I generally find television and the mass media to be one of the roots of evil in this world... I'd sooner be castrated than waste my time watching mind-numbing blithering garbage on network television. There are only three shows I would ever consider watching: Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons and The Family Guy. Maybe the news... maybe some PBS... but no... I REPEAT NO... reality television. Never that.

Books:

Harlan Ellison's: Deathbird Stories, Ray Bradbury's: Fahrenhiet 451, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s: Cat's Cradle, Frank Herbert's: Dune, J.R.R. Tolkien's: The Lord of the Rings, Paul Reps Comp: Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

Heroes:

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Barack Obama, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury and Jesse 'The Body' Ventura (for making shit happen)

My Blog

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untitledIn this cageof fruitless echoesI dwell,waiting.doomed to fail,leaning at the edge.poised for the faintest breeze,but met only withthe howl of those echoesrising out of the abyss.echoes which r...
Posted by 42 on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:59:00 PST

Some old artwork that I found on my backup drive.

Here it is as old as it may be... it was lost in a tragic turn of events... so I feel the need to display it here. Maybe this will rekindle a spark in me... ...
Posted by 42 on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:08:00 PST

The New GOP Buzzword: Fascism

"Typically, the Bush administration finds its vocabulary someplace in the middle ground of popular culture. It seems to me that they're trying to find something that resonates, without any effort to r...
Posted by 42 on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:40:00 PST

Sasha the Killer

Well, since Rocco got his spot in the light of spot... type thing... I figured I should give Sasha my darling kitty some blog attention.She sure does love kickin' the shit out of some shit... yeah bab...
Posted by 42 on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:11:00 PST

My new friend.

I just adopted a new friend whom I rescued from a neighbor who abandoned him. His name is Rocco and he is a cool guy, cool guys.Check him out!!!...
Posted by 42 on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 01:08:00 PST

Quote Log - Pt. 1: Tyranny & Fascism

In light of recent events, I thought to look to history to possibly learn a few things about the socio-political changes we have lately in the priviledged nations that have become The World Powers ove...
Posted by 42 on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:20:00 PST

America: Freedom or Fascism?

America Has a BIG PROBLEMThe liberty of democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic STATE itself. That, in its e...
Posted by 42 on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:54:00 PST

Pop Icons and Unpopular Presidents

I am going apeshit on this blog action today it seems... As you can see, history repeats itself... but only becomes worse at the same time. I mean look at Elvis, not so bad of a ...
Posted by 42 on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:10:00 PST

Under the Sea

As some of you may know I am an avid aquarist these days and have been tending to my sea life just as diligently as my plantlife. So I thought I would share some of the fruits of my efforts with ya'al...
Posted by 42 on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:26:00 PST

A Day in the State of the Groundhog Union

This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address fall on the same day. As Air America Radio points out, "It is an ironic juxtaposition: one involves a meaningless ritual in which we lo...
Posted by 42 on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:09:00 PST