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Cougar

The end's not near, it's here.

My Interests

Music:

Look here's the point: If it's good you can feel it. It's not trying to sell you its feeling. It's not going to be used to sell Pepsi or to subsidize your own lobodomy. Bach is good, So is Miles, Fugazi has never faked an emotion, neither has Stravinsky. Jim O'Rourke is an American genius composer, but so is Brian Wilson. Coltrane, Joy Division, Tortoise, Bedhead/New Year, Centomatic, all good.

Movies:

Any Movies Made by: Cassavetes, Paul Morrissey, Bresson, Tarkovsky, Shirley Clarke, Ozu, Tom Noonan(probably the greatest living American Director), Caveh Zahedi, Mike Leigh, Harmony Korine

Books:

Anything by: Henry James, Ray Carney, Dostoyovsky, Chekhov, Harvey Pekar, Stanley Elkin, Real Tales for the Real World.

Heroes:

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, (if you don't know who this is get your ass to a library!) Haile Selassie, John Nicholas Cassavetes, Andrei Tarkovsky, Robert Bresson, Ozu, and All the artists who've ever taught me something about life.

My Blog

Hell on Earth

Hell really does exist on Earth. I know, I've been there. Here's its storyHad the Number One Worst day in the world this Saturday beginning at 4:00am sharp. But it didn't start out this way. Beginning...
Posted by Cougar on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:53:00 PST

They smile in your face, all the time they wanna take your place....

THE BACKSTABBERS, BACKSTABBERS! Ok. since most of your myspacers weren't born before '80 you probably won't get that that was a reference to the O'Jays classic song Backstabbers. That particular piece...
Posted by Cougar on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:39:00 PST

Goddamn it!!

This probably isn't going to post so Goddamn it. No one's probably going going to care so goddamn it. No body gives a shit about a blog that means any thing so Goddamn it. Nobody wants to see a film a...
Posted by Cougar on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:14:00 PST

It's like watching your planet explode!

As I watch my new hometown lie in the ruins of a modern day Atlantis, I feel like I'm being slowly tortured. I was one of the lucky ones, who was actually not on the scene when Katrina raged. Th...
Posted by Cougar on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:56:00 PST

I now know why Thelonious Monk would want to kick a Motherfucker's ass.

What does the title of this blog mean? It means I finally get the whole reasoning behind Thelonious Monk's often stated desire to kick a motherfucker's ass if he didn't come correct when playing jazz...
Posted by Cougar on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

An amoeba.

I've decided. All these brain cells, all this self awarness telling us we're so great, we can create, or liberate our minds from the turgid rot of a fixed mental state, can't compete with another,...
Posted by Cougar on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old Boss.

Here's what I don't get. After it's been proven that a person lied about their reasons for waging a war, lied about what they knew going into a war, Had no plan for winning a war, Continued to mislead...
Posted by Cougar on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

LA Bus Story.

If you live in LA, and you're one of the few people who are forced either by means or accident to have to take the Bus, you should know that if you open your eyes, your ears, and your mind, a great st...
Posted by Cougar on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST