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Patrick Isn't Here

things we don't understand & definitely are not going to talk about

About Me


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My Interests

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Film/Video Production, Writing, Photography, Painting, Surrealism, Outsider Art, Biology, Neurology, Religions, Consciousness, Skepticism, Evolution, Mystery, Dreams, Dogs, Food, Travel, The Ecstatic, The Impossible,
Things Ridiculous

I'd like to meet:

People who live in kitchens & halls.
& this guy:

(he ate his shoe for you)

The Heart of the World
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Music:

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The Amps, Bad Brains, The Birthday Party, Bob Dylan, The Boredoms, The Buzzcocks, Cab Calloway, Can, Charlie Feathers, The Clash, The Cramps, Daniel Johnston, Devo, ESG, The Fall, Fats Domino, Fats Waller, Frankie Lymon, Fugazi, Gang of Four, Gene Vincent, The Germs, Glenn Branca, Half Japanese, Hank Williams, Hasil Adkins, Iggy Pop, Jad Fair, James Chance & the Contortions, Joe Meek's Music, John Cage, Johnny Cash, Johnny Thunders, Joy Division, Lead Belly, Leonard Cohen, Link Wray, Little Richard, The Magnetic Fields, Make-Up, Melt Banana, Minor Threat, The Minutemen, The Modern Lovers, The Monks, The Mummies, My Bloody Valentine, The Nation of Ulysses, Negativland, NEU!, New York Dolls, Nick Cave, Os Mutantes, Patti Smith, Phillip Glass, Pixies, PJ Harvey, The Pogues, Popol Vuh, R Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders, Refused, Roy Orbison, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Serge Gainsbourg, Sonic Youth, Spike Jones & His City Slickers, Talking Heads, Thelonious Monk, Theoretical Girls, Tom Waits, Tuvan Throat Singing, The Velvet Underground, Ween, Weird War, X , X-Ray Spex, Yo La Tengo
...etc...

----and nearby:
Baby Aspirin, Beach House, Celebration, Dan Deacon, The Death Set, Double Dagger, Ecstatic Sunshine, Eyeball Skeleton, Headwounds, Lexie Mountain Boys, Lizz King, Lo Moda, Madagascar, Matmos, Ponytail, Santa Dads, Sri Aurobindo, Teeth Mountain, Thank You, Thrushes, Videohippos, Vincent Black Shadow, Wzt Hearts, and so on...

Movies:

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Woody Allen, PT Anderson, Wes Anderson, Kenneth Anger, Michelangelo Antonioni, Dario Argento, Matthew Barney, Les Blank, Stan Brakhage, Luis Buñuel, John Cassavetes, Charlie Chaplin, Vera Chytilová, Jean Cocteau, Cohen Brothers, Roger Corman, David Cronenberg, Maya Deren, Robert Downey Sr, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Jack Hill, Alfred Hitchcock, Jim Jarmusch, Jeunet and Caro, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Miranda July, Buster Keaton, Richard Kern, Harmony Korine, Stanley Kubrick, George and Mike Kuchar, Akira Kurosawa, David Lynch, Guy Maddin, Maysles Brothers, Russ Meyer, Errol Morris, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roman Polanski, Nicolas Roeg, George Romero, Martin Scorsese, Seijun Suzuki, Jan Svankmajer, François Truffaut, John Waters, Peter Weir, Orson Welles, Nick Zedd
... etc...

Television:

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Books:

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1491 - Charles Mann
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Close to the Knives - David Wojnarowicz
The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
Flicker - Theodore Roszak
Guns, Germs, & Steel - Jared Diamond
Hard-Boiled Wonderland & the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
Hell's Angels: A Strange & Terrible Saga - Hunter S Thompson
House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Last Nights of Paris - Philippe Soupault
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron - Daniel Clowes
A Mad People's History of Madness - Dale Peterson
Manifestoes of Surrealism - Andre Breton
The Master & Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
My Last Sigh - Luis Buñuel
Naked Lunch - William S Burroughs
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
Phantoms in the Brain - V.S. Ramachandran
Reflections From A Cinematic Cesspool - George & Mike Kuchar
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M Pirsig
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Also
Donald Barthelme
Aimee Bender
Ray Bradbury
Albert Camus
Raymond Carver
Raymond Chandler
Noam Chomsky
Philip K Dick
Pauline Kael
Franz Kafka
Flannery O'Conner
Edgar Allan Poe
JD Salinger
...etc...
zen koans

Heroes:

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David Lynch's short from Lumiere & Company (1995)

We'll meet again...

L'Age D'Or - by Luis Buñuel (1930)

Stray Dogs - by Richard Kern (1985)

dream sequence from Glen or Glenda? - by Ed Wood (1953)

Food: Breakfast - by Jan Svankmajer (1992)

from Dog Star Man - by Stan Brakhage (1961-64)