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samuel

MADONNA IS COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY ~Bruce La Bruce

About Me

I'm in love with this photo of an inanimate object by Terrence Koh. I look up to Dash Snow for the living expression he captures from the environment in polaroids. I am a painter who, like Degas, exploits photography for a different effect; mediating the environment through an impersonal muse.

My Interests

All my life I've been trying to quit biting my nails... Now I'm 24, and beyond certain imaginary boogeymen. One tends to swim among the reeds at the shallow end of the pond; happily muddy in dappled shade. www.tinyvices.com

I'd like to meet:

Who can tell me what Beauty requires? Pfh0t0 from www.aids-3D.com

Music:

Albinoni (Adagio in G minor), Gucci Mane (Freaky Gurl), Krafterwerk (Metropolis, The Model), Belle and Sebastian (The Model), Moon Knights: check them out on myspace... The Golden Carriage (aka SAhLEM), Joy Divsion (Closer, Heart & Soul, Means To an End), Xiu Xiu (Suha, Little Panda McElroy), American Penpal (The Librarian, Cordova), Corrupted (Paso Inferior), Lady Day (All of Me), Billie Holiday (Gloomy Sunday), Bright Eyes (It's ok, we can still be friends)... Russian Futurists (Hurtin' 4 Certain) Anthony and the Johnsons (The Lake). Dresden Dolls (missed me) Broadcast (michael Agrammar) Liars..., Beck + Calvin Johnson (One Foot In The Grave). The Black Dice only live IT NEVER ENDS! Fiery Fiery Furnaces, SALEM, Young Cream, Captain Ahab, Lucky Dragons, OCDJ, Alfred Schnittke, MC Paul Barman, The Cramps, This Mortal Coil, Klaus Nomi, Matmos, Tim Hecker, Vashti Bunyan, Velvet Underground, Soft Cell, The Jeffrys, Junior Boys, Jeffry Lewis, Motorhead, Devo, Yo La Tengo, The Smiths, Sex Pistols, The Locust, Royksopp, John Lee Hooker, Leif, Melt Banana, Dead Can Dance, Sonic Youth, Of Montreal, Television, Pere Ubu, The Damned, Dead Boys, Le Tigre, Buzzcocks, Gravy Train!!!, Patsy Cline, LCD Soundsystem, Johnny Cash, New Order, Bauhaus, Adult, P.K., Test Icicles, Beat Happening, White Stripes, SunnO))), Ladytron, Bessie Smith, The Go! Team, Peaches, Erik Satie, Depeche Mode, Powdered Wigs, Effi Briest, Dancefloor Masterforce, Bearing Gruesome Cargo, Smog, John Vanderslice, Suede, Johan Sebastian Bach.

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Eraserhead, Glory. .An Occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge, The Trial, by Wells. Mysterious Skin, Looking forward to Southland Tales. Little Children, Waking Life, My Own Private Idaho, The Devil and Daniel Johnson, Saint by Bavo Defurne. ( haven't seen it yet)... Raspberry Reich. Taxi Driver. Millenium Princess, Dog Day Afternoon, Floating Weeds, by Yasujiro Ozu.

Television:

Columbo, Rome HBO version, Real Time with Bill Mahr(?)...C-Span sometimes, 6-Feet Under (old), the McNeil Lehrer News Hour. The Riches, Nip/Tuck.

Books:

Rape of Lucretia by Shakespeare, Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (Tragic), the Bible KJV, The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky, Art As Experience by John Dewey (never finished), The Artist's Reality by Mark Rothko, Devastation of the Indies by Las Casas, The Clerk's Tale by Chaucer. It's A Magical World, by Bill Watterson. The Reasons Of Love, and On Truth by Frankfurt. The Plague, by Camus. Welcome To Doomsday, by Bill Moyers, This Mighty Scourge by James McPherson, The Sluts by Dennis Cooper, Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood.

Heroes:

Lincoln, van Gogh, Dostoevsky...

My Blog

Emily, Childrens Librarian

Modelling my WarezJean-Luc Goddard...
Posted by samuel on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:36:00 PST

Book Review

The SlutsBy Dennis Cooper,2004Originally published by Void Books,now under Avalon, a subsidiary of Carroll and GrafI remember reading snatches originally in Blackbook magazine at Faith and Andrew's.I'...
Posted by samuel on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:53:00 PST

On Evil in the world and in Literature

Hobbit evil is a FORCE, like in Gnosticism, independent of nature, which interacts with magic as a vehicle for the prosecution of war against whatever GOOD is in the world. Golem is motivated by infe...
Posted by samuel on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:53:00 PST

But Is It Love?

I regret that some of my favorite singles are on people's myspace music pages where I can't acquire them, burn them on cd compilations, and distribute them to friends. Let the earth choke on plastic d...
Posted by samuel on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:40:00 PST

Got Religion.

This was necessitated by some reflections on the image I posted earlier, labelled "religion os not a metaphysics of the hangman".My text comes from an explication of Nietsche by Hannah Arendt in which...
Posted by samuel on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:41:00 PST

bad stab

A Knight's TaleSynthetic creature!Geometrical repose;ReticulatedSolitary disturbance;Unholy endless waveOf bitter holocaust....
Posted by samuel on Tue, 01 May 2007 03:06:00 PST

Meek Rebellion

Drank a cup of coffee, ate pastry, bread&Peanut butter, cookies and icecream, yogurt, chicken."Phenomenal Ingratitude""... I contrived, by means which I must omit for want of room, to transfer myself ...
Posted by samuel on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:47:00 PST

Gynamede

Forget the fable for a moment, or if you know the Rembrandt painting block that out of your mind. I'll tell you what the name means: basically he was a Beautiful Baby Boy yikes who was whisked away by...
Posted by samuel on Fri, 12 May 2006 08:55:00 PST

There's Beauty in Rome...

From Petrarch's Sonnets (David Young trans.) ..40If Love and Death don't manage to cut shortthe new cloth which I've now begun to weave,and I can free myself from this birdlimewhile I am joining one t...
Posted by samuel on Sun, 07 May 2006 07:44:00 PST

XvX',

From: Venus Anadyomene, by Arthur Rimbaud Translated...(written when he was between 15 and 19 years old)As from acoffin of greenish zinc, a woman's headof richly-pomaded chestnut hair emerges slowly, ...
Posted by samuel on Mon, 01 May 2006 01:46:00 PST