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((SoniK))

We shall now have tea and speak of absurdities.

About Me

Saw the MC5 more times than I can remember

If you do not speak English, I am at your disposal with 187 other languages along with their various dialects and sub-tongues.

There's no sense in what will happen today

Blee blah blue

My Interests


Who, what, where, when, and why.

LOUD MUSIC ... loud enough to feel as if you've been beaten with a bag of oranges.

Music, travel, live theatre, film...

Blee, blah, blue


I'd like to meet:

Maria Quiban, Luana Lani, Golden Brooks, Bill Clinton (I've already met Hillary), the dog-walker I see passing my house every day, Winston Smith, Thomas Jeremy Newton, Alex Debarge



Music:

Concerts I Attended (met Janis Joplin after the show)



MC5, Stooges, Sonic Rendezvous Band, Cooper Cobras, Hang on the Box, The Hellacopters, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepplin, Rolling Stones, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Sonic Youth, Desmond Dekker,Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Miles Davis, Louis Jordan, Ted Taylor, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Charles Aznavour, Edith Piaf, Destoy All Monsters, Beethoven, Kid Rock, Ninth Generation, Pinebox Derby, Kris Jensen, Ultimate Spinach, 13th Floor Elevators, Roky Erickson, Jim Carroll, Patti Smith, SRC, The Monks, Captain Beefheart, Mitch Ryder, Nappy Roots, Blues Magoos, The Seeds, Stetson Hills, The Beat, Radio Birdman, The Bellrays, Scott Morgan, Wayne Kramer, DKT/MC5, The 1-2-5, Cult Heroes, Plasmatics, Walter (Wendy) Carlos, The Up, Gary Rasmussen, Bands with Farfisa or Vox Continental/Jaguar organs, The Black Angels, Motorama, Lords of Altamont, French bands that sing in French, Chinese bands that sing in English, Blee Blah Blue

..

Movies:


A Clockwork Orange, 1984, Repo Man, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, THX 1138, The Grapes of Wrath, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Charles Laughton), K-Pax, The 39 Steps, Un Chien Andelou, L'Age D'Or, M, Logan's Run, Back to the Future (all 3); Bell, Book and Candle; Trading Places, Moby Dick, Lolita, Casablanca, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, A Streetcar Named Desire, Baby Doll, The Rose Tatoo, Hitchcock, Film Noir, Fahrenheit 451, Tapeheads, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Blee Blah Blue



Books:


A Clockwork Orance, 1984, Moby Dick, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Stand on Zanzibar, The Sheep Look Up, Shockwave Rider, Fahrenheit 451, I Jan Cremer, The Grapes of Wrath, Picture of Dorian Gray. Les Miserables, Blee Blah Blue



Heroes:


Eugene McCarthy, Fred "Sonic" Smith, Jimmy Hoffa, Bayard Rustin, Thurgood Marshall, Al Sharpton, Huey Long, Al Kaline, Henry J, William Cunningham, Felix the Cat, Poindexter, Alex Debarge, Leslie Howard, Guy Montag



My Blog

History

We need to learn history, the kind that doesn't put its main emphasis on knowing presidents and statutes and Supreme Court decisions, but inspires us to resist the madness of governments trying to ca...
Posted by ~Sonik~ on Sat, 06 May 2006 08:35:00 PST

War

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the ...
Posted by ~Sonik~ on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 04:29:00 PST

On being impetuous

The next time you're going to do anything or say anything or buy anything, think it over very carefully. When you're sure you're right, forget the whole thing....
Posted by ~Sonik~ on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:54:00 PST

Logic

Logic is the principle governing human intelligence. Its nature may be deduced from examining the two following propositions, both of which are held by human beings to be true and often by the same p...
Posted by ~Sonik~ on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:36:00 PST

Coincidence (continued)

You weren't paying attention to the other half of what was going on.
Posted by ~Sonik~ on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:34:00 PST

Semantics

Someone with whom I was aquainted committed suicide last week.  Then I heard that the term "committed suicide" sounded as if she had broken the law and that the gentler term was "died by suicide"...
Posted by ~Sonik~ on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:45:00 PST

Reading the news

If all records tell the same tale, then the lie passes into history and becomes truth.
Posted by ~Sonik~ on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 01:59:00 PST

Speed of Light

Einstein said that nothing can accelerate to the speed of light because its mass would become infinite. He said nothing about entities already traveling at the speed of light or faster....
Posted by ~Sonik~ on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:35:00 PST

Coincidence

A lot of people don't realize what's really going on.  They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents.  They don't realize that there's a lattice of coincidence that lays on top of ever...
Posted by ~Sonik~ on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:54:00 PST

Colours

It's funny how the colours of the real world only seem real when you viddy them on the screen.
Posted by ~Sonik~ on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:08:00 PST