About Me

Poor Daedalus, lost in a labyrinth he built for someone else.

"M Following

my will and winda

we may just go whereze No one's been. -treaders, whose vision ahead and behind is severely constricted and fragmented, suffer confusion, whereas maze-viewers who see the pattern whole, from above or in a diagram, are dazzled by its complex artistry. What you see depends on where you stand, and thus, at one and the same time, labyrints are single (there is one physical structure) and double: they simultaneously incorporate order and disorder, clarity and confusion..."
-House of Leaves

My Interests

-Clubbin', partying, celebrities, reality tv, gurlz, and other things that distract me from thinking about my life and how abysmally teensy weensy and brief it really is.

Music:

.....
I've got my mind,
I've got my music,
I've got my soul,
until I lose it,
Right on!

...

Movies:

Is this my movie?

Do I have to direct?

Television:

"Heiress, actress, singer & author... Paris's book "Confessions of an Heiress" beat out the former President's on the New York Times bestseller list. Add on to the list is designer as she's got a new jewelry line compltee with pink sparkles, stars & hearts. Proces (sic) range from $15 to $95. (Dec 2004) Named one of the most fascinating people of 2004 by celebruty(sic) journalist Barbara Walters. Decided to end her romance with Nick Carter after getting her psychicâ€™s opinion. (2004)"

Books:

Analysis of subject might indicate that volume of reading material is suggestive of dependence on escapism and general avoidance of reality.

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Personal Favorites:
House of Leaves, Infinite Jest, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Gravity's Rainbow, Neuromancer, The Dark Tower series, The Tao Te Ching, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The God of Small Things, Neverwhere, The Hitchiker's Guide, Hamlet, Lear, Slaughterhouse 5, The Elric series; "Blood and souls for Arioch!"

Heroes:

Jung

Hamlet

My Blog

Some Time Later, She Died

They found it amusing at first, the waiting people, but they very soon became notably uncomfortable. The poor old thing who was not her grandmother was screeching at Jessica in uncontrollable volumes...
Posted by Amiable Pirate on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:23:00 PST

rings and rings

At 2:00 in the morning the only sound in the streets is the light clank of all his piercings, his bootsteps, the fingers of dead palm fronds clattering like bones. He lights coffin nail after coffin ...
Posted by Amiable Pirate on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:16:00 PST

You Learned This From TV

Close up: A white hand slipping a plastic ticket into the turnstyle slot; the hand has done this before. Gates open with that escaping gas sound. Camera panning back: Overhead: The hand is ...
Posted by Amiable Pirate on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 05:11:00 PST

your sobering glimpse of adult life

You can call this a hiatus from being a starving college student, from your life of forced, monk-like asceticism, or a very stern warning to yourself not ever to let your life get like this in the fu...
Posted by Amiable Pirate on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 03:21:00 PST