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Mark

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About Me

Avuncularity is my trade, hilarity is my technique. Boom. Like the ol' "Good Point" joke, when you say "Good Point" while pointing at the person you're saying it to? Over and over? You ever use that one? That's a classy classic! I like books and movies and foods and breads and tables and books and socks and birdies and treeses and books and tacos and chickens and houses and books. AND horsies.

My Interests

Writing, making omelets, quoting Ivanchikov (you gotta check him iz-out!), listening to tapes of myself listening to records(lo-fi forever!) comparing buckets, tickling fancies but not fancying tickles, forsaking shit.

I'd like to meet:

Banana Man, Peter Tchaikovsky, Donkey Kong, Flengelbert Fliptyback, Robert Redford, Totalitarianism, Rinto the Red Bunga, dragons, Nicholas Donaldson, William Fields, Brian Stevens, Gladys Pezzanovante, Lord Bringledon, Brighty Turmeric, and Steve Jobs' son, Roberto.Oh, and of course Walter.

Music:

Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Beatles, Can, Led Zeppelin, Beck, John Coltrane, DJ Shadow, J.S. Bach, Erik Satie, Pink Floyd, Billie Holliday, George Harrison, Deltron 3030, Dr. Octagon, Erroll Garner, Frederic Chopin, Air, Portishead, John Lennon, Os Mutantes, Radiohead, Vashti Bunyan, Nick Drake, King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Tony Williams Lifetime, Boards of Canada, The Upsetters, the Redcoats are Coming!, Syd Barrett, Kid Koala, Forever Stark, Thelonius Monk, Mussourgsky, Peter Tosh, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Cream, Kraftwerk, U-roy, rachmaninoff, velvet Underground, Ornette Coleman, Sharks with Wings, Normal Love, Arnold Schoenberg, WFMU East Orange WXHD Mount Hope and wfmu.org, the Doors, Buxtehude, Franz Lizst, Iggy and the Stooges, Art Blakey, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Fieldwork, Flower Travellin' Band

Movies:

The Apartment, Persona, Citizen Kane, The trial, The Immortal Story, Dark Star, The Third Man, Eyes Wide Shut, Blade Runner, 1984, Rushmore, Portrait of Jennie, Ordinary People, The Godfather, Go, A Clockwork Orange or any Kubrick really, Solaris (1972), Liquid Sky, 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould, Naked Lunch, Taxi Driver, Rollerball, Silent Running, L'Age D'Or, Amadeus, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Breathless (1960), Lust for Life, Mr. Arkadin (Confidential report), Lawrence of Arabia, Cries and Whispers, I am Curious, Trust, The Seventh Seal, Anatomy of a Murder, Hamlet (Olivier), Fanny and Alexander, Ridicule, Viridiana, That Obscure Object of Desire, The Virgin Spring

Television:

X-Files, Upright Citizens Brigade, Star Trek (TOS and TNG) Transformers, Super mario Bros, Daily Show, Colbert Report, good movies on TCM,

Books:

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, A Scanner Darkly, UBIK, Madame Bovary, Diary of a Madman (gogol), Rosshalde, Orlando, Tao te Ching, The Children's Hour, A Long Day's Journey into Night, Inherit the Wind, The Red and the Black, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Death in Venice, Julius Caesar, Twilight of the Idols, poems by Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Corbiere, Corso, and udders......... The Trial, Eugenie Grandet, Mother, Indiana, The stranger, Ubu Roi, L'Assommoir, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Divine Invasions (BIO), Voices from the Street, Amerika, Lord Jim,

Heroes:

Orson Welles, Jimi Hendrix, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lenny Bruce, Simone de Beauvoir, Philip K. Dick, Glenn Gould, John Lennon, George Harrison, Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko, Arthur Rimbaud, Frederic Chopin, Vincent van Gogh, Zogby & Denverson LIVE!, Tchocky, whomever invented flannel, Peter O'Toole, Josh Saviano

My Blog

Radioheadammit!

Yo, why is there a picture of Radiohead, specifically Thom, Ed, and Colin I believe, appearing at fuckin Starbucks on their Telescreen? And the three sellouts are holding starbucks mugs and laughing....
Posted by Mark on Sun, 04 May 2008 07:16:00 PST

brlrlrlrlahhhh!

flashing before my eyesall my cheating and liesAm i all done,Or has it just begun?If this is my life,I hope I'm livin it rightCuz I'm too young to dieAnd I'm too old to tryI just want to know whyNothi...
Posted by Mark on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:27:00 PST

there’s something that makes me want

the world is so discouraging. so many things are needed right now, so few things are free, and I am so apt to become like everyone else. I feel pain, and I see it, but nothing can be done about it. Th...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:28:00 PST

I have my eye on someone, and it is fun

and it feels good. i took out her name, for secret.Ma' girl Dream tall and whale whiteStriped red shark of lean smilesGuiding fins of thinPetal soft skin unpebbledBut by...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:49:00 PST

This is how I feel about my life (get ready to laugh)

A Dullard's Nightmare   by Mark Ludas How do I find out who I am? By living and not watching as I live, For to watch means to only half-live; To watch means evasion of myself Neglect ...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 05 May 2007 06:13:00 PST

what to do

I have never felt such constant tension in my life. Such anger and hatred. Never. I take what happens to me at work too hard, too much to heart. Other people handle it better than I do. But after so m...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:52:00 PST

um, yeah

my question is, is it necessarily bad or unhealthy not to like it? Still, I see why Chopin did that, though.
Posted by Mark on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:17:00 PST

Hold on, John

Hold on world, world hold on, it's gonna be all right,They're gonna see the lightI have a job now. I have other changes as well. And yet I still, STILL, can't bear to think about Marlboro or Alexa, ev...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:12:00 PST

triangular banana

I want to do something. I feel vital again. Why can't I start a sentence with anything but "I"? That is a source of insecurity for me. Today, I wrote a song (ahhh, started with today!) in lyrics only,...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:26:00 PST

revelazzione

i realize now for the first time, or one of the first tiems, that one reason I need to start working is so that my free time will be respected. becaseu people around me have no distinction of what is ...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:14:00 PST