Paul profile picture

Paul

Nothing is Real, Everything is Permitted

About Me

I don't eat swine. I don't drink wine. And if you don't give me some mother fucking cognac, I'll kill you.

Check out my blog: Zen and the Art of Shit-Living

My Interests

I am a music collector. I love talking to intelligent people. I enjoy cooking vegetarian food and drinking microbrewed beer.

Music:

top 10 of all time
in no particular order

Amebix
Black Sabbath
Discharge
Motorhead
Celtic Frost
Napalm Death
Rudimentary Peni
Judas Priest
Anti-Cimex
Bathory

Movies:

Zombie movies, Kubric films, nothing too artsy and nothing too flashy, uh scratch that, I loved Terminator 3.

Television:

Iron Chef, the Simpsons, I really don't like tv that much anymore. I pretty much just watch cooking shows and football now.

Books:

I wish I read more, but here are my favorites: Kafka - The Trial, Camus - The Plague, Plato - The Republic, Burroughs - Cities of the Red Night

Heroes:

Bassists: Lemmy, Rainey, Dave Edwardson, Mike Dean, and whoever played bass in Doom (japanese Doom) and Zadkiel.Philosophers: Empedocles, Plato, Nagarjuna, and Wittgenstein.

My Blog

My birthday week blog & FLAK recording

I don't know what to attribute it to, but since turning 24, life has taken aturn for the better, at least for the time being.  I normally rant here abouthow crappy life is or my own explorations...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:32:00 PST

mmmm...open faced club sand wedge

It burns me up that a chain sandwich shop makes one of my favorite vegetarian sandwiches in the greater Oakland area, but I have to admit that a Jimmy John's veggie club is pretty high shine.  I ...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:50:00 PST

CELTIC FROST

I saw Celtic Frost last night, and it didn't suck!!!!!! They opened up the set with that noise song from the new cd.  It works really well where it is on the cd, but I never imagined how insane a...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:51:00 PST

seasonal depression

Now, I don't know whether this is the first effects of seasonal depression, whether I'm just normal bipolar and go in and out of stuff like this, or whether I'm just reacting psychologically to having...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:00:00 PST

Cleveland

List of injuries from this weekends show in Cleveland (as best I can remember them): Right Wrist - smashed on skate ramp Left Hip - also smashed on skate ramp Left Chest/Lung/Ribs - pain of unkno...
Posted by Paul on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:07:00 PST

Professionalism

Today I made attempt number 512 to start writing a book.  This is a phase I go through every so often, and it will most likely be over soon, but whatever, I should feel like I'm doing something p...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:07:00 PST

thoughts of the day

Today's concept to ponder (volume 1): gentrification. As I ride past all the construction happening in East Liberty, as I do once or twice a week, I am brought face to face with what a lot of people l...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:27:00 PST

work and family

Life has crazied itself with the changing of the season this year.  The floor which houses the small cubicle where I spend my 9 to 5, 5 days a week got flooded by a busted hot water tank housed o...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:44:00 PST

Live Albums

I used to hate live records, but I think I have been shown the light.  My hatred probably stems from the fact that I started out collecting punk records and that punk live records are usually ter...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:02:00 PST

Loimos lyrics/spiritual experiences

I finished the lyrics for the first Loimos song, and I thought I would just post them here.  Last practice it clocked just shy of 15 minutes.  It should be closer to 20 when its done (w...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:29:00 PST