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About Me

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."
i am in a constant state of transition. which, strangely, means i am stagnant. i write. i draw. i listen to music. i watch movies. i read. i do normal things that most people do, and i don't do them in any special way. however, i would like to think that the combination of all these ways and things and breaths and blinks makes up a (somewhat) unique and (hopefully) enjoyable and endearing person.
"...in the deeper hours of the night I began to look at myself and my condition, to measure the life I'd led so far. I did not know what made me this way. I did not know of any other way I could be. I did not know what was inside me or how I could redeem what was hidden there. There must be a key or person or thing, or song or poem or belief, or old saw that could access it, but they all seemed so far away, and after I drifted further and further into self-absorption, I closed the evening with this desolate thought: There are few takers for the quiet heart."
Patricia Franchini: What is your greatest ambition in life?
Parvulesco: To become immortal... and then die.
robots, robots, robots! (my art and design website)
livejournal.
my drawing blog
aim - screamxxphoenix
currently being played a lot (as of the last time i updated this):
1990s - cookies
rilo kiley - under the blacklight
bat for lashes - fur and gold
aesop rock - none shall pass
vampire weekend - ep
tokyo police club - your english is good
los campesinos - sticking fingers into sockets
atmosphere - sad clown bad summer number 9
c-rayz walz and parallel thought - chorus rhyme
vast aire - 2 wild
japanese monster beast - "men's sirens (the cribs vs. dizzee rascal)"
currently reading:
a heartbreaking work of staggering genius by dave eggers
maggie the mechanic by jaime hernandez

My Interests

dance dance vinyl monster!
japanese monster beast
making free ring tones
the cribs
shout out louds
free movies on ondemand
new macbook
trying to not hate my job
my roommates
having panic attacks at the faint show the night before going home at pitchfork music fest the night before going back to provo and wondering what it all means
realizing you are never as over things as you think

I'd like to meet:

moses, kurt loder, and gumby.

Music:

atmosphere, el-p, aesop rock, sage francis, cannibal ox, busdriver, cage, saul williams, the new nervous, neon trees, brand new, the rapture, lcd soundsystem, erasure, depeche mode, bright eyes, deathcab for cutie, the faint, dfa, and a million others

Movies:

network, seventh seal, donnie darko, garden state, pi, purple rain, rushmore, magnolia, all the real girls, and thousands of others

Television:

big love, flight of the conchords, studio 60, venture bros., videos ondemand, and probably a few others

Books:

perks of being a wallflower, s/he, fortress of solitude, white noise, sex drugs and cocoa puffs, invisible monsters, ghost world, blankets, jimmy corrigan: the smartest kid on earth, sleepwalk, lolita, and hundreds more

Heroes:

my dad, my grandpa, my friends, the people i wish i were more like and billions more.

My Blog

in this corner

it's like some sort of cruel parody of itself. a small anomaly wielding it's sick power, not realizing what it really looks like. but the light must hit it just right. making it's shadow cast huge ...
Posted by Mingus Rock on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:35:00 PST

tonight i have to leave it

i'm becoming melancholy. i don't like it. tomorrow i leave for a week and a half at home in the suburbs of chicago. i head to a weekend full of good music at the pitchfork music festival. but none ...
Posted by Mingus Rock on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:12:00 PST

se"cret

i.secretsthe hidden currency of friendshipbarter and tradesee what you can gethow much is this one worth?in the mean timekeep them close to your chestii.so, we all have secretsand some people know som...
Posted by Mingus Rock on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:23:00 PST

houdini

should have learned a trade, joined the guild of the escape artist/but the knots are tied, it's too late to fake heartless/the pulse drips from the forehead, the mind can't race to smartest/the ropes ...
Posted by Mingus Rock on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:17:00 PST

untitled (metafor?)

i.sometimes i feel these metaphors are tedious. and more childish than any simple utterance could ever be.ii.like coming up with a complex way to explain the simple truths of life could get me anythi...
Posted by Mingus Rock on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:32:00 PST

half an evening at velour as told through a scream, a stream, and torn piece of journal paper

i.if it would make it easier for you, we could establish some lines of demarkation some borders of some sortso that you don't have to keep inching awayit both delights and torments me when i feel like...
Posted by Mingus Rock on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:08:00 PST

basically

i wish this were a lot easier.and what's fantastic is that i could be talking about twenty completely different aspects of my life.go me.
Posted by Mingus Rock on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:18:00 PST

four bars about a four letter word that's actually six

i need to remember that friend isn't always a four letter wordit doesn't always mean the end of the worldin some cases, it's even what ends up being preferedbut she better remember it's about what she...
Posted by Mingus Rock on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:31:00 PST

three people

i gave her chicago and an ugly doll. she put up with me for a week and then gave me silence. if only i could stop caring. or get some words. like the end. strangely, hope endures in a pessimist's...
Posted by Mingus Rock on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:42:00 PST

four by six

the view finder showed her caught directly in the midde of the rectangle. he pushed the button. click. he held her prisoner in his basement, surrounded by boxes. a waiting reminder that, at some point...
Posted by Mingus Rock on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:22:00 PST