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irvin

I am here for Friends

About Me

"He was likable, but there was about him an air of strangeness, secrecy, and the chameleon nature, which he concealed under intelligent remarks--a kind of inconsistency, at once studied and arrogant. I was never sure when he began a sentence whether he knew how it would end."

My Interests

1. alliterative aesthetics,2. assyrian statues,3. black jelly bracelets,4. bottle cap seat belts,5. cast iron skillets, 6. chinese tacos,7. dionysian pessimism,8. faux furry hats,9. infinite non-repeating decimals,10. knock knock jokes,11. melancholy mixtapes,12. parallel universes,13. peculiar juxtapositions,14. tanka triptychs,15. thought experiments,16. thrift store t-shirts,17. wes anderson dance parties,18. wooden building blocks,19. xylophonic skeletons,20. yo-yo making machines

I'd like to meet:

1. God as a talking cup of coffee2. Satan as a singing chocolate chip biscotti3. Nietzsche as a non-syphilitic, eternal return cafe4. James Joyce as a New York Times, cross-word puzzle5. J.D. Salinger as an overly gregarious, daoist barista

Music:

frnd pwr! is on - 3 - beehive high five [my most recent mixtape] :, fela kuti, oscar sulley and the uhuru dance band, balla et ses balladins, orchestre tembo, mahmoud ahmed, tito puente and his orchestra, eddie palmieri, tunji oyelana and the benders, the budos band, the jackson 5, the tempations, james brown, little denise, the pioneers, sharon jones and the dap kings

Movies:

2046, abominable dr. phibes, alice, amelie, barbarella, barry lyndon, big trouble in little china, cabinet of dr. caligari, casablanca, chronopolis, city of god, cook the thief his wife and her lover, cq, la dolce vita, ed wood, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, fantastic planet, fear & loathing in las vegas, fight club, ghost world, godfather, good morning, millers crossing, royal tenenbaums, rushmore, saddest music in the world, singing in the rain, solaris, spirited away, talk to her, willy wonka and the chocolate factory, winged migration, zelig

Television:

belle and sebastian, count duckula, danger mouse, daria, david the gnome, hey arnold, m*a*s*h*, mysterious cities of gold, pinwheel, sponge bob square pants, venture brothers, you cant do that on television

Books:

altazor, amphigorey, blind owl, book of disquiet, calvin & hobbes, fleurs du mal, foucaults pendulum, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, frankenstein, if on a winter's night a traveler, iliad, importance of being earnest, junior woodchucks guidebook, krazy kat, little prince, magic mountain, the plague, swanns way, tangled hair, the trial, tropic of capricorn, where the wild things are, wind-up bird chronicles

Heroes:

arthur dent, b.j. honeycutt, calvin and hobbes, daria, hawkeye pierce, krazy kat, the little prince, paddington bear, scrooge mcduck, teeny little super guy

My Blog

Autumn Euphony and Homonym

Doesn't orange kind of rhyme with porridge? [or] Two ewe end use, butt knot too duh kitsch in Sikh : The degeneration of my phrases to adventures in euphony and homonym was inevitable ...
Posted by irvin on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:36:00 PST

Summer Salutations and a Hot Hello

To friends, enemies, and the occasional neutral party :   Summer has returned and I find it difficult to remember the months since my last correspondence.  What did I do with my time; how ...
Posted by irvin on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:36:00 PST

Salt and Pepper Holiday Humperdink

To You or You but it better be You :   If I manage to send this email out before the Day of the Three Kings, I can still wish everyone a 'Happy Holidays!' without sounding past my expiration da...
Posted by irvin on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:32:00 PST