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OZEL

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About Me


“So Norman, if you're normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen, incessant quotations from "Now We Are Six" through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So There…”
-"My Pink Half of the Drain Pipe" by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Some day I'd love to be a heart-broken old comic-book creator like Jack Kirby -- yelling willy-nilly about lifes beauty and turmoils while stinking of graphite and ink. Fugazi and Metric culminate to rock my socks off, thusly [imagine socks being rocked off]. History is a great guide to what mistakes one should expect to make in life, despite history's lessons. Pre-standardized English and Japanese give me a warm joy not found in any liquor cabinets, beer kegs, and/or wine cellars. I find that video games, like good poetry, are under appreciated by todays intellectual elite. While playing guitar or learning a language I can feel new devotions being amended amongst my brain cells. Competative sports do not athletics make. Disrelation between the precepts of "body" and "mind" offend me almost as much as humorless prudes depress and amuse me. Carnality is fun when not overly colored by fetishism or sentiment. The foliage is nice in the spring. Summer can be nasty, often times to a positive tern. Fall is my season. Winter kills me like nothing else. That and much more to be elaborated upon within.
Here's some of my illustration work:
And by special request; my portait of "Dirty Potter."
View more at ModurnDae.com

My Interests

Reading and Creating Comic Books, Watching and Analyzing Films/ Movies/ Animations, Listenning to Music (Independant Rock & Roll/ Popular Music, Late 1970s - Early 1980s Punk Rock, New Wave, No Wave, Avante Garde, Jazz, and Much More) Humor of Every Stripe (save for racist and sexist), Video Games (mainly RPG and Adventure), Studying History, Studying Languages, Keeping Abreast of the Popular Sciences (Especially Paleontology), Playing My Guitar, Reading the Odd Novel, Commiting Acts of Coitus (and realated periphria), Free-Style Walking, Riding My Bicycle Down the Thoroughfare, Staying Awake Until Odd Hours of the Morning, Being Fatuous and Stray, Being Ethical and Uprite, Being Entirely Innapropriate, Travelling to remote Locales.

I'd like to meet:


Musicians, artists, insomniacs, serious thinkers, blathering ninnies, and other like-minded folks. People without full beards or faux-hawks. People with mononocular vision. Filthy humans who clean themselves regularly. The desperate and the deranged. People for whom intoxicants are nothing in light of the endless entertainment their own minds can provide.

Music:

the Arcade Fire, Louis Armstrong, Atom and His Package, Babes in Toyland, Bauhaus, the Beastie Boys, the Beatles, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Bettie Serveert, Billy Goat, Black Sabbath, Blondie, Blur, David Bowie, Brad, Breakestra, The Breeders, James Brown, Built to Spill, Burning Airlines, R.L. Burnside, Calexico, the Carnabeats, Cat Power, Cibo Motto, Clutch, Crucifucks, the Dead Kennedys, the Dead Milkmen, Death Cab for Cutie, Devo, Dink, Dose One, Dressy Bessie, Electric Six, Jeremy Enigk, Ensemble Nipponia, Faith No More, the Flaming Lips, Fugazi, the Goats, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Benny Goodman, Grassy Knoll, the Halo Benders, Helium, Helmet, Hum, the Jaguars, Jaw Box, Yoko Kanno, Knapsack, James Kochalka Superstar, Kyuss, Land of the Loops, Le Tigre, Latyrx, Looper, Low, Luminous, Lush, Lyrics Born, Nellie McKay, Melt Banana, Metric, Takako Minekawa, Mirah, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Momus, Mother Tongue, Mr. Bungle, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, Joanna Newsom, Harry Nilsson, NoMeansNo, Orange 9mm, Beth Orton, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Pond, PJ Harvey, Pop Will Eat Itself, Primus, Public Enemy, Public Image Limited, Queens of the Stone Age, Quicksand, Radiohead, Reverend Horton Heat, Rezillos, Rilo Kiley, Shiina Ringo, Rival Schools, Ruins, Sausage, the Sex Pistols, the Shape Shifters, Mort Shuman, Sleater-Kinney, The Slits, Smashing Pumpkins, Spent, Sunny Day Real Estate, Sweep the Leg Johnny, Syrup USA, Talking Heads, Mary Timony, Tool, Tortoise, T-Rex, Laura Veirs, the Ventures, Versus, Tom Waits, the Weakerthans, Ween, the White Stripes, White Zombie, Shannon Wright, X-Ray Specs, the Youngers, Frank Zappa

Movies:


Titles:
Adaptation, Akira, Alien, Aliens, Amélie, Angel Heart, Around the Bend, the Bad Sleep Well, Bad Taste, Barton Fink, Batman Begins, Buena Vista Social Club, the Big Labowski, Blood: the Last Vampire, Brick, Bubble Boy, Bukaroo Banzai, Bullit, Citizen Ruth, City of Lost Children, Cockfighter, Collateral, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Cop Land, Cradle Will Rock, the Dark Crystal, Dawn of the Dead (1978 & 2004), Day of the Dead, Dead Man, Delicatessen, Donnie Darko, Down by Law, Drunken Angel, Election, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Evolution, F for Fake, A Fistful of Dollars, the Fog of War, For a Few Dollars More, Gangs of New York, Gloria, the Good the Bad and the Ugly, Goodfellas, Heat, Heavenly Creatures, the Hidden Fortress, Ghost Busters, High and Low, Hulk, the Insider, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Jin-Roh, King of New York, Kingdom of Heaven, Labrynth, Land of the Dead, the Lost World: Jurassic Park, Mad Max I, II, & III, Man on Fire, the Manchurian Candidate (2004), Manhunter, the Meaning of Life, Minority Report, the Mission, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Munich, Mystery Train, Night of the Living Dead, Old School, Once Upon a Time in the West, One Crazy Summer, Predator I & II, Princess Mononoke, the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Raising Arizona, Rashomon, the Razor's Edge, Reds, Repo Man, Roadside Prophets, Sanjuro, Return of the Living Dead, Ride with the Devil, Road Trip, Say Anything..., Search and Destroy, Serenity, the Seven Samurai, Shock Corridor, the Spanish Prisoner, Spartan, Spirited Away, State and Main, Steam Boy, Stop Making Sense, Straw Dogs, Syriana, Talk Radio, the Thin Red Line, the Third Man, Touch of Evil, Tree's Lounge, Trixie, Wag the Dog, War of the Worlds (2005), Way of the Gun, Wings of Desire, X-Men I-II, Yojimbo
Writers & Directors:
Marc Caro, John Cassavetes, the Cohen Brothers, Johnathan Demme, Sam Fuller, Peter Jackson, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jim Jarmusch, Charlie Kaufman, Akira Kurosawa, Ang Lee, Sergio Leone, David Mamet, Michael Mann, Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Otomo, Sam Alexander Payne, Peckinpah, Stephen Spielberg, Orson Welles, Wim Wenders

Television:

Auqa-Teen Hunger Force, Battlestar Galactica, Deadwood, Family Guy, Heroes, Lost, My Name is Earl, Oban Star-Racers, Squidbillies, The 4400, The Venture Bros.

Books:


Titles:

A People's History of the United States, Black Hole, Breakfast of Champions, Cloud of Sparrows, The Hagakure, Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Master and Margarita, Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, Rotten, Sluaghterhouse 5, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Watchmen

Authors:

Mikhail Bulgakov, Joseph Campbell, Robert E. Howard, Norman Mailer, Takashi Matsuoka, Alan Moore, Oscar Ratti, Laura Joh Rowland, Niel Stephenson, Kurt Vonnegut, Adele Westbrook

Heroes:

Joseph Campbell, Noam Chomsky, Wayne Coyne, Peter Falk, Bill Hicks, Tony Iommi, Jack Kirby, John Lydon, Ian McKaye, Guy Picciotto, Mike Ruppert, Polly Styrene, Mary Timony

My Blog

You Think We're Singing 'Bout Someone Else.

I created a name for a pre-existing mental condition which I do not believe has a proper name but is still very real. I thought I'd share it with yah'll.Psychoscatatoxic Autoasphyxiosis: A self-induce...
Posted by OZEL on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:54:00 PST

Good Thoughts Bring Forth Good Fruit, Bullshit Thoughts Rot Your Meat

I rarely get this way but I am in a "to hell with everyone" mood today. I hate it. I want to feel positive and supportive toward my friends and the human race in general.But I don't. Not today.I'm pre...
Posted by OZEL on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:12:00 PST

Fun Hurts

So, my New Year's Eve festivities were really amazing. A lot of really cool things happened between waking up at 10am on Sunday, December 31, 2006 and falling asleep after 6am sometime on Monday, Janu...
Posted by OZEL on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:29:00 PST

Jack Had Thought it Twice

I just awoke from a dream wherein a band had covered Built to Spill's song "Big Dipper" and made a video for it. The video inexplicably consisted of three guys dressed in ninja outfits and brandishing...
Posted by OZEL on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 09:05:00 PST

Beyond the Wall of Sleep

. . . is where I'd like to be right now.I haven't been able to sleep properly for the last three days and it's starting to drive me a little batty. I've had a total of ten hours of sleep since Thursda...
Posted by OZEL on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:48:00 PST

Minnesota: The Lonely in a Crowd State

So, we Minnesotans know all about Minnesota Nice and the lore that goes along with it. And though its true that people in Minnesota are more likely to give a stranger directions when said stranger is ...
Posted by OZEL on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 06:47:00 PST

Ginny Ortiz

I just watched The Warriors for the first time since, oh I dunno, 1993 or something. And even though it was the shitty "Ultimate Director's Cut" version, it was still awesome to watch. I was only two ...
Posted by OZEL on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:10:00 PST

It's a Republic, Not a Democracy

Ive heard a lot of people over the past six years lament the passing of the old-guard Democratic Party. Many people saying that well never see a John Kennedy, a Jimmy Carter, or a Franklin D. Roosev...
Posted by OZEL on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 06:29:00 PST

When You're Strange

Lately, my life has become an unending series of extremely late nights spent at the drawing table/ computer working on my freelance work punctuated by going to my day job the next morning with little ...
Posted by OZEL on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:57:00 PST

Drunk People

I just had the strangerst experience . . . . I was sitting here, naked at my computer and typing an email . . . when my next door neighbor walks into my apartment all groggy and drunk. I said somet...
Posted by OZEL on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 03:02:00 PST