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About Me

Sound, text, video and performance artist, wannabe meteorologist, internet meetings memoirist, former funeral home phone answerer nationwide, resident of ghost towns, Home Depot's current artist-in-residence, dumpster diving prank caller, back alley tour guide, cheeky little thing, homosexual motorist, temporary-tattooed public park defender, man on a mission, relational aesthetician, cop dater, dinosaur hater, a modern-day Ptolemy, your former empire colony, hedgepig daddy, hamburger patty, lightning rod, cephalopod, old-time comedy radio fancier, pompadoured tight-pantsed New Mexican romancer, climber of trees, lampposts and salt-flat ranchers.
http://torrential.us
aim name: torrential1910
[email protected]

My Interests

Old people, bees, the Salton Sea, musique concrete, urban sprawl, erotic surrealism, interstate exits, funeral homes, meeting people from the internet, pretentious conceptual art, Native Americans, aye-ayes, anvil clouds, flesh, local color, gas pedals, found objects, brass instruments, Antarctica, Dear Abby letters, the ice cream man.

I'd like to meet:

Someone I can think with.

stephentorrential's Random Excess

These are the most romantic things ever:

..
kate bush "sat in your lap."

Music:

Fluxus, Kate Bush, ABBA, the Sons of the Pioneers, Anna Oxygen, The Centimeters, Yoko Ono, Astor Piazzolla, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, video game music, Glass Candy, Holger Czukay, Phil Spector, Oum Kalthoum, Eurythmics, Curve, Starflyer 59, Dolly Parton, Junior Brown, Scott Walker, Jan Terri.

Movies:

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Sink or Swim, Rebecca, Naked Lunch, Mon Oncle, Grapes of Wrath, Gummo, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story.

Television:

Heehaw.

Books:

Gary Lutz - Stories in the Worst Way, Jenny Boully - The Body, Dennis Cooper - The Sluts, Lisa Robertson - Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, DA Powell - Cocktails, Martha Ronk - Displeasures at the Table, James Tate - Selected Poems, Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons, George Herbert - The Temple, Jack Kerouac - Mexico City Blues, Found Magazine.
ArtistsJill Magid, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Marina Abramovic, Isaac Julien, Ann Hamilton, Maurizio Cattelan, Valie Export, Laurie Anderson, Judi Werthein, Andy Goldsworthy, Piero Manzoni, Caitlin Berrigan, Valerie Solanas.

Heroes:

Frankenstein's monster, Alice's wonderland, Zebulon Pike, Sweet Betsy from Pike, William S Burroughs, Phil Spector, Sada Abe.
Irresistably Sexy Fictional Characters The Big Bad Wolf, the White Witch, the Cheshire Cat, Werther, the ghost (from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir), Tybalt (prince of cats).

My Blog

bathe and drive.

Last night I posted an ad on Craigslist. My objective is to find a stranger online who will take a bath with me, during which I will record the bath, and then we will play it back loudly through...
Posted by stephen torrential on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:14:00 PST

in a sparkling void.

The other day I was strolling in front of the sandwiches at Trader Joe's when a lady came up to me saying, "May I bask in your height for a moment?" Why not? I thought. "Okay." I was...
Posted by stephen torrential on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:29:00 PST

internet meetings list.

Been working on a new project, working title "internet meetings list", although that makes it sound like it's about video conferencing; I'm not really sure what to call it yet. In July 2006 I st...
Posted by stephen torrential on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:00:00 PST

whales.

Looks like Hillary will win California on Super Tuesday. It matters to her because it's the most populous state. The red cursive of its name doesn't hide all that extra blank space on the hundreds o...
Posted by stephen torrential on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:13:00 PST

an update on my dreaming life.

January 22, 2008:I was yelling at my mother, "It's been eight years since you died! Stop telling me how to live my life!" We were talking about my dating life while in the car deciding which fer...
Posted by stephen torrential on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:26:00 PST

feisty, faggy, vomiting kkk member.

Last week I threw a book at a guy's head. It was really sudden the way I pulled it off my lap and lunged it at him, it fluttering into his face and ricocheting another fifteen feet past. F...
Posted by stephen torrential on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:13:00 PST

truth or consequences.

I spent a couple days in the Truth or Consequences area last week. I met a fellow through the internet named Tommie and stayed with him in a trailer in Elephant Butte. I drove three hours ...
Posted by stephen torrential on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:01:00 PST

ruminations over a kansas breakfast.

It's Christmas morning (or really it's afternoon), and just like every morning that I've been home in New Mexico, my father just made me what he calls a "Kansas breakfast" including a massive steak an...
Posted by stephen torrential on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:43:00 PST

living with quoc.

A man named Quoc has been living in my apartment for the past few weeks. The day before he moved in, Huan, my roommate who is never home, vented to me about a mentally instable friend of his.&nb...
Posted by stephen torrential on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:34:00 PST

on holiday with the law.

For Thanksgiving break I carpooled with Eric's girlfriend Heather up to the Bay Area for a visit, my fifth time there in four years. More and more friends of mine keep winding up up there. ...
Posted by stephen torrential on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:11:00 PST