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william

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About Me

living in california for the time being, just had my second novel published ( a selfish man ) which leaves me with almost no further goals in life...c'est la vie.

Promises
Words
Words and expressions
All these confessions
Of where we stand
How I see you
And you see me
Dedications of symmetry
Together we will be
forever.
Promises are shit
We speak the way we breathe
Present air will have to do
Rearrange and see it through
Stupid fucking words
They tangle us in our desires
Free me from this give and take
Free me from this great debate
There were no truer words than when spoken
Let that stand as it should
There was nothing left when broken
We grab anything when we fall
Promises are shit
We speak the way we breathe
Present air will have to do
Rearrange and see us through
Stupid fucking words
They tangle us in our desires
Free me from this give and take
Free me from this great debate
You will do what you do
I will do what I do
We will do what we do
Rearrange and see it through
Go where you think you want to go
Do everything you were sent here for
Fire at will if you hear that call
Touch your hand to the wall at night
Promises.
Words.
-fugazi


Silence is the greatest sedition
Saul Williams - Not In Our Name:
We believe that as people living
in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government, in our names
Not in our name
will you wage endless war
there can be no more deaths
no more transfusions of blood for oil
Not in our name
will you invade countries
bomb civilians, kill more children
letting history take its course
over the graves of the nameless
Not in our name
will you erode the very freedoms
you have claimed to fight for
Not by our hands
will we supply weapons and funding
for the annihilation of families
on foreign soil
Not by our mouths
will we let fear silence us
Not by our hearts
will we allow whole peoples
or countries to be deemed evil
Not by our will
and Not in our name
We pledge resistance
We pledge alliance with those
who have come under attack
for voicing opposition to the war
or for their religion or ethnicity
We pledge to make common cause
with the people of the world
to bring about justice freedom and peace
Another world is possible and we pledge to make it real

"Reinventing Axl Rose"
We want a band that plays loud and hard every night
That doesn't care how many people are counted at the door
That would travel one million miles and ask for nothing more
than a plate of food and a place to rest
They'd strike chords that cut like a knife
It would mean so much more than t-shirts or a ticket stub
They'd stop at nothing short of a massacre
Everyone would leave with the memory that there was no
place else in the world
And this was where they always belonged
We would dance like no one was watching
With one fist in the air
Our arena just basements and bookstores across an
underground America
With this fire we could light
Just gimme a scene where the music is free
And the beer is not the life of the party
There's no need to shit talk or impress
'Cause honesty and emotion are not looked down upon
And every promise that's made and bragged
is meant if not kept
We'd do it all because we have to, not because we know why
Beyond a gender, race, and class, we could find what
really holds us back
Let's make everybody sing
That they are the beginning and ending of everything
That we all are stronger than everything they taught us
that we should fear
- AGAINST ME!
"You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, or democracy, but you cannot have both." - Louis Brandeis
"Despite disparate claims and personnel of its constituent members the underground are agreed on basic objectives. We intend to march on the police machine everywhere. We intend to destroy the police machine and all its records. We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems. The family unit and its cancerous expansion into tribes, countries, nations; we will eradicate it at its vegetable roots. We don't want to hear anymore family talk, mother talk, father talk, cop talk, priest talk, country talk or party talk. To put it country simple we have had enough bullshit." -William Seward Burroughs
"schadenfreude leads to reality television" - wmb
"Why is the truth always between the first and last pint?" -The Queen of Hearts
Suppressio veri suggestio falsi.
(The suppression of truth is the suggestion of falsehood.)
Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps the most to be dreaded because it compromises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debt and taxes; armies and debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing many under the domination of the few. No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. - James Madison
"These things, it stands to reason, these things won't kill me." -M. Doughty
"seachas cothu na gael do faic." -O. Wilde
"With full intent and better sense, recognize what is false and part with it." -Ragan/Wollard
"It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake." -Mark Twain
"Fanatic paralysis inflicted through morality, the seed that it nurtured was a wilted bouquet." -Bixler-Zavala
know thyself, everything to excess.

My Interests

reading, writing , arithmetic, programming, music - i'm a drummer (that's not me on the recordings, but you get the general idea), web_design , subversive social activities...

I'd like to meet:

fellow bibliophiles, preferably of drinking age (as i'm awfully fond of said activity), to chum about with and converse. nothing more, certainly nothing romantic por favor.

Music:

a perfect circle, against me!, at the drive in, billie holliday, built to spill, cake, june carter, johnny cash, charlie parker, dead kennedys, the decemberists, dizzy gillespie, django reinhardt, don lanphere, duke ellington, flogging molly, fugazi, gorilla biscuits, hot water music, indigo swing, keeley smith, louis prima, massive attack, miles davis, rush, snow pony, soul coughing, sunny day real estate, system of a down, the reverend horton heat, tool, tricky, your american math, withdrawal

Movies:

requiem for a dream, schizopolis, dead man, versus, battle royale, the re-animator, from beyond, pi, naked lunch, mean girls (i have a huge crush on tina fey)

Television:

no thanks.

Books:

i read a lot...how about authors...chuck palahniuk, david foster wallace, desade, h. miller, j. kerouac, james baldwin, michel houellebecq, tom robbins, william s. burroughs, a. nafisi, bret easton ellis, paul auster, thomas pynchon, celine.., charles bukowski, aleister crowley, stephen tunney, patrick suskind, gabriel marquez, haruki murakami, carlos fuentes, emma goldman, noam chomsky, howard zinn

My Blog

The Feast of the Hanging Chads

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102307E.shtmlWhile Most of the Democrats in Washington Cower The Presidency Is Taking Over the Courts and Congress By Jim Hightower Hightower Lowdown Tues...
Posted by william on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:09:00 PST

LAST MINUTE BOOKING AT SPACELAND THIS FRIDAY!

LAST MINUTE SHOW at SPACELAND. We need bodies at this show, so if you've been waiting to make it out, this is the show to come to! Sorry about the short notice, we just found out Tuesday that we're pl...
Posted by william on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:31:00 PST

Our new E.P., Caveat Emptor, now available online

Our new E.P., Caveat Emptor, now available online If you don't have it yet, pick it up by clicking here. Also, thanks to everyone who made it out last night to the Relax Bar show. Definitely my favori...
Posted by william on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:54:00 PST

7/11 The Whirling Dervish E.P. Release-Free show + Free CD!

7/11 The Whirling Dervish E.P. Release-Free show + Free CD! This Wednesday, 7/11, we unleash our first ever release at Alex's Lazy Wednesday's in Long Beach! Get there early (7-8) for an awesome band ...
Posted by william on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:14:00 PST

Enemies to the faithful and non-faithful alike

Enemies to the faithful and non-faithful alike Know your enemy...American Fascists, Theocracy Advocates, Christian Zionists, Intolerance of all stripes. Even if you agree with them on a religious lev...
Posted by william on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:35:00 PST

Freedom from Tyranny

Freedom from Tyranny...ON this Independence Day 2007, take some time to recall and contemplate the reasons our Founding Fathers gave for dissolving our ties with KING GEORGE of England...IN CONGRESS, ...
Posted by william on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:03:00 PST

The Whirling Dervish on CNN

The Whirling Dervish on CNN Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by william on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:11:00 PST

Senate Roll call on Iraq funding...

Senate Roll Call on Iraq Spending    The Associated Press     Thursday 24 May 2007     The 80-14 roll call Thursday by which the Senate pas...
Posted by william on Tue, 29 May 2007 09:17:00 PST

MAY DAY LAPD POLICE BRUTALITY

  Police Action on Journalists at Melee Is Assailed    By Anna Gorman and Stuart Silverstein    The Los Angeles Times     Thursday 03 May 2...
Posted by william on Fri, 04 May 2007 01:15:00 PST

TWD live at Sam Ash and on CNN

we had the privilege of participating in Sam Ash Music's weekly Live In-Store Recording Session program. we recorded a live version of "You Flew A Plane Into My Heart" in the middle of the store (cust...
Posted by william on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:12:00 PST