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Jamon

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro

About Me

"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." [ Dwight Eisenhower ]"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." [ Benjamin Franklin ]"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution." [James Madison]"War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength." [Big Brother]Christianity as antiquity.-- When we hear the ancient bells growling on a Sunday morning we ask ourselves: Is it really possible! This, for a jew, crucified two thousand years ago, who said he was God's son? The proof of such a claim is lacking. Certainly the Christian religion is an antiquity projected into our times from remote prehistory; and the fact that the claim is believed - whereas one is otherwise so strict in examining pretensions - is perhaps the most ancient piece of this heritage. A god who begets children with a mortal woman; a sage who bids men work no more, have no more courts, but look for the signs of the impending end of the world; a justice that accepts the innocent as a vicarious sacrifice; someone who orders his disciples to drink his blood; prayers for miraculous interventions; sins perpetrated against a god, atoned for by a god; fear of a beyond to which death is the portal; the form of the cross as a symbol in a time that no longer knows the function and ignominy of the cross -- how ghoulishly all this touches us, as if from the tomb of a primeval past! Can one believe that such things are still believed?[Friedrich Nietzche]Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.[Friedrich Nietzche]... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.[Friedrich Nietzche]

My Interests

INFORMATION, MUSIC, LITERATURE, FILM. Playing, writing, and recording music (on any instrument I can get my hands on), writing (everything. prose, poetry, essay, diatribe, screenplay), collecting/viewing films, reading, tattoos, philosophy, (world, social/political) history, sketching (anything, mostly ink and gray-scale studies), art in most any form, stealing souls, the preternatural, system and chaos theories, String Theory, astronomy, quantum physics (quantum computing, etc.), nano-technologies, anthropology, comedy, social satire/commentary (favorites: jon stewart/ stephen colbert, george carlin, bill hicks, lenny bruce, richard pryor, david cross, patton oswalt, flight of the concord, etc.)

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Elliott Smith, Tom Waits, Beck, Nick Drake, The Smashing Pumpkins/Billy Corgan, Bright Eyes, Pixies/Frank Black, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds/Grinderman/The Birthday Party, Modest Mouse, The Shins, The Who, Glassjaw, Eels, David Bowie, Iggy Pop/The Stooges, Arctic Monkeys, Moving Units, Echo & the Bunnymen, Interpol, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, The Cure, Bob Log III, The Melvins, Dead Kennedy's, Les Claypool, Primus, Leftover Crack, John Lennon, Emmit Rhodes, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, Hank Williams III, Hank Williams Sr., Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello, Woody Guthrie, Wilco, Kaiser Chiefs, Arcade Fire, Feist, Devotchka, Of Montreal, LCD Soundsystem, Bauhous, The Clash, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Cat Stevens, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Sixteen Horsepower, Strung Out, Thrice, Pink Floyd, The Locust, Blonde Redhead, Tsuneo Imahori, The Mars Volta, Devo, Iron Maidon, Nico, Jimmi Hendrix, Leadbelly, Massive Attack, Depeche Mode, Peter Bjorn and John, Black Sabbath, Joy Division, New Order, Greatful Dead, Old and In the Way, At the Drive-In, AFI, the Misfits, Joseph Arthur, Iced Earth, Head Automatica, Superjoint Rutual, Meshugga, Converge, The Distillers, The Faint, Aphex Twin, Deftones, The Meat Puppets, Children of Bodom, The Bravery, The Blood Brothers, Desaparecidos, Nerve Agents, Slayer, The Ramones, Rx Bandits, Tool, Anti-Flag, Dragonforce, The Doors, Buddy Holly, James Brown, Willie Nelson, The Police, Pantera, NOFX, Skinny Puppy, The Living End, Alkaline Trio, Old Man's Child, Sex Pistols, The Pogues, The Chemical Brothers, Muse, Franz Ferdinand, New Lost City Ramblers, Doc Watson, Bob Marley, Damien Marley, Tiger Army, Marilyn Manson, Dimmu Borgir, In Flames, Jethro Tull, Queen, New York Dolls, The Kinks, Frank Sanatra, Nine Inch Nails, Poisen the Well, Akira Ymaoka, A Perfect Circle, Dark Tranquility, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Strauss, Grieg, Handel, Paganini, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Wagner, John Coltrane, Howling Wolf, Miles Davis, Heatmiser, Subhumans, Elefant, Dream Theater, DJ Shadow, Porcupine Tree, Michael Andrews...the list continues

Movies:

Fight Club, The Wall, Natural Born Killers, American Beauty, Dead Poets Society, The Proposition, Trainspotting, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, 12 Monkeys, Brazil, The Fisher King, Tideland, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, American Psycho, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Good Will Hunting, Little Miss Sunshine, Silence of the Lambs (Red Dragon and Hannibal as well, I love Lector), Donni Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pi, Requiem For A Dream, The Fountain, Coffee & Cigarettes, Deadman, Down By Law, Night On Earth, Broken Flowers, Seven, The Machinist, Equilibrium, Enter the Dragon, Spun, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, The Departed, Eraserhead, Wild at Heart, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Rosemary's Baby, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenebaums, The Life Aquatic, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill I & II, Boondock Saints, Clerks I & II, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Steal This Movie, Half Baked, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, The Nightmare Before Christmas, BeetleJuice, Dazed and Confused, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Easy Rider, Ghost in the Shell I & II, House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Fearless, Old Boy, Interview with the Vampire, Man on Fire, Leon: The Professional, Sin City, El Mariachi trilogy, Lost in Translation, Garden State, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove..., 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Babel, Amores Perros, City of God, Scarface, Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory (both), Harold and Maude, I Heart Huckabees, 24 Hour Party People, The Crow, What the Fuck Do We Know?, From Hell, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Where The Buffalo Roam, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather (I & II), American Splendor, Chinatown, Thumbsucker, Breakfast On Pluto, Memento, Blow, Star Wars (all), LOTR Trilogy, Freaks. It's a long and continuing list.

Television:

Stewart & Colbert, South Park, Comedy Central, Adult Swim, the Science Channel, The Discovery Channel, The History channel. On the occassions I haven't the energy for something more productive, that's about all the time i can squander in front of that fucking thing. In the main, I despise and feel nothing but revulsion for broadcast television and nearly all of its stations and programs."[On Television] This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire, but it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box." – Edward R. Murrow RTNDA Convention Speech, October 15, 1958

Books:

I'm usually reading a few books at a time, so favorite authors and thinkers will be a shorter list: Chuck Palahniuk, Amy Hempel, Craig Clevenger, Hunter S. Thompson, Franz Kafka, Will Christopher Baer, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Noam Chomsky, Aldous Huxley, Plato, Edgar Allen Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Aristotle, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Henry David Thorough, H.P. Lovecraft, George Orwell, Howard Zinn (The Peoples History of the United States), Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, (old) Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Tom Wolfe, William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Stan Rice, William Blake, Dante , W.B. Yeats, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare. Enough for now.

Heroes:

Any and all people; some real, some not, some alive, some now dust, who inspire me to attain a level of conciousness, perspicacity, & enlightenment that will allow me to justify and enrich my short existence and to strive to be more than a pretentious, droning, semi-concious human stain. That sounds pretencious as hell, but, you know...fuckin-A. ="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jXXMKBwzHuc"