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Ali Venture

Beware of my temper and the dog that I found

About Me

Once when I was hungry and couldn't find my glasses, I braved the outside world w/o them in search of the local pizza store. As I crossed the street I saw a small black creature that I assumed to be a cat, padding around in a circle. It didn't occur to me that that type of behavior was pretty odd, I just figured it was bored. Then all of a sudden the cat started to circle faster and faster until it straight flew into the air and sailed around for awhile. It didn't register until a split second later that the cat was actually a black plastic bag. But for an instant I sincerely thought the cat was flying. It was a whimsical moment that encourages me to take late night strolls w/o my glasses more often.
Living in squalor, darning a sock for the 50th time, stooping down to sip at puddles on the jungle floor. Living a light by a congregation of trees in nature, hunkering low, sifting through dust to spy on insects. Living with nothing but gorillas for company. This life seems more appealing every day. And there's nothing keeping me from disappearing.
More of my artwork can be found on my LiveJournal
AOL Instant Messenger: phooeycooties

My Interests

Include but not limited to:
|| Art ||
Drawing: Gina Magid, Toba Khedoori, Lisbeth Zwerger, Marcel Dzama, Zak Smith, Taloy McKimens | Sculpture: Erik Swenson, Dike Blair, Jessica Stockholder, Tim Hawkinson, Duane Hanson, Rachel Whiteread, Kiki Smith, Charles Ray | Photography: Nan Goldin, Jeff Wall, Richard Billingham, Michal Rovner | Painting:Louis Morris, Dana Schutz, Julie Mehretu, Milton Avery, John Currin, Barnaby Furnas--among others.
|| Animation ||
Hayao Miyazaki, Matt Groening, Adult Swim (Venture Bros!, Harvey Birdman, Sea Lab 2021 etc.) Invader Zim, Don Hertzfeldt. |Anime| Cowboy Beebop, Samurai Champloo, FLCL, Ghost in the Shell, Fullmetal Alchemist, Bleach, Rurouni Kenshin, Battle Angel Alita, Black Magic 66, Appleseed, Spriggan, Akira, Cromarti High, Paranoid Agent, Jin Roh: Wolf Brigade, Blood the Last Vampire, Vampire Hunter D, etc.
|| Comics ||
SinCity, Hellboy, Calvin and Hobbes, Meathaus, Drawn and Quaterly, Sof' Boy, Optic Nerve, Hiroaki Samura, Lone Wolf and Cub, Blade, Gon, Anything by T.S. Sullivant, A.B. Frost, Robert Crumb, Chris Ware and Dave Cooper, Tell Me Something and The Iron Wagon by the mysterious "Jason", etc, etc.
|| Video Games ||
The Legend Zelda series, the Soul Caliber series, Half Life 2, HL2 Ep.1&2, Super Bust-A-Move, Team Fortress 2, Bioshock. F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon, Tekken, Dark Stalkers, Call of Duty, Samurai Show Down, etc, etc, etc.
|| Music ||
Anything that radiates, permeates, enlivens-- digs deep and messes around with my insides. Music that makes me stagger about in revelation and euphoria. Yeah, but if you really must know, well damnit I can tell you that later.
|| Literature ||
Donald Barthleme, Lorri Moore, Denis Johnson, Charlie Baxter, George Saunders, Gabe Hudson, Jim Harrison, Tom Franklin, David Sedaris, Marylin Robbinson, Sam Lipsyte, Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Cormac McCarthy, Celine, Bukowski, Faulkner, Virginia Wolf to name a few.
|| Cinema ||
Most Zombie flicks, Grind House movies, TROMA!, The Thin Man series, Classic dramas and romantic comedies from the 1930's-1950's, Wong Kar Wai, Takashi Miike, Zhang Yimou,Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant, Jim Jarmusch, Chan-Wook Park,Polanski, Jean Rollin, Jan Svankmajer, The Brothers Quay, et al.
|| Writing ||
Short stories, note taking and joting down arbituary words, I compile/collect names, things I mishear, odd sayings, quotes and snipits of conversation but poetry is for the birds.

I'd like to meet:



Smarmy Bears and...

My Blog

Sky, Leaves and Paws


Posted by Ali Venture on Thu, 22 May 2008 06:53:00 PST

Safety of Giblets

Gary's eyes followed the giblet bags along the conveyer belt until they reached his station. When the little bags of various organs presented themselves in front of him he deftly scooped them up, sque...
Posted by Ali Venture on Thu, 15 May 2008 04:43:00 PST

Janice & Jacob


Posted by Ali Venture on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:25:00 PST

Bright Blue

"Wait" He said, "Wait there, I’ll be back."Genie nodded, "I’ll be here." She said.He backed up grinning at her and then spun ’round on his heels and broke into a trot down the block....
Posted by Ali Venture on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:08:00 PST

Mary Waited

Mary waited. She smiled. She fixed her bangs in the mirror of her hallway. Mary waited. She looked at her watch. She sat pensive, the television off in front of her. Mary waited. Her heart grew round,...
Posted by Ali Venture on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:11:00 PST

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I've never heard of this punctuation before.I'm terribly excited about it.Does this make me loopy?Probably.????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????The interrob...
Posted by Ali Venture on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:57:00 PST

Gail! Gail, please.

Never before has she made such a spectacle of herself. Sure she was ashamed, but my, did the crowd gather. There was a magical word in German that gave this scene a cold but efficient description. The...
Posted by Ali Venture on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:13:00 PST

New Short Short Story

AbigailAbigail rubbed the miniature spoon brusquely with her thumb trying toget the gum off of it. Her ex-boyfriend had previously taken this pieceof gum, grabbed her precious sterling silver spoon an...
Posted by Ali Venture on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:50:00 PST

Weirdo Warbler

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Posted by Ali Venture on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:32:00 PST

Weirdo King Fisher_08


Posted by Ali Venture on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:18:00 PST