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About Me

Hello, my name is Christian. I am currently writing my dissertation: "Writing like a dog digging a hole, a rat digging its burrow" (Deleuze and Guattari). I also continue working on the ambient-noise project known as "full of emptiness" (cds available--see blog--or click to listen below).

My Interests

the dissolving bliss, the swooning drone, the swirling noisescape, the moody distortion net, the reverb-drenched echoing dub-space takeover; the silence of trees; reading (critical theory, phil. lit.); writing; donut shops in the morning; strong coffee; thinking at the limits (bataille, nietzsche, blanchot, foucault); the melancholy; the useless; the unfit--the misfit. louis aragon's _paris peasant_. the velvet underground; glenn branca . . . ka(f)ka . . .

I'd like to meet:

Fellow-travelers (marxist or not); book-worms, library-rats, wall-flowers, mocking-birds, and other lonely wanderers amid the ruins at twilight, adrift in an empty sky. "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star" (Nietzsche). "I hope I die of an overdose of pleasure of any kind" (Foucault).

Music:

flying saucer attack. PAIK. hope sandoval. belong. slowdive. cocteau twins. MBV. astrobrite. merzbow. bailterspace. bowery electric. growing. clear horizon. southpacific. loveliescrushing. mogwai. study of the lifeless. 70's dub /// lee "scratch" perry; scientist; king tubby; revolutionaries; aggrovators; upsetters; augustus pablo /// the ecstasy of saint theresa. bethany curve. stereolab. bardo pond. joy division. blonde redhead. experimental aircraft. the smiths. life without buildings. early-80's NYC noise /// glenn branca; theoretical girls; mars; swans; sonic youth /// seefeel. meat beat manifesto. babyland. STAR. arab strap. M83. kitchens of distinction. lush. the magnetic fields. wives. red sparowes. godflesh. jesu. l'altra. windy and carl. JAMC. air formation. ifwhen. grimble grumble. airiel. portal. broadcast. dead c. only lovers left alive. broken robots. LSD and the search for God. fleeting joys. windsor for the derby. ole. spacemen 3. whistle mix. nadja. mi ami.

Movies:

_fat girl_ (catherine breillat). _woman in the dunes_ (hiroshi teshigahara). _the adjuster_ (atom egoyan). _exotica_ (atom egoyan). _the sweet hereafter_ (atom egoyan). _speaking parts_ (atom egoyan). _the birds_ (alfred hitchcock). _happiness_ (todd solondz). _idiots_ (lars von trier). _brown bunny_ (vincent gallo). _gummo_ (harmony korine). _mysterious skin_ (gregg araki). _dolls_ (takeshi kitano). _a woman under the influence_ (john cassavetes). _in the mood for love_ (wong kar-wai). _american job_ (chris smith). _dogtown and z-boys_ (stacy peralta). _instrument_ (jem cohen).

Television:

twilight zone (the 1960's series w/ Rod Serling); kids in the hall

Books:

anything and everything by Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Louis Althusser, Jacques Derrida; Marshall McLuhan's _The Medium is the Massage_ (amazing design!); Michel Serres' _The Parasite_; Avital Ronell's _The Telephone Book_.

Heroes:

ian mackaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi), hope sandoval (Mazzy Star), ian curtis, nels cline, devin sarno (Crib), babyland, georges bataille, the velvet underground, kevin shields, gregg araki, dick hebdige, tony alva, the lollipop guild, scott cortez, the nation of ulysses, walter benjamin, holly neubert, bad brains, roland barthes, julia kristeva, and every proletariat, punk, library-rat, misfit ("other") who questions the naturalized "order of things."

My Blog

swans

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Posted by christian on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:57:00 PST

husker du 1981

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Posted by christian on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:53:00 PST

bataille and trees

"The dignity of trees . . . and preposterous gentleness. To be with life as you are with a wife, a girlfriend, when making love, drinking, laughing, being attentive, affectionate, even a little eccent...
Posted by christian on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:04:00 PST

kierkegaard and trees

". . . I'd still prefer to be a thinker who is like a bird on a twig."Soren Kierkegaard, _The Journals: A Selection_, p. 189.
Posted by christian on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:37:00 PST

convulsions (a rose)

"I tried to be a dog, a cat, a horse, a tiger, a table, a stone! I even tried, me too, to be a rose! I did what I could. I squirmed and twisted. People thought I had convulsions."Jean Genet, qtd. in J...
Posted by christian on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:04:00 PST

sartre on encountering a chestnut tree

"So I was in the park just now. The roots of the chestnut tree were sunk in the ground just under my bench . . . . I was sitting, stooping forward, head bowed, alone in front of this black, knotty mas...
Posted by christian on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:58:00 PST

erik satie on trees (and other aphorisms)

"When I pass through the woods, the birds beginning to sing, I see an old tree, its leaves rustling, I go near, I put my arms around it and think, What a good character, never to have harmed anyone.""...
Posted by christian on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:09:00 PST

nausea

"Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees,like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar. The Nausea has given me a short breathi...
Posted by christian on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:30:00 PST

artaud and trees

"life is a costume grafted to a dead tree"Antonin Artaud, "You Have to Begin With the Will to Live," in Artaud Anthology, p. 215.
Posted by christian on Tue, 16 May 2006 10:00:00 PST

kafka and trees

"For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie sleekly, and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But se...
Posted by christian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST