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¡Chupa mi arte!

I taste like happy ...

About Me

Unless I already know who you are, please DO NOT SIMPLY ASK ME TO BE YOUR FRIEND! Talk to me first, send me a message, get to know me a little bit, stuff like that... It only takes a little bit of effort. If I have NO IDEA who you are and we've never spoken before, I will deny your request. And I'm not interested in just hooking up. Thanks.
Yeah... So other than that, I'm a pretty chill, down-to-earth guy who's just trying to have fun and live life. I graduated from the University of Southern California (Fight On!) with a major in Communication and a minor in Fine Arts in 2003. I do corporate investing in Downtown LA right now, but I'm looking to change careers into something to do with the arts, like working for a museum, gallery, or studio... and I should be buying my first home at some point in the next year or so, hopefully in the Long Beach / Southbay area. I've got my shit together now and I've calmed down a lot since college... I've learned to party smarter, not harder, and I enjoy a lot of the smaller things in life now, like driving along the coast on a late Summer afternoon, drinking coffee and talking with friends, and cuddling with cute guys on rainy Winter evenings... Or any other time!
I'm really into music : listening to, talking about, collecting, creating, and going to concerts, but I'm not a music snob: I like a lot of everything that's out there, there's a lot of really great stuff... but there's a lot of really bad stuff too. I can go a little overboard with the music stuff sometimes, but it's my passion and hobby, so no apologies for that... I'm also really into art, movies, reading, writing, painting, photography, design, etc... Basically anything even remotely creative or artistic.
I've lived in the LA / Southbay area my entire life and will probably live here for my next several lives. I truly do love it here. The Southbay is my home. I do, however, intend to travel extensively and try to live the bohemian lifestyle in some far-off, exotic locale, like Barbados, Florence, Fiji, Athens... Or maybe just Long Beach.
Want to know more about me? Peel slowly and see...
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
"The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever ; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms..."
"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
Quotes by George Santayana.
Por una mirada, un mundo;
por una sonrisa, un cielo;
por un beso... Yo no sé
qué te diera por un beso.
¡Los suspiros son aire y van al aire!
¡Las lágrimas son agua y van al mar!
Dime, mujer, cuando el amor se olvida
¿sabes tú adónde va?
Poemas de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.
" Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night..."
Howl by Allen Ginsberg

My Interests


Concerts, art, writing, reading, painting, traveling, hiking, camping, movies, psychology, politics, design, photography, philosophy, music, humanism, comedy, punk, clubs, music history, debauchery, top-shelf vodka and tequila, beer, white russians, playing pool, Andy Warhol, Hunter S. Thompson, wearing sunglasses indoors and/or at night, inside jokes, creativity, equality, happiness

I'd like to meet:


El principio y el extremo.
Basically, I just want to meet a nice, cute guy who makes me happy and who I can make happy. Is that so much to ask?

Music:


In no order whatsoever... The Velvet Underground, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Stooges, The Strokes, The Rapture, Interpol, Underworld, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Minutemen, Loretta Lynn, Regina Spektor, The Black Lips, Franz Ferdinand, The Clash, Fiona Apple, Ella Fitzgerald, Patti Smith, CSS, The Faint, Eagles of Death Metal, Radiohead, Lou Reed, Tosca, Peace Orchestra, Kruder & Dormeister, Massive Attack, Joy Division, The Ramones, Miles Davis, Pennywise, QOTSA, Sublime, Sex Pistols, Elliott Smith, Damien Rice, Johnny Cash, The Shins, PJ Harvey, Dead Kennedys, Tricky, The Kills, Portishead, Tool, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Modest Mouse, Billie Holiday, The Breeders, Led Zeppelin, DJ Shadow, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Belle & Sebastian, Beck, Bob Dylan, The Buzzcocks, The Rolling Stones, Quasi, Nirvana, Rufus Wainwright, Minor Threat, Pixies, Shuggie Otis, Nick Drake, The Mars Volta, Wire, A Perfect Circle, Booker T. & The M.G.'s, The Slits, System of a Down, Nico, X, Weezer, The Replacements, Bright Eyes, Rage Against the Machine, The Beatles, Pavement, Louis Armstrong, Buddy Holly, Gogol Bordello, Gang of Four, Iggy Pop, Television, Sleater-Kinney, Iron & Wine, John Lee Hooker, Brian Eno, Goldfrapp, Descendents, The White Stripes, Beastie Boys, Wilco, Blondie, Aphex Twin, Doves, Squarepusher, Scissor Sisters, Moving Units, Bjork, Donna Summer, The Germs, Muddy Waters, Mohammed Rafi, Placebo, Sonic Youth, Everything But The Girl, MIKA, My Morning Jacket, Be Your Own Pet, The Mamas & the Papas, Arctic Monkeys, Madonna, Manu Chao, Built to Spill, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Richie Hawtin, Kid 606, NIN, Queen, Blondie, Bob Marley, Bloc Party, Fugazi, Broken Social Scene, The Gossip, David Bowie, The Arcade Fire, She Wants Revenge, Bo Diddley, Janis Joplin, Wolfmother, Editors, Girl Talk, Gogol Bordello, The Black Keys, MSTRKRFT, Justice, COACHELLA...

Movies:


Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Dancer in the Dark, Almost Famous, Full Metal Jacket, Punk: Attitude, Jarhead, The Doors, The Wall, Blow, Friday, Jackie Brown, The Opposite of Sex, Austin Powers, Waking Life, Citizen Kane, Blazing Saddles, Fight Club, Frida, Broken Hearts Club, Croupier, Magnolia, Basquiat, Garden State, Party Monster, Donnie Darko, Napoleon Dynamite, Kill Bill, The Big Lebowski, The Godfather, 24 Hour Party People, Closer, The Royal Tennenbaums, Goodfellas, Meeting People Is Easy, Velvet Goldmine, Trainspotting, Scarface, Pulp Fiction, Brokeback Mountain, The Rules of Attraction, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Departed, Short Bus, The Fountain, Coachella...

Television:


The Simpsons, Six Feet Under (R.I.P.), South Park, [adult swim], Real Time with Bill Maher, Queer as Folk, Family Guy, Freaks & Geeks, The Sopranos, Big Love, The Wire, Project Runway, The Daily Show, Entourage, John from Cincinnati, Flight of the Conchords, The Colbert Report, Music Videos... Actually I don't watch much TV anymore...

Books:


American Psycho, Screwjack, House of Leaves, The Curse of Lono, Art and Piece, On the Road, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Brave New World, Requiem for a Dream, Invisible Man, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Less Than Zero, Fight Club, Infinite Jest, Terryworld, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Upside Down, The Devil's Playground, Gravity's Rainbow, The Stranger, Naked Lunch, Only Revolutions, Running With Scissors, We Got the Neutron Bomb, The Prince, Disco Bloodbath (aka Party Monster), Lexicon Devil...

Heroes:

No heroes, only inspirations...
Photographers: Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Ryan McGinley, Jerry Hsu, Walter Pfeiffer, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jack Pierson, Diane Arbus
Artists: Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Amadeo Modigliani, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon, Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, Mark Rothko, Paul Klee, Frida Khalo, Wassily Kandinsky
Authors: Hunter S. Thompson, Brett Easton Ellis, Mark Z. Danielewski, Jack Kerouac, David Foster Wallace, Hubert Selby, Jr., Aldous Huxley, Chuck Palahniuk, William S. Burroughs, Ralph Ellison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Albert Camus, Ralph Waldo Emerson

My Blog

The Dog Days of Summer

The Devil's Playground, Nan GoldinSo, it's been quite awhile since I posted an actual blog on here... It's just been a bunch of sappy song lyrics these past few months. Anyhow, it's been a long and we...
Posted by ¡Chupa mi arte! on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:37:00 PST

The Biggest Lie

I'm waiting for the trainSubway that only goes one wayThe stupid thing that'll come to pull us apartAnd make everybody lateYou spent everything you hadWanted everything to stop that badNow I'm a crush...
Posted by ¡Chupa mi arte! on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:10:00 PST

Young Folks

If I told you things I did before Told you how I used to be Would you go along with someone like me?If you knew my story word for word Had all of my history Would you go along with some...
Posted by ¡Chupa mi arte! on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:03:00 PST

LIVE, don't merely exist...

"The proper function of man is to live - not to exist." ~ Jack LondonToo often we go through life on autopilot, going through the motions and having each day pass like the one before it.That's fine, a...
Posted by ¡Chupa mi arte! on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:50:00 PST

The Southbay Novel...

So recently I've begun working again on "The Southbay Novel," finally... I've really started thinking more about the story, characters, and locations in much greater detail, and started to actually cr...
Posted by ¡Chupa mi arte! on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:13:00 PST

The Greatest

Once I wanted to be the greatest No wind or waterfall could stop me And then came the rush of the flood The stars at night turned you to dust Melt me down To big black armour Leave no trace Of grace J...
Posted by ¡Chupa mi arte! on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:34:00 PST

Insomnia

I only smoke weed when I need toAnd I need to get some restI confess, I burnt a hole in the mattressYes, yes, it was me, I plead guiltyAnd on the count of three I pull back the duvetMake my way to the...
Posted by ¡Chupa mi arte! on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:52:00 PST

Say Yes

I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girlWho's still around the morning afterWe broke up a month ago, and I grew up - I didn't knowI'd be around the morning afterIt's always been wait and ...
Posted by ¡Chupa mi arte! on Tue, 29 May 2007 01:57:00 PST

Nancy Boy

Alcoholic kind of moodLose my clothes, lose my lubeCruising for a piece of funLooking out for number oneDifferent partner every nightSo narcotic outta sightWhat a gas, what a beautiful ass.And it all ...
Posted by ¡Chupa mi arte! on Thu, 24 May 2007 08:47:00 PST

Half Right

You shouldn't talk to your yourselfWell I pictured somebody elseSomeone that looks likeWhat I look likeWould you say that one of your dreamsGot in you and ripped out the seamsThat's what I'd sayThat's...
Posted by ¡Chupa mi arte! on Thu, 24 May 2007 07:34:00 PST