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Bongolia

I just wants me some love...

About Me

I grew up in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.Heres my music page: http://www.myspace.com/brikabrakmusic

My Interests

saving money to declare bankruptcy,rock 'em sock 'em robots,dick smith's do-it-yourself monster make-up handbook,making gingerbread men, walking dogs, potato chips, hanging laundry, cashews, drums, ground hogs, spiritually incorrect mystics, watching street lights change, Bigfoot sightings, cordless phones, lightbulb design, bongos, vintage swank, .225 slant six engines, babbling brooks, virginia bluebells, vinyl, dr. bronner's soap, recovering catholics, brazilian flip-flops, monkey business, slovenian pear schnapps, keystone cops

I'd like to meet:

Mr. Tamborine Man, cool parking garage attendants, well-manicured poodles, cashew farmers, ferry boat captains, shade tree mechanics, Al Jackson, Jr., Moondog, Clyde Stubblefield

Music:

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Movies:

Shadows, On the Bowery, Killing of a Chinese Bookie, In a Lonely Place, The Killing, Shoot the Piano Player, La Strada, Spike Jones, Buster Keaton, Little Big Man, Stranger Than Paradise, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Westworld, The Big Heat. All Humphry Bogart

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Twilight Zone, Vegetable Juicer Infomercials, Leave It To Beaver, Speed Racer, Police Procedurals, Josie and The Pussycats, The Six Million Dollar Man, Soul Train

Books:

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, Spoon River Anthology, Philip K. Dick, John Fante, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, Lonely Planet, Notes From A Battered Grand, The One Straw Revolution, Maus 1 & 2, Sweet Soul Music, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Osho, Krishnamurti, Charles Bukowski, Paul Auster, Appolinaire, The Autobiography of Jack Black, Iceburg Slim,Greg Palast, As Serious As Your Life.

Heroes:

Mom, Dad, Mike Watt, D.Boon, Greg Palast, Susan Sontag, Ann Magnuson, Ian Mackaye, Johnny Hott, Jason "El Duce" Andrews, people who find my lost wallets and return them,My parents:

My Blog

Moonshine and The Happiest Man in the World

My late Uncle Ralph--afectionately known as Uncle Coach because of his long tenure as coach of the Freedom High football team near Glen Alpine, North Carolina--would occassionaly hook me up with a bot...
Posted by Bongolia on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:00:00 PST

THRIFT STORE ANTHROPOLOGY

I dig thrift stores. I can spend hours sifting throught the discarded detritus of America's consumer culture. Does this make me a bottom feeder? Maybe I'm a flounder in the sea of second-hand wears. B...
Posted by Bongolia on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:47:00 PST

RE: Memories and Nuts (Father's Day)

My father, the late A.P. Thomson, loved eating nuts. So much, in fact, that he fathered and raised four nuts in the forms of human beings: my brothers and me. But I digress. What I want to relate here...
Posted by Bongolia on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:18:00 PST