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John

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About Me

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YO!!!!
I'm pretty much done with this thing. if you really want to get in touch with me, USE EMAIL (remember that?).
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Otherwise check out icewhistle.com .

My Interests

bread, drawing pictures of catfish, bathing, ironic conspiracy theories, fuel economy, fake/impossible maps, spreadsheets, professional sports, cross-sections, electoral politics, scientific studies of the occult, graphomania, stacking things, cryptic phrases, other esoteric behavior, imagining lines coming out of things and seeing where they intersect, bicycle maintenance, cataloguing.

I'd like to meet:

People who have already died, or think they live in different countries than they actually do. The fictional. People who enjoy grocery shopping. Animals, insects or protozoa that can talk about politics or history (from their point of view). The inventive, or inventors. Leslie Nielsen. Most importantly, artists who don't realize that they are artists.

Music:

lately: cheveu, blues control, chris mcgregor, tart.

Movies:

1970's american cinema, comedy, classic foreign/arthouse stuff, experimental cinema, things that are absurd. faves: little murders, putney swope, bleu shut, the falls, stalker, many more.

Television:

connections with james burke (first series), wrestling team, chris morris stuff, singing detective, prisoner, channel 4 news, nfl games, sports in general, pandora's box.

Books:

lots but mostly post-1900; generally things described as "experimental", "avant-garde", "postmodern" and/or "comic". faves: harry mathews, gaddis, joseph mcelroy, ben marcus, perec, pynchon.

Heroes:

Tulse Luper, Hy Grynszpan, Mick Travis, Ben Flesh, Ipson and Pullat Fallari, Alfred Chamberlain, Bartlebooth, Cartwright, Fielding Melish, Duncan Thaw, Madgett, Montague Withnail, James O. Incandenza, Bernard Gale, Jr., Kakihara, Gang Lion

My Blog

hey european friends, come see me

i'm going on this really big tour in an old car where i have to do tons of driving and all signs of logic point against it. it would be awesome if some of you came and said hi and maybe gave me some ...
Posted by John on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:13:00 PST

i did

boneless benihana NO COMPLY 360 kickflip varial mctwist flamingo ding-dong toggleswitch melon japan pop-shove-it, 180 bs 50-50 cancerhock ragglemadoo nosegrind, bluntslide nosegrab tailgrab heelflip o...
Posted by John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the Seinfeld video game

does anyone want to come over and play the new Seinfeld game i got for the xbox? it's made by that company KylsSoft who also made the "Waiting for Godot" video game. it's pretty cool so far - i only...
Posted by John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

sandwiches

Peanut butter and jelly, turkey and cheddar, crab, boiled brains, sliced eel with avacado and parmesean reduction, skittles and tuna with chives, mushroom ricotta and roasted red pepper, tendon of bis...
Posted by John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

insidious clouds of wasps

Dear Myspace, Today I awoke and could only see out of my left eye, for my right was caked in some sort of grey crud. When I at last scraped it clean with a stitch-remover I saw several hundred was...
Posted by John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST