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Tim

your vigilance as an artist is an amorous vigilance, a vigilance of desire

About Me

My Interests

Melissa, poststructuralist critical theory, cinema studies, experimental filmmaking, disinformation, apocalypse culture, the American experience, electronic music, polysexuality, Modern architecture and design, Los Angeles history, situationist politics, art photography, consciousness manipulation, theoretical physics, hiking and camping, environmental activism, OW racing, car crashes, Guinness, and guns.

I'd like to meet:

Oja Kodar

Music:

Among many others: Velvet Underground, MC5, Stooges, Kraftwerk, Crass, Flux of Pink Indians, Poison Girls, Rudimentary Peni, The Residents, Dead Kennedys, X, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Chris & Cosey, Kate Bush, Tackhead, Sonic Youth, Swans, Negativland, Public Enemy, Bjork, Massive Attack, Portishead, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Hybrid, Crystal Method, Pole, Thievery Corporation, Uberzone, Squarepusher, and the Chumbas.

Movies:

Films of David Lynch, Peter Greenaway, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Orson Welles, David Cronenberg, Maya Deren, Jean-Luc Godard, John Cassavetes, Yasujiro Ozu, Terrence Malick, Stan Brakhage, Andrei Tarkovsky, Atom Egoyan, Lars von Trier, Federico Fellini, Todd Haynes, Yvonne Rainer, Kenneth Anger, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Derek Jarman, Stanley Kubrick, Werner Herzog, Chris Marker, Guy Maddin, Wong Kar-wai, David Gordon Green, Gus Van Sant, Sofia Coppola.

Television:

Frontline, Globetrekker, TCM.

Books:

Anything by William Shakespeare, William S. Burroughs, Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Pynchon, Marguerite Duras, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, Georges Bataille, J.G. Ballard, Charles Bukowski, Angela Carter, Paul Bowles, Jean Genet, Hubert Selby, Jr., Philip K. Dick, Umberto Eco, Milan Kundera, Henry Miller, Raymond Chandler, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Joan Didion, Robert Anton Wilson, James Ellroy, Russell Banks, John Fante, William Gibson, Kathy Acker.

Heroes:

Some interesting folks, in no particular order: William S. Burroughs, Gee Vaucher, Marquis de Sade, Marcel Duchamp, Penny Rimbaud, Emma Goldman, Friedrich Nietzsche, Orson Welles, Andy Warhol, Jacques Derrida, Stan Brakhage, Genesis P. Orridge, Guy Debord, Abbie Hoffman, Judith Butler, Jock Sturges, Lenny Bruce, Joe Frank, Bjork, Bruce Nauman, Camille Paglia, Hunter S. Thompson, Brian Eno, Larry Flynt, Kathy Acker, Lebbeus Woods, Matthew Barney, Cosey Fanni Tutti.

My Blog

DON’T BELIEVE IT

THE HYPE. In the lead up to the Pennsylvania primary, a couple of people have asked me to re-post the the tweak I did on that lame Shepard Fairey Obama "hope" poster. So, here are the images. Re-...
Posted by Tim on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:28:00 PST

THE OMEGA MAN

Charlton Heston, 1924-2008. I was privileged to attend a tribute to Charlton Heston at the American Cinematheque back in 2001 and to hear him speak in person about one of my favorite films that he app...
Posted by Tim on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:36:00 PST

RICHARD WIDMARK

Sad to hear today of the death of legendary actor Richard Widmark. He died on Monday at the age of 93. Widmark was a versatile actor, starring in over 40 films over his long career. But my favorite pe...
Posted by Tim on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:23:00 PST

CHARLATAN

CHARLATAN. THINK. Don't get punked by this fake.
Posted by Tim on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PST

WAR CRIMINALS

Study: False statements preceded war By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL Associated Press Writer The Associated Press Wed., Jan. 23, 2008 WASHINGTON - A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that...
Posted by Tim on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:11:00 PST

SEA SHEPHERD NEWS

Press Release from the Sea Shepherd site:   www.seashepherd.org ..> Sea Shepherd News..> 1/18/08   Japanese Poachers Release Sea Shepherd Hostages Benjamin Potts and Giles Lane were tr...
Posted by Tim on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:27:00 PST

MY DINNER WITH ANDRE

Every so often, I return to Louis Malle's amazing 1981 film, My Dinner with Andre, and I'm always blown away every time I watch it. After countless viewings, its unique form and fascinating ideas cont...
Posted by Tim on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:27:00 PST

PILLOW TALK LYRICS

By request, the lyrics to "Pillow Talk," a song I had on my profile. Performed by legendary second-generation anarcho/peace punks Karma Sutra, circa 1987. Free love. Listen to the song on their profil...
Posted by Tim on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:58:00 PST

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN

A belated word of respect for the passing of Karlheinz Stockhausen, who died last week on December 5th, at the age of 79. One of the most important composers of the 20th Century, Stockhausen was, of c...
Posted by Tim on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:42:00 PST

MY NEW CARENA ZOOMEX

Here are some pics of my latest camera acquisition, a Carena Zoomex. Made in Liechtenstein and first produced in 1962, it is one of the most beautiful and reliable 8mm cameras ever made. Looking forwa...
Posted by Tim on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:22:00 PST