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Ramon

I am here for Networking

About Me

  "Obviously Single". (pl)Acid Casualty... Hermetic/Hermitic

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Grant Morrison, Phillip K. Dick, Chistopher Walken, Brian Eno, Tom Waits, Eddie Izzard, Hunter S. Thompson, David Cross and/or Bob Odenkirk, R.A. Wilson... I've built up a pretty hefty pile of video goodness over on my YouTube page. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/AmmonRa801

My Blog

Art History Thesis: The Hidden Hand of Modernism

                                  The Hidden Hand of Modernism: Innovations in Pop Music                                                        by Ramon Salinas      "Rock and roll" is considered, by m...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:47:00 GMT

Sun Worship, Joe Pesci, and the Big Electron: George Carlin 1937-2008

    There is a part in It's Just A Ride (the documentary about the late comedian Bill Hicks) where Eric Bogosian is talking about the comedian as shaman and Hicks' mastery of the form, his ability t...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:01:00 GMT

Rock and Roll Never Forgets: A Meditation on the Nature of the Night Moves

   Listening to (hearing, really... passively witnessing) Bob Seger and his magnum opus "Night Moves" at work today in all of it's insipid background-singer Biker Rock Lite glory, the sonic equivalent...
Posted by on Mon, 05 May 2008 22:05:00 GMT

Weird Shit Primer: Reading List 1

The following is a good departure point for anybody interested in pursuing an empowering form of Weirdness. This is me coming out of my hidden (or "occult", if you will) closet.A departure from what?...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:13:00 GMT

Some of My New Video Stuff

"Observe" ..(The compression artifacts are KILLING it; it looks so much nicer in a higher definition)
Posted by on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:52:00 GMT

Somebody Owes Me a Check!!!

My vision of a music so powerfully funky playing on a jambox and reducing all who come into contact with it powerless to it's insatiable beats has materialized! Minus the set and setting, this is pre...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:14:00 GMT

The Jesus Bunny left me chocolate eggs! (Redux!...Now with more Izzard!))

The Pagan origins of the Easter BunnyHave you ever wondered where the celebration of the Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Christ acquired its unusual name and odd symbols of colored e...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:18:00 GMT

R.I.P.> R.A. Wilson (Redux))

It’s weird, earlier this afternoon I had a flash of warm fuzzy memory about the nuances of the DIY culture in the mid-to-late 80’s, the prevalence of psychedelics and the crossroads of art...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:54:00 GMT

I Heart Super Furry Animals

Super Furry Animals is currently touring the US behind their exceptional new album, and the closest they come to the midwest is Chicago, ILBarring some unforseen Deus Ex Machina that will pay for the...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:28:00 GMT

Vote Fraud: An American Tradition

     After the debacle of the legal wrangling and recounts in Florida in the election of 2000, many in America were left with the profound sense that something is deeply flawed with the...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:33:00 GMT