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Markeith

Again. This time with more feeling...

About Me

I still don't know my ETA. Look for 'im tho'. He'll be around.

My Interests

Painting, Drawing, Literature (particularly of the Russian Realist variety), Video Games (with a special interest in all things Metroid related), the continual advancement of the lives of those closest to me, and anything stimulating.

I'd like to meet:

Rakim, Pete Rock, Cezzane, Diebenkorn, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Chekov, Giacometti, Henri Matisse, The GZA, and other such fine folk.

Music:

Culture I.S.T.M, Rakim, Pete Rock, The RZA, The GZA, Killah Priest, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, etc.... Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Schubert, Miles Davis, Beck, Killah Priest, Heinrich Van Biber, the Metroid Prime Soundtrack, Star Wars Soundtrack, the various Evangelion soundtracks and such things...

Movies:

The End of Evangelion ,Ran, Sanjuro, Hero, In The Mood for Love, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Godfather 1+2, Happy Together, Ashes of Time, Hard Boiled, The Killer, The Incredibles, The Die Hard Trilogy...basically all the hot shit.

Television:

Sorry. A fresh book's better anyways.

Books:

War and Peace (Greatest novel ever written, period), "Tolstoy" by Henri Troyat, Kafka on the Shore, Dead Souls and the short stories of Nikolay Gogol, The Silmarillion, Dune, The Short Stories of Anton Chetkov, Shogun, Anna Karenina, A Hundred Years of Solitude, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Hadji Murad, The Sevastopol Sketches, The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, my Cezzane Monograph, my Diebenkorn monogragh, The Count of Monte Cristo,...etc

Heroes:

Cezzane, Rakim, Count Lev Nickolaevich Tolstoy, Anton Chetkov, Bill Waterson, Henri Matisse, Carl Plansky, Leonardo Da Vinci, Alberto Giacometti, Richard Diebenkorn, Giorgio Morandi, Shigeru Miyamoto, Gunpei Yokoi, Hideo Kojima, Suda 51 .....(still under construction)

My Blog

Drawing

Once, while still unofficially attending a certain painting class in college, I was given a bit of advice that has shaped my development for the past few years. The teacher, one Carl Plansky, was givi...
Posted by Markeith on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:20:00 PST

My new neck of the woods

This is a bit of memoir type stuff, as I'm still getting acclimated to my new geographical placement. So I hope anyone that follows this through to the end is rewarded with a slightly nostal...
Posted by Markeith on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:39:00 PST