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About Me

Gemini
Guitar, Fat City Reprise
walk softly carry a big bat
Product of the Illadel: SP Division
It's obvious that something is wrong with the way things are. Your food is full of chemicals and radiation, your eyes are weak from staring at TV screens, and your mind is weak from the lies and fear that those screens dump into your soul. Twenty-four hour news stations compete for ratings by stretching stories into five day ordeals. The United States government has you by the balls. Philadelphia has begun implementing stop and frisk policies that break the 4th Amendment, DC has a no handgun rule that shits on the 2nd amendment, not to mention their taxation without representation. You live in a prison without bars and the walls are closing in everyday. The elections are rigged, the candidates are robots, and all the money is in very few pockets. People are dying on the street all over the world, people just like you. Things are so fucked that even the Earth is dying. Food, clothing, and shelter are free. You can build a house, you can hunt/grow food, and you can make your clothing from nature. When did being a slave for 40-80 hours a week begin to have anything to do with keeping a roof over your head? It's the new feudalism. Boxes come home from Iraq in record numbers, filled with the remains of children who died so people could build pipelines, McDonald's, and military bases in the Middle East. The TV is full of spinach ecoli, Brittney watch, and other flashing lights and shiny objects to keep you distracted from the real threats going on behind the scenes. The crime rate is up because people have no money and they use the news to make you so scared you'll want to vote for police on every corner and microchips in every arm.
Read, Write, Love, Sing, Scream, Dream, and Take Back What's Yours. There is only strength in numbers and fortunately that is all that we have. Don't buy anything you don't need, don't work a day at your job that you don't have to. Don't vote, don't pay taxes, don't pay back your loans, and don't let anyone you know enter the armed forces. Remind them that they need us more than we need them. Realize your full potential as a human, don't let them tie you into the same hell they tied your parents into. Turn on, tune in, and drop out.
My Life: The Soundtrack (by the Beatles)
Opening credits: Magical Mystery Tour
Waking up: Good Morning Good Morning
Average day: Fool on the Hill
First date: If I Fell
Falling in love: Got To Get You Into My Life
Love scene: Dig a Pony
Fight scene: Hard Day's Night
Breaking up: Helter Skelter
Getting back together: It's Only Love
Secret love: Norwegian Wood
Life's okay: Getting Better
Mental Breakdown: A Day in the Life
Driving: Hey Bulldog
Learning a lesson: Blackbird
Deep thought: Sexy Sadie
Flashback: Benefit of Mr. Kite
Partying: It's All Too Much
Regretting: Yesterday
Long night alone: Happiness is a Warm Gun
Death scene: Because
Closing credits: Baby, You're a Rich Man
Joe Vento is a racist, he'll never get another dollar from me. South Philly is better than Joe Vento and that's all the rest of the world ever sees from us: some dickhead on 9th and Passyunk complaining in terrible grammar and English about people not ordering in English. Fuck him in the ear.

My Interests

THE AMERICAN DREAM, FAT CITY REPRISE, the redistribution of wealth, world peace, knowledge, life, liberty, happiness, tripping, reading, surrealism, art, movies, God, humanity, morality, feral children, photosynthesis, all the abbreviations (FBI, NSA, CIA, LSD, DMT, THC), the secrets of the world, the mathematics behind the universe, the mathematics behind music, spirituality, the end of ignorance, the end of poverty, the end of plastic surgery, the end of television and mass communication, physics, anything on Al Bruno's plate, cooking, eating, looking for practical solutions for civilization, transcending existence, lucid dreaming, conspiracies, stock piling Soviet arms, training for the revolution, the Mayan calendar, zodiac signs, joy, pain, sunshine, rain, urban culture, Chuck Taylors, cigarettes, TIME!!!!!, Quantum mechanics, golden spirals, phi, pi, theta, sacred geometry, photography, finding the edge, Oak Island, skating the edge, habitual line stepping, hustling, stealing from corporations, and trying to get some sleep

I'd like to meet:

God, The Beatles, Jimi, Abbie Hoffman, MacArthur, Prince, FDR, Augustus, Alexander the Great, Sly Stone, Constantine, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Hunter S. Thompson, Dave Chapelle, Jay-Z, Edison, Einstein, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Patton, Steve Zissou, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Galileo, PYTHAGORUS, Heratio Alger, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Tessla, Ben Franklin, Jack Nicholson, PAUL REUBENS, Spike Lee, Thomas Paine

Music:

www.FatCityReprise.net Beatles, Prince, Stones, Jimi, Floyd, Miles, Coltrane, Sly, Curtis, Marvin, James Brown, Otis Redding, Temps, Jay-Z, Biggie, Wu Tang, Paul Simon, Dylan, Bowie, Peppers, Shins, Ben Folds, Jackson 5, Ray Charles, Little Stevie Wonder, Cream, Franz Ferdinand, Beck, the Doors, Marley, CSNY, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, Dispatch, Zeppelin, Kinks, Police, Nas, Sublime, Talib Kweli, Talking Heads, the Who, Weezer, The Roots, Joe Jackson, Mos Def, Black Star, Public Enemy, Jefferson Airplane, Jesus Christ Superstar, Little Shop of Horrors, ekoostik hookah...

Movies:

Fight Club, Fear and Loathing, Where the Buffalo Roam, Dinner With Andre, Buffalo 66, everything Woody Allen, After Hours, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Blow, Boyz in the Hood, Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, School Daze, That Thing You Do, When the Levees Broke, Godfather, GoodFellas, Raging Bull, Bronx Tale, Pappilon, Ferris Beuler, Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver, French Connection, Panic in Needle Park, Stripes, Trainspotting, Requiem, American Beauty, Down and Out, Teen Wolf, Clockwork Orange, Running Man, Major Liberty and Justice Lad, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Pulp Fiction, LIFE AQUATIC, Star Wars, Terminator 1 + 2, Ninja Turtles 1 and 2 but not 3, Hard Days Night, How the West Was One, Play Misty For Me, Rushmore, all the real cartoon Disney movies, 12 Monkeys, 28 Days Later, Strangelove and all the other Kubrick, all the Charlie Kaufman movies

Television:

Television is there to poison your mind...turn it off
We wanted to blast the world free of history.... picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a forgotten golf course. You'll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center, and dig clams next to the skeleton of the Space Needle leaning at a forty-five degree angle. We'll paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night. "Imagine," Tyler said, "stalking elk past department store windows and stinking racks of beautiful rotting dresses and tuxedos on hangers; you'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life, and you'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. Jack and the beanstalk, you'll climb up through the dripping forest canopy and the air will be so clean you'll see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison to dry in the empty car pool lane of an abandoned superhighway stretching eight-lanes-wide and August-hot for a thousand miles." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 16

Books:

Hunter S. Thompson, Animal Farm, Steal This Book, Mice and Men, Pinscer Martin, Freud, Politics of Ecstacy, Inherit the Wind, Huck Finn, Through the Looking Glass, 1984, Brave New World, VONNEGUT (read Player Piano), Inherit the Wind, Mice and Men, Far 451, Updike, Thoreau, Welles...reading is your friend

Heroes:

Pop Pop Alfie, Dad, Mom, Mike Lowe, Big Frank, Young Hov, Heratio Alger, Hunter, Al Bruno, Galileo, Michelangelo, Hero, Spike Lee, Pythagoras, the Beatles, Jimi, Dave Chapelle, The Roots, Big Sammy, Steve Sweney, Abbie Hoffman

The discovery of the relationship of geometry and mathematics to music is attributed to Pythagoras, who found that a string stopped halfway along its length produced an octave, while a ratio of 3/2 produced a fifth interval and 4/3 produced a fourth. Pythagorians believed that this gave music powers of healing, as it could "harmonize" the out-of-balance body.

My Blog

There’s a Field of Daisies in the Alps (fiction)

"BRAAAAAAAAAANG!!!!!!!!" The steel nail of the alarm clock was once more driven through the temple of Bethany Pilgrim. It was after all time for her to begin her morning rituals or she would be late f...
Posted by Dick Nolte on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:40:00 PST

Whats in a Name? (fiction)

A gangly fourteen year old boy with buck teeth, Coke bottle glasses, and a bit of a gut is a bad enough recipe for confidence to begin with. Add in some good in school geekiness and...
Posted by Dick Nolte on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:31:00 PST

Saving the World: A How To Guide (fiction)

The world was on the brink of strange happenings the day Barry Levinowitz saved the whole thing. The problems of both the large and small worlds had finally become so much that Barry's entire mind was...
Posted by Dick Nolte on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:30:00 PST

Megan Little (fiction)

It was early in the evening. Early enough that the sun was still out but late enough to be tardy for an evening event. It had been hot all day. The kind of heat that makes you want to peel off your sk...
Posted by Dick Nolte on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:29:00 PST