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cullen

1 is the lonliest number...luckly i have the voices to keep me company

About Me

just your run of the mill illustrator/graphic designer, spoken word poet, insomniac bohemian. I do custom illustration, desktop publishing & graphic design. competitive prices, professional results. all kinds of promotional & presentation materials, print advertising, logo & identity packages, handbills, clubcards, flyers, posters, limited run hand printed posters, t-shirts, color separations for silkscreening(flatstock&textile) spot color, 10-12spot color simulated process, 4-color process, web concept, web ready graphics & design, photo re-touching and repair, budget-minded custom framing & original "fine" art. Also avalible for spoken word performances, workshops & commissioned poetry. I am truley the starving artist...don't belive i won't do it...barmitsvas, birthday parties, bachlorette parties...................if it pays, i just may.........................................
you can check out some of my work as a spoken word artist here MUTINOUS
and here Poetic Justice League 4 America
and here Poetic Justice League 4 America.com
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My Interests

art, poetry, the spoken word, freshwater aquariums, live music, philosophy, slap pop bass lines, hip hop, be bop, garbage horror/science fiction(novels and movies), bonsai, mountainbiking, the opposite sex, the chicago cubs, bedhead, graphic novels, and complex physics concepts I barely understand.

check out my graphic artwork@ cbdigitaldesign.com
or cb digital design on myspace

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

like what i like, i call it good....rag time to hip hop i esspecially love the american originals.

Movies:

I fuckin LUV Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

the shining, godfather, leaving las vegas, pulp fiction, dusk till dawn, sin city, apocolypse now, the day after, freaks, any thing w/ lon chaney sr, one flew over the cookoo's nest, resivoir dogs, a fist full of dollars, a few dollars more, tremors, the serpent&the rainbow, a bronx tale, crush groove, slam nation, reanimator, saw, the shootist, all hitchcock, the twighlight zone, carlitos way, the life aquatic, gravesend, the hitcher, maximum overdrive, alien, aliens, 12 monkeys, baron von munchousin, time bandits, goonies, back to the future, bladerunner, crouching tiger, house of the flying daggers, hero, the legend of sleepy hollow, suicide kings, lord of the rings trilogy, star wars, ect, ect, ect "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" 1920

Television:

is the enemy......smash it before it crushes you.
laugh clown laugh Lon Chaney 1928

Books:

history, beat poets, old college socialogy/ political science textbooks, garbage fiction:stephen king, koontz, clancey, ect, ect, just about anything anyone intelligent or interesting recommends.
I think the following should be required reading for all Thomas Paine "Age of Reason"
Thomas Paine "The Crisis"
Ben Franklin "The rules for making oneself a disagreeable companion"
U.S. Constitution
The U.S. Bill of Rights
The basic philosophy of Confucius
"The Rubaiyat" Omar Khayyam

Heroes:

an over used adjective in our society, but if i had to pick: ben franklin and my grandfather.
Tales from the Darkside-my absolute favorite show when i was a kid, this episode scared the shit out of me
Arrested Development "Mr. Wendel"
"Escape Artist" Sage Francis
"Classic" Primo,KRS,Rakim,Nas,Kanye
Yo MTV Raps final freestyle session
tom & jerry "is you is, or is you ain't my baby
Get this Seinpost
Bill Hicks "Waffle Waitress"
Bill Hicks - Waffle Waitress

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Aesop Rock "Abandon All Hope"
EL-P "Smithereens"
Jeru the Damaja " Ya Playin' Ya'self"
"Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers" Chubb Rock, Jeru, O.C.
The Pharcyde "Passin' Me By"
Sublime w/ Pharcyde "Summertime"
Sublime "Wrong Way"
RHCP "Sir Psycho Sexy" Live Woodstock '99
KRS ONE & Marly Marl "Hip Hop Lives"
Stop the Violence Movement "Self Destruction"
Public Enemy "He Got Game"
Public Enemy/Big Daddy Kane/Ice Cube "Burn Hollywood Burn"
MF Doom/MadLib as Madvillian "All Caps"
Gorillaz w/ MF DOOM "November has Come"LIVE
Jedi Mind Tricks w/ GZA "On the Eve of War"
G Love "Hot Cookin'"
De La Soul "All Good"

My Blog

Another of my favorite films Lon Chaney "The Unkown"

Another horror classic from silent era "super team" Todd Browning and Lon Chaney. I always knew this movie as "The Amazing Alonzo the Armless" a rose by any other name is still a great movie...perhap...
Posted by cullen on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:54:00 PST

Now heres a Classic Film

"5 minutes to Live" 1961 Starring Johnny Cash as a murderous bank robber, involved in a convoluted robbery plot...with an unexpected little twist. ...
Posted by cullen on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:52:00 PST

Congress passes Freedom From Information Act

Congress Passes Freedom From Information ActWASHINGTON, DC&151;Calling the unregulated flow of information "the single greatest threat to the emotional comfort and well-being of the American people," ...
Posted by cullen on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:13:00 PST

tagged[for Vickie] 10 things

don't usually go in for these sorts of things, but for Vickie here we goOnce you have been tagged, you must write a blog with ten, weird, random things, little known facts, or habits about yourself. A...
Posted by cullen on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:34:00 PST

a movie thing

i thought this was a pretty cool little graphic thingy .....
Posted by cullen on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:46:00 PST

The Mighty Boosh (twisted funny stuff)

For all you fans of slap pop bass, funk jazz fusion, Russian Dancing Bears, and green hitchhiking Vodoo forest slashers......the Mighty Boosh the Hitcher episode ...
Posted by cullen on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:18:00 PST

Report: U.S. May Have Been Abused During Formative Years

Report: U.S. May Have Been Abused During Formative YearsWASHINGTON, DC..}WASHINGTON, DCA team of leading historians and psychiatrists issued a report Wednesday claiming that the United States was lik...
Posted by cullen on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:25:00 PST

Jung - Myers-Briggs typological personality test

I don't ussally put much stock in these kind of things but.....I was recently intriguided by a friends results on one of these types of personality tests which seemed to match her character quite well...
Posted by cullen on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:47:00 PST

Billie Holiday: "Strange Fruit" video

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Posted by cullen on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:02:00 PST

Hot Club of France feat Django R. & Stephan G.

A short Introduction into Gypsy Jazz..>...
Posted by cullen on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:41:00 PST