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Judd

...the rank saliva of my soul...

About Me

I used to write a column for "The Idiot Magazine," then I had a blog called Filth. Then Rudius Media picked up my blog and decided to publish my new novel, I of the Fish , which you can read at iofthefish.com or juddtrichter.com .

If you want to contact me over myspace, go ahead. If you want to know about me, here's what I can tell you: I'm kind of a loner, though I do have a lot of friends. Good friends too. The kind that will lend you money and then refuse to accept it when you try to pay them back. So instead they just make you feel guilty all the time for having lent you money. They can keep their fucking money.

I like to read in cafes during hours when most people don't eat. It's not that I don't like people, I just don't like when there's a lot of them in one place. And I don't like watching them eat. I like cities. Especially New York, where I grew up. London and LA. I like it when it rains. Thunder and lightning. Earthquakes too. I'm not materialistic, and I tend to get annoyed with people who are. I'm not a dabbler, and I seldom respect people who are. I should probably be more open minded about things like that, but I'm not. I have a habit of putting my foot in mouth after a few drinks. Then I feel guilty about it, so I have a few more drinks to help me get over the guilt. Then I throw up. It's become a pattern. My mother thinks I should get help, but whenever she sends money for therapy, I use it to buy more drinks. I think she's becoming an enabler. Maybe SHE should get help.

My Interests

juddtrichter.com

i keep having the naked dream and the one where my teeth fall out. And another one where there is a fat woman lodged in my living room wall.

I'd like to meet:

"She seemed like one whom magic had changed into the likeness of a strange and beautiful seabird." -- I'd like to meet whoever it is James Joyce wrote that sentence about. Or a woman roughly my age with really great tits.

Music:

Howlin' Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, Elisabeth Cotten, Bessie Smith, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Radiohead, Grateful Dead, Air, Zero 7, Rolling Stones, Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jim Bianco, RICHARD SWIFT, Tom Waits, Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, POGUES, Pixies, Nirvana, White Stripes, Portishead, Sparklehorse, Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Jungle Brothers, Das EFX, Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Sex Pistols,VELVET UNDERGROUND, Philip Glass, Wagner, Schubert, Stooges, Sinead O'Connor, Janis Joplin, PJ Harvey, Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Moby, Beck, Black 47, Karen Dalton

Movies:

Kubrick, Malick, Scorcese, Coppola, JARMUSCH, Bergman, Woody, Spike, Fellini, Antonioni, Mike Leigh, Aronofsky, Jeunet, Kieslowski, Polanski, Leone, Tarantino, Peckinpah, Michael Mann, Payne, Errol Morris, Altman

Television:

Frontline, Friday Night Fights, Charlie Rose, THE WIRE, Ali G, Curb, the View, Good Times, and What's Happening -- Hey, hey, hey!

Books:

I'm a total bookworm. The list is way too long but here are some of my fav's: Homer, Vergil, KAFKA, Faulkner, Orwell, TS Eliot, NOT JUAN REMARQO, Don Delillo, PHILIP ROTH, Salinger, James Joyce, Dostoyevsky, Paul Auster, Russel Banks, Cormac McCarthy, Shakespeare, Kundera, Saramago, Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Karl Marx, Henri Bergson, Conrad, HERMAN MELVILLE, Kant, Slavoj Zizek, Tolstoy, whoever wrote The Bible, whoever wrote The Bhagavad Gita... I read the New Yorker religiously. New York Times online. I just read and read and read.

Heroes:

Robert Johnson, Stanley Kubrick, Ralph Nader. Dr. Kevorkian, ODB, Eli Wallach, Charlie Parker, Lenny Bruce, and my brother, Ironman Jon.