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striggy

About Me

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication." --Friedrich Nietzsche
You Are a Boston Creme Donut
You have a tough exterior. No one wants to mess with you. But on the inside, you're a total pushover and completely soft. You're a traditionalist, and you don't change easily. You're likely to eat the same doughnut every morning, and pout if it's sold out. What Donut Are You?
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My Interests

dancing, books, reading, stencil grafitti, metal sculpture, fire sculpture, pan dulce, tofu, trepanation, desert parties, birthday parties, music, art punk, idm, fire spinning, burning man, women welders, gypsies, funk, funny cars, mexico, memphis, austin, los angeles, new york. foreign: foods, film, languages.

Music:

noise, idm, artpunk, post-punk, house, blues, soul.. err.. anything with heart. autechre, my bloody valentine, matthew herbert, boards of canada, the books, cat power, calexico, dntel, death in vegas, luke vibert, ceephax, boom bip, bogdan raczynski, amps for christ, lovage, holly golightly, hitler's bikini, the moldy peaches, the stitches, the germs, the smiths, joy division, television, wire, roxy music, birthday party, jandek, coil, nurse with wound, legendary pink dots, tom waits, devendra banhart, otis redding, bob dylan, songs:ohia, james brown, caribou, gogol bordello, robert johnson, modern lovers, velvet underground, rufus wainwright, soft pink truth, johnny thunders, richard hell, serge gainsbourg....

Books:

jerzy kozinski, carson mccullers, tom robbins, dave eggers, howard zinn, david foster wallace, henry miller, oscar wilde, charles bukowski, john fante, harukai murakami, robert anton wilson, raymond carver, william gibson, warren ellis, emma goldman, frank herbert, kurt vonnegut, bruce sterling, pretty children's books.

My Blog

the search

while searching for tutorials on how to sculpt with plaster i came across the death mask of nietzsche:and while we're on the subject of dreams, here's one i had the other night:i dreamed that jeff's f...
Posted by striggy on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:45:00 PST

washing the hog

i love free will astrology.for those who hate the generalized banality of most newspaper and online horoscopes, rob brezny's weekly predictions are more like creative anecdotes that are metaphorically...
Posted by striggy on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:36:00 PST

texas mountain laurel fan club

i decided to look up the pretty, fragrant tree that's growing next to our front door.some quotes, from Wikipedia on the texas mountain laurel (aka "texas mescalbean"):"also known as the Frijolito""it ...
Posted by striggy on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:28:00 PST

synchronicity

this made my day. thanks, denis... width="425" height="350">..>...
Posted by striggy on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:41:00 PST

I am four sheets to the wind.

I will now sail away to Blackout Island.more bar signs from Modern Drunkard...
Posted by striggy on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:05:00 PST

freeway kids

A few people have asked me about the mural picture of me as a kid on the side of the hollywood freeway.As far as I know, the mural "Freeway Kids" was commissioned in 1984 by the city of Los Angeles to...
Posted by striggy on Sun, 21 May 2006 07:04:00 PST

Meshes of the Afternoon

Many thanks to Warren Ellis for this introduction to the hugely important experimental film by the fascinating Maya Deren.b/w, silent. approx 15 minutes. 1943...>...
Posted by striggy on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:14:00 PST

it never ends.

i technically 'finished' my sculpture for art outside last tuesday. alone, exhausted, dirty, and slightly drunk, i tightened the last bolt on the propellor at approximately 11:30pm. it had been a long...
Posted by striggy on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:42:00 PST

sang-froid

this new sculpture is becoming very important to me. it started off as something entirely else. something off the top of my head that i thought would look neat, but really hadn't put any thought or c...
Posted by striggy on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:40:00 PST

origins

It was first called "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula", by the Spanish missionary Padre Juan Crespi in 1769 or, in English: "The Village of Our Lady the Queen...
Posted by striggy on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 03:36:00 PST