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The Sycophant

with this bass I thee shake

About Me

" The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. " -- Christopher Morley

Man for all seasons, jack of all trades, poet, jester, philosopher, geek, hedonist.

Silly, sultry, sappy, sensual.

Wondrous, wild, wise, whimsical.

Intensity is my byword, passion my philosophy. I quote Shakespeare, KMFDM, Emily Dickinson, Einstein, and Dave Mustaine. I like to compose music, which I do so using a workstation consisting of furniture I customized, a computer for which I handpicked the components, various and sundry bits of outboard equipment, and a multitude of cables.

I sing like a bird. Out for karaoke, my leg twitches involuntarily during an Elvis or Stray Cats number. I'm not so full of myself that I won't do a Fiona Apple or Carly Simon tune. Sometimes I overload the house sound system on "Start Again"during White Wedding.

My hairstyle changes like the wind. I read, write, rinse, repeat. I often have trouble maintaining proper decorum. I own a nice black suit and Italian silk suspenders as well as a spiked collar and latex pants. I 'm into home decorating. I'd like to travel the world with good friends, a camera, and not much else.

Technology excites me. I can take apart a computer (and put it back together again), wire a home theatre, and install a home network. I understand color wheels. I know that black, grey, and white aren't colors. I've done independent studies in relativistic physics involving nasty equations. I laugh so hard at live standup that I wonder if I'm going to hurt myself.

I like films with subtitles. Sometimes I tear up at the sad parts. I have a virtual library of fantasy and sci-fi novels, and a number of other books besides.

I talk about my feelings. I think sex is an art. Love is my default emotion.

MySpace Pet Peeves:

    Angst & eyeliner cocktails chased with cliche phantasmagoria. Popular nonconformity. A band's perceived inalienable right to send anyone a friend request, regardless of taste, style, or originality. Auditory assault upon entrance to a MySpace. Lack of aesthetic sense and style approaching critical mass in a MySpace. ( id est I can't read your freakin' page.) more to come...

Quiz Silliness:

Which Random Cult Movie Character are you?

I am Harold, from "Harold and Maude." I'm a sensitive, but... weird... soul.
Which Animal Spirit Totem Are You?

Your soul is bound to the Seventh Totem, Pandora: The Spider .

Pandora appears as an amethyst spider. She embodies creativity, imagination, craft, and virtuosity . She is associated with the color amethyst, the season of autumn, and the element of wind. Her downfall is daydreaming.

You are most compatible with Tortoises and Cockroaches. [Ooh -- I've got great options!]

My Interests

music composition, performance, and production; singing (karaoke anyone?); technology; films and movies (yes, there IS a difference); debate for its own sake; fantasy/sci-fi/horror (examples: Moorcock/Norton/Lovecraft); history; anthropology; ichthyology; conviction; tangents; assertiveness; purple; British humor; relativistic physics; honesty; misery with company; live comedy; romance; theatre; latex (PVC not enamel); mimes; and dystopian fiction, though definitely not in that order

Strong Bad!

I'd like to meet:

Intelligent, articulate, creative folks who are laid back and grewvy.

Music:

Check out Terminus esT , my nom de musique. Encourage me to actually finish something!

Other musical interests include, but are not limited to:

    KMFDM :wumpscut: Evil's Toy Assemblage 23 Icon of Coil Lords of Acid old school punk, funk, and swing

[That's a pretty lame list -- I'll come back and finish it one day (I promise).]

Movies:

The short list of favorites:

    Run Lola Run Blade Runner Angel Heart Brotherhood of the Wolf Moulin Rouge Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels Night of the Living Dead The Princess Bride The Road Warrior Tank Girl Vanilla Sky The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Conan the Barbarian A Clockwork Orange Deceiver Four Rooms anything else with Tim Roth Raiders of the Lost Ark spaghetti westerns! Monty Python anything involving Franka Potente, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and/or Jackie Chan James Bond
You should see the long list!

Television:

TV? Hate it mostly. If I watch TV, it's usually CNN, Comedy Central (standup), or TLC (Clean Sweep, What not to Wear, Trading Spaces, etc).

Heroes:

My heroes have always been cowboys, but I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow.. *ack* *gag* Sorry, had a hairball. Ok, all cliches aside, we don't need heroes -- we need to believe in ourselves. I'll give a list of folks whose works I admire, in no particular order:

    Sascha Konietzko Rudy Ratzinger Eddie Izzard Albert Einstein Charles Darwin Fritz Leiber H P Lovecraft Martin Fowler Kent Beck
And last but not least: Spiderman! That's who I wanna be when I grow up!

My Blog

There comes a time...

When our eyes yearn to see.When our hearts tire of iniquity.When misery merits comfort no longer.When we realise sanctity,Relinquishing our woes    to the solace of caring arms....
Posted by The Sycophant on Sat, 12 May 2007 09:07:00 PST

a quickie

[quickie written in two minutes for a thread on Consumating (check it out)]i trip over these syllablesfat fingers fumblinga feeble attempt at a well-formed thoughtforfeit to immediacyhit "Say it"...
Posted by The Sycophant on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:52:00 PST

If

this most definitely is not a poem -- sorry to disappoint.  it's a few things I've got to try to keep in mind so as not to make the same mistakes, a mantra, if you will.If she has compassion, she...
Posted by The Sycophant on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:50:00 PST

Lost remix winners finally announced

Well, Lost remix winners announced and not even an honorable mention for yours truly.  (And not to be catty, but...) After hearing the ones that *were* chosen, I'm not sure it really bothers me.&...
Posted by The Sycophant on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:41:00 PST

Check out my remix (it's finished, more or less)

Well, my remix of Elyzium's track Lost has been put out there.  Finishing things is scary for me, but I drew a line on this one.  (They've got a contest running and the deadline is today.)&n...
Posted by The Sycophant on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:41:00 PST

a poem: Blissfully Wandering

[not sure I'm entirely happy with this yet] in the lazy lustrous late spring sun a well-blazed trail was stumbled along by well-shod feet in well-worn boots frivolous followers in their wake wantonl...
Posted by The Sycophant on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

"Someone special..." has left the building (RIP Kerry Ann Small (Arcaro))

I just lost someone very close to me.  Kerry, the girl who I wrote my "For someone special..." blog/poem, passed away unexpectedly early Monday morning (03/20).  Unfortunately, she wasn't he...
Posted by The Sycophant on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:02:00 PST

For someone special...

Email "Write me an email", she said, "Something I can read again and again. Something I can read when I think of you." So I sit, fingers to keys To turn a phrase, Elicit reaction In ten point Courie...
Posted by The Sycophant on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:01:00 PST

The end of innocence?

Perhaps it would be better if I walled myself in, erected an edifice to contain my heart, joined the ranks of the stone-faced, the emotional zombies who stagger and scratch across the face of the worl...
Posted by The Sycophant on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The one that broke my heart...

A poem a wrote recently for someone who doesn't make any sense. A little piece of me died and my soul became a little darker: Fragile She stepped into the twilit depths, Aglimmer with sensuous...
Posted by The Sycophant on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST