Monkeybird - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Mission Statement:
1). Disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed
2). Re-enchant the world
3). DESTROY YOU

The monkeybird is a gregarious beast that inhabits Detroit's urban jungle. It frolics gladly in its concrete habitat and delights in swinging from streetlights. According to primate specialists, the monkeybird subsists on a steady liquid diet. This regiment consists primarily of jack daniels, long island ice teas and, from time to time, is supplemented by cheap well vodka obtained from local watering holes.Now, local legend says that, IF you are able to catch one, the monkeybird will grant you three wishes! (yet, actually it'll just buy you a PBR)

My Interests

Simian alter-egos, higher learning, urban anonymity.

I'd like to meet:

Blek le Rat: The original stencil graffiti artist.

The Graffiti movement has no other intention than to speak via pictures. Words for the community, words of love, words of hatred, of life and death. Itâ€™s just a fine and subtle kind of therapy and an attempt to fill the emptiness of this terrible world. - Blek le Rat

Music:

Movies:

"The Fountain" by the incomparable Darren Aronofsky. A meditation on death and rebirth told in three different time settings. Mayan philosophy and a modern love story. Simply brilliant and visually mesmerizing.

The Fountain (2006)

"Jisatsu Sakuru" (Suicide Club) by Sion Sono. The most haunting movie I have ever seen. Begins with 54 Japanese school girls jumping in front of a subway train. Philosophical basis. Unforgettable imagery. 'Are you connected to yourself?'

Suicide Club (2002)

Television:

I watch the Cartoon Network 24/7. Current favorites: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Metalacolypse, Samurai Champloo and Death Note.

Death Note

Books:

The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Patchen, The Tin Drum by Grass, The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Wilde, London Fields by Martin Amis, The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, A Season in Hell by Rimbaud, Junky by Burroughs, Waiting for Godot by Beckett, Dharma Bums by Kerouac, No Exit by Sartre, The Zoo Story by Albee, The Shape of Things by LaBute, Eqqus by Peter Shaffer, Marisol by Jose Rivera, Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut and anything by Kafka. I could go on but I'll spare you.

Heroes:

Banksy, Arthur Rimbaud, Mick Collins, Nick Drake Damon Albarn, Pete Fowler, Tallulah Bankhead, Hanan Ashrawi, Neal Cassady, Frank Sinatra, Lupin III, Gregory Corso, Blek le Rat, Gruff Rhys, Khalil Gibran, Mikail Bankunin, Franz Fanon, Charles Bukowski, Beau Sia......

Mick Collins

My Blog

The Closest Thing to Happiness

Just an update of recent happenings: I have been accepted to the graduate program at Wayne State University. Come Fall, I will be working on my Master of Social Work degree. After having fattened myse...
Posted by Monkeybird on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:10:00 PST

In The Name of Love

"This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind. This o...
Posted by Monkeybird on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:54:00 PST

A Tear and A Smile

The god separated a spirit from Himself and fashioned it into Beauty. He showered upon her all the blessings of gracefulness and kindness. He gave her the cup of happiness and said, "Drink not from th...
Posted by Monkeybird on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:40:00 PST

Sebastian was put to rest on my birthday, Sunday December 16th

Sebastian is gone. It has taken me a few days to post this because when I look at the blank page, I can not fathom what it is I should say. I was there for him the entire time as he pas...
Posted by Monkeybird on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:48:00 PST

Sebastian is very ill

Sebastian, my baby hedgehog, is very ill and may be dying. He was healthy and very active up until yesterday morning, when I found him dragging himself around his cage and struggling to walk with only...
Posted by Monkeybird on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:34:00 PST

Cest lEnnui...

"He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered a...
Posted by Monkeybird on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:07:00 PST

Momento Mori

My thoughts crawl on papered wingslike flies dying on the wrong side of the screenSmall deaths, large deathsI could loose myself in deathI could sail on a wish into that black spacebeing hur...
Posted by Monkeybird on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:57:00 PST

A Poem from my Beloved

Jim wrote me this fucking hilarious poem about how my farts make him want to die. This is true love, people. Enjoy! Each time I see that grimace, I know what is in store.My dearest be...
Posted by Monkeybird on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:48:00 PST

Three Passions

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco Thre...
Posted by Monkeybird on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:31:00 PST

Condolesco Poena, Indolesco Odyne

Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, "forget it," or "it will pass," or "it could be worse" -- all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary: ...
Posted by Monkeybird on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:13:00 PST