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About Me

Thin and crooked.

My Interests

Music, film, art, trains, bulls, personal activism and becoming fluent in Spanish.

I'd like to meet:

Straight and narrow.

Music:

Vincent Gallo, Tom Waits, Bjork, early REM, early B52's, Psychedelic Furs, early Cure, Suicide, Mike Watt, Nick Drake, Michel Polnareff, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, and most pre 1970's country/bluegrass/field hollars/prison music, etc., Jimmy Webb, 40's and 50's era orchestrated Mexican boleros, Belle and Sebastian, Stephin Merritt, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copeland, Dvorak, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Miles Davis (especially with Gil Evans), Thelonius Monk, Bill Evans, Chet Baker, vintage exotica, Korla Pandit, Lee Hazlewood, the Lady Bird Special, The Bacon Fat...maybe Bull and Train...

Movies:

The Graduate, Five Easy Pieces, Arizona Dream, Que Viva Mexico, David Byrne's True Stories, anything by Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, the Cohen Brothers, Fellini, Pedro Almodovar, Robert Rodriguez, Jim Jarmusch, Christopher Guest, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Ingmar Bergman, Vincent Gallo, Naked Lunch, Quadrophenia, Joe Vs. The Volcano, The Warriors, Fast Times of course, The Repo Man, Let's Get Lost, Straight No Chaser, and then some.......

Books:

Bukowski, Henry Miller, Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, David Sedaris, The Infinite Variety Of Music, Songwriters On Songwriting, biographies about musicians/songwriters/composers....

My Blog

Thanksgiving

Isn't it nice what a shot in the eyes can do for you...not in the god damn arm son...in through the eyes and straight to the heart, like a ballon and a bull fighting for space in a once closed off pla...
Posted by El Juan on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:05:00 PST

Man That Girl Can Walk

Here in the land of travelers (I guess) where accents fly through the night, past the lights in the trees, little mall lights, and no mall, just trees....this is a rich man's paradise, and a poor one'...
Posted by El Juan on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:27:00 PST

The Cove

I must be holding this guy's fear for him because he doesn't seem to have any....I on the other hand am eating for two....his hair is white like the monsters that crash in front of him....his seal ski...
Posted by El Juan on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 03:38:00 PST

Prozac Winter (2 of 2)

In my little rainy house, umbrella roof, water for walls, waterfalls, for days while she stays warm in bed, without her words, on a dirt matress, cleaned by the miles between, that keep the weight of ...
Posted by El Juan on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:19:00 PST

Echinacea Please, at the First Sign of Illness (1 of 2)

You really shouldn't lie to me......I'm much too gullible......I want too badly to believe.....and who wouldn't.....this would be the best lie yet....only I'm getting this old familiar flu in my stoma...
Posted by El Juan on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:44:00 PST

Birth Control

Humans are inhabiting my morning with their bikes and little suits, advertising their lives, intruding on my birds and my bees while my trees give me scent, like licorice and boats, and here they come...
Posted by El Juan on Mon, 05 Sep 2005 09:50:00 PST

Go, Fucking Go!!!

A rush to the viewpoint past jaguars and house slides through the canyons of rock and brush as they quietly wait for their next fire, just like me, and just like me they wonder what sense it makes to ...
Posted by El Juan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Most Perfect Day I've Ever Seen

The most perfect day I've ever seen, better than any painting or picture on a pen...ok, so the next day...fucking work...so it was the most beautiful day ever. Floating on glass looking down to the bo...
Posted by El Juan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Human Lava

I believe it was good old Patrick that said she's like the wind, and I guess it's true now that we're hanging bottles in the trees, like little alarms, like foil, like glass, like a broken lightbulb, ...
Posted by El Juan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Snakes Bite

A lot of gain with a lot of loss, contracting, the rubberband is about to snap me again and the sea looks distressed by this and it's blowing and spitting and the people on the cliffs have put out san...
Posted by El Juan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST