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Bad Times Brandon

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About Me

What I Believe

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Portland Surrealist Group

You are The Tower

Ambition, fighting, war, courage. Destruction, danger, fall, ruin.

The Tower represents war, destruction, but also spiritual renewal. Plans are disrupted. Your views and ideas will change as a result.

The Tower is a card about war, a war between the structures of lies and the lightning flash of truth. The Tower stands for "false concepts and institutions that we take for real." You have been shaken up; blinded by a shocking revelation. It sometimes takes that to see a truth that one refuses to see. Or to bring down beliefs that are so well constructed. What's most important to remember is that the tearing down of this structure, however painful, makes room for something new to be built.

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My Interests

surrealism, anarchism, communism, reading, writing, ruins, found objects, invisibility, shape-shifting, monsters, Sasquatch, mad love, poetry, convulsive beauty, noise, emotions, freedom, radical politics, graffiti, sacrilege, the ocean, mastodons, mythology, secret histories, psychoanalysis, dreams, chance events, local legends, vodou, rock n' roll, rough-housing, excess

Music:

The Monks, The Screamers, The Weirdos, The Germs, The Wipers, The Stooges, The Slits, The Gits, Flipper, Bad Brains, Reagan Youth, Ciccone Youth, Sonic Youth, Get Hustle, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Jane's Addiction, Babes in Toyland, Seven Year Bitch, Crass, Black Flag, Captain Beefheart, Slick Rick, Public Enemy, Eric B. and Rakim, Blind Willie McTell, Son House

Movies:

The Mummy (1932); The Invisible Man (1933); Mad Love (1935); Vertigo (1958); Orfeu Negro (1959); The Last Man on Earth (1964); That Obscure Object of Desire (1977); Brazil (1985); Lost Highway (1997); Mulholland Drive (2001)

Television:

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” -Groucho Marx

Books:

André Breton – Manifestoes of Surrealism; Raoul Vaneigem - The Revolution of Everyday Life; Herbert Marcuse – Eros and Civilization; Max Stirner – The Ego and Its Own; Franklin Rosemont - An Open Entrance to the Shut Palace of Wrong Numbers; Comte de Lautréamont - Les Chants de Maldoror; Richard Brautigan - In Watermelon Sugar; Georges Bataille - Story of the Eye; Joyce Mansour – Screams;

Heroes:

Kevin Sampsell, Hal Sirowitz

My Blog

Some Recent Pictures

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Posted by Bad Times Brandon on Tue, 06 May 2008 12:12:00 PST

Songs I’m Listening To While Sick As Fuck

Beershit/Disco Loner - Black Randy and the Metrosquad (Pass the Dust, I Think I'm Bowie)Niggers Are Scared Of Revolution - The Last Poets (The Last Poets)Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters (So...
Posted by Bad Times Brandon on Tue, 06 May 2008 11:42:00 PST

Order By Noise

Quotes from Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Attali (trans. Brain Massumi, University of Minnesota)."A network can be destroyed by noises that attack and transform it, if the codes in ...
Posted by Bad Times Brandon on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:34:00 PST

A Selection of Recent Photographs

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Posted by Bad Times Brandon on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:15:00 PST

Open, O’ Simsim

Back-dated to November of 2005, I've placed all the old usual bullshit here:blogBut really still a work in progression.Whatever....
Posted by Bad Times Brandon on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:51:00 PST

Portland Surrealist Group Dissolves

PORTLAND SURREALIST GROUP DISSOLVESBy MK Shibek:The Portland Surrealist Group, founded in August 2001, dissolved on January 14th, 2008. Due to various internal situations we were unable to maintain a ...
Posted by Bad Times Brandon on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:22:00 PST

Flying Fish Dream

The dream started at an old theatre house in Milwaukie called Southgate, which had been demolished. In the dream all the movie screens had been moved to a single-level building next door. Although my ...
Posted by Bad Times Brandon on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:51:00 PST

My Ugly Bike

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Posted by Bad Times Brandon on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:53:00 PST

Children of the Revolution

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New Year’s Eve

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Posted by Bad Times Brandon on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:06:00 PST