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About Me



My World Visitor Map! Click here to zoom-in & make your own!a img{}a:hover img{}body{scrollbar-arrow-color:000000;scrollbar-Track-Color :cccccc;scrollbar-Highlight-Color:000000;scrollbar-base-colo r:000000;scrollbar-Face-Color:cccccc;scrollbar-Shadow-Color: 000000;scrollbar-DarkShadow-Color:000000 I have fasted twice, comprising a total of 17 days in which I lived on distilled water. My parents bought me a copy of "Appetite For Destruction" when I was in the 3rd grade. There are days when I think that I am the one-eyed man in the valley of the blind (which happens to be Elko). Other days I feel like Crane's man with the tongue of wood.

My Interests

Music, Poetry, Books, Kalimotxo, Horseshoes, Movies, Barbecue, Girls, Fun - what else is there? ..

I'd like to meet:

Everyone I listed in my favorite music category; Sri Ramakrishna; Thomas Merton; Fareed Zakaria; Scarlett Johanson; Christina Ricci; Rumi; Camille Paglia; Chris Hedges; Edna St. Vincent Millay and Sylvia Plath (simultaneously); Leonardo DaVinci; You; Jon Stewart; Edward Said; Howard Zinn; The four people I want to meet in heaven would be Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and Walt Whitman for endless nights of spontaneous bop prosody and wine-cup antics.

Music:

Everyone says this, but I am into all kinds of music. Right now I seem to be stuck on MF DOOM and other undie rappers. However, if you really want to know how I would rank them, here they are:In order of importance in my life and in the development of my musical sensibilities (as of 10/05): Metallica - Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, ..And Justice For All; Iron Maiden - Killers and S/T; Black Sabbath - Paranoid and We Sold our Soul;AC/DC - Live, Highway to Hell, Back in Black, and Dirty Deeds; Led Zeppelin - 1 and 4; G and F'n R!Bad Religion - Suffer; Minor Threat - Complete Discography; Slayer - Reign in Blood; Radiohead - OK Computer; Elliott Smith - everything; Pink Floyd - Dark Side and Wish you Were Here; MxPx - Life In General and Teenage Politics; Blink 182 - Cheshire Cat and Dude Ranch; Zeke - Death Alley, Til the Living End, Dirty Sanchez, Flat Tracker, Super Sound Racing; Tom Waits; Extreme - Pornograffiti; Cream; Hendrix; Annie - Anniemal; Prefuse 73 - everything; Bizet - Carmen; MF DOOM; THE EXPLODING HEARTS; The Shins; Wolf Parade; Of Montreal; Kanye West has taken me by surprise; At the Gates. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - especially Tigermilk Muthaphucking Titannica. Django Reinhardt rules. And of course, the world's greatest Slash Metal band, Slasher...

Movies:

Amadeus, Eternal Sunshine, Sideways, Napoleon Dynamite, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (and everything else by Wes Anderson), The Big Lebowski. Me and You and Everyone We Know, Match Point. The Seventh Seal. Blade Runner.

Television:

The Daily Show. Deadwood. PBS.

Books:

J.D. Salinger - 9 Stories, Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. J.M. Coetzee - Elizabeth Costello and Disgrace. Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves. Everything by James Joyce and Franz Kafka . Camus, Kerouac, William Blake. Walt Whitman. The comedies and trageidies of Shakespeare. Michael Parenti, William Blum, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky. Tolstoy - War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Illych.Camille Paglia - Sex, Art, and American Culture; Vamps and Tramps; Sexual Personae. If you are at all interested in the state of American Cities and the greater climate in which our civic life exists, read the book Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and The Decline of the American Dream. I can't recommend it enough, thanks Reuben. David Sedaris

Heroes:

Subcomandante Marcos - Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional ..

My Blog

Where's Willdo?

First of all, this is an apology to all of you who have been waiting for me to get back to you.  Most notably, this list includes Gessi, Messrs. Xiaoun (Shawn) Warner and Nick Tsu, my a...
Posted by Willhelm on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:02:00 PST

YouTube is the new Tascam Casette 4-Track

This past week I had the chance to revisit videos and recordings of bands that my friends and I played in at EHS. Most of it was embarassing, all of it was hilarious. Videos like these make me glad...
Posted by Willhelm on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 05:20:00 PST

DJ Shadow Was Wrong...

Hip Hop was great in '96. Check it... ..> ..> ..> ..>  ...
Posted by Willhelm on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 04:52:00 PST

EdgeHood, always up to no good

Yes yes y'all.  As you may or may not have read on Brian's blog, we got somewhere to live. 2800 Edgewood Dr., deep in the heart of the ghetto.  The house is set to be occupied by Myself, Mr....
Posted by Willhelm on Thu, 18 May 2006 12:54:00 PST

Houses and rooms are full of perfumes

I am placing this here for my own quick access and enjoyment.  It is my favorite piece of writing ever.  Along with Huckleberry Finn, this is the beginning of American Litera...
Posted by Willhelm on Wed, 10 May 2006 08:31:00 PST

Anagrams

I found out today that my name is an anagram for:"I'm a sinful, ill wino."Yep, that's me....
Posted by Willhelm on Tue, 02 May 2006 10:50:00 PST

Lincoln Weighs In on Preemptive Warfare

In 1848, the U.S. had recently annexed the Republic of Texas, which had rebelled from Mexico in 1836.  Mexico saw this as an encroachment of US power into their own sovereign territory, and...
Posted by Willhelm on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:33:00 PST

It seems obvious to me...

So, I didn't write this.  Someone else did, and it belongs to a big time publisher. In a small effort to edify the world, I am illegally reposting this for ya'll.  For al...
Posted by Willhelm on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:54:00 PST

US Nuclear Primacy vis-a-vis Iran

US Nuclear Primacy Vis-a-Vis Iran: an essay written at work when I had better things to do.OR: OH MY GOD CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS ARE GOING TO BLOW UP THE WORLD!Defense, Schmeefense   In a ...
Posted by Willhelm on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:17:00 PST

Political Correctness - The Words of Kelly Morris

The following was written by Kelly Morris, who in addition to being a dickless imbecile also has a shrewd eye for politics. We here at Kelly Morris have heard a lot of crazy talk lately about how...
Posted by Willhelm on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:53:00 PST