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Today David Kempski Is...

Hiding Under the Covers

About Me

I am:Vainglorious.ADJECTIVE:1. Characterized by or exhibiting excessive vanity; boastful.

My Interests

Books, movies and media. Horror movies and books. Walking. Awkward moments. Lonely places. Those who Leonard Cohen called "Beautiful Losers." Second Chances. Inventing myself anew. Rebirth and/or reincarnation. The Weird. Things in the margins. Extremes. Boundaries, real and imagined. How magic tricks are done. Mesons and baryons (but not hadrons...fuck hadrons). Social interaction between individuals and/or groups of either similar or dissimilar disposition or "what people are talking about." Cursing.

I'd like to meet:

You.

Music:

Anything, more or less. Specifically The Misfits, Lou Reed. Some Clash, Dead Kennedys, Ramones, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Aimee Mann, White Stripes, Springsteen and Sinatra.

Movies:

Whew, boy. Don't get me started.

Television:

Not so much anymore, unless on DVD.

Books:

A Confederacy of Dunces, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Gulliver's Travels, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Great Expectations, Of Human Bondage; Anything Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Dickens, Hunter Thompson, T.S. Eliot, Charles Bukowski, Lord Byron, William Blake; Also: Sandman, Watchmen, Transmetropolitan, 100 Bullets...much, much more.

Heroes:

Harlan Ellison, Hunter Thompson, Lou Reed, Glen(n) Danzig, Bill Hicks, Daffy Duck, Charles Bukowski, Groucho Marx, and Stephen King. Is it bad that I don't have any women heroes? I'm going to work on that.

My Blog

Just In

Joe Barbera, of Hanna-Barbera, has died at the age of 95.Half of the team responsible for Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, The Jestons, Huckleberry Hound, Captain Caveman, Quick Draw McGraw (and his al...
Posted by Today David Kempski Is... on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:40:00 PST

Stuff, Perhaps Boring, Perhaps Otherwise

Thankgodthankgodthankgod. I'm glad to be out of Brooklyn, glad to be back where things make sense. There is one thing I'll miss about Brooklyn, though: the supermarket around the corner from where I ...
Posted by Today David Kempski Is... on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 04:35:00 PST

11/03/06

I admit it. I'm down. This happens every year after Halloween. Especially since it's as far as possible from warm weather. Nothing but five months of cold and gray ahead. No one has successfully expla...
Posted by Today David Kempski Is... on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:36:00 PST

A Week in Brooklyn

I worked on this low-budget horror film a few years ago and the people are still trying to get it distributed. The director/DP are taking the movie to a festival or something in California and the DP ...
Posted by Today David Kempski Is... on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:34:00 PST

Quotes of the Day

In case you don't know him, Bill Hicks -- Goat Boy, The Dark Poet -- was one of the smartest, funniest, most dangerous comedians ever. He once had his legs broken after a show by men who didn't like w...
Posted by Today David Kempski Is... on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:12:00 PST

Fear and Loathing in the Tri-State Area '06

I wish I were more politically knowledgeable. I do the best I can, but I am by no means savvy.I have voted in every major election (and quite a few minor ones) since I became eligible. I am still regi...
Posted by Today David Kempski Is... on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:34:00 PST

I Just Figured It Out

I just figured it out. All of you are jealous.Don't worry. It's only natural. With my extraordinary intelligence, obvious talent, natural good looks (no make-up) and sexual prowess, I'd be jealous too...
Posted by Today David Kempski Is... on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:22:00 PST

The Departed

Okay, it's 4 in the morning and I have to be up in three hours, but I'm not anywhere near tired. It's the kind of high that only comes after seeing a fantastic movie. I saw two movies this weekend. Th...
Posted by Today David Kempski Is... on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:57:00 PST

Update

The monkey pox is in retreat. I tried drowning it out, burning it out and cutting it out. All other methods exhausted, I finally held a knife to my jugular and said, "If I go, Monkey Pox, you're comin...
Posted by Today David Kempski Is... on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:18:00 PST

99.4%

This is no ordinary cold or flu. This is obviously some virulent form of monkey pox normally only found in the Zanzibar Red Colobus. Either it's mutated and jumped to humans, or some vicious governmen...
Posted by Today David Kempski Is... on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 03:42:00 PST