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the Black Line

When the spirit wains, the form appears.

About Me

Well, Aaron I've always liked, but he didn't make it to the promised land.-Steinbeck in East of Eden - chapter 22 section 4. --I have no personality of my own; I am but a conductor of all that passes around me."Its just a ride" -bill hicks

My Interests

Im mostly interested in discussing philosophy with people on cocaine. Saving libertarian newspapers and pamphlets for progeny. metaphysical seepage.

I'd like to meet:

Someone with nothing to prove. Someone who's sweet and kind. Someone to tell me when I'm wrong and to help me be better. Someone to play 'Mornington Cresent' with.

Music:

(music as the recreation of the nameless moment we spend our lives searching for)Shows attended since moving to Tucson AZ (in order) -Music Video - Magnolia Electric Co. - Dubconscious - Against Me! / Cypress Hill / Smashing Pumpkins - Global Drum Project (Mickey Hart / Zakir Hussien) - Richard Thompson - Arctic Monkeys - few local bands - the bird and the bee / Rilo Kiley - Tom Walbank / Holly Golightyl and the Brokeoffs - Two Gallants - and you will know us by the trail of the motherfucking dead - Tegan and Sara - Ween - Iron and Wine - David Bazan (of Pedro the Lion) - Leo Kottke and the Turtle Mt String Quartet -OK so I guess I'll do the shows since I've been back (im sure this list wont be nearly as impressive for such a short period of time).-- Daniel Johnson -- The Mountain Goats -- Thee Silver Mt. Zion and the Tra La La Orchestra --

Movies:

Wes Anderson films / Charlie Kaufman flicks / Wood Allen Movies /Donnie Darko / I (heart) Huckabee's / The Rules of Attraction / blah blah blah

Television:

Isn't television that machine that makes the mind lazy as to be easily controlled control control control control

Books:

Wall and Piece - Bansky. ShapeShift - Sherwin Bitsui. The Women are Singing and Blue Horses Rush In - Lucy Tapahonso. Essays in Existentialism - Sartre. Discipline and Punish; the birth of the prison - Foucault. Woven Stone - Simon J. Ortiz. The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire. Photo-secession - Doty. Sonnets to Orpheus - Rainer Maria Rilke. Anti-Oedipus; Capitalism and Schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.

Heroes:

Henri Cartier-Bresson / walker evans / Garry Winogrand / Colin Greenwood / Mike Gordon / the emmersons [r.w. and p.h.] / Foucault / friedlander / stuart david

My Blog

Good News Everybody

Karl Rove has been subpoenaed ... finally evil has been slapped on the wrist!
Posted by the Black Line on Fri, 23 May 2008 06:15:00 PST

karate kid

the cure for the common hangover ( i recommend two doses on the day of hangover)
Posted by the Black Line on Mon, 05 May 2008 08:08:00 PST

walking with dinosaurs; bias and scientism

Im watching walking with dinosaurs on the discovery channel and i noticed a troubling feature of their analysis. They kept saying that the dinosaurs were on the coasts of n american and europe. Though...
Posted by the Black Line on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:00:00 PST

ohh! and...

____________ Last Night;I set the high score on a video game I don't know the name of.And - I have a one square inche of skin missing on my right palm.And - it's been leaking all day.I shook peoples h...
Posted by the Black Line on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:51:00 PST

job hunt

hi --- i am now officaily employed, I start on weds, as the assistant librarian at the currier gallery of art... i signed on the dotted line... its only thrity hours a week so if you know of some wher...
Posted by the Black Line on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:41:00 PST

Draft - The Fallen Snow

The fallen Snow,covers, Everthing,to Nothing.Pure white layers; projected painting,with good byes to brown leavesand dead grass.Everything is clean, quiet,but the edges of paved roads,snow-covered cur...
Posted by the Black Line on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:21:00 PST

job search

I have edited this only in so much as i have removed any private information and rearranged its order to make it more intelligible.[ ] = my comments / brief explanation--- =  break between messag...
Posted by the Black Line on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:16:00 PST

1-2-08 (le futur)

so... whats next... what then... first the two immediate goals wich begin next week... find and job... and then, as soon as I can, find a place to live in manchester... settle in I suppose... get a ga...
Posted by the Black Line on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:25:00 PST

1-2-08 (first week)

non stop... y'all are fucking crazy alcoholics... Im glad to be home... though my head and liver are not... but it was the first week and a big one at that ... how could it not be with so many returns...
Posted by the Black Line on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:16:00 PST

1-2-08 (nostoi)

Well this is sort of it and its been a while...here I am back in good ol NH right in the heat political season... anyways... where did i leave off??? I moved out of my dorm on a saturday... spent the&...
Posted by the Black Line on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:14:00 PST