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Dez

Rigor of beauty is the quest. But how will you find beauty when it is locked in the mind past all re

About Me



My Interests

Education, Evolution, Equality, Enlightenment

I'd like to meet:


Quasi-intellectuals, neo-revolutionaries, armchair philosophers, disillusioned democrats, starving artists, sporadic bloggers, music worshippers, charming slackers, optimistic pessimists, unaffected hipsters, denied royalty, fading narcissists, agendaless benefactors, conscientious satyrs, beautiful dreamers, chronic insomniacs, functional potheads, fast-food junkies, futon potatoes, carnivores, underdogs, ambiverts, those who play by ear, and this guy...

Music:

Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Tool, System of a Down, the Mars Volta, Avenged Sevenfold, Fallout Boy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens of the Stone Age, Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Mother Love Bone, U2, Depeche Mode, Portishead, Everything But The Girl, Erasure, the Cure, Peter Gabriel, Squeeze, Billy Idol, Violent Femmes, Talking Heads, the Police, Bad Brains, Fishbone, Sublime, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, the Doors, the Who, Queen, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, old Rolling Stones, Steve Miller Band, Puccini, Jean-Michel Jarre, Sarah McLachlin, Fiona Apple, Amy Winehouse, George Michael, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, Marc Broussard, Rick James, Nina Simone, Sade, Chaka Khan and Rufus, Cameo, Slave, Sly and the Family Stone, Teena Marie, Grace Jones, Fingers Inc, Robert Owens, Larry Heard, ESG, Jamie Principle, Ten City, Liz Torres, Master C and J, Ecstasy Passion and Pain, Eddy Grant, First Choice, Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Odyssey, LTD, D Train, Manuel Gottsching, Larry Levan, David Morales, Junior Vasquez, the Cold Crush Brothers, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5, Public Enemy, Kool G Rap and DJ Polo, Rakim Allah, Kool Keith, old Mobb Deep, Biggie, Mos Def, the Roots, Cee-Lo Green, Jay Z, Beanie Siegel, D Block

Movies:

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Television:

PBS, the CSIs, the Law and Orders, Sex in the City, Two and a Half Men, Dexter, Family Guy, the Simpsons (can't afford Comcast on THIS bloody salary :( )

Books:

Stephen King, Anne Rice, JRR Tolkien, Frank Herbert, JK Rowling, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, James Baldwin, Frank McCourt, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Carlos Williams, Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, William S Burroughs, Charles Bukowski

Heroes:

Mom, great-granddad Bill, grandpa John, Vaughn and Jalen, Jesus Christ, Siddhartha Gautama, the Dalai Lama, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, Alice Walker, Ed, Jeff, Mike, Stone, Matt, and Booooooooooooom

My Blog

Tomorrow...

Friday, February 1, 2008, is National Wear Red Daya day when Americans nationwide will take women's health to heart by wearing red to show their support for women's heart disease awareness.  Th...
Posted by Dez on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:04:00 PST

On Music, Cruising, and Perfection

So my sister and I were supposed to go see Marc Broussard at BB King's last weekend, but at the last minute, she got the flu.  Talk about a bummer!  So I started having second thoughts about...
Posted by Dez on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:13:00 PST

Obama in JC Tomorrow!

Barack Obama is scheduled to appear at a rally tomorrow in Jersey City.  He'll be at the Yantelli Center at St. Peter's College, 2641 John F. Kennedy Blvd.  Doors open at 2:30 pm, and t...
Posted by Dez on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:39:00 PST

08 Rules, Yall

Happy New Year!  And I must say, other than the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, I am completely at one with how 2007 ended and 2008 began.   In chronological order:   finished readi...
Posted by Dez on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:47:00 PST

Be careful what you wish for...

...you may receive it.     *Gulp*   Give me a moment.  I'm a little verklempt.  Talk amongst yourselves.  I'll give you a topic:  Operation Iraqi Freedom is ne...
Posted by Dez on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:52:00 PST

Death & the Unbearable Heaviness of Living

*sigh*  My sister called me about 3 weeks ago to tell me that our aunt was ill.  So I went upstate to see her, and she was indeed very sick, deathly sick in fact.  A few days later, bec...
Posted by Dez on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:36:00 PST

Karma Police, Arrest This Girl

Routine.  That's why I did it.   I get up, get the boy ready for school, go to work, come home, pick the boy up, help with homework, clean up, make dinner, get the boy ready for bed, watch ...
Posted by Dez on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:07:00 PST

Quandry

Aw, man.   Some crazy shit happened, people.  Not to me, but to the relative of a good friend.  I wanna go into it, 'cause it's usurping my subconscious and plaguing my dreams, but rig...
Posted by Dez on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:32:00 PST

Meat Is Murder

So last Friday, Jalen tells me he's now a vegetarian.  Most of the friends he made at his new school are Indianand vegetarian (his friend Evan has a pet cow back home)and as a result, Jalen has...
Posted by Dez on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:26:00 PST

DYa Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

I don't mean the major things like George W Bush, Republicans, the war in Iraq, the situation in New Orleans, black-on-black genocide, capitalist tools whose greed prevents them from divesting in Darf...
Posted by Dez on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:20:00 PST