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Paul

when freedom is outlawed only outlaws will be free

About Me

I'm an artist. you can see more pictures of my shit here: www.flickr.com/photos/themightyhumanrace most recently a stencil artist. i'm also a vagabond. you can see pictures from my travels here: flickr.com/photos/rambocomplex i'm a homeless-by-choice, traveling artist, coming soon to a city near you to inspect your couch for comfort and spare change, and maybe even do your dishes, cook you vegan food, and maybe even make you stencils of your choice. oh, and challenge you to an armwrestling contest.

My Interests

trees are pretty cool... especially the stenciled kind that take you like 25 hours to make. oh, and...blunt honesty. bill hicks. sarah silverman. deformities, scars. human abnormalities.....the full spectrum, behaviors and birth "defects." i like weird people, the more strange, the better. twins......i just dicovered there's a 2-headed girl living in minnesota....that blows my mind and makes me happy in ways i can't possibly explain. (see my who i'd like to meet video.) i wish i had the courage they do to even get out of bed sometimes! other random shit.....x-files, spontaneous combustion, garbage pail kids. organic chocolate. mighty leaf vanilla tea. arm-wrestling people bigger than me. polyester shirts. military surplus. cardboard. sue coe. guerrilla girls. trying new things, especially food. (someone fucking teach me how to swim already!) finding another bike and going someplace warm where i can get a tan and my spraypaint will actually dry again, getting an airbrush, seeing how many x-acto blades i can go through in a day, seeing how much i can sell a painting for, finding more places to show work around the US, cooking, mutual aid, couchsurfing, taking shit apart, garlic, trying to not suck at pool, learning to consume less, reinventing myself, firsthand experience, spending less time indoors, bridges, writing manifestos, poetry, drawing, writing letters

I'd like to meet:

people who can fit all of their favorite things into a backpack. someone who can show me how to hop trains with them w/o getting cut in half. somebody who lost their virginity at a glory hole. people who've taken weird jobs on craigslist or have been guinea pigs for money. people with a phobia of babies like me. people who don't wear makeup, or who if they do, look like zombies. "animal-lovers" who don't eat meat, inventors. billboard-liberators. situationists. survivalists. people who belong to strange support groups. other premies who were born when their mother was 15. anyone who works or has ever worked in a dildo factory(research for a book). people who sew. couchsurfers. vegans. anyone who lives off the grid. risktakers. starving yet surviving artists, and people who want to support them. commissions are fun--feed me!oh, and rocky balboa. and the sherminator so i could mangle his face so random drunk people in bars would quit telling me i look like him. fuck you chris owen. i'm way cooler than you. and... abby and brittany hensel

Music:

i have band ads blocked, sorry. unless you are an obscure one hit wonder 80s band making a comeback whom i have on vinyl. like falco. but he's dead. so.............i guess you're out of luck. i'm so fucking sick of band add requests. it's bad enough wherever you turn in the streets there are billboards and advertisements blocking out the scenery, thank god there's not yet speakers every few yards blasting whatever shitty band is being launched this season also. and even if this is a fake fantasyland, i would still at least like to make it "my" fantasyland as much as i can. at least on the internet we can all sort of almost have that choice, right? maybe if we're lucky soon we'll be getting friend requests for "new and improved triple stuffed oreos" too!

Movies:

adaptation, american beauty, apocalypto, the beach, brazil, brick, buffalo 66, the day after tomorrow, dream lover, edmond, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, falling down, fight club, first blood, foxfire, the game, jacob's ladder, heathers, me and you and everybody we know, memento, the mosquito coast, natural born killers, the new kids, 1984, old boy, OVER THE TOP!, rocky 4, stand by me, taxi driver, the game, the terminator, pi, true romance

Television:

that's my bush! .. width="425" height="350" ..

Books:

a heartbreaking work of staggering genius - dave eggars, american psycho - bret easton ellis, the forgiveness parade - jeffrey mcdaniel, 1984 - george orwell, survivor - chuck palahniuk, we - ygeny zamyatin

Heroes:

the people of new orleans. (who CAN finally be seen on tv on spike lee's HBO special, along with this sign. thanks spike!) risk-takers. people who reach their breaking point and do something about it, instead of falling apart. people who have the courage to live their lives however the fuck they want. the guy who invented craigslist. 8 billion animals slaughtered each year for no reason whatsoever. people in other countries who actually care about things like solidarity who overthrow dictators and do cool things like create change instead of fast food chains, obesity and ignorance. people who've given up their cars. people who adopt...

My Blog

phoenix, my last few weeks

it's like 80 here now everyday. pretty sweet. got a pretty kicking sunburn on ONE side of my face last weekend. the art detour thing was a bust...kinda disappointing...guess that means i'm on to plan ...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:26:00 PST

i'm in phoenix

outside in a tshirt. it's 60s and 70s in general here. it's surreal and feels like a different country. or...mexico? but things are good and have sort of worked out...found a place to stay. am&nb...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:24:00 PST

phoenix, here i come?

unless something crazy and unexpected happens in the next 2 hours, looks like i'm headed to phoenix shortly to take my chances with my pocket change and yankee ingenuity. i'm optimistic yet terrified....
Posted by Paul on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:38:00 PST

my "mottos"

i've been compiling these for about 10 years now...famous quotes, lines from movies, and my own writing as reminders of how the ideal paul strives to live his life. i'm not always successful, but. i c...
Posted by Paul on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:30:00 PST

dammit, i hadn't been sick in like a year!

i forgot...i used to always get sick when i went to open mics all the time. everybody spitting on the mic. hopefully i get over it soon. the slam went okay. i scored 3rd of 6 people. not bad consideri...
Posted by Paul on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 06:09:00 PST

this is old. but you haven't read it treigh!

i've always liked it, as far as silly rhyming things go. "Food for thought" my presence here is a present to you, so don't hesitate to masturbate to the words I say--if you can see through t...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:31:00 PST

get psyched...

good lord am i nervous. i realized yesterday that at the poetry slam tomorrow there is actually going to be a famous 2 time national champion i really like performing there. i have no idea what it's g...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:15:00 PST

my writing...

"we see what we want to see taking everything personally you can bet my satisfaction is mostly based on your reaction to me..." --steph taylor i love that song...it's so concise and eloquent and true....
Posted by Paul on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:36:00 PST

january 2007

..> 2007-one month down--status report what did mr. spock find in the toilet? the captains log!! i'm still in ann arbor. came here with 50 bucks, have now managed to double that in 10 days. so if ...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:33:00 PST

apparently...

i'm not a terrorist! because...for the record, apparently at least at the moment you can pass through US customs and have your bags x-rayed while traveling by bus with spray paint, a respirator, a pse...
Posted by Paul on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:06:00 PST