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The Ape Who Hath No Name

Shut your eyes and you'll burst into flames...

About Me

There is more than one way to burn a book, and people are running around everywhere with lit matches.

My Interests

Sideshows, Freak Shows, Doppelgangers, Anatomists, Photography, Ethnopoetics, Document Forensics, Fakes, Frauds, Forgers, and everything Faux.

I'd like to meet:

Diane Arbus, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Russell Edson, Paul Bowles, Rosamond Purcell, Emily Dickinson, and Frederik Ruysch.

Music:

Current Top 20:El-P, Kultur Shock, Nick Cave & Grinderman, Neko Case, Blackhole, Thunderfist, The Atoms Family, A Particularly Vicious Rumor, Extra Action Marching Band, Mr. Lif, Beirut, Gris Gris, A Hawk & A Hacksaw, Electoral College, Ether Orchestra, Goran Bregovic, Taraf de Haidouks, Okkervil River, Yat-kha, Jason Webley... width="425" height="350" .. .. ....

Movies:

Top Ten:The Weather Underground, Death and the Maiden, Jesus Camp, The Last King of Scotland, Underground, Pan's Labyrinth, Devil's Backbone, The Passenger, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Foreign Correspondent.

Television:

That gum you like is going to come back in style...

Books:

Currently: Incubation: A Space for Monsters (Bahnu Kapil); Symposium of the Whole (Jerome Rothenberg); For the Time Being (Annie Dillard); The Guiness Book of Me (Steven Church), Guarding Newjack (Ted Conover); The Watchmen (Alan Moore); Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi); That DADA Strain (Jerome Rothenberg); Nine (Theodore Enslin); In The Archive (Chris Arigo)

Heroes:

Diane Arbus, Juanita Brooks, Fawn Brodie, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Joe Hill, Dan Eldon .. .. ....

My Blog

Man the Torpedos

After basking in the warranty dismantling glory that is Hurra Torpedo for several days, (and what a glory it is...Dan and Jim, you must see this band, any band that can cover the Pixies, John Denver, ...
Posted by The Ape Who Hath No Name on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:06:00 PST

Gatos

Had to put Little Girl down yesterday. Her kidneys couldn't hold out any longer. Damn short animal lifespans. The worst part is that now Precious is wandering all over the house looking for her. I mis...
Posted by The Ape Who Hath No Name on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:31:00 PST

Newer Stuff

A couple of the pieces to come out of my reflections on the land o' Zion. I'm pleased to note that Old Bishop was picked up by the Salt Flats Annual.     Porter Rockwell   only pis...
Posted by The Ape Who Hath No Name on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:18:00 PST

Bat-fetcher Trick...With My Teeth

So, as I've been going over the credits I will need to complete to finish up this Masters Degree I realized that I have 6 free credits to do with as I damn well please. The idea of Independent Study i...
Posted by The Ape Who Hath No Name on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 09:13:00 PST

Manifesto

So as one of the final projects for one my classes last semester we were told to write a manifesto or some kind of examination of our aestehtic. I will readily admit that I have no fucking idea what m...
Posted by The Ape Who Hath No Name on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 06:28:00 PST

Smash the control images, smash the controls of the machine

I had a dream that the aliens from the Aliens movies were my roommates and they were bankrobbers. They used masks that were U.S. presidents' faces when they did their robberies. Then one time they for...
Posted by The Ape Who Hath No Name on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Circle in the Sand

I am disappearing...one frail limb at a time. It is a voluntary movement...flex this muscle and the right arm disappears below the elbow. Have entered a lifelong feud with James over a certain sending...
Posted by The Ape Who Hath No Name on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST