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Randall (They Calls Me Sideshow)

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About Me

real editor best profile tools I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
----Kurt Vonnegut Here's a painting I did my senior year of highschool...this is the photoshopped version...the original I guess was good enough to hang in "Visions" art store for awhile in the student gallery...let me know what y'all think...
The reaction to misunderstanding and miscomprehension of one self’s anima would conclude to an ignorance of one self’s internal renaissance. Denial also forces one to block their opus of emotions to reach internal control of deity. Dismissal is emotional/spiritual suicide. To fear what is not understood is not an option for the spiritual realm. This decision is for the ignorant, arrogant, and the spiritually pigmented. The insecure are also on the list of the emotionally stigmatic. But realizing 85% of the brain is still attached to the physical body is the realization that the 15% functioning is brainwashing. 15% is a minute figure. To avoid pushing our mental thresholds would result in the mental regression. A mind regressing would result in the discontinuing of evolving knowledge. The depravation of evolving knowledge would conclude to the loss of elite divinity. No divinity terminates spiritual progression. Without spiritual progression the soul is theoretically dead.
"You can have my soul, its a mean lil' sucker 'bout a thousand years old, but once you takes you can't give it back, you gotta keep it forever and that's a natural fact... ...Do You Read Me, Devil?!"
I am another youth from Small Town, America, and proud of it God damnit. I shun the sheep people and question authority, and often times reality as well, usually depending on mind-state. I'm an nice guy, unless you give me static first, in which case, keep your bad vibes and bad karma to yourself. I've got some pretty eclectic tastes and am pretty open minded, so much so that things often fall out.
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
-----Charles Bukowski

My Interests

Music saves my sanity, art is my healer, I definitely dig philosophy, psychology, sociology, religion (though I fall under none), spirituality, pretty much anything that is enlightening or potentially mind expanding, I like chill people who go with the flow, life is far too short, I realize that more with the passing of everyday. I groove on the outdoors (fishing, hiking, canoeing, kayaking, camping, and above all, partying), but I am no 'hick', 'redneck,' or any of that crap, but to anyone who is, to each his own. I'm not a Democrat, Republican, or anything in between, screw the puppet show of politics in America, don't get me started on that, however, I do take interest in politics, for, as Hunter S. Thompson would say, "Politics is the art of controlling your environment." Anyway, to all those who read this and are interested in delving deeper into obscurity of thoughts and mind, just holler at me, I'm always interested in meeting new people, in fact I have met by far the coolest people by starting random conversations with strangers on the street, it is in this way I met an array of people from Philadelphia to Bulgaria and beyond...anyway, I'm going to stop now, after the realization that this is more of an extension of shit about me than it is really interests, but I'm sure you get the idea...

I'd like to meet:



God, Salvador Dali, John Lennon, Bill Hicks, Hunter Thompson...all dead, sadly, I know.

Music:

Tool, Jethro Tull, System of a Down, the John Butler Trio, Mr Bungle, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Fantomas, A Perfect Circle, Tomohawk, King Crimson, Faith No More, Cream, Primus, Les Claypool, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Tree, 13th Floor Elevators, Frank Zappa, Ani DeFranco, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Dredg, Incubus, Tenacious D, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, the Greatful Dead, the Allman Brothers, Santana, Johnny Cash, Nothingface, Syd Barret, Pink Floyd, Sublime, Snot, Stevie Wonder, Coal Chamber, Staind, Steve Miller Band, Silverchair, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beatles, Red Cloud Revival, Rage Against the Machine, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, Puscifer, Queens of the Stoneage, Leftover Crack, Choking Victim, the Doors, Phish, Moe, Dispatch, One Minute Silence, Nine Inch Nails, Norah Jones, Nonpoint, The Mars Volta, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Leo Kottke, Kyuss, Kronos Quartet, Beethoven, Mozart, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Fugazi, Gorillaz, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bright Eyes, Blue Man Group, Slayer, Gabby La La, and the list marches on into eternity......

Movies:

Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, Pi, Pulp Fiction, The Mexico Trilogy, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Resevoir Dogs, Sin City, Easy Rider, Half Baked, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, Trainspotting, Team America, War of the Worlds, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, the original Star Wars Trilogy, Clockwork Orange, Snatch, Children of Men, 28 Days Later, Donny Darko, The Big Lebowski, Ghostbusters, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Bruce Lee, Sonny Chiba, and Tony Jaa flicks, gangster flicks like Miller's Crossing, and so on, like all the Pacino and Deniro movies, independent flicks are always groovy, but once again, I'm open to seeing just about anything atleast once.

Television:

As much as I loathe the idiot box, it has a few shows of interest. Amusingly, they are all cartoons, like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Southpark, Family Guy, American Dad, The Boondocks, Venture Brothers, and so on. I would also like to take the oppurtunity to say FUCK MTV, YOU DESTROY ORIGINALITY AND DUMB DOWN THE NATION WITH A RELENTLESS BARRAGE OF TASTELESS, TALENTLESS MUSICIANS THAT ALL SOUNDS THE SAME!!! Thank you for your time...

Books:

Dune, Tomorrow's God, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Timequake, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Trainspotting, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Requiem for a Dream, A Clockwork Orange, The Late Great Planet Earth, Satan is Alive and Well, religious texts (Qur'an, Bhagavad Gita, Bible, Upanishads, so on, so forth) Lucifer's Hammer....just about anything by Hunter Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, Hubert Selby Jr., Frank Herbert, etc, etc...

Heroes:

Hunter S. Thompson, Bill Hicks (R.I.P.), Alex Grey, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Maynard James Keenan, all the strange, obscure, and envelope-pushing faces of our past, the ones who've challenged the norm, and given a big "Fuck You" to conventional lifestyles, I blaze not my own trail but a detour of a trail previously blazed by these fiery and passionate minds that have changed our world for the better...and I can't help but notice these people are often left-wing, liberal minded...well... outlaws, in the sense that, as Dylan put it "To live outside the law, you have to be honest."

My Blog

Riding the Vortex

...it's been awhile, eh? ...indeed it has... Much has happened in the past year or so, surely to fuck it has...Journeyed home from Portland in the fall of 2006, the final day of November, to be precis...
Posted by Randall (They Calls Me Sideshow) on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:18:00 PST

A Nexus of Oppurtunity

So I haven't been on here in a long while, beena wild summer, living in Portland, Maine. I got to see Nine Inch Nails, Tool, The Raconteurs and Bob Dylan this summer, saw some justice done, made some ...
Posted by Randall (They Calls Me Sideshow) on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:55:00 PST

The Tangent Surf

Life is directionless, yet I am motivated by something vague to just go with the flow. Someone with a head full of acid once said the Journey is the Destination, and God damned if he was wrong. Life i...
Posted by Randall (They Calls Me Sideshow) on Wed, 10 May 2006 09:05:00 PST

Soapbox prophets rant to deaf ears

Holy FUCK what a weekend...Got stoned, ripped, twisted, saw a circus and the exploitation of endangered animals for the amusement of hundreds of fools and their waste-of-sperm cracker-spawn wavin...
Posted by Randall (They Calls Me Sideshow) on Mon, 08 May 2006 07:41:00 PST

Random happenings

Sitting in my dorm room, turning over my options in my head...its about 12:30 am, I'm not tired....some spirits or hard drink would be nice...some confusion, someone got ripped off, hopefully there wo...
Posted by Randall (They Calls Me Sideshow) on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:40:00 PST

My Blog of Boredom

So out of boredom, and under the assumption that someone cares, I thought I'd tell of my escapades with a couple girly friends.Last night was interesting...went for a cruise down some back road in the...
Posted by Randall (They Calls Me Sideshow) on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:40:00 PST