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Curt Clendenin

About Me

-Growing Curt Clendenin- (The Birth of USSU)-Chapter 1- Curt was born in Carol Stream, Illinois, a Northwest Suburb of Chicago (home of Leon Spinx, who now spends time selling autographed posters at the Village Tavern). He appreciates the finer things in life, like drawing faces in the clouds with his eyes and planting seeds in the minds of Future America. Someday soon his action figure will be talking to your child once they push the blue button on the bottom of his right foot.-Chapter2: He first became enamoured with coincidences when he found his report card in the mail and hid it from his parents, then later that night sat down to watch "Growing Pains" with his parents and the episode was all about Mike Seaver finding his report card in the mail and hiding it from his parents then later getting in trouble because his Mom finds it under his pillow while she is making his bed (or something like that happens anyway). He wondered if he was psychic. Maybe he predicted that? Maybe he manifested it?-Chapter 3- He started noticing words and/or phrases he invented/co-created with friends, emerging months/years later as dialogue and titles and characters in films, songs, television shows, etc. This caused him to wonder if anyone else experienced similar occurrences. In High School one of his teachers continually pointed out the serendipities in the lessons they were learning. It was here that he not only first heard the word "serendipity" but also the first time he met someone else who spoke about these magical phenoms with fervour and appreciation. It inspired Curt to further investigate.-Chapter 4- These happenings kept happening, finding and finding him throughout his life (thinking about people he hadn't thought about in eons, only to receive a phone call from them five minutes later.... Desiring to hear a a particular song, then three minutes later it appears on some obscure radio station he has never tuned to before...). Eric Kleinberg and Curt talked years about how to implement these exciting discoveries into their lives. One cozy twilight, a zeitgeist visited Eric in a dream, planting the seeds in his mind for how to later utilize these epiphanies. He was walking around a downtown area. Everywhere he looked, he saw the word "Ubiquity": a sign, someone's tshirt, car license plates, etc.When he awoke he read the definition: u·biq·ui·ty (yōō-bĭk'wĭ-tē) n. Existence or apparent existence everywhere at the same time; omnipresence: "the repetitiveness, the selfsameness, and the ubiquity of modern mass culture" (Theodor Adorno ).A couple nights later, Eric was visited by another zeitgeist. He was back in the same downtown area, only this time the word "Serendipitous" was appearing everywhere. When he awoke from the dream, he looked it up in the dictionary: ser⋅en⋅dip⋅i⋅tous    /ˌsɛrənˈdɪpɪtəs/ [ser-uhn-dip-i-tuhs] –adjective 1. come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries. 2. of, pertaining to, or suggesting serendipity. 3. good; beneficial; favorable: serendipitous weather for our vacation.USSU (Ubiquitous Serendipity Serendipitous Ubiquity) was born.-Chapter 5- Since then, Curt has been reading books, researching online, talking with others, and seeing movies about such subjects. He has been experimenting with his life in this fashion remarkably and more efficiently manifesting his reality from millimoment to millimoment, re-discovering new epiphanies. Observing the unfolding of this process between the lives of his friends and family is encouraging and and perpetual inspirado projecto.-Chapter 6- Ingredients For Ideal Gourmet Recipe: 1. cooperation 2. reciprocation 3. collaboration 4. Yes and...-I suppose The Beatles said it best, huh? "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together."Important source of nutritional information: Get this widget!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 13/05/2006
Band Website: http://youtube.com/user/jellomnkey
Band Members: Curt Clendenin, John Belushi, Salvador Dali & Friends
Influences: trailer for the upcoming retro sci-fi "Max Neptune and the Menacing Squid:" (myspace.com/maxneptune) &fmt=18Shirts, shoes, a mermaid muse, a single fuse, W's. radiohead, jimi hendrix, elliott smith, barry yourgrau, indie music, ken kesey and the merry pranksters, black licorice, richard brautigan, the faint, the monkees, oasis, remy zero, transmissionsfromwhoknowswhere?, weakerthans, salvador dali and the surrealists, ken nordine, travis, quantum physics, p.t. anderson, bruce campbell, ed paschke, pulp, comic books, ben harper, william shatner, dandy warhols, irene silver, past participles and algebraic proofs, john brion, kerouac and the beats, ben edlund, basquiat, love and rockets, bright eyes, hunter s thompson, beach boys, beatles, david lynch, dreams where i am flying, henry miller, LOST, ween, sufjan stevens, sigur ros, crafty, golden graham cereal, tom waits, the cure, leonard cohen, paul auster, the walking limbs, chuck close, dr. who, eveil knieval, donovan, mike allred, adam west, science fiction, richard linklater, paranormal happenings, mark ryden, neutral milk hotel, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, edward gorey, lemony snicket, russel edson, rilo kiley, marcy playground, wes anderson, lawrence august, southside jimmy byron, judd apatow, pss, r.e.m., deathcab for cutie, MAD magazine, tim burton, transmissions from the universe, p.t. barnum, guy smiley, pete yorn, the mormon tabernacle choir, dreaming, ubiquitous serendipity/serendipitous ubiquity. also, check out www.youtube.com/curtclendenin if you want!new video for "Invisible Zombies." song created by Eric Kleinberg and myself. the story was brainstormed by Wireless and me. the comic was created by Wireless. the music and comic were glued together by DWF.... &fmt=18i played and sang the theme song for the animated show "Out of Hand" (written/created by these fellas: myspace.com/lawrenceaugust and myspace.com/craftymusic) &fmt=18
Sounds Like: A playground of sound
Record Label: Dutch Chemistry/Beat Royalty
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Do you know anyone who faked their death?

Andy Kaufman has been alive and well for the past 25 years, despite what any undertakers may have to say about it, living life his own way and leaving us breadcrumbs behind the mystery of his illusi...
Posted by on Wed, 20 May 2009 11:14:00 GMT

2 new songues in my pantry

"Saturday is Here" was recorded yesterday I think.It was written by Lawrence August."SoCo Story" was from the Curt Clendenin Presents cd I made for folks on my 4track Tascam for Christmas 2002. You wi...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:43:00 GMT

10 songue slots available

I've just been informed that I can now put up a total of 10 songues (which is 4 extra than before, which was 6, for you mathematicians in the audience). This means that I used this wonderful option to...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:51:00 GMT

From Such Great Lights

Nathan piloted the spacepod.Megan was shotgun.I caught the space-time continuum transmissionscrispily and curiously on a recording device.Until now, only sci-fi writers and children thought this was p...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:55:00 GMT

Donald Trump stopped by for Christmas

Donald Trump is not only a fazillionaire, he is also a very good dancer. This is a well known fact held hidden from most of his peers. He stopped by for Christmas, ate all our buffalo burgers, then pr...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:38:00 GMT

Andy Kaufman press conference November 9

Andy Kaufman, the showman everyone thought died on May 16, 1984,will be holding a press conference:10am Sunday November 9, 2008.It will be held within a 10 mile radius of Rutgers University.For more i...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:52:00 GMT

My Adventures With CEC 3

I have for you presented here not only the next episode of "My Adventures With CEC," but also an uncanny serendipity....This strip: ...was created by N@t@sh@, without any knowledge that this ...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:49:00 GMT

My Adventures with CEC 2

Here is the sequel to Votchit's comic. I took the last panel of his comic and put it as the first one on mine....
Posted by on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:22:00 GMT

My Adventures With CEC

Its been awhile since I've created anything on bitstrips.com (other projects have been occupying my antenna/time, which the news of will surely reach the pixels of this blog for those who are curious)...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:12:00 GMT

My video appeared on HEROES

Maladies and germs,At least two of my fiends (J Sizzle and Kid A) have confirmed that Pearry Lelyouniverse somehow made his way onto the television premiere of HEROES. I have been looking on the inter...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:19:00 GMT