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MercyFunk

Reciting the Airships...

About Me

I NO LONGER HAVE A SOUL
I LIKE LITERATURE. I was once asked how I could dismiss a poly-philosophical work as satirical prose, and I answered by telling him how I view our present era as nothing more than a retrenched "Age of Reason." I show more of a preference toward the animist perspective.
This is the nature of modern death; It has a life independent of us. It is growing in prestige and dimension. It has a sweep it never had before. We study it objectively. We can predict its appearance, trace its path in the body. We can take cross-section pictures of it, tape its tremors and waves. We've never been so close to it, so familiar with its habits and attitudes. We know it intimately. But it continues to grow, to acquire breadth and scope, new outlets, new passages and means. The more we learn, the more it grows. Is this some law of physics? Every advance in knowledge and tecnique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent. Is it a law of nature? Or some private superstition of mine? I sense that the dead are closer to us than ever. I sense that we inhabit the same air as the dead. Remember Lao Tse. 'There is no difference between the quick and the dead. They are one channel of vitality.' He said this six hundred years before Christ. It is true once again, perhaps more true than ever.
Art much?

My Interests

Books, Technology, Graphic Art, Video Games, Caffeine, Nicotine, Alcohol, Crack Cocaine, Slippy Flippys, Jelly Stingers, Trick Sticks, Bing Bangs, and Flying Willards.

I'd like to meet:

Because ten billion
year's time is so fragile,
so ephemeral...
it arouses such a
bittersweet,
almost heartbreaking fondness.

Music:

Miaou, edIT, Té, Melodium, Talkdemonic, Tstewart, Nudge, Mira, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Novel23, Atmosphere, Cyne, Casino versus Japan, Air, M83, Spangle Call Lilli Line, Kettel, Digitonal, Advantage Lucy, Piana, The Faint, Cassius, Depeche Mode, Underworld, Blue States, Diesel Boy, Codec & Flexor, Royksopp, Amon Tobin, ohGr, Frost, Massive Attack, Yoko Kanno, SHARON APPLE, Dom & Roland, Infected Mushroom, Fischerspooner, KMFDM, Tsunami Bomb, Les Rythmes Digitales, Anything WT Snacks plays on MIDNIGHT SNACKS, Morgan Geist, Piano Overlord, MC Chris, Ninja High School, Cylob, Kattoo, Nine Horses, David Sylvian, Venetian Snares, Future Sound of London, Boards of Canada, Her Space Holiday, Ulrich Schnauss, The Notwist, Hong Kong Counterfeit, Global Communication, Siktransit, Frog Pocket, Minotaur Shock, Quarks, Rachel's, Balzac, Shugo Tokumaru, Frank the Baptist, VAST, i'm not a gun, Tom Petty, Guitar Wolf, Go! Go! 7188, Inugami Circus-Dan, Orange Range, Eastern Youth, Peelander-Z, Gimmik, Schneider TM, Prefuse 73, HOLY FUCK, Squarepusher, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Polysics, Sufjan Stevens, Kid Spatula, Pia Fraus, 65 days of static, Ambidextrous, B.Fleischmann, Bola, mira, Cex, Chocolat, Faithless, Fenomenon, Girl Talk, Go Shiina, Jo Hisaishi, Natsumen, Nullsleep, The Octopus Project, The Pillows, Placebo, The Pixies, DMX Krew, Scuola Furano, Max Richter, Darkel, Tortoise, Junior Boys, Lite, Toe, Russian Circles, God Is An Astronaut, Wedge, Eluvium, Ratatat, Maybeshewill, World's End Girlfriend, Renu, Jatun, Dntel, The Spiritual, Selfkill, This Will Destroy You, Miwon, Sgt., Quruli, Gutevolk, Fra-Foa, Port-Royal, Tycho, The Twilight Sad, Pilot Balloon

Movies:

Mullholland Dr., Donnie Darko, The Big Lebowski, The Ring, The Last Samurai, Trainspotting, Clerks, Mallrats, Event Horizon, Fight Club, Battle Royale, Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, Snatch, Bubba Ho-Tep, Shaun of the Dead, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Spirited Away, Interview with the Vampire, A Tale of Two Sisters, Kagemusha, Equilibrium, Sin City, Life Aquatic, Serenity, It's All Gone Pete Tong, Oldboy, Agent Cody Banks 1 and 2, Big Fat Liar (Of course.), Jarhead, Exorcism of Emily Rose, Silent Hill, American Psycho, Lord of War, The Weather Man, Wolf Creek, The Machinist, Night Watch, The Goonies, Pans Labyrinth, Brick, Goldeneye, Casino Royale, Children of Men, Layer Cake, The Departed, 300, Grindhouse (Planet Terror ftw.), so much fucking more

Television:

I don't waste my time.

But I do watch television shows on DVD:
24
Firefly
Battlestar Galactica
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Sealab 2021
Entourage
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Mr. Show
Arrested Development
House
HEROES
Black Books
Spaced

Books:

Anything by Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club), Dark Tower Series, Piers Anthony (The Magic of Xanth), Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, Ring, Spiral, Vamped, Shatterpoint.

Heroes:

My childhood hero:

Rest in Peace, Old friend.