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Tim

outofacenter

About Me

Trying to fight the nomenclature.
Swinging hard to dismiss the archetypal cages.
Figuring out how to deal with being the bad guy.
Wrestling still with creation out of nothing.
Still facing the self and self-effacing.
Pondering always the depths of my own pretense.
A lover to words and a jester at best.

My Interests

french po-mo linguists... french-kissing-homo-cunninglinguists... garden gnomes... soul... fooseball... the written word... sweet lorazepam... the road... silence... coffee pots with timers... used bookstores... cheap vinyl... old school pinball machines... late Heidegger... dorking out... bonding out... plea bargains... rediscovery... nesting... stealing wireless high speed connections in parking lots... The Sultan's Market... mac AND cheese AND collard greens... Goat Rock... folks... special brownies... stories... moving on... the vanilla blues... Gasoline Dream Queen... searching for free vasectomies... not being sick on tour... the long waited arrival of SPRING... friends who "get it"... getting these kinks out of my neck... coffee scavenger hunts... did I mention silence?... Throat Coat... Halls... porch sittin... Northern California... exodus... migration... driftin... free antibiotics... Tijuana pharmaceuticals... Signed Judgements for Dissolution... closure... getting the fuck out of here again soon... focus... sleeping soundly... the seemingly impossible paradox of letting go and still loving... taking care... good choices... strollin'... brain apples... antique chivalry... rediscovering the rhythm of a weekend... the Oxford comma... t-shirt refurbification... afternoon cup... afternoon bowl... bananas... lactic acid

I'd like to meet:

Hillbilly Scholars, Renaissance Men/Women, Auto Mechanics, Pharmacists, War Hippies, Art Fags, Roughnecks, Lawyers, Intellectuals, Deviants, Crooked Cops, Miscreants, Black Sheep, Old Souls... And always a miner for a heart of gold.

Music:

Lately... STARK fucking WEATHER, Waylon, Wire, Bohren & der Club of Gore, Gehenna, Catharsis, Agalloch, Haggard, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Rwake, The Angelic Process, Mojave 3, Killing Joke, Buffalo Springfield, Far, Yob, Morphine, Joy Division, Hank III, Otis Redding, Swans, Black Cobra, Unsane, The Black Angels, Pearls & Brass, Johnny Paycheck, Robert Plant w/ Allison Krauss

Movies:

I like 'em. A lot. I need a DVD player. Anybody got an extra?

Television:

Nope... and... nope.

Books:

Currently: Kerouac's "Desolation Angels"...and a book about the stars, planets, calendars, and doin' it.

Heroes:

...are for suckers, but this guy is definitely mine...

This guy is from MY hometown, not yours...

Love hurts, seriously, and Mike Scheidt (Middian/Yob) knows it...

I don't know if I'd call them "heroes," but they were definitely Supermen that night...

My Blog

PMFS last Peoria Show Ever

This weekend will mark the end of an era for my little city of Peoria, Illinois.  By most accounts, at least by folks 'round here my age anyways, PLANES MISTAKEN FOR STARS is the s...
Posted by Tim on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:42:00 PST

Two nights ago...

... my band played to a sold out auditorium in Chicago with Neurosis.  Cross that one off the list of lifetime goals.  Check!  Yeah... you could say I'm stoked.  Thanks so much&nb...
Posted by Tim on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:34:00 PST

50 Lessons and observations...

50 random observations, lessons, and musings from the last 96 hours of my life&.. 1. Certain combinations of drugs, liquor, and improvisational noise sets sometimes lead to passing out in th...
Posted by Tim on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:34:00 PST

Thinly veiled I suppose...

.... but humor me and read slowly anyways.  Some random words from the lonely Jubilee Ranch tonight.  All's quiet out here, and that's a good thing.... I hear Slowdive behind me.It echoes th...
Posted by Tim on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:57:00 PST

8 years, 10 months, 21 days.

  June 21...Summer arrived.Mom's Birthday.A Judgment for Dissolution. A day of note in those celestial ponderings. It took longer than I expected,But Spring came and went. Getting well seems a r...
Posted by Tim on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:30:00 PST

01.11.07

Self indulgence or pretense.... you choose: Peppered skies and the grey of Midwestern winter.The ice melts, and unseasonal warmth contrastsThis frigid place in which I'm finding myself.This place at t...
Posted by Tim on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:23:00 PST

Amazing grace

Ex Halo and Out of BreathLast night was therapy. The food. The drink. The old friends whose beautiful smiles, warm embraces, and all-too-generous words of compliment were reminders of times when thin...
Posted by Tim on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST