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BlackAndy

Leave me alone.

About Me

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FOX VALLEY BANDS AND VENUES: I do the entertainment calendars for the Oshkosh Northwestern. Send me info about your upcoming events.
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." Moby-Dick, or The Whale, Chapter 82, "The Honor and Glory of Whaling"
My life is a drunken blur, except for those times when a chunk of memory sneaks up behind me, beats me senseless, takes about a hundred bucks and leaves me for dead. When that happens I write it down, it's my way of getting even. Also, I can't dance, but if you hum a few bars I can fake it.
My current art project (besides writing) is drawing photos I find in the newspaper that I like with Sharpies. (Not that I've done either in way too long.)
Here is a story:
Did you ever read that book by Kafka called 'The Metamorphosis?' You know Kafka, right? Do you know the book? It's about this guy who turns into a big bug.
So anyway, the first line of the book goes like this: "Gregor Samsa" - that's the main character - "Gregor Samsa awoke from unsettling dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect."
Well, this morning I awoke from unsettling dreams. It's unusual, because I never remember my dreams. So all day I've been trying to figure out whether I've become a gigantic insect.
I am a Cancer. I hear that means I have unusual psychic abilities. I think it may be true. I hear it also means I have a mercurial personality. I know that is true. (In addition, I'm a Rabbit. And my blood type is B. Can you detect a trend here?)
I am a gnostic-zen-daoist. My head is gnostic, my heart is zen, and my butt is daoist. But if there was ever a religion I could practice, it's vodou. I want to grow up to be a hungan - unless I already am one, I dunno.
You scored as Wrath and Lust.
Wrath


88%

Lust


88%

Pride


75%

Sloth


56%

Envy


38%

Gluttony


38%

Greed


31%
Seven deadly sins
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(I lied about one of these -- guess which one. Good thing dishonesty isn't deadly...)
I'm in Wisconsin, wrapping up some old business. It's close to being finished. I'm open to ideas where to go next.

My Interests

I like interesting things.

I'd like to meet:

Who don't I want to meet? It's people I want to spend time with that are hard to find. I'm blunt and direct and not really all that nice most of the time, people who can tolerate those qualities are my kind of folks.
And actually there are a lot of people I don't want to meet.

Music:

Tom Waits Agent Orange Ramones Throbbing Gristle Sabbath Hives The Cummies Pogues DEVO Sonic Youth The Ex Stereolab Chuck Berry QOTSA Morricone Magik ist Kuntmaster Nirvana James Brown Einstürzende Neubauten Yeah Yeah Yeahs Velvet Underground Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Zeppelin Nick Cave Screamin' Jay Beck Melt-Banana Interpol Cheap Trick Panicsville Screeching Weasel Serge Gainsbourg White Stripes Tom Petty Milemarker Blonde Redhead Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Skinny Puppy Marvin Gaye Rolling Stones Pixies Buzzcocks Stevie Wonder. Plus J.R. Cash Patsy Cline and Hank Williams. And the blues. New favorite album: The Black Keys, thickfreakness.

Movies:

Shoot the Piano Player. Rushmore. The Salvation Hunters. Andrei Rublev. Lost Highway. Repo Man. The Decalogue. The Magnificent Ambersons. Chinatown. The Trouble With Harry. Ikiru. Badlands. Stroszek. Videodrome. The Ballad of Narayama. M. Underground (Kusturica). Week-End. Throne of Blood. Sherlock Jr. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel). Young Maids of Wilko. My Neighbor Totoro. Touch of Evil. The Strange Enigma of Kaspar Hauser [I am Kaspar Hauser]. 2001. Down By Law. Ososhiki. Y2K of Blood. The Elephant Man. Alice (Swankmajer). Fishing With John. Rio Bravo. Stalker. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Last movie I saw: That pirate movie.

Television:

The McLaughlin Group, Cowboy Bebop. New favorite TV show: Addams Family and ATHF (tie).

Books:

Moby Dick - The Master and Margarita - Tropic of Cancer - anything by Mark Twain - Bearwalkers and Bloodstoppers - Count Zero - Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail in '72 - Siddhartha - Guns, Germs and Steel - Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates (I am Switters) - The Stranger - Catch-22 - Travels with Charley. I'm reading: A lot of things. Mostly Eco's Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, Twain's Roughing It, Couliano's The Tree of Gnosis, The Confidence-Man. And Atlas Shrugged. Because Hannah is making me.

Heroes:

.. Tank Girl.
Jim Woodring.
Frank Zappa.
This monkey.
Johnathan Lethem.

My Blog

Great, now I'm it.

He'ahs the rules: 1.We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog abou...
Posted by BlackAndy on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 04:35:00 PST

Thanks, AJ&

&for putting an idea that's been bouncing around my head for some time now into words.http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/tech-compa nies-get-serious-about-global-rights-issues-but-wheres-cisco ...
Posted by BlackAndy on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:22:00 PST

Soul Power has a new meaning today

I woke up today to the news that the Night Train has finally taken the hardest workin' man in show business.RIP Mr. Brown.This post on Boing Boing has a some great links to youtube videos of Mr. Dynam...
Posted by BlackAndy on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 12:42:00 PST

what I write

George Orwell wrote an essay entitled "Why I Write". I reacquainted myself with it recently, or tried to, because to be honest I've never read it the entire way through. Despite this, I highly sugge...
Posted by BlackAndy on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:09:00 PST

birthday

A number of you have mentioned that I haven't been out and about as much as you're accustomed to me being; you are in fact correct, I've been staying in of late, for a variety of reasons. These in br...
Posted by BlackAndy on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 11:14:00 PST

let's try this again...

blackandy.blogspot.com
Posted by BlackAndy on Sun, 21 May 2006 03:11:00 PST

nonsense

I haven't put anything in this blog lately.  This is some nonsense from http://www.howtocleananything.com/frame_cleaningtips_Housein terior.htm (found when I googled 'anything') sent through http:...
Posted by BlackAndy on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 02:30:00 PST