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About Me

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My Interests

The feeling in the air during the hour just before a really big thunderstorm. Trying to feel pull of the full moon while lying on a grassy knoll. Standing on the edge of a precipice. Lying motionless, face down in water. The sound of a mechanical clock in an empty house with wooden floors.
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I'd like to meet:

THOSE who exude the desire to be alive. No "cool" people, please. I prefer warm ones. Life's too short to be playing boring status games. WAY too short. A working class hero. Someone who is NOT corruptible. Does it exist? I really want to know. I hope it does. I'm hinging my entire belief system on this one hope.

Music:

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musique concrÃ¨te (experimental tape music),
post-punk
rai
arabic/middle-eastern music
dub, etc...
eno
gyorgy ligeti
early roxy music
einsturzende neubauten
joy division
ryuichi sakamoto
morphine
marianne faithfull
the fall
modern eon
pil
faust
woody guthrie
bobby dylan
stockhausen
cheb khaled
killing joke
the pixies
talking heads
iggy pop
daniel johnson
bongwater
patti smith
noir desir
adrian sherwood
On-U-Sound
some Laibach

Anything produced/engineered by:
Nick Launay, Brian Eno or Steve Albini

Most things touched by the blessed hands of the following individuals:
Alan Gill
Martyn Atkins
Blixa Bargeld
Barry Andrews
Robert Fripp
Barry Adamson
Mick Harvey
John McGeoch (amazing!)
John Lydon
etc. etc...

Movies:

Kubrick,
EARLY Riddley Scott,
Andrei Tarkovsky,
Werner Herzog
David Lynch (of course!)
Stan Brakhage
Hollis Frampton
Lina WertmÃ¼ller
John Waters
Richard Kern
Frank Capra
FW Murnau (Sunrise)
My dad...!

This is my FAVORITE new film... it's one of the most powerful films I've ever seen. Gegen die Wand (Head-On)
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Books:

Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker
Dostoyevsky: The Idiot
Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian
Martin Amis: Time's Arrow
Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Julian Jaynes: The Structure of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Serge Guilbaut: How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art
Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene
Christopher Dewdney
anything by Rumi
anything by Pablo Neruda
anything that resembles the Whole Earth Catalog

Heroes:

All the Davids of the world who have the guts to stand up to their respective bullies: Edward R. Murrow, Ron Paul, Hugo Chavez, etc...

My Blog

Psychedelic Furs

Wow. I've forgotten about just HOW much I love the early psychedelic furs. I think their later stuff made me forget. Just to share the love I thought I'd post this song for any and all who'd care to s...
Posted by Jonathan on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:22:00 PST

Vernacular Photographs

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Posted by Jonathan on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:53:00 PST

ABOUT BROTHER JONATHAN

Hey all, I ripped this off from another website - so excuse the funky formatting...! But it's quite interesting and tells the Brother Jonathan story as related to "Uncle Sam" and the eventual transfor...
Posted by Jonathan on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:34:00 PST

in the wintergarden

In the Wintergarden in the wintergarden there is cancer and the manifold of twilight coalesces, burning in Our hearts (underwater) terrible and holy the critical angle and the smell of io...
Posted by Jonathan on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 02:19:00 PST

humour

The Humour It is the Mute. In the half-life of a sublime gift. In the shadowlight registered. At its core. In the stillbirth of love. Messenger of Radium. It is in her nature
Posted by Jonathan on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 02:18:00 PST

a poem

Poem and if you strain you can (just) make out. the edges of Her. in the last streams of the half-light. emptying into the room. She calls to you silent. like the vigilant, hungry transmissio...
Posted by Jonathan on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 02:17:00 PST

EAST vs. WEST vs...

Here's an article I read recently. I think it's fairly interesting, though maybe not that surprising. What I consider really interesting about it - is to ponder the MECHANISMS which make this cultural...
Posted by Jonathan on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:07:00 PST

Vive le Dada!

Wow!!!! Look what I found!!! There IS a god. There IS a Santa Claus!! This is the best argument yet for having an internet IMHO - EVER! Makes all those ISP bills finally pay off!!! WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!...
Posted by Jonathan on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 03:24:00 PST

Hoeffligkeit.

Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned values - like choosing NOT to take advantage of an opportunity if it is, or might be, harmful to others? What about looking out for our brothers and sisters be...
Posted by Jonathan on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:36:00 PST