*Starfish* - ProfilesArchive

About Me

i play guitar.
these are my current bands ~
redemption
tragic black
sang froid, solo tragic black, w. 16volt & domiana
redemption, w. carphax files & dulce sky
i am vegan.
wanna know more?
you must speak - words are all we have.
all that will remain of our thoughts.
stop it. just stop it.
pay attention, educate yourself, act, make a difference or step off.
end factory farming
vegan food
renewable energy
peanutbutter&jelly sandwiches
sunsets
bikes!
guitars
monkeys
beer
coffee
conversations with my girl (*and other activities*)
dead flowers
red wine
adventures
open space (in small environments)
energy transference
global consciousness
small footprints
"There's no need to lie. It's like poker. The truth is best. The others still think you're bluffing, so you win."
"There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open...; and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors..." ~Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Vienna!
FOR EVERY GIRL WHO THROWS OUT HER E-Z-BAKE OVEN, THERE IS A BOY WHO WISHES TO FIND ONE. Resist!!!
~your television.
~consumerism
~capitalism
~blind faith in anything
Vegans Taste Better:
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." --Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) I edited my profile by myself. yep.

My Interests

Music ~ Art ~ Words ~ People ~ Visions ~ Dreams
"Without Music, Life would be a Mistake." - Nietzsche.
WORDS:
"you're so beautiful. you could be a part-time linguist. spend part of your time studying the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics . . .
and part of your time with me. aww yeah."
- the Fabulous Adriana.
ART: "The difference between LIFE and ART is ART is more bearable." - Charles Bukowski.
UNDERSTANDING: ~
"We are as forlorn as children lost in the wood. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do i know of yours? And if i were to cast myself down before you and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly as we would before the entrance to Hell."
- Franz Kafka

not all who wander are lost.

one of those stupid surveys once said, "Your element is Darkness."
ok then.

I'd like to meet:

Everyone in the world!
& Avril Lavigne. i wanna play guitar for her. Oh, & Nick Cave!

Music:

i love almost everything out there, but mostly darkly sad stuff.
Not a big fan of over-processed conceptualized popforthemasses, or white-boy suburban hip-hop.
That's all pretty much trash.
But sometimes you need a big pile of dog shit to remind you how beautiful and green the grass can be!

Movies:

Comic Books made into movies
Vampire movies (they're all good)
Indie Films
Children of Men
What the Bleep Do We Know
Velvet Goldmine
Love Me If You Dare (French Film)
Tim Burton movies
i like to watch movies with my kids, too:
The Dark Crystal, The Never Ending Story, Princess Bride, Nightmare Before Christmas, Pokemon, Scoobie Doo, stuff like that.

Television:

Bad Ju-ju!
i don't watch TV. it's poison for the soul and the mind.
KILL YOUR TELEVISION!

Books:

Currently reading: In the Skin of a Lion ~ Michael Ondaatje Into the Wild ~ Jon Krakauer
Lolita ~ Vladimir Nabokov
The Tin Drum ~ Gunter Grass
the Metamorphosis ~ Franz Kafka
Ishmael ~ Daniel Quinn (everyone should read it!)
Crime & Punishment ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never Let Me Go ~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Fight Club ~ Chuck Palahniuk
Others i love:
Illusions, Jonathan Livingston Seagull ~ Richard Bach.
Siddhartha, Steppenwolf ~ Hermann Hesse.
the Portrait of Dorian Grey ~ Oscar Wilde.
American Gods, Anansi Boys ~ Neil Gaiman.
Surfing the Himilayas ~ Frederick Lenz.
Howl ~ Alan Ginsburg.
Love is a Dog From Hell ~ Charles Bukowski.
the old vampire books by Anne Rice. Clive Barker. Mercedes Lackey. anything about armageddon or otherwise impending doom.
The Book of Revelation.

Heroes:

myself. i know i'll never let me down.
Anarchists, Free Thinkers, Social Radicals, Vegans.
steve stevens, peter murphy, david bowie, keith richards, daniel ash, joe perry, trent reznor, johnny marr, jimmy page, simon gallup, carlos d., Satan (he had it all and gave it up to do his own shit ~ brilliant!), ghostrider, wolverine.
my little brother & my older brother ~ for different reasons.

My Blog

Wave-Gotik-Treffen

This year Tragic Black will once again perform at the infamous W.G.T. in Leipzig, Germany. i wasn't part of the band two years ago when they performed in Germany for the first time, but i have b...
Posted by *Starfish* on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:13:00 PST

i’m published! City Weekly article on European tour.

Big Time? depends on the size of the bowl.but still... i'm published!The City Weekly asked me to write an article on touring Europe for the Slammys issue.Here it is:http://www.slweekly.com/index....
Posted by *Starfish* on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:35:00 PST

Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

SPEECH BY AL GORE ON THE ACCEPTANCEOF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZEDECEMBER 10, 2007OSLO, NORWAY Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladie...
Posted by *Starfish* on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:15:00 PST

Tragic Black tour

we flew - we drank and laughed.B. & i got much wine and beer for free, as we had a very sympathetic stewardess.... oh yes. (slip me another bottle of wine... shhhh... don't tell my colleague...
Posted by *Starfish* on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:53:00 PST

New Tatoo

This is a copy of a large charcoal drawing my little brother did for me years ago. It's taken a long time to decide where i wanted it and who i wanted to do it. If you're in SLC, go ...
Posted by *Starfish* on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:13:00 PST

a misplaced body part = lost words.

Everything i just wrote out for the last hour-and-a-half has mysteriously vanished, due to an unintentional bump of a wayward wrist across the space-bar, as i set my tea down on the other side of the ...
Posted by *Starfish* on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:32:00 PST

Cheap (& good) Vegan Food

i love my little city, i really do.but sometimes i just want to strangle everyone.at times it seems as if i vibrate at a completely different frequency than the rest of the world (we all do, really. t...
Posted by *Starfish* on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:23:00 PST

tour diary ~ SLC to Long Beach

let it breathe... is thinking too much truly a crime against action?what barriers did you construct to redirect, constrict and control this flow?Twelve hours in a rolling bullet with air-co...
Posted by *Starfish* on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:33:00 PST

New Ride

One year of dreaming later and the kind and benevolent Universe has bestowed upon me a most appreciated gift: Yum, yum!Super-quick, silent & dark. i've been a bike advocate/addict for years, but...
Posted by *Starfish* on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:36:00 PST

Weeds in the Sidewalk Cracks

To all the Weeds in the Sidewalk Cracks.... You are the true Revolutionaries ~ defying the status quo, rising up strong and colorful against the pale, lifeless face of contemporary progress. Finding ...
Posted by *Starfish* on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:31:00 PST