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neal?

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About Me

hola! i'm neal, I have a home again! And a room where I can sleep in a bed, not a couch! Life is good. I graduated from the Art Institute with a BS in Graphic Design, although I recently discovered I hate staring at computer screens all day...whoops! So I'm going back to working in a kitchen and I really need to get involved with the local scene. I PLAY THE DRUMS! and have since 4th grade, that's about 15 or so years! I'm teaching myself to play guitar so I can start writing songs for myself, I have lots of ideas but zero conduits. I am a writer (kind of) I have a book of poetry/thoughts/stories finished and I'm going to be looking for a publisher and another one very closse to done. I am learning to live for myself again, I enjoy hanging out, drinking beers, listening to music and laughing with friends...let the games begin!

My Interests

I am interested in Art, Human Interaction, Nature, what people define as beauty as opposed to what that truly means. My main goal in life is, to quote Thoreau, "...live deep and suck the very marrow from life..."~ I am at the moment stuggling with the preconceptions society places on those of us within certain age ranges. I consider my life an experiment in passionate living...

I'd like to meet:

People who, like myself, love music, adventures, people, art, intelectual conversations and fart jokes.Let's Groove Dany
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Music:

Go ahead name a genre, I probably like someone from it! Triggers, School of Athens, Rise Against, Operation Ivy, Dead Kennedys, old Bad Religion, Suicide Machines, Flogging Molly, Sublime, The Specials, The Toasters, Catch 22, Mustard Plug, Big D and the Kids table, Anti Flag, The Unseen, The Code, Bouncing Souls, Less than Jake, Leftover Crack, Choking Victim, Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan, Ben Folds Five, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Patsy Cline, The Four Tops, Tommy James and the Shondelles, James Brown, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Michael Buble, Johnny Cash, George Thoroughgood(sp?) and the Destroyers, Eric Clapton, Cream, Ledbelly, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Atreyu, Cradle of Filth, Slayer, Snapcase, As I Lay Dying, Dimmu Borgir, Slipknot, Charley Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Laryn Hill, Jay-Z, Kanye West, The Dialated Peoples, Jurassic Five, The Bad Plus, Fear Before The March of Flames, Alexisonfire, Nancy Sinatra, Deftones, . . . I really could go on and on but you get the gist, right?

Movies:

Fight Club, Night of the Living Dead (original '68), Snatch, American Beauty, B-Horror Movies, Horror Movies from the '50s and '60s, anything that's sweet! or anything that's deep and makes cause for reflection! I believe film is an excellent way to slow down life and look at it more closely, a way to escape as well as a way to enjoy more fully.

Television:

I can't say I hate it, but it definitely makes me feel ill to stare at a screen for a long time anymore. I dig on History Channel, Discovery Channel ( Shark week is Awsome), A&E... None of which I've actually seen in a while, cuzzzzz I have no cable.

Books:

House of Leaves, most Noam Chomsky, The Communist Manifesto, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Animal Farm, Collected Works of e e cummings, collected works of Allen Ginsburg, The Motorcycle Diaries, Walden, Leaves of Grass, It's All Blue Skies From Here by Neal Kling, Pirates! In an adventure with scientists, Spawn Comics up to like 140ish then they became dumb, I love to read so I'm always open to good suggestions!

Heroes:

Tyler Durden, Johnny Cash, Capt. James T. Kirk, Anakin and son Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Uncle Jesse, Batman, Anyone who has stood there ground for what they believe in, my hat is off to you. Also anyone who is truly politically active, and in search of change! My fist and heart go out to you.

My Blog

(see) change

see changesea a changechange for meloosen your gripchange and seea sea of changefor melet go of the rocks and the shorechange the seabe the seeand me?chasing the quiet shoreline...
Posted by neal? on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:09:00 PST

z. danielewski

tonight i saw mark z. danielewski speak and read passages from "house of leaves" and "only revolutions" . one book that has changed the way i view the world and another one i am in the middle of read...
Posted by neal? on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:34:00 PST

the way of the heart

the way of the heart is a hard road to travelit will lead to sunsets and sunrisesin that orderit will lead to long nights andconstellation countingand long kisses where your lips are pressed s hard to...
Posted by neal? on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:10:00 PST

(untitled)

a shadow moves across a streetlighton an empty streeti look up to see what it wasbut there's nothing thereand i think of ghostsas the bars emptyand i breathe in the cold night air into my new lungsi'm...
Posted by neal? on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:25:00 PST

a new dream

A vision i slept undera war and the piecesof coexistence the stars answer backthrough the treesalthough i thinki'm asleepthe war still movesand only i am stableconstant contingence courseas i move to ...
Posted by neal? on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:02:00 PST

the flies

the flies slide along the edge of the glassin the home that i now livethey swarm around the windowlike the kiss from some dead lovertheir wings beat up against itand i can't escape the droningthe bigg...
Posted by neal? on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:48:00 PST

(work in progress)

a minimum of five charactersi write a new world before meclosed eyes and black balloonsa shifting vertigo of the new worldi take another step and write another passagethe paragraphs form roadways and ...
Posted by neal? on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:55:00 PST

among my youth (you have saved me and set me free just by being)

I feelamongmy youththat we could falluncertain fathomsand find a deeper place to liveI feel connectedamong my youthto a better part of lifewith you aroundI've made some mistakes,but every descision ha...
Posted by neal? on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 06:11:00 PST

End of Definition

the triggers have been pulled and your smile won't survivewe sank another hole into the sun just to findit wasn't hollow at allmy teeth hurt with your liesthe dust has settled on the earthwhy does our...
Posted by neal? on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:43:00 PST

Sketches of Spain

i draw a sketch of spaina bullfightand hot streets, cobbled with stonea matadorand a red sunmovement with castanets and flamenco guitara dance in the squarewith cheap wine and musici draw a sketch of ...
Posted by neal? on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:39:00 PST