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koa

horseshit as big as diamonds!

About Me

i like to think i'm real tough and dark and shit but some times cuss words really limits ones vocabulary. besides, i'm too much of a homo not to dig pretty stuff "dang! that armoir is really a great example of deco in an arts and crafts setting.. it kinda works". i like writing music that is so introspective that not only can no one actually relate to it but the unfortunate few that get to hear it are embarrassed like when you accidently read someone's diary. i love fixing shit that can't be fixed (ie furniture, cars, the world, whatevers.) i get a charge bringing underappriciated things into the lime light; either little known factoids or the majesty of the ukulele. i rode a moped for years in full knowledge that i looked like a circus bear. for 4000 miles to the gallon, wouldn't you? my bicycle is names after the protagonist in chitty chitty bang bang. crackticus has saved my miserable life more times than i wish he would have. sailing is one of the very few activities worth undertaking. i can't imagine living more than 15 minutes away from the ocean. i was named after st. ann, the grandmother of jesus. i've got more catholic tattoos than the pope. i don't like people telling me about their religion, but i hate sacrilege. it makes my think of a bratty kid going "nu, uhh. nu, uhh." and trying to make people feel bad about themselves and their beliefs, at the same time. irreverence can be funny because it doesn't target victims. all that is the human part, i'm really a reindeer. seriously. on the inside i'm a reindeer. if you say anything about all that santa bullshit, i'll bust you in the fucking grill.

My Interests

i'm interested in anything that holds my attention.

I'd like to meet:

i don't even know the people i've already met. i'd like to have coffee with leonardo da vinci if we could understand each other. ben franklin probally knew how to have a good time. i'd like to meet george w. but i'd like to appear as if i were a vision of jesus so i could straighten him out some. if i couldn't meet him that way i'd like to meet him in a dark alley. amelia earhardt was probally a hoot once you got her liquored up.

Music:

am i really supposed to list the bands i dig? guh-dahm! uh, i cut my teeth on yes and the beach boys then new wave (all of it). i still have a crush on siouxsie and terry nunn and bobbi brat from red scare. i still get hyper when i hear duran duran. kiss me deadly by gen x is one of the very few songs i actually know all the words to ( except that part that goes "another flicks my bics" or something, i never got that part). i love cheesy prog and psyche pop. i'm never not in the mood for the moodys or chocolate watchband. i think the fields of nephilim have been on my turntable as long as i've had a turntable. i almost never listen to any of the bands i've been in. bartok's out of doors is more interesting than almost anything i've ever heard, ever. i love how all hawaiian music sticks with you like christmas carols and how all the old tunes are about humpin or reclaiming the stolen kingdom. this is really difficult. if y'all want to come over and take a look at my records that's be way simpler. i haven't even mentioned dwight or hank sr. there's been no mention of dick dale or acid mother's temple or jaco. i give up.

Movies:

nightmare before christmas, chitty chitty bang bang, bride with white hair 1&2, tai chi masters, all jackie chan's movies, the movie that i never found out it's name so i came up with my own title: "bitchin' ghost car" (it was fucking genius, a dirty amc javelin harrasses a single mother by revving it's engine at them for a full hour before it finally runs off a cliff and lands on a TNT shed. truly FUCKING genius. best movie ever).

Television:

the simpsons, the avengers, mr show, speed racer, pbs crap that makes me looks smart

Books:

last places, the boat that wouldn't float, blind in one ear, the elder edda, log of the mahina, the dictionary, neuromancer, my side of the mountain, gen. billycock's pigs, blueprints, har funkar det?, tao te ching

Heroes:

i know a dog named killer. he's a miniture pincher. he thinks he's big. he took on a pitbull as big as a volkswagon. he cracks me up.

My Blog

malaise in malaysia

I'm in malaysia right now. my girlfriend, sharon asked me to come over and visit while she was giving a workshop. i'd never been here before and i intend to see everywhere. i got a new credit card an...
Posted by koa on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:36:00 PST

shaving my legs with a purpose.

so yesterday i entered a bike race. well it wwas really more of a fun run rally. but i had a lot of fun. it gave me an excuse to spend money on sunny the bike. he is the one speed, crackticus is the t...
Posted by koa on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:43:00 PST

kings cruiser hull no. 12, hells yeah

so check it out. in a raging bit of missing the ocean. i'm fixin ta buy a beautiful wooden sailboat. after a bunch of superfluous emails to strangers, i found out that "maire" is the third to old...
Posted by koa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the poop on the pope

well, if you've known me for any legnth of time you probally know that i grew up catholic. of my tattoos, for example, only my entire arm and chest are inspired by my religious upbringing. i even thou...
Posted by koa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the path between friends overgrows quickly

i've had more oportunities than i care for to contemplate mortality recently. my dad just passed a short while ago. but, he did it right, he waited for his whole family to gather around and passed in ...
Posted by koa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

it's a big world

the world is so damned big that no matter what part of oakland i'm in, the love of my life is usually on the exact opposite side of the globe. so the only way i know to remedy this is to spend more mo...
Posted by koa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST