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raygun

baby, let's do something we may regret.

About Me

i read, i write, i play guitar. i paint sometimes. i sell them. sometimes. i sold this one. but not this one.i keep a pet blog , and you should totally read it.

My Interests

epiphany. art as the salvation of humanity; writing, making music, painting, photography, sculpture, alcoholism as a metaphor, drug abuse as a hobby. artists. making friends with more artists. socialism, philisophising, long arguments. using english spelling whenever i want. rough sex at night and slow sex in the morning. spring, indian summers, water. tearful drunk discussion of any one of the following: the miserable condition of life in general, dead relatives, an imaginary time where people stand up and take to the streets and make some fundamental changes, women. film, literature, whiskey, cigarettes, women, creation. and/or: fuzz/skree, mad max bullshit.

I'd like to meet:

mad max, luke skywalker, maybe you. but that's doubtful.

Music:

david bowie, the velvet underground, the beatles, the pixies, radiohead, the smashing pumpkins, nirvana, blur, pavement, elliott smith, scout niblett, mogwai, godspeed you black emperor!, the kills, jeff buckley, animal collective, björk, pj harvey, autolux, leadbelly, sonic youth, queens of the stone age, nin, a silver mt. zion, the chemical brothers, placebo, the toadies, weezer, autolux, explosions in the sky, modest mouse, eno, soul coughing, polvo, my bloody valentine, metric, nina simone, lightning bolt, robert johnson, helium, gorillaz, fridge, the secret machines, sigur rós, kyuss, aphex twin, the elephant 6 collective, tom waits, yeah yeah yeahs, massive attack, beck, smog, cat power, the microphones, deftones, enon, blonde redhead, foo fighters, giant drag, the stooges, interpol, belle and sebastian, team sleep, and more. i guess.

Movies:

fight club, young frankenstein, mad max, brazil, metropolis (the original), anything wes anderson, donnie darko, fear and loathing in las vegas, mad max, the empire strikes back, predator, akira, pulp fiction, reservoir dogs, more of the same.

Television:

heh?

Books:

support your local lit scene!vonnegut, palahniuk, pynchon, gombrowicz, dostoyevsky, hesse, marquez, borges, william carlos williams, brautigan, ginsberg, neruda, camus, rilke, blake, gogol, milosz, whitman.specifics-the tropic of cancer, the painted bird, fear and loathing in las vegas, the catcher in the rye, the fall, the age of reason, ishmael, dubliners, johnny got his gun, and anything by hemingway, celine, stanley donwood, welsh, kafka or bukowski...lots more.

Heroes:

fuckin macgyver.

My Blog

suck it, trebeck.

this is where the hizzy gets broken down these days, lol:la pomme du cielenjoy, you pig fuckers.
Posted by raygun on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:49:00 PST

old news new news

in the interest of an update, of keeping people and the internet apprised of my dealings with doings, the bird's eye lowdown: -i am in school fulltime. by may 2008 i will have a BA in english, and a ...
Posted by raygun on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:42:00 PST

when we last left our hero

so, new place. swinging pad. my cat is still alive, and awesome. i did indeed get  a new guitar, and a filing cabinet. and i applied to pitt for january, and started paying student loans. i sure ...
Posted by raygun on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:07:00 PST

whatwhat

dig, i'm moving in a week to a new place. should be good. i got a cat, her name is maga, and she's the bees knees. brandon and i are obviously the greatest thing since ever and we're having fun making...
Posted by raygun on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:14:00 PST

new music!!

two new songs up (leave me and drowned), and we have a real name now (the kuffs). approach in fear, listen in awe. expect rotations in the songs up, because we're actively recording. tell your friends...
Posted by raygun on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:28:00 PST

music

i miss my baby it's been so long i don't know where she gone got reaper mowin my lawn she don't wonder why i don't sleep at night she don't wonder why i don't sleep at night. it's the kuffs. and we...
Posted by raygun on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:30:00 PST

birfday

happy birthday thanks to those who gave me a jingle, a nod, a wink and maybe some how's yr father. ha. i bought myself two special new friends, which lucky people might meet someday, and also become f...
Posted by raygun on Thu, 11 May 2006 09:56:00 PST

olgra

comin soon: visit with family. then they visit and i get my kiln, which means i'm in the business of giving yins the business. ask about my fine wares. music- "labrats"-noise. lots of noise. "clear ...
Posted by raygun on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:25:00 PST

we're gonna hand these out at shows.

The Child Gas Mask is a safety breathing mask - hood, used to provide clean, breathable air to children in the event that air becomes contaminated.  That means that air with NBC ( Nuclear, Biolog...
Posted by raygun on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:03:00 PST

sponsor yr local artiste. by ignoring him completely.

ok, so. didn't accomplish the objectives, per se, but. i did: -actively paint, and i'm pleased with the results and excited about future projects. pictures soon. -brandon and i are improving our son...
Posted by raygun on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:06:00 PST