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Scatalogical Draintrap

Half the man I used to be...

About Me

Idealist, Hater, Hard Worker, Day Dreamer, Secret Dirtbag.
MMcArtor dot com.

My Interests

Life (and how to live it). All things Trash Art!, Domestic and International Travel, Player Hatin, Belly Achin, Art & Design, Music, Bikes, Skateboarding, Apple Computers, Gettin It.

I'd like to meet:

Petty narcissists need not apply - I already know too many (and may be one myself). Otherwise I'd like to meet interesting and inspiring people, people who talk more and drink less, and people who aren't willing to settle for less. No more dreamers, only doers, and no more adults living a child's fantasy.

Music:



16, 3rd Bass, 16 Horsepower, Aaron Neville, Antiseen, Aphex Twin, Art Pepper, Asha Bhosle, BG, Backstabbers Inc, Bill Withers, Bjork, Bollywood Soundtracks, Boots Randolph, Born Against, Brainbombs, Calexico, Captain Beefheart, CCR, Cro Mags, Cursed, DAC, Danzig, Deer Tick, Del, Despise You, Dion and the Belmonts, Disappearer, Eagles Of Death Metal, Entombed, Fela Kuti, Felix Da Housecat, Floor, Fucked Up, Gétatchèw Mèkurya, GSYBE, Hank Williams, James Brown, Jesus Lizard, Lee Perry, Leonard Cohen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Manu Chao, Micah Blue Smaldone, Miles Davis, Mojo Nixon, the Mummies, NPR, Negativland, Neurosis, New Bomb Turks, Nick Cave, MIA, Mind Eraser, M.O.P, ODB, Peaches, Pink Floyd, PJ Harvey, Poison Idea, Public Enemy, QOTSA, RL Burnside, Rapeman, Roky Erickson, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Slick Rick, Too Short, Torche, Trap Them, Wu Tang, XFilesX, Ying Yang Twins ... etc, etc.

Movies:

I enjoy documentaries. I have also enjoyed the films of Dario Argento, Tim Burton, Mel Brooks, Fruit Chan, David Cronenberg, Federico Fellini, Jim Henson, Alfred Hitchcock, Jim Jarmusch, John Kricfalusi, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Russ Meyer, Otto Meuhl, Takashi Miike, Roman Polanski, Sam Raimi, George Romero, Ken Russell, John Waters ... and others.

Television:

Conan OBrien, Nintendo, BBC, PBS .. whatever

Books:

JG Ballard, William S Burroughs, Phillip K Dick, HL Mencken, Hunter Thompson, The Believer, Horror Comics, Juxtapoz ... anything with pictures

Heroes:

...are a dime a dozen. I still prefer a solid anti-hero.

My Blog

No easy way out

My friend Jaime was visiting Providence for the weekend, and we decided to walk to the video store last night in hopes of discovering some light entertainment to wind down away from the heat. Our thir...
Posted by Scatalogical Draintrap on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:24:00 PST

Anticipating Spring (Vernal) Equinox

My world of Winter which began September 2007 will eventually come to a close; most things happen in cycles, and I don't have the will or stupidity to pretend I can interrupt the natural order. I can'...
Posted by Scatalogical Draintrap on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:54:00 PST

RUIN Providence - 2/16

Trash Art and Thus Far present: RUIN (Providence)We are proud to present, in conjunction with the folks at THUS FAR, the first in a series of collaborative nights of loud noises and skateboarding movi...
Posted by Scatalogical Draintrap on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:09:00 PST

Winter is coming

I'm no magician, and I don't imagine there's anything I can do to change the weather. From where I stand I don't think it would be wrong to say that Fall started early, because Winter is most certainl...
Posted by Scatalogical Draintrap on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:15:00 PST

On Squirrels And Death

After a dinner of too much Mexican food, it was time to head home and wind down after a long day of doing practically nothing. At around 8pm, as I walked to the car, the sky was still lit well enough ...
Posted by Scatalogical Draintrap on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:41:00 PST

After the circus..

Last night, two guys that hang out in a one-story shack across the street from my apartment were caught inside the building when it caught on fire. I came home to several blocks of my street blocked o...
Posted by Scatalogical Draintrap on Wed, 09 May 2007 08:40:00 PST

On turning 30

So as of yesterday I am officially a member of the "over 30" club. It's pretty much the same as any other point thusfar, as my knees still hurt and I have not become a nicer or more easy going person....
Posted by Scatalogical Draintrap on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:29:00 PST

Seeking Lackey

Lackey: 1. A liveried male servant; a footman. 2. A servile follower; a toady. I'm looking for one of these. I know that requiring specifically a MALE ...um toady, is sexist, so I guess the pos...
Posted by Scatalogical Draintrap on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST