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flannelcat

I am here for Friends

About Me

MyGen Profile Generatorelegant and understated.

My Interests

the absurd
postcards
concrete
trees / birds
cats
second-hand books
weather
existentialism
museum of jurassic technology
alliteration
physics
environmental remediation
art
vegetarians
silent films

I'd like to meet:

someone halfway between the typical atmospheres I breathe, and the tip of my reality.

Music:

amityville, the auteurs
beatles, belle and sebastian, blur, most bowie
chad & jeremy, euros childs, clinic
brian eno
franz ferdinand, bryan ferry
geneva, gorky's zygotic mynci
luke haines, early ed harcourt, george harrison, 60s material from the hollies, hurricane #1
the jam, some james, the jeevas, jj72
the kinks, komeda, kula shaker
mezzanine owls, a bit of moody blues, peter murphy
pulp
radiohead back in the day, rialto, roxy music
sea wolf, the shins, sing-sing, siouxsie and the banshees, the sonics, space, the spires, bits of stereolab, suede, super furry animals, supergrass
t-rex, talking heads, pieces of travis
less shoe-gazy verve
warm jets
the yardbirds
the zombies

Movies:

delicatessen, kafka, the trial, gormenghast, kitchen stories, closely watched trains, the seventh seal, songs from the second foor

velvet goldmine, edward scissorhands, amelie, help, harold, the princess bride, sleepy hollow, a hard day's night, the last unicorn, yellow submarine, shawn of the dead

pecker, breaking away, harold and maude, night on earth

the machinist, the lookout, brick, the reckoning, undertow, there will be blood, twin falls idaho, jackpot, northfork

buster keaton, felini, dali, polish brothers..

Television:

i love lucy, the twilight zone, freaks and geeks, pushing daisies, scrubs, fraiser, nova, globe trekkor, the simpsons, becker, wonderfalls, egg (wherever the show went..), time life infomercials, happy days, dharma & greg, veronica mars, the wonder years, parker lewis can't lose, animanics, duck tales, bill nye the science guy

Books:

kafka's castle .. sartre's nausea .. hesse's demian .. brautigan's in watermelon sugar .. flann o'brien's the third policeman .. marvin cohen's the self-devoted friend .. bruno schultz's sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass .. kundera's the unbearable lightness of being

in general, books by:
franz kafka, richard brautigan, antonin artaud, milan kundera, flann o'brien, bruno schulz, marvin cohen, mervyn peake, hermann hesse, jean paul sartre, albert camus, george orwell, ray bradbury, and various pop biographies

Heroes:

buster keaton

Enemies:
the silent 'e'

My Blog

let go of the rail

caught between contracts and secret plotting, i've lost my ways with normal goings-on.  realized/learned clinic's album came out - me being the good fan, i promptly went to my local indie mu...
Posted by flannelcat on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:48:00 PST

sea legs

http://www.olafureliasson.net/biography.html
Posted by flannelcat on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:10:00 PST

capitalist do it ruthlessly

and occasionally i want to participate: http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_C ode=TO&Product_Code=BS-UNISQUID&Category_Code=BS http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen...
Posted by flannelcat on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:06:00 PST

oh.

my throat large as the pacific, dries up the lands and leaves golden dust in its wake.
Posted by flannelcat on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:33:00 PST

marginalized off the pages of society

one of those days when you lose your mind, trying to recall all the decisions you've made in your life that physically place you where you are and shape your personality.  all those memories...
Posted by flannelcat on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:19:00 PST

end of the quarter century

if i were as literal as you, life might be easier.  but i'm not and it leaves me tired.
Posted by flannelcat on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:56:00 PST

true to life

So it gets to sevenAnd I think of nothingBut living in darknessAnd the diamond ladyWell she´s not tellingI don´t even know her nameIt´s amazingTimes have changedIn days of oldImagination´d leave you s...
Posted by flannelcat on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:08:00 PST

i think people use too many exclamation marks.

... i'm all for ellipses.
Posted by flannelcat on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:18:00 PST

give it all away

What else can I say?  Maybe you're right.  And that's why we get these stupid fits of gloom, because we feel that our wanting and trying are meaningless and that things simply go their own w...
Posted by flannelcat on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:23:00 PST

imaginary friends

as i drove threw the hacienda, my gaze was drawn toward a copse of trees lined up at the crest of a hill.  they lazily waved to me as i made my way to work.  a modest looking ...
Posted by flannelcat on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:16:00 PST