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Sinan

'Til I see love in statues, your lessons drill inherited sin.

About Me

The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always zero. It is ice in the veins. It's camera is an x-ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.Reflections by R. S. Thomas, No Truce With The Furies

My Interests

Writing, Writing more, Writing even more, Laughing loudly at people who park their Hummers on compact spots, Aquarium drinking (Jeff Tweedy style, with a Turkish twist), Playing with blood (fake/real), Destroying non-crime scene evidence, University lecture podcasts, Trying to save the world from true fascists, Politics, No politics, Trust, Getting paranoid for valid/invalid reasons, Suave jackets & fedoras, Bullshit nostalgia, Writing lyrics/poems, Hanging out with my buddies, Frequent yet momentary lapses of reason, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Istanbul (For Better Or Worse), Coffee, Eddie Izzard, Scotch, Roskilde, Nissan 350z, Dadaism, Carlsberg, Scandinavians, Dirty Martinis, Postmodernism, Carta Blanca, American Spirit Yellows, Kopenhagen, Apocalypse, Screen/writing, Video/filmmaking, Chloe Sevigny, Evangeline Lilly, The Onion (America's Finest News Source), Flipping off dusk and shivering at dawn, Flipping off dawn and shivering at dusk. Not shivering at all. Oh, and blankets.

I'd like to meet:

Bouguereau, back in time so he can insert me to his "Dante & Virgil In Hell" painting, exactly between where the knee of the guy on the left and the back of the guy on the right connect with a gut-wrenching scream that breaks the fourth (well, third) wall and...Also, Ataturk, the founder of Turkish Republic. Luis Bunuel. John Huston. A member of the Fisher family from Six Feet Under, preferably Nate. I also wouldn't mind meeting Nate Sr, but not only is he a fictional character, but also dead. I figure chances are really low with people who are dead, or people who are fictional, but it's flat out fucking impossible when they're both dead AND fictional. Fuck. What else, let's see...I don't like meeting my heroes anymore. Or maybe I have no more heroes. That's why. Yeah, that's why.View All Friends | View Blog | Add Comment

Music:

Alejandro Escovedo, The Deadly Syndrome, Matthew Herbert, The Drones, Patrick Park, Pink Mountaintops, Castledoor, Black Mountain, Scott Walker, Jon Dee Graham, Tindersticks, Interpol, Sublime, dEUS, Pearl Jam, Fugazi, The Airborne Toxic Event, Broken Social Scene, Chihei Hatakeyama, Joy Division, Guy Forsyth, Manic Street Preachers, TV On The Radio, Devotchka, The Rolling Stones, Modest Mouse, Primal Scream, Pulp, Blur, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Adem, Mos Def, Explosions In The Sky, Spoon, Super Furry Animals, Kings Of Convenience, McLusky, Autolux, Sage Francis, Boom Bip, American Analog Set, Starlight Mints, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Jamie Cullum, The Black Keys, Silver Jews, Massive Attack, Animal Collective, Cex, Elliott Smith, The Clash, Mission Of Burma, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Miles Davis, Castanets, John Coltrane, Max Richter, Johann Johannsson, Wolf Parade, British Sea Power, Smog, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Pixies, Johnny Cash, Ryan Bingham, Wilco, Baba Zula, Aesop Rock, John Cale, Replikas, The Constantines, Kaizers Orchestra, cLOUDDEAD, Black Lipstick, Christopher O'Riley, Burhan Ocal, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, David Holmes, Four Tet, Boards Of Canada, (...And You'll Know Us By The) Trail Of Dead, The Arcade Fire, The Doves, The Ponys, Paul Robeson, Wynton Marsalis, James, The Duke Spirit, Why?, Anticon.

Movies:

Lynch, Almodovar, Cronenberg, Polanski, Huston, Fincher, Malick, Coen, Brakhage, Conner, Deren, Nichols, Bunuel, Sayles, Godard, Gondry, Park, Boyle, Nolan, Jonze, Anderson (Wesley), Anderson (PT), Mendes, Forster, Coppola, Renoir, Winterbottom, Wilder, Fatih Akin, Ferzan Ozpetek, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Vanishing Point.

Television:

Six Feet Under, Monty Python, Happy Tree Friends, Upright Citizens Brigade, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Daily Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Survivorman/Discovery Channel.

Books:

Auster, Danielewski, McCarthy, Salinger, Palahniuk, Hornby, Leyner, Eggers, Ellis, Carr, Barry, Galeano, Baer, Rulfo, Don Henry Ford Jr, The Book Of Bunny Suicides, The Return Of Bunny Suicides, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, McSweeney's.

Heroes:

are cool unless they disappoint you by treating you really bad.

My Blog

A Day at the Rally with Sinan & Dan

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Posted by Sinan on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:51:00 PST

Note to self.

Twelve eleven tenA little VoltaireFor a little La FontaineKeep the chemicals upNine eight sevenA little LennonWith a little LemmonKeep the chemicals upSix five fourA little VonnegutA little StrummerA ...
Posted by Sinan on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:16:00 PST

From an actual conversation. Apparently this is how S and A talk.

Memories:if they had left you alone, they wouldn't be memories. their entire existence depends on your recollection of them. they're little pieces of flashes in your brain that make your eyes stutter ...
Posted by Sinan on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:13:00 PST

Vicious Pattern

Desert behind your eyesNo occupancy, a few cactiGod couldn't penetrate youThirty three, thirty threeYou've counted the age of His sonFired the last bullet into your bodyYour carnage neither the first ...
Posted by Sinan on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:35:00 PST

Let Them Come

Everyone on a dinner table will agree with youBe it a table plastic or engravedBe it over the floor or elevatedBe it with hands or utensilsBe it kosher or swineSo long as you sat down to dineSomehow t...
Posted by Sinan on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:56:00 PST

Half of my Myspace "friends" are bands

Yes. I like music.Maybe a little too much. Maybe almost as much as films or books.So, uh, yeah.Whatever.I'm not deleting them unless they disappoint me by treating me really bad. (One came really clos...
Posted by Sinan on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:35:00 PST

I took off my mind.

New York - Istanbul flight poetry:I took off my mind.Rubbed it in dirt.Not to sell it.I took off my mind.Put it in my mouth.Not to betray it.I took off my mind.Wore it on my sleeve.Not to lose it....
Posted by Sinan on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:15:00 PST

A Sincere Message of Gratitude...

...To everyone who came to the party. Wow, I was actually happy. Wow, to me, it was a fantastic party. Wow, from what everyone told me, it was to them too. Thanks for being a part of it. Maybe outlivi...
Posted by Sinan on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:39:00 PST

Sewers - new poem, first draft

I'm not good with editing and revisions unless a decent amount of time passes and it comes naturally but here's a poem/lyric bit I wrote today before a screening when I sat on the sidewalk and everyon...
Posted by Sinan on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:09:00 PST

This rant got to that point where it somehow became a blog.

What Wyatt Did. And Then Some.Body: Apparently Wyatt didn't only change my Myspace name to "Always depressed." when I left it on at his house as I was sending my Birthday invites.He also did the follo...
Posted by Sinan on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:13:00 PST