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Wilson

neslonic

About Me

I've been in this town so long that back in the city I've been taken for lost and gone and unknown for a long, long time.

My Interests

Writing!
Just Dirt and confederates
QuitMeter
Cutting and pasting stuff from one friend-of-a-friend profile service to another, writing, word games like scrabble and literati, NYC 77 punk, yo-yos, programming (currently PHP and javascript).

I'd like to meet:

Bob Dylan (or Cate Blanchett)

Music:

Velvet Underground, Kings of Leon, White Stripes, Kinks, Pixies, Luna, Strokes, Beach Boys, Byrds, Big Star, Feelies, Yo La Tengo, Antietam, Ramones, New York Dolls, Talking Heads, Dictators, Rammstein, Redd Kross, Wire, Steely Dan, dB's, David Bowie, Dead Boys, PJ Harvey, Basement Tapes, Bob Dylan:

Movies:

Rashomon, Sunset Boulevard, Suddenly Last Summer, To Kill a Mockingbird, Charade, Bedazzled (1967), Don't Look Back, Gimme Shelter, Badlands, Don't Look Now, Dog Day Afternoon, Grey Gardens, Taxi Driver, The Last Wave, Days of Heaven, Blue Velvet, House of Games, Something Wild, Koyaanisqatsi, True West, Crash (1996), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Secretary

Television:

Sopranos [RIP], Law And Order, CSI

Books:

Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill, Junkie by William Burroughs, Shakey by Neil Young, A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley, everything by Raymond Carver, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs, Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp.

Heroes:

Anita Hill, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Tara Key, Handsome Dick Manitoba, Thurston Moore, Lou Reed, John Cale, David Johansen

My Blog

mySpace Stop Smoking QuitMeter app approved

My stop-smoking QuitMeter app was approved!I think this is the URL you’d go to if you wanted to install a QuitMeter on your profile to let people...
Posted by Wilson on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:03:00 PST

"confederates" now available

You can buy my novel at lulu.com -- it's sort of like Just Dirt on Acid. It's true, but not precisely. 4 different covers to choose from:...
Posted by Wilson on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:37:00 PST

apps.facebook.com/quitmetr

If you ever hang out on facebook, have a look at the QuitMeter, please and thanks, particularly if you're trying to quit smoking!...
Posted by Wilson on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:47:00 PST

I, Spammer

Having written and published Just Dirt, the book with my story about running away from boarding school, I needed to figure out some ways to get the word out. I wrote a press release, submitted it to a...
Posted by Wilson on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:12:00 PST

"Just Dirt" on Amazon

Just Dirt, my book of mind-boggling adventures and embarrassing revelations of chronic self-destructive behavior is now up on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/dp/143031138X. It's also still available a...
Posted by Wilson on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:17:00 PST

"Just Dirt," my book

I've written some memoirs, which you can order from http://stores.lulu.com/justdirt I hope you like them!Wilson...
Posted by Wilson on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:40:00 PST

Double Dare (or, How Rocknet and Prozac Changed My Life)

I was blessed there for a while, back when I was 35. A lot of really good things seemed to happen to me sort of all at once. I had started taking Prozac in January of 1990 and that might have had some...
Posted by Wilson on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:39:00 PST

Tap. Tap. Tap.

Tap tap tap. That's what we've been doing for about ten years now, sharing our mutterings with, well, nobody, actually. Just a bunch of cybergeeks and disaffected hipsters calling it as we see it, but...
Posted by Wilson on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:22:00 PST