Writing, Reading, Skateboarding, Surrealism, Bizarro, Irrealism, any project that features Danger Mouse, Graffiti, Hip Hop, Classical Music, Salvador Dali, Quantum Mechanics, Metaphysics, Shaolin Monks, Scientists, Mathematicians, William S. Burroughs, Psilocybin Mushrooms, and Dragon Ball Z.
Music
(caps for emphasis) 311, A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, Aphex Twin, Arrested Development, Assorted Jelly Beans, AT THE DRIVE-IN, The Beastie Boys, Big D and the Kids Table, Bob Marley, Catch 22, The Chinkees, CHOKING VICTIM, CIRCA SURVIVE, cKy, Color and Talea, Cursive, DANGER MOUSE, DANGERDOOM, Del the Funkee Homosapien, Dr. Dre, Dr. Octagon, Eminem (Slim Shady LP ONLY), EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, Foo Fighters, The Fugees, Gang Starr, GZA, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, Incubus, INDK, Interpol, Jedi Mind Tricks, Karsh Kale, Led Zeppelin, LEFTOVER CRACK, Link 80, Long Beach Dub Allstars, M.I.A., The Mad Conductor, THE MARS VOLTA, Method Man, MF DOOM, Madvillian, MF Grimm, Miles Davis, Mogwai, Morning Glory, Mos Def, Mu330, Nas, ODB, Pandafied, THE PHARCYDE, PINK FLOYD, The Postal Service, Radiohead, Raekwon, Rage Against the Machine, Ratatat, Red Hot Chili Peppers, RX BANDITS, Schaffino!, Sister Nancy, Skankin' Pickle, THE SMITHS, Soulive, Sparta, The Specials, Stray Bullets, Streetlight Manifesto, The Strokes, Sublime, Suicide Machines, System of a Down, Thursday, TWISTS, WU-TANG CLAN... Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Beethovan, Debussy, Gorecki...
Movies
Darren Aronofsky, Ingmar Bergman, Jodorowsky, Svankmayer, David Lynch... The Wall, The Wrestler, A Scanner Darkly, Waking Life, Un Chien Andalou, Fight Club, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Prestige, Shaolin Master Killer...
Books
William S. Burroughs, Steve Aylett, Allen Ginsberg, Philip K. Dick, Carlton Mellick III, Gregory Corso, James Chapman, John Keats, Dante, Ernest Hemingway...
Heroes
Van Gogh, William S. Burroughs, Buddha, Gordon Lu, Salvador Dali, Darren Aronofsky, Allen Ginsberg, Tchaikovsky...
About me: I live in Boston and sleep in eternity. I spend my time writing novels and poems and dreaming of a revised planet. Lately I find my consciousness is nothing more than a machine I explore the underneath with, and so I inhale the static of the world every day and drill holes in my brain to see what leaks out.
I'd love to meet anybody who lives their life for self-expression or loots the data-banks of the world in never-ending hunger. Get at me.
I just put out two books - ASPHALT FLOWERHEAD, via Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink (www.crossingchaos.com), which is a novel about the underground mind in America; and AVANT-GARDE FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM with Raw Dog Screaming Press (www.rawdogscreaming.com), an anthology that collects some of the best innovative literature going today. You can see some of my texts online at www.forrestarmstrong.com
Dream every day!
Who I'd like to meet: Writers, Publishers, Thinkers, Anarchists, Pacifists, European Dictators, Musicians, Monks, Philosophers, and Biggie Smalls.
"Some writers one admirers and others make one want to do as they do, or try. For me, Joe Pulver is of the latter type. His imagination is so vile so much of the time that it makes me giggle with amazement. And the prose so deadly visionary. I'm grateful that the pieces in this collection are those of a fellow horror writer who has raised the ante on what it means to be such a creature." - Thomas Ligotti
To my knowledge it is. It's in our basic package anyway. I never ever get tired of TCM. They've never sold out the way AMC did. TCM runs everything uncut and commercial free. Silent Sunday Features, Monday TCM Imports, loads of rare documentaries and short films. To be hnonest, I record 4 or five movies a day sometimes from TCM. My recorded archive is enormous. Like well over 500 at the moment not to mention all the DVDs that I buy. LMAO!!! He I am talking like some sort of salesmen XD
Yep, this coming thursday night and friday morning is all Fellini. Topped off by the very rare docu The Magic Of Fellini. Which I've seen and love. Ya, I saw close to 700 movies last year. Film is a horrible addiction for me. It sounds pathetic but I have know but I dont know what I would do with my life with out film. It's all I've ever done. Even as a kid =)
OMG!!! Wild Strawberry's is my second favorite of Bergman's films. Second to the full length Fanny And Alexander. Both of which are in my top 12 film of all time. Yeah, there was a Truffaut marathon on yesterday, A Spielberg one the day before that and today was Scorsese. I really can't wait for the Fellini marathon they're having in about a week or so. They're playing a very wide range of his work. From the sex filled and raunchy masterpieces Satyricon and Roma to his more intimate works like La Strada. Fellini is a hard guy to get into. Most of his films are loaded with technical flaws. Dialogue not matching up and such....but after watching one of his works over and over you begin to see the real genius that existed in his films. Especially involving the behavior and human condition of his characters. Fellini lived life pretty much believing there was no right or wrong. Just actions that were acceptable and destined to happen. LOL... sorry I ramble a lot when it comes to film but I do recommend you check his marathon out. I'll find out the day and times and let you know the line up.
Hey hey hey, Long time no talk man. How's life treating you? My summer has started off with loads of bull shit but hey,.... what am I gonna do about it. SO how's the writing coming along? Didiyou happen to catch that Bergman marathon on turner Classic Movies the other night. I watched most of it. Thought about you quite a few time during it. Anyway, I hope all is well. Let me know what shakin and bakin.
Last night I found it on comcast's On Demand. It definately ranks right up next to Requiem as far as I'm concerned. It's got that same rock bottom pain...
Yep, it's the Gypsy Ballads :) Have you been to Paris quite often ? I've been living there for 5 years (more or less, I keep travelling and moving all the time). This Dali's museum is quite small, but I love spending my time there. There is a great exhibition in Paris at the moment, about Dali, De Chirico, ... You can live in Paris "cheaply" but in the suburbs. My flat is located in the heart of Paris (near Gare Saint Lazare) and it costs me a fortune. Though I'm thinking of leaving it, and renting one in Berlin.
Yeah I compose songs with his poems. It's kind of easy. I've been living in Southern France, near the Spanish border, so I'm quite influenced by the music and the culture of this country. When I learnt playing the guitar, it was with Lorca, and his poems are already like songs. You sing his poems rather than you recite them. But I don't have anything online. I don't really like to put personal stuffs on the internet. But well, maybe one day.
Oh you should try to read Dante in Italian even though you're not fluent in Italian. I'm not really fluent in Italian as I often confuse it with Latin, Spanish and sometimes French grammatically but I've really enjoyed Dante !
I've been reading Lorca since I was a child. I really do love Romancero Gitano too. It's quite difficult to say which work is the best. I love his plays too and his songs.
I'd love to talk about it whenever you want. You went.to Dali's museum in Paris ? I love this place ! I spend most of my time in Le Louvre or there.
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Gradiva
