Claire, Raising the brood, writing, playing guitar, reading, movies (mostly foreign and indie), listening to music, not talking, pretending I'm somewhere else, pretending I'm someone else, remembering who I really am.
I occasionally mirror my immensely fascinating MySpace blog here, but generally put the really dull personal stuff up there instead. Tread at your own risk, assface: This Won't hurt...
Angels of Light, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Albert Ayler, Bad Brains, The Band, Neil young, Mastadon, Isis, Mayhem, Hendrix, John Coltrane, Will Oldham, The Beatles, Today is the Day, Pelt, Jack Rose, Six Organs of Admittance, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Cecil Taylor, Mount Everest Trio, Oval, Grifters, Keiji Haino, Otomo Yoshohide, John Zorn, the Shins, the Rolling Stones, Ornette Coleman, Nile, Bob Dylan, Popol Vuh, Ghost, Jesus Lizard, Refused, Jandek, Sonic Youth, Swans, Eliot Smith, The Kinks, Wolf Eyes, Captain Beefheart, Thalia Zedek, Live Skull, Uzi, Come, The New Year, Bedhead, Boredoms, AC/DC, Joy Division, Sun Ra, Ravi Shankar, the Velvet Underground, Sleep, High on Fire, the Clean, the Dead C, the Lounge Lizards, Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, the Birthday Party, Nick cave and the Bad Seeds, Einsturzende Neubauten, King Crimson, Emperor, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Tortoise, Black Dice, Public Enemy, Explosions in the Sky, Skip James, the Stooges, Tom Waits, Thin Lizzy, Evan Parker, John Fahey, Kinski, Sugar Shack, the Linus Pauling Quartet, Dry Nod, Charalambides, Tom Carter, Peter Brotzman, Casper Brotzman, Archie Shepp, E.A.R., Black Sabbath, Spaceman 3, Cop Shoot Cop, Howling Hex, Split Enz, the Small Faces, Bardo Pond, Comets on Fire, Faust, Can, Neu, Schoenberg, Boris, Sunn 0))), Squeeze, Sugar Shack, Ween, Opeth, Espers
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Movies
Most Herzog Films (specifically-Stroszek, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, Even Dwarves Started Small), David Gordon Green, Wes Anderson's stuff, Eric Rohmer (all of his stuff except the last few), Chungking Express, Yi-Yi, the Conversation, a Taste of Cherry, L'humanite, most Kubrick, Wenders up 'till about Wings of Desire, Julien Donkey Boy, Gummo, Citizen Kane, Suspiria, Casablanca, the Maltese Falcon, the Big Sleep, Key Largo, the Seventh Sign, Sideways, Persona, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Zelig, Bananas, Sleeper, Play it Again Sam, Beat Takakshi, the Coen Brothers up until the last few, Uzumaki, the Eye, Cassavetes, early Jackie Chan, early John Woo, Akira, Nausicaa of the Valley, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Withnail & I, Bliss (the Australian one, not the atrocious soft-porn disaster),
Television
More or less gave the damn thing up, and can't honestly say I miss it.
Books
Various titles and Authors-
Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon in general), Crime and Punishment, Rise and Fall of the third Reich, Kafka, Kerouac, Salinger, books about Salinger, Lords of Chaos (black metal is so hilarious), Raymond Briggs, David Foster Wallace, Bloom County, Mark Twain's short fiction, Peanuts, Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Boy on Earth, P.K. Dick, James P Blaylock, the Annubis Gates, Lewis Shiner, Lucius Shepherd, a good dictionary, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, The Floating Opera, David Sedaris, Buddhism Without Beliefs, Daniel Clowes, Joe Matt, Seth, Chester Brown, anything about the Baader-Meinhoff Gang, Borges, Everything and More (David Foster Wallace), Fermat's Enigma, Krazy and Ignatz, books on pre-Columbian history, Henning Mankell,
Thanks to the 80s oil boom and consequential great Southern exodus, I was planted here in this sweltering cesspool and lion's den, Houston, Texas (thanks Mom and Dad). Now I lumber away in a self imposed exile trying desperately to figure out how the fuck to get out alive. My parents, meanwhile, have long since divorced and gotten the fuck out of Texas. If pressed, I might admit to liking people, but generally speaking, only from a distance. I am, after all, a spectator at heart and not a participant. Clearly this inclination is not total or I wouldn't be here pimping myself for all to see. No this doesn't make me interesting, it makes me vague and ambiguous. Just like everyone else. Including you.
Who I'd like to meet:
Someone who can hold my interest with their intelligence and not just by being obnoxious or abusively loud. People I care about that I haven't seen or spoken with for a while. My Dad's dad (died before I was born), my maker.
that's a horrible thing to say!man, i can't even imagine how mean i'll be at that age! i'm such a crazy bitch now! i don't ever want to be that old! thanks john, you're one awesome gringo!
seriously, i try to focus on the good for my sanity, then the bad in people comes crashing in, obliterating it. GRR. selfish, inconsiderate, lazy, mean...oh crap, nevermind, you know all this...repetition is not productive.
Comments
Sep 8 2008 11:52 PM
yes i'm a mushroom head.
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May 19 2008 5:48 PM
Better late than never, eh?
May 5 2008 12:36 PM
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Feb 13 2008 11:11 PM
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Mike+Gunn
someone should add a bio, upload some tunes and pics. =)
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Dec 18 2007 10:46 PM
Sorry it is only part of the song...
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Oct 31 2007 11:51 PM
nice fairy dust, you douche!
Oct 7 2007 3:00 AM
OR just have them drop dead. you know, whatever's easier. amen.
Sep 22 2007 12:09 AM
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