Animal Rights,Enviromental Protection, Freedom, Human Rights, Peace-Punk, Socialism, Anarcho-socialism, Veganism, Zen Buddhism *** Artists: Joseph Beuys, William Blake, Victor Brauner, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Thomas Chimes, Joseph Cornell, Daumier, Jack Delano, Otto Dix, Marcel Duchamp, Fritz Eichenberg, Casper David Friedrich, Theodore Gericault, Leon Golub, Goya, George Grosz, Hans Haacke, Katsushika Hokusai, Jenny Holzer, William Kentridge, Anselm Kiefer, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Jack Levine, Gordon Matta-Clark, Barnett Newman, Gerhard Richter, Kurt Schwitters, Ben Shahn, Nancy Spero, Antoni Tàpies, Dox Thrash, J. M. W. Turner, Vincent Van Gogh, Gee Vaucher
Music
Akkolyte, Roderigo Amado, AMM, Amon Duul II, Aphrodite's Child, A.P.P.L.E., Art Emsemble of Chicago, Robert Ashley, Albert Ayler, Bach, Balthasar Gerards Kommando, Louis & Bebe Barron, Big Boys, Big Youth, Black Kronstadt, Black Ox Orkestar, Boredoms, Brainticket, Bread and Water, Brother Inferior, Peter Brotzmann, Buzzcocks, John Cage, Can, Walter Carlos/Wendy Carlos, Rhys Chatham, Don Cherry, Chopin, Chris and Cosey, Chrome, Coil, Ornette Coleman, Bootsy Collins, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Crass, Crucifix, Dekadent, Martin Denny, Devo, Discharge, Tod Dockstader, Charles Dodge, Do say make think, Justin Duerr and the Etheric Phonenix of L.O.V.E., Einstrurzend Neubauten, Emergency Broadcast Network, Faust, Flux of Pink Indians, Flying Saucer Attack, Fly Pan Am, Fred Frith, Edgar Froese, Gesualdo, Lutz Gladien, Godspeed you black emperor, Dennis Gonzalez, Milford Graves, Grieg, Henry Grimes, Ground Zero, Henry Cow, Jerry Hunt, King Tubby, Kraftwerk, K-Space, Laibach, Gyory Ligeti, Lost Cherrees, Alvin Lucier, Christian Marclay, MDC, MFM, Monolake, Muslimgauze, Mussorgsky, Serpents of W.I.S.D.O.M., Conlon Nancarrow, Negativland, Neu!, Nocturnal Emissions, Klaus Nomi, Northern Liberties, Nurse with Wound, Oi Polloi, Pauline Oliveros, John Oswald, Augustus Pablo, Nam June Paik, Arvo Pärt, Harry Partch, Piano Magic, Poison Girls, Popol Vuh, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Keith Rowe, Ruins, Pharaoh Sanders, Pierre Schaeffer, Klaus Schulze, Screamers, Septic Tumor, The Shaggs, Linda and Sonny Sharrock, Silver Mt. Zion, The Slits, Ladonna Smith, Wadada Leo Smith, The Specials, Laurie Spiegel, SPK, Stereolab, Stinking Lizaveta, Stockhausen, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Morton Subotnick, Suicide, Sun Ra, Test Dept., Tiny Tim, Toots and the Maytals, Rafael Toral, Tuxedomoon, Richard Trythall, Vladimir Ussacevsky, Edgard Varese, Yabba U, Yarn of the Moonfruit, Yells at Eels, Otomo Yoshihide, Y Pants, Frank Zappa, Z'ev
Movies
Kustom Kar Kommandos, directed by Kenneth Anger; Blood of a Poet, Orpheus, The Testament of Orpheus, by Jean Cocteau; Quilombo, Directed by Carlos Diegues; Brazil, Time Bandits, directed by Terry Gilliam; The Burmese Harp; directed by Kon Ichikawa; Harakiri; directed by Masaki Kobayashi; The Bad Sleep Well, Stray Dog, 7 Samurai, directed by Akira Kurosawa; Blue Velvet, directed by David Lynch; Sansho the Bailiff, directed by Kenji Mizoguchi; Princess Mononoke, Howls Moving Castle, directed by Hayao Mizyaki; Show me Love, Together, Lilja 4-ever, directed by Lukas Moodysson; Akira, by Katsuhiro Otomo; 1984, directed by Michael Radford; Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott; Withnail and I, directed by Bruce Robinson; Andrei Rublev, Soloris, Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky; F is for Fake, Mr. Arkadin (aka Confidential Report), directed by Orson Wells
Television
The Fall of Eagles, Father Ted, Michael Palin's Himalaya, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, Max Headroom, The Prisoner, Red Dwarf, Rome, Michael Palin's Sahara
Books
Hitchikers guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams; Alamut, by Vladimir Bartol; Reflections, by Walter Benjamin; Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, by Alexander Berkman; Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs; Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick; Dhamapada; Economics and the Public Purpose, by John Kenneth Galbraith; Living My Life, by Emma Goldman; Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, Visits of Love, Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry; Ulysses by James Joyce; The Trial by Kafka; Pretty in Punk by Leblanc; Manifesto from the Sub-, by Dr. Malcom K. & Dr. N. O. Pibbles; Soloris, by Stanislaw Lem; People of the Abyss, by Jack London; Interrogation Machine (Laibach and NSK), by Alexei Monroe; Akira, by Katsuhiro Otomo; Animal Farm, Homage to Catalonia, 1984, by George Orwell; Sacco & Vanzetti Letters; Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist, Nick Salvatore; Black Liberation and Socialism, by Ahmed Shawki; Subterranoan Fire, by Sharon Smith; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson; The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh; The Rainbow Stories, by William T. Vollman; The Complete Poems, by Walt Whitman; Bomb the Suburbs, No more Prisons by William Upski Winsatt; We, by Eugene Zamiatin, Peoples History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
About me: Artist; Printmaking, painting, collague, installation, performance & sound.
Founder ofsound installation and performance group MFM.
I spent most of my life in Pennsylvania but I lived for about 6 years in Chicago & 6 years in Dallas. I've traveled a bit around the USA and also have been too Finland, Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Slovakia & Hungry. I'm currently living in West Philadelphia but have a 2nd studio in Bethlehem Pennsylvania.
I'm intrested in enviromental concerns socialist, social anachist, history, art, music, film. I also send out hand made postcard art in the mail (write me if you would like a postcard).
web: http://www.trackthreestudios.com/David%20Aponte.htm
email me: wheatboyz@yahoo.com
snail mail: (ask me)
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"Now this has been standing here for centuries. The
premier work of man perhaps in the whole western world
and it's without a signature. Chartres. A celebration
to God's glory and to the dignity of man. All that's
left, most artists seem to feel these days, is man.
Naked, poor, forked radish. There aren't any
celebrations. Ours, the scientists keep telling us, is
a universe which is disposable. You know it might be
just this one anonymous glory of all things, this rich
stone forest, this epic chant, this gaiety, this grand
choiring shout of affirmation, which we choose when
all our cities are dust; to stand intact, to mark
where we have been, to testify to what we had it in us
to accomplish. Our works in stone, in paint, in print
are spared, some of them for a few decades, or a
millennium or two, but everything must fall in war or
wear away into the ultimate and universal ash: the
triumphs and the frauds, the treasures and the fakes.
A fact of life... we're going to die. 'Be of good
heart,' cry the dead artists out of the living past.
Our songs will all be silenced - but what of it? Go on
singing. Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much."
~Orson Wells (from his monolog on Chartres Cathedrial, from film "F for Fake")
Who I'd like to meet: I would love to meet other artists, musicians, writers or filmakers. Network, send postcard art in the mail... or meet new traveling comrades and friends. Open minded people, who care to try to make the best of things and try to make this world a better place even though it might seem impossible at times.
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"The earth's surface and the figments of the mind have
a way of disintegrating into discrete regions of art.
Various agents, both fictional and real, somehow trade
places with each other…One's mind and the earth are in
a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away
abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of
thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing."
-Robert Smithson
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Haha! You're still on Myspace. I thought everybody defected to Facebook. Well, I saw an interesting theatrical performance at Germ Books earlier today. Then off to Square Peg which was warm and welcoming as always.
Paul's brother, Luke here...I've been liking the pics or prints or drawings you've been rotating on your page...wish I was there to see them in person...
I'm alright. I'm trying to mentally prepare myself for not working for five days since the one restaurant I work at is closing for renovations. So that will be nice. I will have to keep busy, which means I will finally get to just read all day!
