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arian's Interests
General
drawing, painting, writing thinly veiled fiction, filmmaking, literature, chess, GO, puzzles, making various failed attempts to learn my banjo, political dissent, attempting to beat my cats in a staring contest, philosophical debates (aka arguing), wine & bourbon, mac stuff, space/time theory, juggling, memorizing completely pointless information, riddles, puzzles, movies, music, (but then... who isn't interested in music and movies? everyone likes music and movies.), enduring, staring, obsessing, beating dead horses (literally and figuratively), doing things out of priciple, glossing over regrets, body odors, poking things with sticks, dreaming about buried treasure, creating a mythical self-image, and trying to create and then subsequently destroy my own personal nemesis... which may or may not be my own brother jay...
"honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy" -carlin
"viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse" -goethe
"i do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest" -william o. douglas
"endurance is more important than truth" -henry chinaski, BARFLY
Music
Tom Waits... charismatic story-teller with a
penchant for freaky people and unusual
settings. You thrive on the concept of the
underdog coming out on top.
devendra banhart, bonnie "prince" billy, palace brothers, tom waits, modest mouse, joanna newsom, nick cave and the bad seeds, the animals, animal collective, the be good tanyas, the beastie boys, the beatles, belle and sebastian, bikini kill, bob dylan, the brian jonestown massacre, built to spill, cat stevens, cocorosie, cornershop, the day action band, the ditty bops, Django Reinhardt, the dresden dolls, the flaming lips, frank black, gillian welch, guided by voices, iron &; wine, johnny cash, jolie holland, jonathan richman and the modern lovers, le tigre, lou barlow, luna, te magnetic fields, motor, my morning jacket, neutral milk hotel, papas fritas, pavement, the pixies, radiohead, ray charles, the rolling stones, the shins, the silver jews, spacemen 3, the spinto band, sufjan stevens, talking heads, ugly casanova, vashti banyan, ween, weezer, the white stripes, yo la tengo
Movies
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, barfly, until the end of the world, human nature, cool hand luke, king kong, equilibrium, adaptation, A.I., o brother where art thou, se7en, the incredibles, secretary, punch drunk love, a very long engagement, sex and lucia, city of lost children, last temptation of christ, after hours, fight club, panic room, rushmore, straw dogs, wings of desire, zelig, being john malkovich, the sheltering sky, pi, brazil, millers crossing, blood simple, the trial, naked lunch, videodrome, the hudsucker proxy, dead man, dr. strangelove, the singing detective, cronos, hellboy, no such thing, all the real girls, northfork, undertow, night of the hunter, the thin red line, the professional, minoroity report, the third man, M, blade runner, legend, dark city, alien, for a few dollars more, unforgiven, solaris, tie me up tie me down, crash (the cronenberg one, not the new one), withnail and i, dancer in the dark, dogville, in the realms of the unreal, jesus' son, witches of eastwick, the devils backbone, sweet and lowdown, evil dead 2, texas chainsaw massacre (original), almost assuredly the fountain and pans labyrinth, and actually, a whole lot more...
Television
the late, the great, arrested development, futurama, newsradio, mr. show, curb your enthusiasm... but i don't watch them on cable, i just buy the dvds, that still counts right?
Books
books, good lord, will just be easier to list the authors here... bukowski, fanté, denis johnson, tolstoy, lovecraft, orwell, genet, sartre, céline (aka louis ferdinand destouches), vonnegut, c.s. lewis, burroughs, roald dahl, hunter s. thompson, paul auster, e e cumming, nietzsche, kant, descartes, bradbury, asimov, dostoyevsky, roth, salinger, kesey, camus, lynda barry, neil gaiman, crumb, pahlniuk, raymond carver, gogol, hamsun, philip k. dick, raymond chandler and his contemporaries, poe, horatio alger jr., hemingway
Heroes
anyone who can stub their toe without launching into a barrage of obscenities... and that chick at toscana to go that gave me an extra breadstick, that was just awesome...
About me: with little provocation i will loudly and zealously assert my sanity... usually towards strangers whom i suspect are plotting against me...
Who I'd like to meet: the other 15/16ths of the central core consciousness from which all others are derived.
people with obsessive interests in shelving. anyone who can string a couple of words together and sings for no particular reason... but in reality... anyone really, i mean, if i KNEW who i wanted to meet, i would just go say hi... so i tend to wait for people to say hi to me... but if i had to make some abstract choices...
donald drusky... he attempted to file suit against GOD for not taking corrective actions against druskys former employer... drusky demanded that GOD grant him guitar playing skills or ressurect either his pet pigeon or his mother...
henry darger... who truly made art for arts sake...
myself reincarnated as a smaller furrier mammal, or me from the future, or at least that guy that walks around town looking like me, confusing the few people i know...
Trying to keep you astride of all the GREAT classics of the 90's. This is that band you had no idea who or what I was talking about. ENJOY! She's pretty HARDCORE, just look at the outfit!
I think we should get a family bowling league together. We can drive to Wilmington once a week. We can raise this little bugger PROPER, with smelly rented shoes and gaudy shirts! OOH can we all get matching league shirts? that's the best part. I'm Serious!
That damn ICHAT thing...I was just clicking on your SN and thought "that son of a..!" Yes, telephones are a nice way to communicate. Please do call when you aren't busy doing well, whatever someone such as yourself does in his spare time.
Jesus Arian- what neighborhood and to whom?!?! Were you able to move all of your antiquity, animals and plants in a very orderly fashion?. .Does she know what a lucky gal she is? Have you cooked her shrimp yet? Any good movies or books lately- tell me something good? wow. gimme a call or letter. I've tried a couple times w/ no success. How are Kim and Algi?
It all happened so fast, too fast really, and before I knew it all these frogs had made their way in, but none where as noisy as the one in your pocket...especially not this one.
