hopeful cynicism, dystopian love stories, bad habits, the number two, the word persnickety, learning, friends, family, endearing imperfections, teaching, reading, being black, being male, being a scorpio, people, being ugly (it builds character), governing dynamics, male guilt, other people's creativity, other people's lack of creativity, anti-feelings, revision, form, function, satire, my contemporaries, tomorrow kings, before and after, redheads, red herrings (same difference), relationships, good music, bad music, good writing, fun vs. entertainment, being observant, movies (especially from the 80s and 90s), women, race-consciousness, art (whatever that means), advertising, a lot of crap-without-the-c, a lot of non-crap-without-the-c, love-hate relationships (like the one i have with poetry), passion, compassion, good bad movies, tattoos, inappropriate jokes, thinking too much, feeling too much, insomnia, some things in moderation, the unbearable lightness of being, high fidelity, books and movies about men with commitment issues, smart cartoons, consolation prizes, genius, bad luck, good dialogue, insomnia, syntax, reality tv (isn't really real because people have become too camera-conscious but sometimes it's entertaining), arrogance, style, indifference, size 13s, rituals, constructive criticism, etc.
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Sisyphus laughs when I bitch about pushing thirty.
People seem to think I'm smart. I'm not that smart, just observant. My relationship with insomnia is the longest one I've ever had. The second longest is with writing. I'm currently working on two full lengths and an EP titled Music to Feel Like Shit to. It will be available at the end of the summer.
I am a hopeful cynic. Equally obsessed with symmetry and asymmetry. I identify with one and want for the other. I'm not right all of the time, just often enough that you can round up to always. Sometimes I think men will be obsolete by the end of the century. Sometimes I think it won't take that long. I am often frustrated, angered even, by homogeneous groups of people. The odds of that happening increase greatly when those groups are composed of white males and/or white liberals, two groups who often fail to realize how condescending they can be. My favorite books and movies are usually about men with commitment issues, like High Fidelity and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. One day I'm going to actually finish Atlas Shrugged. For every five books I start reading I only finish one. I'm not proud of that fact. I'm a work in progress. At some point before that progress ends I'd like to live in London and Minneapolis for a few years. They're my second and third favorite cities behind Chicago.
I try my best to be honest and uphold a high level of integrity in all things I do. If you're a decent person it shows in what you do. If you're an asshole that's what shows. I'm somewhere in between depending on my mood and how well I know you. Don't worry, even when I'm mean it's usually out of love. If people like me and what I do, cool. If not, that's cool too. I'm a writer, so I'll always write whether people buy the end product or not.
I don't really celebrate holidays. Just a few birthdays, tennis tournaments, basketball season and shoe release dates. I'm mostly just trying to fill the void between the aforementioned events with some productivity. I'd like to exchange some of my current bad habits for good ones and new bad ones that aren't so bad. I've considered part-time smoking, but I can't afford it. I currently smoke somewhere between twenty and thirty-five cigarettes a year.
At some point in the not-so-distant future I'd really like to work on a big collaborative project between myself and a bunch of other artists. And by artists I don't just mean rappers and producers. I want to do something really cool and unexpected like make an animated opera or build a mech. Maybe we can brainstorm over a game of badminton or get the ball rolling with a conversation about Shannyn Sossamon being awesome, but needing to get better roles.
If you're interested in talking business, shows, collaborations and all that feel free to e-mail me at lamonmanuel@gmail.com.
Also, I belong to an eight-man collective called Tomorrow Kings. Check us out if you have a minute.
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