Digital Art, Art History, World & Cultural History, American Global Politics, Secret Societies, Neurological Imprinting, Meyers & Briggs Personality Typing, Astrology, Patterns within Random Systems, Coincidence Syndrome, Abnormal Psychology, Automotive Repair, High Performance Engine and Suspension Modification, Drifting, HPDE, Touge, Time Attack, Digital Photography, Graphic Design, Web Design, Computer Networking, 2600, Media Manipulation
Music
mc5, rolling stones, death in june, coil, gitogito hustlers, delerium, Mos Def, Op Ivy, less than jake, the cryptomanics, the cadavers, sublime, the doors, Radio head, lunar event, pacific uv, leonard cohen, Wu Tang, Groovie Ghoulies, Tupac, Android Lust, Atom and his package, bad brains, bauhaus, bouncing souls, buck-o-nine, cake, crime and the city solution, current 93, dead milkmen, death cab for cutie, deltron, Digable planets, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, lauryn hill, legendary pink dots, Letters to cleo, long beach dub allstars, Marvin Gaye, Massive attack, MC Chris, Nick Cave, NOFX, Outkast, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Portis Head, psychic tv, Ramones, Slighty Stoopid, Sloppy Seconds, Soul Coughing, The Swans, The Cure, The Pillows, Tom Waits, The Weakerthans, this mortal coil, Tricky, weezer, BRIGHT EYE'S!!! (drown that midwestern depression)
Movies
anything by Akira Korosawa, or Stanely Kubrick...
can anyone tell me what these two directors had in common?
(its light, attention to detail within scene lighting, they were obessed with it, and its why there films stand out from the crowd stylistically)
Television
adult swim, the daily show, cops (know thy enemy), best motoring video's, Anything with tsuchiya clowning on people...I watch a lot of stolen anime on my computer too, Initial D being my favorite, yes i like initial D no i don't want to run out and spend too much on an AE86. THE TRAILER PARK BOYS!!! (international television streaming over video share sites is the new bit torrent...but you already knew this) the office isn't too bad.
Books
Count Zero, Burning Chrome, The Empty Mirror, The Last Man, Cosmic Trigger 1, The Illumenatus trilogy, Toyota MR2 factory repair manuals, Haynes aw11 85-87 repair manual. Zen and the art of shut the fuck up and drive. threee pillars of zen, and old school tripod websites left over from '98. oops can't forget the principia discordia.
Heroes
Bill Hicks, D.T. Suzuki-roshi, Dogen Zenji, william gibson, robert anton wilson, colin chapman, Colin McCrae, The Illumenatti, The Bavarian Illumenatti!
but mainly my hero's are real people, who i surround myself with....we're like the justice league on crack...Jay Schreoder for learning japanese and going all out in the NIPPON-LAND, Edgar for organizing drift events and putting in the hours for the good of the scene, Eric for learning to drive RWD on the touge with no fear, and lastly Joh for being the youngest ae86 guru out there, and having more 4age knowledge than me probably..Justin, he's my psychadelic brother. Steve-o, in seattle now, but still my best friend.
Broad Ripple High School
Indianapolis, INDIANA
Graduated: 1997
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: not getting beat up
Clubs: smokers on the corner, freaks in the 3rd floor bathroom...
1995 to 1997
D'evelyn Senior High School
Denver, COLORADO
Graduated: 1996
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: left this school to live in indianapolis
Clubs: football team, first year they had one...
.....Discordian, Buddhist, Zen Student, Invisible...
"i like rice cakes, it satisfys my primal urge to chew on packaging materials"
if your bored then your boring...
i am a 28 year old guy who lives somewhere in indianapolis. i'm a pisces (is that what your WANT?! you want FISH!!), i'm a car guy (sleek fast and preferably from the 80s), i'm a photographer, i'm a digital artist, a blunt philosiphiser, some might even say i'm an asshole. but i'm not a good or bad guy...because i don't believe that anything is that singluar or one sided, its subjective to the situation and observers involved. i think a lot, its a curse, i'm working at perfecting the art of failing to observe myself (zazen)...its intense...the more i keep that focus the more life seems real and worth playing out...i am not as passive of an observer as i may sound, when i am bored i will act out to entertain myself...this includes really bad impressions, questionable jokes, and generally making a fool out of myself...its cool because i'm laughing too.
above all these things said above, I've just become a dad, and i'm learning what that means...
Who I'd like to meet: Other collabrotive artists, musical, fine art, illustrative/graphic, writers, film... whatever...who are interested in working together, i can bring a large amount of publicity and design knowledge to the table...hopefully midwestern and more so, in indianapolis.
ofcourse i would also like to meet Drifters, Autocrossers, Indy Region SCCA members, NASA HPDE drivers, you know responsible car enthuasists...
Subcultural models - IE people who deserve to be turned into art...
As or my personal life i'm taken, and we have a daughter.
Hey it's me, Smokin' Joe Sprong. I am putting together a charity benefit for Breast Cancer Research. This event will take place next summer providing I can get enough participants involved.I am attempting to assemble at least 200 tattoo artists in one location for an all day or possibly 3 day event ( depending on the number of participants). The basic summary is this: The "special of the day" is a pink ribbon tattoo for only a mere $20. Of course not everyone will want this particular design, so any other design would be also perfectly acceptible with a $20 donation for each tat sold.Anything over that initial $20 would be the artist's money to keep. Also there will be an art auction featuring mostly local unknowns to promote their names as well.For every one piece donated to the auction, the artist would be permitted to display two of their own pieces in the gallery for independant sale. This is in the beginning stages at this point as I'm still gathering willing participants.If this sounds like something that you would be interested in than please contact me at velvetunderlord@yahoo.com. The deadline for response is Feb. 12,2010. Please respond in a timely manner.
I have a somehwat better copy that youtube won't take... anyways, I'll get it to you soon! Later, -Shane (the guy you were in a band with for two weeks!)
Hey everyone, Thanks for stickin with us while we are figuring things out, it has been a strange couple of months for us. And thank for continuing to check out the tunes and leave us messages, it really has meant a lot to us!!!! We will be back stronger than before talking to everyone and keeping up with the reply and comments to everyone.
On a happier note! We are thinking of doing a new cover song and cant choose we what to know what you think.
ok here is the new game, we need a new profile picture, so there are two ways to play but only one way to win!!!! you can go to our pic and cast your vote in the comments the pic with the most votes will be concidered in the final vote. the other way is to make us a sign that has our name. all signs will be posted but the best on will be concidered in the final vote. Winner of the sign making will recieve a fan sign pic comments and a spot as our number friend. any questions...just ask. Winners will be annouced next week in our winners/superfans blog!!! GOOD LUCK
seattle is full of giant dreadlocked vaginas and heavy tofu petting. it smells like the sea and cleanly washed post graduate college students who seemingly were born in a bottle of pledge. it's like the limpest william gibson fantasy a well paid former dork now millionaire type would wank to in all it's futility. i like it so far.
