pheasant plucking life
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'sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?'
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32 years old
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
United States
Last Login: 11/13/2009
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| General | aquaria (shrimpses especially), typewriters, books, artses, canned fish, ice hockey/skating, mad honey, grammar, dystopia, consequences, RISK: the world conquest game | | Music | oysterhead, jazz & experimental radio: wkcr.org transfigured night, naked by talking heads, my jew's harp, the arcade fire, wilco, somethin else by cannonball adderly, led zeppelin III (easily the most underlooked lz record. hear it.) hoagy carmichael, cab calloway, sonic youth, mr. the tom waits. tindersticks, lone pigeon, lenny cohen, thirteenth floor elevators | | Movies | fahrenheit 451, saddest music in the world, prospero's books, marx bros., chaplin, buster keaton, dw griffith, the thin man, bring me the head of alfredo garcia, bladerunner, day the earth stood still, alphaville, the fearless vampire killers, twilight of the ice nymphs, jim jarmusch, guy maddin, terry gilliam, ang lee, sam raimi, polanski | | Television | dr. who, raw & smackdown | | Books | haruki murakami, sleepers awake by kenneth patchen, gregory corso, frank ohara, stalking the unicorn by mike resnick, o henry, jung, maxwell bodenheim, s.j. perelman (he even wrote scripts for marx bros flicks.), stephen jay gould (natural historian), richard brautigan, donald barthelme, r. gordon wasson (ethnomycologist), marty matz, stanislaw lem, abraham lincoln, edward packard 'you are a shark', ernest haycox, damon runyon, tom robbins, slawomir mrozek, alain robbe grillet, tom pynchon ate my brain, wm. blake, rainer maria rilke, edgar oliver, frank o'hara | | Heroes | the trees aflight, fishes awash and beagles down below. |
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Smoke / Drink: | Yes / Yes |
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About me:
pages from the ninth edition:
one day i left work which was a swanky bldg in soho containing superswanky lofts and a lot of good names on the neigghbors' mailboxes. there in the trash, tied together to be recycled i suppose, were 7 volumes of the encyclopedia britannica. not just any old britannica volumes, nay, but leatherbound tomes that turned out to be ca. 1880 (a few different dates)
all part of the ninth edition of the britannica.
i've always enjoyed the britannica and encyclopedias in general. when i changed schools in grade school my nerdiness was immediately revealed by my encyclopedia reading habit. hell, even the world book is better than most teachers in the midwest.
i hauled these volumes to my tiny cell in harlem that had a window on the air shaft and a mouse named ralph who wore a little red cape.
i sat, smoking cigarettes, and went through all seven volumes. poring over the illustrations: plates, maps, technical drawings, animals. damn few humans to be seen though. no portraits. no photography.
i marked the illustrations i liked the best and chose a volume and cut it apart. these are superbly made with creamy luscious paper. not easy to take apart. and of course the paper by now is brittle. a lot of care to be taken.
so far i've cut two. their exact titles i cannot recall. gou to heat or so and an M volume.
here's a taste of the resulting collages. i collect as many good elements as i can. from as many directions as possible and spanning the entire subsequent timeframe.
'pages from the ninth edition' can be found:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mindbum/
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