Shawn
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" ' It's NICE to be nice ! ' PEOPLE HAVE The Power = don't be fooled !"
Male
42 years old
LOS ANGELES, California
United States
Last Login: 9/4/2008
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Shawn's Interests
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| General | HISTORY ... PHILOSOPHY ... The COSMOS ... Art, geo-politics, adventures, gardening, eating and drinking, being or trying to be well balanced, LAUGHS, ummmm - learning ...
. | | Music | I LOVE ALL KINDS ... MUSIC is the Most POWERFUL artform !!! Music is my sanctuary & salvation .... ENDLESS ... FELA KUTI . Bob Marley & THE WAILERS !!! CLASS of 1977 "two 7's clash" DUB reggae,DANCEHALL Ragga, PUNK rock { The Clash, Pistols, Buzzcocks, Slits, X Ray Spex, Crass, P.I.L., Pop Group, Black Flag}, Modern Lovers, Velvet Underground, Neil Young, HIP HOP { gangsta,backpack, and ol' school}, Leonard Cohen, BLUES {all time favorite Hooker&Heat ... JLH w/ Canned Heat} ... SMASHING Classic ROCK-n-ROLL = Lil'Richard, "Tha Killa"Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny CASH, ELVIS, etc ... KRAUTROCK ! Can, Amon Duhl II, Neu! , GURU-GURU, FAUST, & Kraftwerk . POP. Country. GOOD MUSIC of whatever genre. WORLD MUSIC. | | Movies | I studied the History of Art & Cinema Criticism at University ... Battle of Algiers, 400 Blow, EVE, Breathless, One + One, The Conformist, Last Tango In Paris, Badlands, Days of Heaven, Godfather, Apocolypse Now, ANY Kurasawa, Goddard, Ashby, Scorsesee, Friedkin, Coppola, Kubrick, Mike Leigh ... WORLD CINEMA ! more to come. DOCUMENTARIES ! | | Television | RARELY watch TV ... except PBS , CNN or BBC when I travel.
I PREFER to LISTEN to people LIVE. I'm someone who LOVES "good" TV & is bummed at the "INFO-TAINMENT" style of American Media today ... otherwise I watch
The Simpson's , 60 minutes, History Channel, Nat'l Geographic, PBS ... usually I only watch the news, old movies OR documentaries... Frontline ... Sesame Street was instrumental.
Anderson Cooper 360
| | Books | anything on or about RIMBAUD. I'm into HISTORY BOOKS ... OK - some classic suggestions : Joan Didion THE WHITE ALBUM , JerzyKazinski BEING THERE, Kurt Vonnegut GRAND FALOONS, WOMAPATEER & FOMA, any Salinger, Genet, H.S.Thompson, Kerouac ... MOST of all I love photo books and artist's monographs esp. Richard Prince - who is SERIOUSLY funny ! | | Heroes | THE UNSUNG HEROES OF EVERYDAY LIFE LIKE NURSES & FIREMEN , yet also Arthur Rimbaud, A.Steiglitz, Nelson Mandela, The Zapatistas, Subcommandante Marcos, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan,Thomas Pynchon, Patti Smith, Joe Strummer, Captain Beefheart, Robert Frank , William Eggleston, Ed Ruscha, Glenn O'Brien, Gina Nanni, Oscar O'Brien, MArk Gonzales, Richard Prince, Christopher Wool, David Wojnarowicz, Felix Gonzales-Torres ... & the UNSUNG HEROES I meet in my day to day adventures ... |
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Confessions of an American Buddhist
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Shawn's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Los Angeles | | Body type: | 6' 3" / Athletic | | Ethnicity: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio | | Smoke / Drink: | Yes / Yes | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | artist, photographer, director |
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About me:
Every day is a gift. Dream your WILDEST DREAMS & LIVE UP to them !!!
I walk THE PLANET & am a true Internationalist or Citizen of the World .
TO VIEW my images go to www.shawnmortense.org . OR better yet buy my book Out of Mind {Harry Abrams} $24.99 or LESS on Amazon.
Otherwise . . .
CHILLIN' with JA-VA !
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Who I'd like to meet:
INCREDIBLY bright, funny, talented, wise, sensative and courageous people. Not necessarily in that order - and not having to hold all attributes.
PEOPLE WHO KICK ASS - SLY - SENSE of HUMOUR a MUST.
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