Music, philosophy, relativity,
writing poetry, reading poetry, criticizing rock music,
old records, all kinds of photography,
graphic design, shiny objects,
bargain books, staring at my computer,
darkroom disasters, local bands,
intelligent hip-hop, sober rock stars,
cloud patterns, pi, theosophical
texts, guitar strings, black nail polish,
lip gloss, natural foods,
quiet children,
destructive weapons, physical fitness, malicious code,
guitars, chaos theory, biblical truth, quantum physics, martial arts, and you.
"If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up."
-Richard Avedon
Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is its vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-a-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
Music
Soul, rock, hip-hop, jazz, blues, old punk, classical... however within those wide genres I have very specific tastes.
2 Skinnee J's, 12 Rounds, Aaliyah, Ryan Adams, Alabama, Alice in Chains, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, The Arcade Fire, Atari Teenage Riot, Audioslave, Autechre, Babyface, Johann S. Bach, Angelo Badalamenti, Erykah Badu, Bahamadia, Band of Horses, Bauhaus, Beastie Boys, Beck, Ludwig van Beethoven, Be Good Tanyas, Jello Biafra, Binary Star, Tracy Blackman, Black Moon, Black Sabbath, Black Star, Mary J. Blige, Blur, David Bowie, Breakstra, Jeff Buckley, Bullfrog, R.L. Burnside, Bush, Cake, Regina Carter, Johnny Cash, The Catherine Wheel, Cee-Lo, Tracy Chapman, Ray Charles, Cirque du Soleil, The Clash, Les Claypool, Coil, Common, Sam Cooke, Alice Cooper, Chris Cornell, Nikka Costa, The Coup, Crooked Still, The Cure, Curve, The Damage Manual, D'Angelo, Dan the Automator, Miles Davis, Howie Day, Claude Debussy, Deja Voodoo, Depeche Mode, Dilated Peoples, Dixie Chicks, DJ Shadow, The Doors, Dr. Dre, Antonin Dvorak, Elastica, Eminem, En Vogue, Esthero, The Eurythmics, Faith Evans, Aretha Franklin, The Fugees, Peter Gabriel, Garbage, Marvin Gaye, Genius/GZA, George Gershwin, Ghostface, Goodie Mob, The Gorillaz, Jean Grae, Al Green, Green Day, Guster, Anthony Hamilton, Ben Harper, Jimi Hendrix, Hieroglyphics, Lauryn Hill, Hobex, Billie Holiday, Hooverphonic, Howlin' Maggie, Charlie Hunter, Incubus, India.Aire, INXS, Jack Off Jill, Etta James, Jane's Addiction, Jedi Mind Tricks, Jesus and Mary Chain, J. Live, Elton John, Jack Johnson, Janis Joplin, Josh Roberts and the Hinges, The Judds, Jump Little Children, Jurassic 5, Alicia Keys, Chaka Khan, Kid Koala, The Killers, B.B. King, KMFDM, Kraftwerk, Diana Krall, Alison Krauss, Kronos Quartet, Talib Kweli, KRS-One, Annie Lennox, The Licks, Lina, Franz Listz, Danny Lohner, Marilyn Manson, Bob Marley, Clint Mansell, John Mayer, MDFMK, Method Man, Ministry, Mommyheads, Thelonious Monk, Keith Moon, Mos Def, Motorhead, Wolfgang Amadeus Motzart, The Movement, Mr. Bungle, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, My Morning Jacket, Nas, Meshell Ndegeocello, Willie Nelson, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, No Doubt, Notorious B.I.G., N.W.A., Ollabelle, Shuggie Otis, Outkast, Pantera, Charlie Parker, Dolly Parton, Patrick Davis, Peeping Tom, A Perfect Circle, Tom Petty, Pharoahe Monch, Photek, Pink Floyd, Pop Will Eat Itself, Porno for Pyros, Portishead, Pretenders, Prick, Primus, Prince, Public Enemy, Puscifer, Queen, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Radiohead, Raekwon, Rasputina, Recoil, Otis Redding, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, The Roots, Rosebud, Raphael Saadiq, Sade, Satellite Party, Jill Scott, The Sex Pistols, 2Pac Shakur, Sheila E, Sigur Ros, Silverchair, SKWZBXX, Patti Smith, Snoop Dogg, Soulive, Soundgarden, The South, Regina Spektor, Angie Stone, Stone Temple Pilots, Squarepusher, Sweetback, The The, This Mortal Coil, Three Dog Night, Tool, Toots and the Maytals, Tweet, Twista, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Velvet Underground, Villanova, Antonio Vivaldi, Tom Waits, Weezer, The White Stripes, White Zombie, The Who, Lucinda Williams, Saul Williams, Amy Winehouse, Josh Wink, Stevie Wonder, Wyclef Jean, Rob Zombie
Movies
The Matrix Trilogy, The Shining, The Exorcist, Pi, Taxi Driver, One Hour Photo, Devil's Advocate, Half Baked, Talented Mr. Ripley, V for Vendetta, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Dream for an Insomniac, Crash (the old one and the new one), Fight Club, Fall, The Wall, Hellraiser, Natural Born Killers, Lost Highway, Saw, Stigmata, Eye of the Beholder, The Omen, The Ring, Tombraider, Amityville Horror, Red Violin, Benny & Joon, Blade, Constantine, Man on Fire, 28 Days Later, all of the X-Men Movies, The Village, Poltergeist, Dead Zone, Suicide Kings, Resevoir Dogs, Brooklyn Babylon, Event Horizon, Moulin Rouge, Candyman, X-men, Memento, Ultraviolet, Big Fish,Aeon Flux, Children of the Corn, Pulp Fiction, Neverending Story, Scarface, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Mulholland Drive, Event Horizon, A Lowdown Dirty Shame, The Prophecy,
The Usual Suspects, Bound, Royal Tennenbaums, Life Aquatic, Run Lola Run, A Life Less Ordinary, Skeleton Key, Being John Malkovich, Vanilla Sky, Lost in Translation, 5th Element...
Television
Television sucks.
Here are some more of my pictures.
Books
I mostly read fiction, but I am also getting into other philosophic authors like Kant and Aurelius. Have read every book by Carl Jung and every novel by Toni Morrison. Chuck Palahniuk is my favorite new author, but lately I've been falling into suspense novels and romantic (not harlequin-style romantic, but real romantic) literature.
The Bible, Great and Secret Show, Everville, Invisible Monsters, Walden, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Big Sur, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Demian, Atlas Shrugged, Invisible Man, anything by William Blake, The Jungle, Synchronicity, Tale of Two Cities, Lolita, Tao Te Ching, The Awakening, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Meditations, Strange Fruit, Utopia, The Odyssey, 120 Days of Sodom, Great Expectations, Diary, A Season in Hell, Answer to Job, Clockwork Orange, The Stepford Wives, Paradise Lost, The Gift of Fear, Count of Monte Cristo, East of Eden, Things Fall Apart, Divine Comedy, Notes From Underground, Silence of the Lambs, Choke, The Physics of Conciousness, ABC of Relativity, What the Bleep do We Know?!, Velocity, Fugitives and Refugees, Black Ice, Cider House Rules, Sex and the City, A Widow for One Year, The Orchid Thief, Once in a House on Fire, Jane Eyre, Superstition...
★ Vega ★ I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say... please be careful with me, I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way. Posted at 3:09 AM Mar 3 view more
That was pleasure.
He knows about that: stained glass of the body
lit by our lovely chemistry and neural ghost.
Pleasure as fruit and pleasure as ambush. Excitement
a wind so powerful, we cannot find a shape for it,
so our apparatus cannot hold on to the brilliant
pleasure for long. Enjoyment is different.
It understands and keeps. The having of the having.
But ecstasy is a question.
-Jack Gilbert
Sometimes, to entertain themselves, the men of the crew
Lure upon deck an unlucky albatross, one of those vast
Birds of the sea that follow unwearied the voyage through,
Flying in slow and elegant circles above the mast.
No sooner have they disentangled him from their nets
Than this aerial colossus, shorn of his pride,
Goes hobbling pitiably across the planks and lets
His great wings hang like heavy, useless oars at his side.
How droll is the poor floundering creature, how limp and weak —
He, but a moment past so lordly, flying in state!
They tease him: One of them tries to stick a pipe in his beak;
Another mimics with laughter his odd lurching gait.
The Poet is like that wild inheritor of the cloud,
A rider of storms, above the range of arrows and slings;
Exiled on earth, at bay amid the jeering crowd,
He cannot walk for his unmanageable wings.
Any true feeling cannot in reality be expressed. To do so is to betray it. To express it, however, is to conceal it. True expression conceals what it exhibits. It pits the mind against nature's real vacuum, by creating in reaction a kind of fullness of thought. Or rather it creates a vacuum in thought, in relation to the manifest illusion of nature. Any strong feeling produces an idea of emptiness within us, and lucid language which prevents this emptiness also prevents poetry appearing in thought. For this reason an image, an allegory, a form disguising what it means to reveal, has more meaning to the mind than the enlightenment brought about by words or their analysis.
Hence true beauty never strikes us directly and the setting sun is beautiful because of everything else we lose by it.
-- antonin artaud
Who I'd like to meet: Jesus, HD Thoreau, Carl Jung, Friedrich Nietzsche, RW Emerson, Tori Amos, Sade, David Bowie, Christopher Walken, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Chris Cornell, Trent Reznor, Oliver Stone, Bob Moog, Chuck Palahniuk, Johnny Depp, Maynard James Keenan, the Marquis de Sade, Ewan McGregor, David Lynch, John Cusack, Bam Margera, Jack White,...
If your name is not here chances are that I'm not interested in speaking, meeting, or aimlessly messaging. thanksihaveenoughinsanityalready.
Its been along time comming BUT Our brand new acoustic EP will be available to download from Thursday 1st October 2009. Only from www.10reasonstolive.com. Heres a little taster for you
First off thanks for becoming a part of Shaolin Temple of BooM on myspace, SToB is entirely independent, no label, no management....
If you have a facebook join us at http://www.facebook.com/shaolintempleofboom Sign up for SToB's mailing list and get access to 3 FREE downloads not available anywhere else!
All purchases of an "I would destroy" shirt recieve a FREE MP3 album of Deus Ex Machina!
Sorry to bother u but I didnt know if u had seen this video of my first gig with 10 reasons to live We also just recently did a German interview if u want to check that out http://omegabetazeta.de/index.php?mnu=special&special=135 Thanks so much for all your support and hope to see u all soon Ste.
If you havent checked out the NIN app for I phone its got every recording and video both live and artistic the band has ever done a must for any NIN enthusiast and it's FREE, Miss you sweets(:
Due to many request's for it, its finally happened my debut album "Ambivalence" can be heard in its entirety on my myspace page check out the songs and let me know what you think :).
If you get a chance as well it would be great to have your vote in the 2009 Musicoz awards you can follow the link/banner on my page, voting only takes a second and you can win great prizes
I hope you all enjoy the tracks
Regards
Todd
PS: If you do like the tracks you can buy them on itunes from following the links from my page or from CD Baby also from the links on my page
Hello. This Saturday, July 11 at Headliners, 10 PM we're throwing a benefit for Robert (our guitarist) Walker's Mom. She has RSD I, Dystonia, as well as a brain tumor, and needs lots of help. All proceeds from the show, as well as all the excellent door and raffle prizes wil go for her medical expenses. Come have a great time, as well as help out the Hinges family. Thank you -Josh
I'M BACK.....
JUST WANTED TO LET U KNOW THAT I AM NOW IN A NEW BAND CALLED 10 REASONS TO LIVE....PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR MYSPACE PAGE AND TAKE A LISTEN TO "BREATHE" AND LET ME KNOW WHAT U THINK....PLEASE ADD THE BAND PAGE SO U CAN KEEP AN EYE ON WHAT WE ARE UPTO.
TAKE CARE
STE.
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FINALLY, NEW MUSIC! "The Art Of Broken Glass" (EP), click myspace.com/mrjmedeiros and take a listen! Available on itunes or directly from my site. New Mr.J songs to add to your profile! WORD!
Hey girl! It's been a while since I've posted, but I'm reading some of our old posts! Wish I could say see ya tomorrow (that's what the old posts say)...I miss the equivalence of cooky-ness! You get me :)
I'm obviously retarded and still can't figure out how to message you so I'm forced to comment. ;o) I'm 99% sure that I'm coming to Cola this Saturday (March 7th) to see Joal Rush play at Sudworks. I'm wondering if perhaps you would like to come with me and hang out for a while? I hope you can....just let me know and I hope you are FANTASTIC!!
Rock and Roll? Saturday night? Sudworks Taphouse (formerly 5 Points Pub)? W/Leslie and Stokeswood? 10 O'clock? New Hinges Merchandise? NEATO AND STUFF.
Thanks for rockin wit us VEGA. We miss you so much. We havent had anytime to catch up so heres you brothers in Acapulco Mexico givin it all we got for the kids. by the way thats my favorite bob dylan song.
great quote, i totally used to have that as my headline. hope all has been good with you and the little guy (well i'm sure he is becoming a big guy by now)... happy 2009!
