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About
My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. A sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. If I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fifteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shawn scrotum. At the age of eighteen, I went off to evil medical school. From there...
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The Elegy For Skinny Neck Jan 12
The Elegy For Skinny Neck
Skinny Neck, what are you doing
when you put your finger on me?
I want to show you the stars,
whichever ones are out.
Let's put that finger on the moon,
my hand around your wrist,
your finger dipped in the bowl
Influences
Rebecca Howell, Jane Gentry Vance, Michael Spencer, James Baker Hall, Maurice Manning, Bruce Lee, , Suda 51, Hideo Kojima, David Lynch, William Blake, Martin Luther King Jr., Donald Miller, Shane Claiborne, Thomas Merton, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Billy Collins
Books
"Bucolics" by Maurice Manning, "Praeder's Letters" by James Baker Hall, "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy, "Franny and Zooey" by J.D. Salinger, "The Shack" by William P. Young
Music
Derek Webb, MF Doom, Danger Mouse, Wu-Tang Clan and other productions from RZA, Lupe Fiasco, El-P, Aesop Rock, J Dilla, Pigeon John, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Gorillaz, Binary Star, The Streets, Lady Sovereign, Dr. Octagonecologyst (Kool Keith), The Mars Volta, Animal Collective, Joanna Newsom, Tom Waits, Brand New, Shady Records family (Obie Trice, D12, Eminem), Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Death From Above 1979, Hank Williams Sr., Loretta Lynn, NOFX, Modest Mouse, Beck, Funkadelic, David Gray, A Band of Gypsys, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Radiohead, Mastodon, Frank Sinatra, System of a Down, A Perfect Circle, Richard Cheese, Atomship, Pink Floyd, Jack White, Tool, Arch Enemy, Hurt, Borknagar, Burzum, Gojira, The Avett Brothers, Chris Thile, Cunninlynguists, Marco Polo, Peanut Butter Wolf
Movies
The Big Lebowski and other Coen Bro.'s films (Barton Fink, Fargo, O Brother), The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Kill Bill and other Tarantino flicks, Chicago, Mulholland Dr. and other David Lynch movies (Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart), Miyazaki movies (Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle), old skool horror movies, kung fu movies, samurai movies
Video Games
Xenogears, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Killer 7, Psychonauts, Resident Evil 4, Shadow of the Colossus, Okami, God of War, Guilty Gear X2, Silent Hill 2
Interests
writing, spirituality, other art practices (film, photography, music, painting, etc., ) and how my writing can learn from them, God, people, the video game industry as a growing form of art cinema literature and entertainment
Activities
loving, writing, Reformed University Fellowship, reading, movie watching, gaming
Television
Family Guy, The Boondocks, Elfen Lied, Berserk, FLCL, Afro Samurai, Planet Earth, Metalocalypse
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posted Mar 6