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About me

Gender	Male
Occupation	Artist, Educator
Location	Ronkonkoma, New York
Introduction	Dreaming, Thinking, Observing When I am in an area with a lot of people, I like to step to the side and watch. I enjoy viewing encounters and just observing people interact. I like going for walks to take things in; whether it be in a crowded place or somewhere tranquil. Beaches during the evenings, parks, and city streets are high on my list. And I love picking up all those interesting little things along the way; acorns, beach glass, rusted pieces of metal, syringe needles... Art (all art including literature, poetry, paintings, sculpture, philosophy, design, film, music, photography, architecture, etc), ceramics, clay, Calvin & Hobbes, juggling, sculpting, reading, mastering the art of argument, dr. pepper, egg nog, day dreaming, solitude, the tea ceremony, thinking, keeping it real, complaining about young people, the sound of water as it makes it's way through a stream, catching a really good film, trying not to sleep, wabi sabi, music, NPR, meeting people, gallery hopping, going to a museum, breathing and spending 10+ hours a day in the studio struggling to get something done.
Interests	Some help society, provide a service which benefits the world. I do not. Yet. Art (all art including literature, poetry, paintings, sculpture, philosophy, design, film, music, photography, architecture, etc), ceramics, clay, Calvin & Hobbes, stocks (but I'm a noob), juggling, being paranoid, sculpting, reading, mastering the art of argument, dr. pepper, egg nog, day dreaming, solitude, the tea ceremony, thinking, keeping it real, complaining about young people, the sound of water as it makes it's way through a stream, collecting Pez dispensers, catching a really good film, trying not to sleep, wabi sabi, music, NPR, meeting people, gmail, gallery hopping, going to a museum, breathing and spending 10+ hours a day in the studio struggling to get something done.
Favorite movies	Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Titus, The Third Man, Citizen Kane, Brazil, Tokyo Story (Tokyo monogatari), Early Summer (Bakushu), Black Rain (Kuroi ame), Amelie, Fight Club, Taxi Driver, Dr. Strangelove, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Take Care of My Cat (Goyangileul butaghae), Akira Kurosawa, Dancer in the Dark (Amazing! Stunning! Remarkable!!!), Woody Allen, Kubrick, Shohei Imamura, Lost Highway, Takeshi Kitano, Casablanca, The Seventh Seal, Hana-bi, Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna), Star Wars, The Thin Red Line, The Naked Gun, The Neverending Story... I can post a lot more.
Favorite music	Marilyn Manson (if anyone is interested, I have a great analysis of Antichrist Superstar, and, yes, I am a nerd), Nine Inch Nails, Aphex Twin, David Bowie, Bjork, Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Primus, Oysterhead, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Nirvana, Green Day, Ministry, Megadeth, Motorhead, Orbital, Pantera, The Rachels, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, Spinal Tap, Type O Negative, Rob Zombie, White Zombie, Bach, Boredoms, Gwar, Ken Matsudaira, Les Claypool, Lullatone, MC Chris, Misfits, Red Snapper, Richard Cheese, Mozart, Zwan, Alice in Chains, Andrew WK, Blue Man Group, John Cage, The Cure, Dark Black Past, Miles Davis, Depeche Mode, Dream Theater, Bob Dylan, Fear Factory, Ikuko Harada, Helmet, KMFDM, Kodo, Autechre, Royksopp, Devo, Rammstein, Terry Riley, UA, Fishmans, Boards of Canada, Solar Unicorn (THEY ROCK!), CCR, Wagon Christ, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lemon Jelly, Euro Angst and Chinny Gol' accompanied with Skank Stank!
Favorite books	Nietzsche, James Joyce, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Dickens, Camus, Yukio Mishima, Sartre, Noam Chomsky, Chuck Palahniuk, Plato, Flann O'Brien, Mark Twain, Joseph Heller, Hunter S. Thompson, Samuel Beckett, Hemmingway, T S Eliot, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Arthur C. Clarke, Dr. Suess, Dostoevsky, Machiavelli, Bill Watterson, Huxley, Kaftka, Orwell, Jhonen Vasquez... Some of The Last Thing I Read Were D H Lawrence's Apocalypse, followed by Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Graye, followed by a rereading of Baurdrillard's Simulations, (I think I am finally starting to grasp it!), followed by Gilgamesh and Donald Kuspit's The End of Art. Currently I Am Reading the last few chapters of James Joyce's Ulysses. Man, I love this book. Stephen Dadelus is the greatest character... ever. And memories of the manual for the MS210_230_250 chainsaw are still fresh in my head. Not the best read. Fairly predictable. Not a page turner and the development is rather slow.