Kasai REX (AKA Altered Beast AKA The Last Living Dinosaur of the Congo)
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Location | Baltimore, MD, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | i often go weeks at a time without eating or sleeping (though i require an ample flow of combustible liquids and complex chemical compounds)... As a rule, I won't smoke a pack of cigarettes costing less than 50.00 USD... I get my government recommended cardio (big ups to Slick Willy, The Governator, and C. Everett Koop) by slyly setting forest fires with dying cigarettes of high pedigree, waiting no less than six minutes, and then running suicides (with a 100 kilo bronze blunderbuss strapped to my back) through the blazing labyrinth, taking time to chop down robust, glowing oaks before they're reduced to a greyscale pyre, the fervor of it all transforming me into a bad, bad monster. Yes. A sweat-soaked, glistening, sinewy monster that hears and sees things that no being, living or dead, ever should... |
| Interests | the David LaChappelle Pieta of Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain, The Flaming Lips, The American Century, Robert Mitchum, muay thai, the end of time, The Internet 2, being published, Clipse, the French Touch scene, dianetics, gold and all things related to gold (and yes, that includes mercantilism and alchemy), bossa nova, sesame street, early man, mild chemical peels, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, hunter s. thompson's funerary memorial, Osaka, brandy, morning parties?, foreign policy, ed banger records, guns and ammo, mr. winkle, the future (maybe like 15000 years from now, eh? eh?), the OSS, chainsaws, Seattle, lotus motor company, lulu.com, benevento/russo duo, Delt, diamond smuggling from the cote d'ivoire, self-publishing, screen-printing, gonzo, vintage formula 1 cars (and their grizzled Brit drivers lounging in the boozer), push ups, the mob |
| Favorite Movies | Bullitt, Perfume, An Inconvenient Truth, Seven Samurai, Ong Bak, Audition, Ran, Stop Making Sense, Director's Label Vol. 1, Giant, the Kill Bill saga, Pulp Fiction, Le Mans, Good Night and Good Luck, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Superman Returns, Batman Begins, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Cache, Magnolia, Big Fish, Lost In Translation, Rocky, Chumscrubber, Shane, Boogie Nights, The Departed, Syriana, Belly, Born on the Fourth of July, Dr. Strangelove, 8 Mile, Batman, L4YER C4KE, Trainspotting, Juice, Serenity, Boys Don't Cry, Chinatown, Enter the Dragon, Fight Club, Rules of Attraction |
| Favorite Music | Klaxons, Ali Farka Toure, Seu Jorge, VHS or Beta, Devendra Banhart, Ray Lamontagne, My Bloody Valentine, Francoise Hardy, Beach House, The Rub, The Blow, Clipse, Justice, OOIOO, Boris, Polysics, Daft Punk, Radiohead, Test Icicles, Boredoms, !!!, My Brightest Diamond, Vietnam, Zdar, My Morning Jacket, Van She Tech, Surkin, SOUNDTeam, Uffie, Jill Scott, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Congotronics and the Kasai All-Stars, Talking Heads, G-Unit (pre-2005 please), Grand Funk Railroad, Beth Hirsch, The Stills, The Rapture, Trail of Dead, Erykah Badu, Liars, Ladytron, Nas, Silversun Pickups, The Horrors, Arctic Monkeys, Cage, The Tony Williams Lifetime, The Streets, Dizzee Rascal, Cold War Kids, Mobius Band, Boards of Canada, The Beta Band, The Decemberists, Jeru tha Damaja, Cage, Digitalism, DFA1979, Klaxons, Zeppelin, MSTRKRFT, Boys Noize, Rolling Stones, The Who, Deerhoof, Herbie Hancock, Kasabian, Justin Timberlake, B.I.G., Pharcyde, The Knife |
| Favorite Books | Confessions of a Crap Artist by Phillip K. Dick, Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson, Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson, La Chamade by Francoise Sagan, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, The Second Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken, The Way to Dusty Death by Alistair McClean, Dando Shaft by Don Calhoun |