Running Water
27 years old
Milwaukee, WI
Male
About
I do not add bands or people I do not know.
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
- Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game
Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.
- Charles Bukowski
Please listen to my bands:
Dear Astronaut (Doom folk) // Sonic Typewriter (Noise/experimental) // KTWMD (Political hardcore, 2000-2004)
Movies
Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Putney Swope, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, The Squid and the Whale, DiG!, Dead Man, Broken Flowers, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Wicker Man, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Brick, Annie Hall, Primer, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Total Recall, Blade Runner, Townes van Zandt: Be Here to Love Me, Harry Potter, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Wasn't There, Blood Simple, Barton Fink, Bamboozled, Jandek on Corwood, In the Realms of the Unreal, They Live, Mulholland Drive, Amores Perros, Bad Santa, Ghost World, Following, Memento, The Machinist, Batman Begins, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Motorcycle Diaries, City of God, Blue Velvet, Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, Slacker, I Heart Huckabees, Gimme Shelter, Bob Roberts, Miller's Crossing, O Brother Where Art Thou?, the Hudsucker Proxy, Bottle Rocket, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Virgin Suicides, Rushmore, Ladies and Gentlemen Mr. Leonard Cohen, Strangers on a Train, Gummo, Kids, Buffalo 66, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, 2001: A Space Oddesy, A Clockwork Orange, Serenity, Taxi Driver, Fugazi: Instrument, I'm Not Scared, Little Bits of Light, Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Grosse Point Blank, Vertigo, Repo Man, Another State of Mind, Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Do the Right Thing, Cannibal: the Musical
Music
The Mountain Goats, Dear Astronaut, Leonard Cohen, Fugazi, Devendra Banhart, Partisan, Converge, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Aesop Rock, Wu-Tang Clan, Akron/Family, Angels of Light, Sonic Youth, Ariel Pink, Arlo Guthrie, the Band, the Beach Boys, Beat Happening, the Beatles, Beck, Big Black, Big Business, Black Sabbath, Bikini Kill, Nirvana, Born Against, Propagandhi, the Weakerthans, the Birthday Party, Black Flag, Blood Brothers, Bob Dylan, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Boris, SunnO))), Borknagar, Brian Eno, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Brother Ali, Neil Young, CSNY, Built to Spill, the Byrds, Cachexia, Cat Power, Real Live Tigers, Charles Manson, Christian Death, Ornette Coleman, Coil, Comets on Fire, Six Organs of Admittance, Comus, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Cure, Current 93, Daniel Johnston, Danzig, Darkthrone, Immortal, David Bowie, Dead Milkmen, Dead Kennedys, Defacto Oppresion, Destroyer, Death Vessel, Dinosaur Jr., Donovan, Earth, Electric Wizard, Elliott Smith, Emperor, Enslaved, Entombed, Espers, Feathers, the Fall, Pink Reason, Fiona Apple, the Flaming Lips, Frank Zappa, Ghostface Killah, Gillian Welch, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Grateful Dead, Gris Gris, Hank Williams, GZA, the Hold Steady, I Hate Myself, Iron & Wine, Isis, Neurosis, Jana Hunter, Jandek, Jefferson Airplane, Joanna Newsom, John Fahey, John Vanderslice, Johnny Cash, They Might Be Giants, Joy Division, Kimya Dawson, King Crimson, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, Kill the White Man Dead, Last Poets, Liars, Lightnight Bolt, Low, Magnetic Fields, MC5, the Melvins, the Microphones, Modest Mouse, Monster Magnet, Queens of the Stone Age, My Bloody Valentine, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nine Inch Nails, Nick Drake, Notorious B.I.G., 2pac, Okkervil River, Shearwater, Om, Olivia Tremor Control, Ornette Coleman, Palace, Pavement, Pedro the Lion, Phil Ochs, Pink Floyd, Public Enemy, Refused, Rites of Spring, Minor Threat, Chumbawamba, Charles Bronson, Tom Waits, the Coup, At the Drive-In, Professor Hefner, Boy Sets Fire, Bright Eyes, Deep Red, Rumbleseat, His Hero is Gone, Tragedy, Pg. 99, Stephen Malkmus, Rage Against the Machine, NWA, Sleater-Kinney, Screeching Weasel, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Guyana Punch Line, In/Humanity, Pig Destroyer, Xiu Xiu, Radiohead, Robert Johnson, RZA, Sebadoh, Silver Jews, A Silver Mt. Zion, Simon Finn, Sleep, the Smiths, Steely Dan, Swans, Sunny Day Real Estate, Syd Barrett, T. Rex, Taake, Talking Heads, Thanksgiving, Two Gallants, Ufomammut, Ulver, Uncle Tupelo, Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, Weird Weeds, White Stripes, Will Oldham, Wire
Television
The Wire, Veronica Mars, The Office, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, The Corner, Entourage, Firefly, Upright Citizens Brigade, Undeclared, Freaks and Geeks, Aeon Flux, Mission Hill, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, Futurama, Twin Peaks, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Mr. Show, Arrested Development, the Adventures of Pete and Pete, Kids in the Hall, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Weeds, Big Love,
Authors and Poets
Joan Didion, George Orwell, Hunter S. Thompson, Haruki Murakami, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Hermann Hesse, James Liddy, Emma Goldman, Ursula K. Leguin, Phillip K. Dick, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sarte, Nietzsche, Leonard Cohen, JK Rowling, Alan Moore, Ken Kesey, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Barthes, Italo Calvino, Anais Nin, Henry Miller
Interests
abnormal psychology, acosmism, all action no theory, all theory no action, amphetamine psychosis, anarchism, anarchy in action, apocalyptic folk, apocrypha, archetypes, basement shows, beards, bipolar disorder, black panther party, bombasticism, buddhism, burning down the suburbs, chicago cubs, class struggle, creation and destruction, dear astronaut, dilapidated buildings, disassociatives, doom, dreaming of something better, drinking whisky, duality, emma goldman, esotericism, ever-elusive love, everything is, existentialism, exploring ugliness, exposing false binaries, field recordings, film noir, fingertips, fire escapes, fluidity of sexuality, france 1968, french new wave, fucking, gender confusion, hinduism, hyperreality, hyperspace theory, inside jokes, interconnectedness of all things, italian workers' councils, iww, jumbo-body guitars, killing the bourgeoisie, labor history, living life, lo-fi, lsd therapy, mental illness, middle names, milwaukee folk revival, minnesota twins, minor chords, mixed states, mobius strips, music as magick, mysticism, new weird america, nihilism, noise rock, non-unified theory of nothing, nondualism, old typewriters, pantheism, partisan, pink reason, poetry written in gasoline, poetry-positive revolution, postirony, postmodernity, poststructuralist anarchism, pretending to be canadian, psych folk, psychedelia, psychedelic drugs, psychonautics, psychotherapy, punk's not punk, queer rights, rooftops, situationism, smoking grass, society of the spectacle, solidarity, some holy spectacle, spanish civil war, string theory, subversive dandelions, surrealism, swingsets, syndicalism, taking dirty pictures, tao te ching, the postmodern condition, the word virus, third-wave feminism, thrash, tragedies, tv on dvd, unified theory of everything, unravelled hypercubes, unreliable narrators, vegetarianism, walking in the rain, watching people, wisconsin
Guy with orange shooting from his eyes, Apr 9, 2007:
Is pan's labrinth good?
Michael P Mayer, Mar 14, 2007:
Now I ain't callin' Jeb a golddigga...
marinatina, Mar 10, 2007:
i updated my profile! i'm liking this virb.com thing so far.
Guy with orange shooting from his eyes, Mar 7, 2007:
have you looked at my blog? I think you'd like the geek wars posts. (not much yet but it will grow like bamboo in the jungle)
Brian Riggins, Mar 7, 2007:
I'll have you know that I haven't actually GONE HOME since I created my Virb page. So you'll at least have to wait for me to do that, and sleep, and eat, and probably go to bed and go to work again. Possibly twice more. So, they're coming.
Matt, Mar 5, 2007:
YEP. sure is!
DEATH, Mar 3, 2007:
helo my name is jason
Dear Astronaut, Mar 1, 2007:
jeeeeeeeeez could ya have more stuff listed?
alexandra k, Mar 1, 2007:
love to you sweet pea.
Dear Astronaut, Mar 1, 2007:
Eat dung, poop butt!