Man. I finally decided to update this thing, because that other bio I had going was really far too angst-ridden to suit my tastes. Only to find that I have really nothing to say now, and isn't that sad?
So. Me, huh? Ask me again in an hour.
While we're here, though, I'd like to say that I consider a good chunk of my work to be, well, crap. Particularly my earlier stuff. It's a tad embarassing, but I refuse to remove it from this site, because that would be admitting defeat. Plus, I'm still kind of fond of it. Like those pictures of you as a baby on the potty grinning toothily up at your mama or daddy. Part of you wants to burn them, but you know you never will. So, go ahead and read it. See if I care.
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OK, OK, I have to mention my good friend Karl Kensington, who was half the brains behind The Story of Troy and Promiscuous and The Wacky Adventures of Nikolai, Svetlana and Mark. The way it worked was that he and I made them up over the phone, and I wrote them. So yes, man, I'm greatly indebted to you, you rock. Anyone reading my profile should go read his stuff. That's right, now! And after you're done with that, go read the stuff of my other good friend, I.J. Fischer. They're both amazing writers with a way with words, and reading their works would only do you good. Alright, enough shameless plugs.
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A few quotes that I like:
"Le désespoir porte en lui son propre calmant." - Jonathan Harker, in some French translation of Dracula (emphatically not a quote from you, Isabel, no matter what you say!)
"Quiet now, she said, you're waking up the dead." - The Tea Party, in the song Gyroscope
"Madness comes, it always does, it always finds a way. Sadness comes, it always finds a way." - Big Wreck, in the song Knee Deep
"Senseless is pleasure, nothing's forever." - The Tea Party, in the song Pulse
"There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer." - Gertrude Stein
"You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb the world to peace." - anon.
"My life is just a series of random things that occur one after the other." - my mum! (She thinks she may have gotten it from Kurt Vonnegut, but she's not sure...)
"What could be more beautiful than you and I falling from grace?" - Thornley, in the song Beautiful
"Christ, I'm out of my mind, I need to be loved." - Starsailor, in the song Good Souls
"Thought I saw angels, but I could've been wrong." - Jethro Tull, in the song To Cry You a Song
"My life is a comedy of errors, devoid of the humour." - umm... dunno...
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy." - Tom Waits, an absolute poetic genius
"The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive. Everybody's out on the run tonight but there's no place left to hide." - Bruce Springsteen, in the song Born to Run. Lord, but I love that song. Every bit of it is sheer poetic genius.
"T'es comme la Gandhi des humanistes existentialistes..." - Isa Fischer, about me.
"Perhaps I'm old and tired, ... but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied." - Slartibartfast, in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"He who loves not tobacco and boys is a fool." - reportedly, Christopher (or "Kit") Marlowe. Which leads me to another quote:
"Yeah, I'm Marlovian, guys." - my friend and fellow Hums kid, Kiersten. Well said, man.
"The kitchen counter is a bad reminder of a better time." - Big Wreck, in the song So Far, So Good
"Pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' 'bout half past dead." - The Band, in the song The Weight (Take a Load off Annie). Honestly, they're one of the best bands ever. Seriously.
"Lyon: the Garfunkel of France." - Sebastian, a Hums kid.
"Who else is gonna bring you a broken arrow? Who else is gonna bring you a bottle of rain?"- Robbie Robertson, in the song Broken Arrow
"Start wearin' purple, wearin' purple. Start wearin' purple for me now." - Gogol Bordello, in the song Start Wearing Purple. They're this weird, yet awesome, gypsy punk-rock cabaret-ish band from the Ukraine or something. Seriously, check them out.
"Well I woke up tonight and said I'm gonna make somebody love me, I'm gonna make somebody love me, and now I know, now I know, now I know, I know that it's you. You're lucky, lucky, you're so lucky!" - Franz Ferdinand, in the song Do You Want To?
More to come...
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