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More About David
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Schools (Other):
Jefferson Elementary School (San Francisco), Giannini Middle School (San Francisco), Benicia High School, Feather River College, UC Irvine, California Institute of the Arts
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College/University:
California Institute of the Arts, Attended 2003 - Present, Class of 2005, Master's Degree, Critical Studies / Writing
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Occupation:
pencil-pusher, paper-shuffler, personality critic
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Affiliations:
Surrealist Situationist Anarchist Collective, Dadaist Attack Squad
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Hobbies and Interests:
printed matter, watching animals eat (especially birds and squirrels), virtualization, Wikipedia, (dis)embodiment, haecceity, conspiracy theory, libraries, language production, constructed space, installation art, sound installation, cats, visual studies, urban studies, feral children, the phenomenon of music, sound, poetry, sound poetry, the quotidian, religious studies, cryptozoology, film theory, ambient music, percussion, mystery, secrets, symptomology, the history music and culture of New Orleans, Hong Kong cinema, martial arts films, ghosts, EVP, zombies, dreams, the post-apocalyptic, the esoteric, the unlikely, surrealism, the night, anarchism, situationist theory, hybridity, mixed race studies, HAPA POWER!
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Favorite Books:
PROSE: Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs, William T. Vollmann, David Foster Wallace, Franz Kafka, Kobo Abe, Don DeLillo, Murikami Ryu, Percival Everett, Paul Auster, Philippe Soupault, Hunter S. Thompson, Rene Depestre, Frank Chin, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortaazar, Gary Lutz, Patrick Chamoiseau, Kenzaburo Oe, Steve Erickson POETRY: Ron Silliman, W.S. Merwin, Lyn Heijinian, Mei-mei Brussenberge, Li-Young Lee, Marina Tsvetaeva, Robert Desnos, Mina Loy, Robert Kelly, Andre Breton, Susan Howe, Jackson MacLow, Clark Coolidge, Michael Palmer, Charles Bernstein, Robert Creely, Charles Olson, Hirata Toshiko, Rae Armantrout THEORY/PHILOSOPHY: George Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Walter Benjamin, E.M. Cioran, Jean Baudrillard, Edward Said, Slavoj Zizek, Manuel DeLanda, Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway, Michel DeCerteau, Nietsche, Micheal Taussig, N. Katherine Hayles, Schopenhauer, Alphonso Lingis, Henri Lefevbre, Edward Soja, Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Paul Virilio, Maurice B
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Favorite Movies:
All zombie films, from George Romero to the recent Dawn of the Dead remake, Hero, Dead Man, any flick by Yuen Wo Ping, Mystery Train, Trees Lounge, Night of the Living Dead, Contempt, The Station Agent, Last Night, Irreversible, Suicide Club, Irma Vep, Animal Factory, The Eye, Battle Royale, Little Noises, Adaptation, Chungking Express, The Beaver Trilogy, Grave of the Fireflies, Barton Fink, Bartleby, Better Luck Tomorrow, Living in Oblivion, Highway 61, Junk Food, Poltergeist, Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, Fear of a Black Hat, River's Edge, Two or Three Things I know About Her, Black Angel 1 & 2, And God Spoke, Ed and his Dead Mother, Adrenalin Drive, The Grey Zone, Pulse (Japan), Shaolin Soccer, Dead or Alive, In the Mood for Love, Tetsuo, Rubin and Ed, Spirited Away, Schizopolis, Twenty Bucks, Julien Donkey Boy, Ghost World, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), pretty much anything with Jet Li in it, or Donnie Yen, or Don McKellar, or Crispin Glover, or Steve Buscemi.
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Favorite Music:
ambient, glitch electronica, mellow shoegazer type post-rock, noise, drones, death metal, black metal, stoner rock, doom metal, grindcore, (international) hip hop, bip hop, gabber, speedcore, terrorcore, booty house, Japanese pop, Cantonese pop, classical or folk music from Asia and Scandanavia, various punk from around the world, zydeco and cajun and New Orleans jazz, soundtracks
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Favorite TV Shows:
Adult Swim, Toonami, Miguzi
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Zodiac Sign:
Aquarius
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About Me:
I manipulate sounds:
www.myspace.com/lastnightsofparis
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Who I Want to Meet:
Hapas. Writers. Artists. Innovators. Sound-producers.
Space-cadets. Radicals. Revolutionaries. Surrealists.
Situationists. Anarchists. Mystics.
Visionaries. Personalities. The Jaded. The Bored. The
Sarcastic. The
Enthusiastic. The Spastic. The Esoteric and the
Obscure.
Anyone willing to scorn this sham called the empirical world.
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Testimonials and Comments for David
It is nice to have you back on speaking terms two.
lubricated, delicately granular and vibrant as an
animal's muzzle), to succeed in shifting the
signified a great distance and in throwing, so to
speak, the anonymous body of the actor into my
ear: it granulates, it crackles, it caresses, it grates,
it cuts, it comes: that is bliss."
now as in earliest times be first and
foremost experts in writing, will be
able to participate only
by mastering the fields in which (quite
unobtrusively) it is being constructed:
the statistical and technical diagram.
With the foundation of an international
moving script they will renew their
authority in the life of peoples, and
find a role awaiting them in comparison
to which all the innovative aspiration
of rhetoric will reveal themselves as
antiquated day-dreams.
children we would have made ourselves
one of those tin can telephones so as
to talk late into the night and monitor
minute variations in the weather.
void there is nowhere to stop. Creating the void
ahead of me, I immediately sense the beloved
there--where there is nothing. What was I
desperately in love with? A glimse, an open door. A
sudden impulse and an irrepressible need--these
annihilate the heaviness of the world.
create anarchy in the system. They are not
interested in finding friends through prosaic
personal ads, but through a big, surreal
party where Jesus, Chewbacca, and Nitrous
are all on the guest list. To fakesters, phony
identities don't destroy the social experience
of Friendster; they enrich it. -- Lessley
Anderson, "Attack of the Smartasses, SF
WEEKLY | "There is nothing, however
humble, that does not imply the history of the
world and its infinite concatenation of
causes and effects." -- Jorge Luis Borges,
THE ZAHIR
thing it's overwhelming - and only a
third of them are fakesters that he
created (his zombie army, as he
likes to call them). He is out to
control the world, and it begins here
and now. Soon we will all be in his
army. Onward zombie soldiers!