Another great artist I recently found, Utagawa Kuniyoshi probably would have been a manga artist if comics existed back then.


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Finally saw that DMT documentary, The Spirit Molecule.  I'm never quite satisfied with other people's descriptions of DMT... but this is a good intro to the most amazing thing I know.  Here's a link to a torrent.


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Well, I'm back from LA and an awesome trip.  Every time I go to a bigger city I'm overwhelmed by multiculturalism and all the intelligence and drive and I'm tempted to move back to a city now.  I meet people everywhere and I feel like a different person.  But if I moved I might just settle into my habits like always and the crowds and traffic would ( Read more... )

To L.A. tomorrow, back the 25th.

I've been looking at a lot of old art lately, and one of my favorite discoveries is Egon Schiele.


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Funny how I'm listening to Daft Punk's Tron soundtrack but I'll probably never see the movie.

I'm both excited and exasperated about going to Santa Monica/Venice Beach on Friday.  I'll only be gone four or five days but I haven't really gone anywhere since October.

It never stops!  Eternity in all directions!!  You will never die!!!

I think I'm gonna go to LA next weekend and get out of my head.

How can I feel so great and so horrible in the same day?

Let me recommend something:  The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost.  I'd already listened to his third book on China, but this one is much different.  ( Read more... )

I know I know I know I know I know I know I haven't blogged lately.  Please stop crying.  I should have this project finished tomorrow and then I'll write something.  I so totally swear.

So far 2011 has been cold and rainy.  I didn't drink last night, but many people in this house did, and at one point one of Christy's friends wandered to the neighbors and invited them over.  A bunch of bros, and I heard them describe one of Scott's painting in the hall (read it with a really drunk voice):  "There's a naked woman on the wall!  But ( Read more... )