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Some other things I've dabbled in:
CLUB DJ
TATTOOES
TOO MUCH MUSIC?
I had to put the "music library" on a diet recently as it was starting to overflow my walk-in closet it currently dominates. I managed to get myself down to 750 LPs, 1000 CDs, and 25 boxes of tapes. I think this is the first time I'm actually at the point I own more CDs than LPs.
Still looking for (in any format):
READING LIST/BANNED BOOKS
My "current" reading material is piling up to the point it takes up
an entire bookshelf and includes Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Assata by Assata Shakur (autobiography by Black Panther accused of shooting a NJ police officer in 1972), Inside the Lions Den by Ken Shamrock (UFC fighter), Cryptonomicon by Neal Stpehenson, and various graphic novels.
I've been making my way through a 40 page banned books list made by
Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom dated May 1989 that I picked
up at the end of a banned books sale at a book store in DE. Most of it is challenged material, which means it was removed from required
reading lists, moved to adult sections of public libraries, or taken off the shelves of public school libraries for mainly religious reasons. I was expecting to see entries for or Naked Lunch and Tropic of Cancer, but I was surprised at Are You There God, It's Me Margaret (which I read in 5th grade from my school library) and how many "sex ed" books are on the list for condoning homosexuality.
The REALLY disturbing part was an experience in my own backyard. On this 1989 list is Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings with listed reasons as "Alabama State Textbook Committee (1983) called for it's rejection because Angelou's work preaches 'bitterness and hatred against whites'. Challenged at Mount Abram Regional High School in Strong, Maine (1988) because parents objected to a rape scene". Just last year here in Howard County in Maryland we had an article in the paper about a local mother trying to get I Know Why... dropped from her child's reading list because it "preached bitterness and hatred towards whites and contains an objectionable rape scene". The match in wording of the newspaper quote and the list quote made me wonder if the mother actually was familiar with the book or if someone told her what to say.........
Here's some old photos of me.
I DJed a goth club called Lucifer's Dive for a couple months back in 1995. Getting paid $40 plus free drinks for a three hour shift to
play old vinyl "goth" dance music and watch people dance wasn't so much
of a job as a sexual fantasy. Actually, it was a nice experience but too limiting in variety for my taste. There's only so many times you can play a song before you don't want to hear it for a while but clubs
tend to get the same requests over and over again. The funny part about the article below *which right now is missing some pages* is the
reporter who came by interviewed the opening DJ while the photographer
came by as we were closing and took my picture. Boy, was the other DJ pissed!!! You can probably tell by the picture I was a wee bit tipsy by the end of the shift........
I tend to get tattooes to mark surviving something difficult.
$2493 fine
unemployment insurance
tax refund
end probation
Sisters of Mercy-Peel Sessions (boot)
Government Issue-Make an Effort 7"
Sex Gang Children-Deiche 12"
Current 93-Visit to Dogland
7 Seconds-Skins Brains Guts 7"
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