dynamic | fluid | static | slipshod | wakeful | a-dreaming

(I tend to update more frequently at myspace.com/joshsamuels)

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appropriate words which relay personal interests or favored activities--

nouns (some with adjectives and perhaps prepositions or articles):

a good ramble, amplified distortion, architectural awareness, archiving, aural abandon, bewilderment, bowling, calligraphy, catharsis, cohesion, context, delicacy, distinction, dynamic optimism, elasticity, eloquence, enriched community, entanglement, etymology, experiential novelty, experimental intimacy, extrapolation, gumption, humility, improvisation, intelligent action, interdependence, intrigue, intuitive and/or fluid movement, irony, kosho, ligatures, linguistic theory, mixed-period fashions, modular design, odor, open communication, parkour, perception expansion, play, polyamory, resonance, restraint, savvy, sincerity, spontaneous adventuring, stains on flesh, succinctness, superlegitimacy, surprise, tenacity, the hyperreal/photoreal/surreal, the overwhelming intensity particular to each season, traipsin' & trompin', trampolines, typography, undulation, urban exploration

adjectives (some of which may also be nouns):

interpretive, maladroit, mercurial, observant, operative, sensitive, whimsical

punctuation: alinea, ellipsis, full stop, guillemet, interrobang.

Enjoying the fuck out of it.

-and also-

Facilitating collaboration.

Becoming acquainted with Chicago.

Adapting to difficult situations.

Wrestling with lethargy and inertia.

Acting as a conduit for media and information.

Figure-modeling.

Volunteering for Time-Lag and Brainwashed.

Attempting to destroy my monolingualism.

Finally learning gymnastics. (And later, contortion!)

Getting several interesting business ventures up and running.

Problem solving.

Intuitive sensuality.

Data-mining them thar internets.

Articulating my immediate response to something.

My walk, my laugh or my speech.

a.

Currently involved with 'The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property' by Lewis Hyde, 'The Exploit: A Theory of Networks' by Alexander R. Galloway, 'Theremin: Ether Music & Espionage' by Albert Glinsky, and 'Rainbows End' by Vernor Vinge.

Just finished 'Naked City' by Weegee, 'Spook Country' by William Gibson and a re-reading of 'Kafka on the Shore' by Haruki Murakami.

Periodicals? Sure!

'Giant Robot', 'Theme', 'Cabinet', 'Arthur', 'The Wire', 'Smithsonian', 'Signal to Noise'.

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General reference (specialized dictionaries, guides, anything with tables and charts).

Archaic atlases, advertisements, photography annuals and product catalogs.

Magical realism. (Italo Calvino, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, José Saramago, Richard Powers, etc.)

The works of Neal Stephenson, Jeff Noon, R. Buckminster Fuller.

Intelligent history.

Strange photography.

Well written plays.

Critical theory on most any subject.

There are some great comic books out there, too.

(I'm always taking recommendations.)

b.

I'll see almost anything in a theater.

Particularly swell films that come to mind: 'Baraka', 'To Live and Die in LA', 'Tampopo', 'Murder By Death', 'Solaris' (Tarkovsky), 'Equus', 'Danger: Diabolik', 'Possession' (Żuławski), 'Prime Cut', the 'Pink Panther' series, 'Bedazzled' (Donen), 'Perfume: the Story of a Murderer' (the book is fantastic as well), 'Gymkata', 'Happiness of the Katakuris', 'the Naked City', 'Schizopolis', 'the Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover', 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', 'Irréversible', 'Decasia: A State of Decay', those old, poorly translated martial arts films dubbed by British ex-pats, comedies which intelligently utilize slapstick or situational absurdity.

Particularly swell film related folks who come to mind: Hal Hartley, Emir Kusturica, Joel and Ethan Coen, David Lynch, Wong Kar-Wai, Werner Herzog, Harry Langdon, Jan Švankmajer, Darren Aronofsky, Sally Potter, Harold Lloyd, David Cronenberg, Jim Jarmusch, Vincenzo Natali, Pedro Almodóvar, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jim Henson, Michael Haneke, Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Wim Wenders.

c.

the 500s

Electrelane

Brian Eno's early solo pop stuff.

Joanna Newsom

Big Black & Shellac

Kino Proby (And КИНО, the original!)

Much drone/noise/avant-electronic stuff, especially live.

Animal Collective

the Notwist

Phil Glass

the Lucksmiths

Phantom Buffalo (né the Ponys)

Nino Rota, Peter Thomas, the '70s experimental work of Ennio Morricone

Lizzy Mercier Descloux's "Press Color".

Most kinds of instrumental surf rock.

Carlos Montoya

Most traditional variations of Romani music and many of their modern offshoots.

The whimsical orchestras of Juan Garcia Esquivel, Carl Stalling, Xavier Cugat and Raymond Scott.

Devo

Felix Leclerc

All those great French pop chanteuses from the '40s, '50s, and '60s. (Françoise Hardy, Édith Piaf, Brigitte Bardot, etc.)

the Pipettes

White Noise

Coil

Melt-Banana

Amon Tobin, Squarepusher, Bogdan Raczynski

Most anticon. projects (Themselves, Daedelus, Why?, etc.)

Air's "Talkie Walkie".

Most of Mike Patton's non hip-hop work. (Lovage being the exception.)

Boris

Carla Kihlstedt, the Tin Hat Trio, the Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

[And yes, there's always more.]

d.

couscous

mangos, bananas, clementines, braeburn apples

most non-moldy cheeses

sushi

garlic

deviled eggs

home-made pork chops and apple sauce

raw red peppers

kiwifruit

crisp pickled cucumbers

well-prepared, somewhat thick soups

beignets

asparagus

noodles (particularly thai and japanese)

freshly baked breads (banana-nut, focaccia, and wheat breads, especially)

Anything I've never eaten before.

shoes with good traction | water | intelligent action | my senses | humor | sleeping

How I interact with my environment and how it interacts with me.

You wish to perhaps, actually, physically, interact.

Or if you're far away, to correspond. (Preferably by proper post.)

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What I mean by that first bit is--

You should give me a shout if you need someone as a partner for, or to help you with, nearly anything. No matter how seemingly odd, boring/mundane, or crazy an activity. I am completely serious. (i.e., not kidding) I love meeting new folks and thrive on novelty of experience.

Also, I'm looking to beat back a solid lion's mane, and would love to get a haircut. (Preferably something that allows for a 1920s-1940s style brushing back, but if nothing else, short and choppy would work just fine. As long as you're confident with some scissors, I'm ready.) In exchange, I'd be happy to bake you a pie, save the life of your firstborn, help you move, throw you a dance-party, etc.

Oh, and if you'd like to know what I'm interested in with regard to romantic and non-romantic physical relationships, feel free to send a message. I've written something up, but it's rather lengthy and I think that this profile's prob'ly long enough as it is. (I was actually hoping to create a separate profile for that and link to this one, but that's apparently against OKC's Terms of Use. And while I know plenty of folks do make multiple profiles anyway, I'd imagine few would link them directly to one another...)

[A special note to any Quickmatchers: I don't much care to rate people myself, especially if my rating them lowly might mean I miss out on a neat connection. If you dig my profile and want to chat, please do send a message however brief, so that I can contact you in return. My username is eristocrat.]