Jay

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Student
Occupation English tutor, student and writer.
Location Ljubljana, Slovenia
Introduction I'm an undergrad working on a double major in sociology and English literature. I write short fiction, poetry and the occasional freelance article.
Interests Literature, 20th century painting, graffiti, film, poetics, comics, cities, architecture, mountaineering, Zen Buddhism, assumptions, discourse analysis, modernity, soundscapes, field recordings, literary theory, aesthetics, epistemology, transhumanism, transcripts, ethnomethodology, ethnobotany, ethnographies, laptops, video games, anarchism, cooking, wine, whiskey, history, appeals to history, The Secret History of the World, anthropology, archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, sociology, social theory, squatting, mash-ups, circuit bending, scoundrels and n'er-do-wells
Favorite Movies Delicatessen, Wild Zero, The Red Threat, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Night of Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Kichiku, Punishment Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Drunken Master 2, Seven Samurai, Brick, Shaun of the Dead
Favorite Music The Boredoms, The Clash, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf, Tom Waits, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Squarepusher, Le Tigre, Dead Kennedys, Dead Prez, Crass, The Kronos Quartet, Throbbing Gristle, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Presage, DJ Z-Trip, DJ Revolution, Public Enemy, Nomeansno, Massive Attack, Mississippi John Hurt, Klaus Nomi, The Kills, Joy Division, Johnny Cash, John Coltrane, Shotmaker, The Residents, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Negativland, His Hero Is Gone, High Rise, Guitar Wolf, Gang of Four, Ennio Morricone, David Bowie, The Avengers, Devo, Taraf de Haidouks, Add N To (X), Matmos, audio das poly, Test Department, The Organ, The Smiths, Rites of Spring, Glenn Gould, The Cramps, Aus-Rotten, The Subhumans, The Buzzcocks, Cat Power
Favorite Books Samuel Beckett, Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia Lorca, Wallace Stevens, Stephane Mallarme, Steven J. Bernstein, Raymond Carver, Arthur Rimbaud, P.K. Page, Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack Kerouac, Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson, Witold Gombrowicz, Josef Skvorecky, Paul Celan, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alan Moore, Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Jean Genet, Paul Bowles, Richard Hugo, Walt Whitman, Jean Cocteau, Charles Baudelaire, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Franz Kafka, Thom Jones, John Fante, e.e. cummings, Todd Moore, Allen Ginsberg, Warren Ellis, Georg Simmel, W.E.B. Dubois, Philip Larkin, Philip K. Dick, W. H. Auden, Thomas Hardy, Dashiell Hammett, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mary Shelley, J. R. R. Tolkien, Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clarke, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dorothy Parker