My online journals:
I am a stumbler.
My favorite day is October 23.
My favorite year is 1976.
My favorite climate is Oceanic.
My portrait.
All the photographs to the right were taken by myself.
I've never smoked or drank alcohol.
As a fan of world cinema I want to experience more films from Africa, but finding a venue can be difficult.
I read L'Humanite in English
Becoming a vegetarian was a goal of mine, but I generally dislike denying myself food. I've now embraced being a flexitarian with meat only featuring occasionally in my diet.
I'm not a Christian because I associate Christianity with colonialism and the Atlantic slave trade.
I tend to dislike tattoos on both men and women.
A person is good because of the things they do, and not because they have a pleasant temperament. Your actions, not your thoughts, define your nature. I want to be good, but mostly I just think about it.
Code Inconnu (Code Unknown) is the perfect cinematic ode to modern existence. All fragmented, full of feeling, and unfinished. It's Michael Haneke's best film, although Cache (which is also a fantastic film) has attracted the greater audience & academic attention. I was the first person online to compare Code Inconnu to the disastrous American film Crash, but that was several online lives ago.
I'm not a Muslim because all Islamic prayer is in Arabic, a language I do not understand, and the room for self expression in Islam is limited because the Prophet Muhammad did everything perfect over one thousand years ago. I find Sufism attractive, but this path is impossible without being a pious Muslim. Universal Sufism is an alternative for the non-Islamic practitioner, unfortunately there is something missing there that cools my excitement.
Currently I have no children, but I would be open to starting my own family in the future. For now I'm just happy being alone.
I'm not a Jew because neither of my parents are Jewish.
I would prefer a border-less world in which people could live wherever they please. The term illegal alien is like a slur to me. None of us has any control over where we're born, and to place so much significance on such things baffle me.
Are artificial subcultures such as the Islamic punk-rockers of the Taqwacores as valuable as those found in reality? The created world of the Taqwacores reminds me of the community of artists found within Infants of the Spring, although the characters of Wallace Thurman's novel were based on real individuals. Great Earth shifts in creativity often occur when groups of like minded people converge, but can such a shirt occur through unnatural means?
I have my own space.
Charlyne Yi is a performance artist, comedian, musician, and extremely silly. I've follow her youtube videos since the first I accidently stumbled across. I wish her all the best.
Jean-Luc Godard introduced me to the wonders of world cinema through the dynamic qualities of his film Vivre Sa Vie. He represents one of my personally chosen prophets.
I may be the first African-American Otaku, although my personal obsession with anime ended in grade school. I'm sure to most this damages my creditals to carry the title. My Otaku-ism is more in spirit than actual fact.
Why was the music video for Sara Tavares' Mi Ma Bo missing from the web for so long?
Vagabonding is my major passion. I've leaped across the United States and the rest of world is the only logical next step.
There was a time that I thought moving to Montevideo, Uruguay was a good Idea, but I outgrew that desire. I still wish to eat an authentic chivito.
If ever exiled I choose Paris.
I'm from Philadelphia, PA - born & raised. There is a part of me that still misses the place. When you spend several decades in a single location living there defines your sense of normalcy.
I carry a piece of Chris Marker with me while on my journeys. Namely Chris Marker by Catherine Lupton, Staring Back, and La Jetee / Sans Soleil. It's a compulsion that's greater than my own personal understanding.
The creative energy of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land makes me want to create my own poetic masterpiece.
I've lived in Seattle from October 2008 to ....
Often I think about becoming a Canadian. I greatly appreciate Canada's cosmopolitan culture, excellent standard of living, universal healthcare, and Quebecois French. (Other than the cold...) What is there not to like?
Long ago I outgrew wanting to be cool. Now I just want to be me. Cool as a cultural phenomenon, especially as it pertains to African-Americans, does provide some fascination.
Occasionally I blog.
I prefer to see Larisa Fox wearing glasses to without.
My life is rooted to the middle path, avoiding hedonistic pursuits, or a strict rejections of all worldly things (although I'm closer to the latter than the former).
I enjoy drinking Dr. Pepper.
Any autonomous actions of an individual must be well thought out in order to unleash any true revolutionary potential. The real question concerning autonomism is what actions are truly revolutionary? Basic actions such as squatting, payment ducking, and work slow-downs are largely self-serving, and do not posses the capacity to challenge the existing order. To sponge off the scraps of capitalism isn't revolutionary. A revolution in its true essence represents positive change that improves the live of those effected by it. Examples of positive autonomism include actions such as communal living, urban agriculture, self-sufficiency, simple living, post materialism, volunteering, and individual activism. These actions undermine the profit driven me-first mantra of global capital. It is through these actions that lives can be improved, and exposes unfettered free-market capitalism as just another failed grand narrative.
My email address is artist dot noir and the rest. The dot between artist and noir blends in almost perfectly with the flakes from a Texas snow storm. Snow on a cactus is a beautiful thing.
My Myers-Briggs personality type is INTJ, although this has very little real significance.
Supreme Mathematics main use is in the beauty of its word play.
I celebrate the music of Julius Eastman.
I've received an honorary doctorate from Penny University.
I've progressively fallen in & out of lust with Audrey Tautou. Currently my feelings are in limbo, but I still enjoy hearing her speak English.
My zine had no central message, other than layer upon layer of photocopied images & text.
Somehow I enjoy the work of Tracee Ellis Ross despite my general hesitation to view Girlfriends. She provides a sometimes necessary distraction.
Yerba Mate can be enjoyable, but I avoid the traditional paraphilia which is a bit much.
Someday I'll visit Cape Town, for no reasons other than to enjoy the beauty of that city, and to exhume the Circus Ninja Art Collective. The group now appears to be defunct, with only their profiles, videos, and blogs remaining.
I'm a professional dilettante.
Noir Artist has no friends, or at the very least few worth mentioning. Perhaps this is my reality because I have so little time for others. Perhaps this is due to my general misanthropic nature. Perhaps I'm just more aware of the futility of modern friendships.
I enjoy being alone and hardly every feel lonely. To a large extent I've taken on the outlook found within Anneli Rufus's Party of One, but avoiding the greater masses is impossible no matter how much one tries. The main task in life is to figure out how to transcend the multiple worlds that make up human existence, while always remaining true to oneself.
A dynamic individual embraces change as a lifestyle. You must make every possible attempt to improve yourself and to become a person defined by your actions. A dynamic individual is a doer, and to become a doer a person must master the arts of planning & communication. There is no training required beyond developing a mindset dominated by the act of doing. Your grading system will be the ramifications of your mistakes, and constant activity will yield many opportunities.
As Juilius Nyerere stated, "We must run while they walk".
I haven't worn blue jeans this century.
Having a large wardrobe is a commitment that I'm no longer willing to make. There's a definite problem if I can't fit all of my immediate possessions within a carryon bag and be on the road within 24 hours.
Women become more beautiful by wearing eyeglasses.
I keep certain films locked & loaded for easy viewing: A Huey P. Newton Story (2001); Alphaville (1965); Bob le Flambeur (1956); A Bout de Souffle (1960); Chats Perches (2004); La Chinoise (1967); Da Vinci Code (2006); Downtown 81(1981); The Dreamers (2003); F for Fake (1974); For Ever Mozart (1996) Le Gai Savoir (1969); Grin Without a Cat (1977); Hail Mary (1985); General Idi Amin Dada (1974); La Jetee (1962); King Lear (1987); The Koumiko Mystery (1965); Level Five (1997); Liberia: An Uncivil War (2004); Matrix (1999); The Mother and the Whore (1973); Mozart and the Whale (2005); My Dinner With Andre (1981); Paris, je t'aime (2006); Pierrot Le Fou (1965); Sans Soleil (1983); The Science of Sleep (2006); A Tout de Suite (2004); Week End (1967).
My current occupation is starving artist.
I read the New York Times:
I want to write a New Novel.
I've never managed to finish Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, but I'm fascinated by the Battle Royal scene.
The BBC is one of my most important sources of information:
