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Half Asian, half amazin'.

Musician, writer, reader of books.

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California Institute of the Arts; MFA Critical Studies/Writing, 2005

University of California, Irvine; BA Comparative Literature/Critical Theory, 2001

Feather River College, Quincy; AA Liberal Studies, 1996

Benicia High School; diploma, 1993

I am particularly interested in the profound, ontological problematics found in most zombie films, I have enjoyed the work of the following filmmakers: Wong Kar Wai, Yuen Wo Ping, Takashi Miike, Jim Jarmusch, Lars Von Trier, Steve Buscemi, Akira Kurosawa, Harmony Korine.

ambient, noise, drones, minimalism, microsound, glitchy idm, field recordings, contemporary classical, instrumental math rock, Japanese and Cantonese pop, hip hop, breakbeats, dubstep, sinister and relentless jungle/dnb, hard/gabber/terror/speed core, and metal in all of its various incarnations (death/black/power/stoner/post-/technical/doom)

dim sum, sushi, really fat burritos, breakfast

PROSE: Samuel Beckett, Mary Gaitskill, William S. Burroughs, William T. Vollmann, David Foster Wallace, Franz Kafka, Kobo Abe, Don DeLillo, Murikami Ryu, Percival Everett, Paul Auster, Philippe Soupault, Hunter S. Thompson, Rene Depestre, Frank Chin, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortaazar, Gary Lutz, Patrick Chamoiseau, Kenzaburo Oe, Steve Erickson, Philip K. Dick POETRY: Ron Silliman, W.S. Merwin, Lyn Heijinian, Mei-mei Brussenberge, Li-Young Lee, Marina Tsvetaeva, Daniel Higgs, Robert Desnos, Mina Loy, Robert Kelly, Andre Breton, Susan Howe, Jackson MacLow, Clark Coolidge, Michael Palmer, Charles Bernstein, Robert Creely, Charles Olson, Hirata Toshiko, Rae Armantrout, Tan Lin THEORY/PHILOSOPHY: George Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Walter Benjamin, E.M. Cioran, Jean Baudrillard, Edward Said, Slavoj Zizek, Manuel DeLanda, Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway, Michel DeCerteau, Nietsche, Micheal Taussig, N. Katherine Hayles, Schopenhauer, Alphonso Lingis, Henri Lefevbre, Edward Soja, Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Paul Virilio, Maurice Blanchot, Edouard Glissant, Jacques Lacan COMICS: R. Crumb, Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes, Julie Doucet, Phoebe Gloeckner, Chester Brown, Tony Millionaire OTHER: big glossy architecture books, big glossy design books, big glossy exhibition catalogues

sound, sound production, soundscapes, instruments, sustained listening, auditory bricolage, urban studies, cityscapes, critical theory, fragments, excerpts, citations, taking notes, watching animals eat, archives, Asian cinema, hapas, foodstuffs, naps, poetry, secrets, symptomology, the mysterious as opposed to the blatant, the obscure as opposed to the exposed, the mechanisms of fabrication which constitute this sham we call everyday life