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Sviatoslav

My dad made me a poster of Sviatoslav Richter albums when I was 15. This was only half of them.

My printer made a modern art masterpiece

My printer made a modern art masterpiece

my sunday best

Dressed up
the tree of life

I found the Tree of Life.

Me with PDQ Bach and Suzanne Vega right after I told a really stupid joke because I was manic and drunk. I was so excited to tell her how Eazy E borrowed her melody from Tom's Diner on one of his unreleased tracks.

I photoshopped this. This would make a great Chopin book.

I took this photo of an Alligator Snapping Turtle looking like it's breathing smoke

The North Country

Sam just kickin' it. He saved my life.

My home has a shrine to Conway Twitty. This chair belonged to Conway Twitty, and an old friend thought he'd want me to have it.

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Just so you know, my town's pharmacy has a lot of new family planning merchandise.

I forged this Mickey Mantle autograph in 2nd grade, my dad said I was quite pleased on my 2nd attempt

Trying to conduct

score for a prepared piano piece I wrote long ago

I flew overseas dressed as Dennis Nedry from Jurassic Park. Had a psychotic break midflight, but successfully delivered the embryos.

Birds and Squid

'Self Portrait with Birds and Squid'- I made this drawing in college with used printer ink cartridges.

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'Fire and Ice': Me in winter, holding a compact disc copy of the Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves soundtrack

Me dressed up with my sister and brother visiting Santa Claus at the mall 1996

my cats looking like they're on a Christian Rock album cover

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A picture of my cat and it looks a bit like that famous Stravinsky photo

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The Professional. Big money, big nutz, and a big fat dope sack.

Mary Stewart the Caracal, great at catching birds, good listener

At the national academy of sciences building for my dad's induction, Einstein disapproves of my presence

End of my dissertation

Schubert

Saw this album and realized why so many people over the years have said I look like Schubert.

Feeding hungry hungry Rajah. I was once sprayed in the face by a tiger, then passed out in the evening during an opening weekend screening of Brokeback Mountain. Hard to explain in the moment. 'C'mon, Guys! I'm not homophobic, promise! It's just this popcorn butter smell reminded me too much of getting blasted in the grimace this morning by Pollo the tiger.'

Giant Squid beak, a present from my brother! Just walked around in circles for weeks talking like James Mason in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Many attempt, few were born for it. Kinda like Dennis Hopper in his search for the Giant Squid.

Boulez - 3rd piano Sonata

I bought this Boulez score in high school and later put it on my dorm wall in college. T.Rex figure there for scale.

Figure 4

I collected old baseball cards when I was a kid. My favorite set is 1956 Topps. I wanted a quartet and found one close enough.

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Giant Squid Cake

Giant Squid cake for my 17th Birthday!

Barbeque Man Unleashed

Barbeque Man Jr. makes his entrance in his rematch with Baron Banks Gentry.

All or Nothing

From a former student, the gift of Milli Vanilli

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Words of wisdom.

Sam

Sam helping me level up in Skyrim

My Indominus Rex chia pet struggles

Good times.

Eating nachos outside

Look-a-like champs!

My dog Thatch and I won a dog/owner look-a-like contest

Ligeti Autograph - realer than Real Deal Holyfield

Tsar cat

Sweet little Tsar

I made this hoodie

Barbeque Man Dance

Still from the BBQ Man Dance video, wearing an authentic WrestleMania 2 shirt that doesn't fit me

I bought this opera LP because it has what would have been the hardest gangsta rap album cover of the 90s

The Barbeque Man Dance

My buddy Enrique knew it had to be done, but my dad, as can be seen in this photo, was quite concerned I was going to get hurt jumping off the table for a music video.

My Pro Wrestling VHS collection. Intimidating, I know.

My Christmas Tree

"Fear not, for, behold; I bring you tithings and great joy!"

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Ligeti hat

Sam and deer
Me and my JP T. Rex

In a music grad student office at Duke

The only time I asked AI for something. And it delivered. The Prompt: Make me an imaginary cover page of a trending Youtube video of some popular influencer doing a first time watching reaction video to the Challenger Disaster of 1985

Cat album cover

I took a picture of my cats and thought they looked like they were on a Christian Rock album cover. An anonymous photoshop hero later sent this image to me.

Barbeque Man Stunner

Barbeque Man Jr. delivers a stunner to Baron Banks Gentry at Wrestlefest 30.

T-shirt!

Custom t-shirt featuring some of my favorite music personalities from history.

What Just Popped in There 2

Vanderbilt Jenkins removes a chair that Baron Banks Gentry used on BBQ Man Jr while the ref wasn't looking. From their first match. Barbeque Man Unleashed.

I ran for student council in high school and won

Through the broadcast table

Vanderbilt Jenkins, the executive financial advisor of Baron Banks Gentry, crashes through the broadcasting table in the second half of Barbeque Man Unleashed.

The villainous Baron Banks Gentry (The Great Muchness) and Vanderbilt Jenkins serviced

I originally planned to make my dissertation pro wrestling ballet with action figures rated R, taking the wrestling action figures to leave the mini arena and fight their no disqualification championship match at various locations in the real world: strip clubs, tv preacher faith healing services, The Gay Dolphin at Myrtle Beach, etc. There was no way my dissertation committee would have allowed that, and I lost my funding in the end anyway, but here's a photo from the original version

Jaws the Revenge.

Me excited next to the fin used in Jaws: The Revenge, generally considered one of the worst movies ever made.

I never saw the Tom Cruise movie The Last Samurai, but I wrote a song on what it's probably about

Truest Haiku

Truest Haiku - Paul Swartzel
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Was a little boy in Japan
(And this is true)
It was hard times, Pre-World War 2
Pre-Kamikazes comin down from the sky
when Tom Cruise ruled as The Last Samurai
.....and he was a tyrant

Threw the boy's mama in the Slam
Cause she blew
Outlawed Tunes on the Japanese Flute
meaning Dance Hall Days, Wang Chung cover band,
Boy got in his truck, went down to jail, and made demands:

"Hey Cruise, I'm here to do three things:
Kick some ass
Get my mama
and play some Japanese flute music....
Looks like I'm almost outta flute, MANE, gimme my mama."


Cruise told him to beat it and scram,
"Disperse!
Wait, ya want ya mama, ya better gimme a verse
bout something sacred to your kin."

Boy said a curse
The F word, the worst,
and on a whim
he said with a grin

[oh, jus look at that grin]

"You want a haiku?
You can't handle a haiku

A Few Good Men 2"

The Director said "Cut!
We're gonna make a billion bucks!
Make a trailer that goes...
Weeeouuuooooewwwww"


And they did. 

Because

The Industrial Revolution
Has Been a Disaster
For The Human Race





 

"Get it reviewed, get it in libraries. Let the public decide." - Sideways

Snake Bite Memorial

Snake Bite Memorial
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Good day to you, and you, and you

and a Good Day Everybody, Hey!

That’s not how we do things in Indianapolis

 

Oh, No thanks to you and you and you

That's not how we do things!

That’s NOT how we do things in Indianapolis.

 

"Yeah, The Snake Bite Memorial 

Takes up all the land with 

Names of those killed by snakes..

...lot bigger than our Vietnam...

and it’s shaped like a Snake,

One that swallowed an egg,

well, with no more room you gotta go up

with larger font for the wealthy dead

 

Some parts an names removed,

now some soldier's souvenir

'Oh, we’ll get them back!'

That's what they say

at least election year... 

 

But not today

Not today.

 

Everybody sayin':

“Get rid of the snakes

Get rid of the snakes

Get rid of the snakes!

Get rid of em , rid of em......"

But that's not how we things in 

IN-DI-ANA-AP-PO-LIS

THAT'S not how we do things

No, we don't.

That’s NOT how we do things in Indianapolis

 

We got room to build.

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