- Edward Albee
Edward G. (Woody) Connette, Pro-bono Legal Counsel
- Andy Kaufman
Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman (January 17, 1949 - May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer and performance artist. Though many refer to him as a comedian, Kaufman did not self-identify as one. He disdained telling jokes and engaging in comedy as it was traditionally understood; instead, he saw himself as a practitioner of anti-humor or dada absurdist performance art.
- D. Harlan Wilson
D. Harlan Wilson (born September 3 1971 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American short-story writer and novelist whose body of work is typically associated with the genres of irrealism, science fiction, fantasy, and Bizarro fiction. Elements of splatterpunk, absurdism, literary fiction, ultraviolence, and postmodernism deeply inform his writing, too. He is the author of several books, and his stories and flash fiction have appeared in magazines, …
- Martin Amis
Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is a British novelist. His works include such novels as "London Fields" (1989). Influenced by Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce, as well as by his father Sir Kingsley Amis, he has inspired numerous writers, including Will Self and Zadie Smith.
- Aesop Rock
Aesop Rock (born Ian Matthias Bavitz, 1976) is an American rap artist. He was in the forefront of the new wave of underground acts that emerged during the late 1990s/early 2000s. He is signed to El-P's Definitive Jux label and remains one of the most popular and critically acclaimed independent hip hop artists today.
- Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon is a Baltimore, Maryland-based absurdist electronic music composer/performer. He attended Purchase College in Purchase, New York where he completed his graduate studies in electro-acoustic and computer music composition. He studied under composer/conductor Joel Thome. Currently, he lives at Wham City in Baltimore, Maryland. Dan Deacon's compositional style is best classified in the future shock genre along with Video Hippos, Santa Dads, Blood Baby, …
- Rhys Hughes
Rhys Henry Hughes, is a Welsh writer and essayist. Born in Cardiff, Hughes is a prolific short story writer with an eclectic mix of influences, which include Italo Calvino, Milorad Pavić, Jorge Luis Borges, Stanisław Lem, Flann O'Brien, Vladimir Nabokov, Felipe Alfau, Donald Barthelme and Jack Vance. Much of his work is of a humorously eccentric bent, often parodies and pastiches with surreal and absurdist overtones, …
- Jello Biafra
Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958) is more widely known by the stage name Jello Biafra. He first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band the Dead Kennedys. After his time with the band concluded, he became more directly involved with political activism and took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, founded in 1979 by him and East Bay Ray.
- Misha Mengelberg
Misha Mengelberg (born June 5, 1935) is a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961. Mengelberg was born in Kiev in Ukraine, the son of the conductor Karel Mengelberg, who was himself the nephew of the conductor Willem Mengelberg. He briefly studied architecture before entering the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where he studied music from 1958 to 1964.
- Pascal Pia
Pascal Pia, born Pierre Durand, was a French writer, journalist, illustrator and scholar. One of his earliest works was "La Muse en rut", a collection of erotic poems published in 1928. He also illustrated erotic works, such as the Songs of Bilitis. In 1938 he founded the leftist journal "Alger républicain" in Algiers (part of the French colony of Algeria at the time). The journal was forbidden in 1939.
- Bill Wallis
Bill Wallis is a British actor and comedian who has appeared in numerous radio and television roles, as well as the theatre. Some of his most frequent appearances have been on BBC Radio 4 for "The Afternoon Play" and the "Classic Serial", but he was also in the cast of the long-running sketch show "Week Ending", and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". He has appeared in a number of television programmes including Chelmsford 123, …
- Johnny Dowd
Johnny Dowd (born March 29 1948 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American alternative country musician from Ithaca, New York. Typical of his style are experimental, noisy breaks in his songs and strong gothic (in the sense of dark and gloomy) elements in the lyrics as well as in the music. There is also a strong undercurrent of black humor and the absurd in his work. Although his early albums were most celebrated in the Alt.
- V. C. Sreejan
V. C. Sreejan is a literary critic writing mainly in Malayalam. Born in 1951, he is now works as Reader in English in Government Brennen College, Thalassery. He has published more than 100 articles and 8 books in Malayalam and 5 papers in English. "Chinthayile Roopakangal", (1991) is a collection of articles on the role of metaphors in philosophy, psychoanalysis and literary theory.
- Guillaume Bijl
The Antwerp artist Guillaume Bijl has been especially known for his Installation art. Guillaume Bijl ended up dissatisfied with the cerebrality in conceptual art in the seventies and began to construct spatial installations in which he reconstructed everyday reality literally. He himself claims he shows the 'settings' of our time. The social context and the location stipulate the choice. This enhanced realism transforms into surrealism and absurdism.
- Tony Walters
Antony Walters is an Australian actor, film director, and cocreator of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television series "Double the Fist". Walters met his collaborator Craig Anderson when they were performing absurdist theatre at the University of Western Sydney in the mid-1990s. Bryan Moses, the third member of their team was there at the same time making films. They teamed up on the short film "Life in a Datsun", …
- Albert Camus
The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus. It was published in 1947. The book leaves you very disgusted.
- Evan Avery
I don't fight the world, the world fights me.
- Josh Safran
Basically, I'm a grad student manqu.
- Thomas Farley
Let me take a note to tell you how important I am; Not only do I have two iphones, a Sidekick and a laptop, but I keep room in my briefcase for homeopathic and holistic medicines - all of which were recommended to me by my herbalist - who has won very many awards and I assure you that's not easy. But back to me; There's scarcely even an hour a month that I have to myself and when I do have free time, I run several miles at a very respectable clip.
- Em
failure's always sounded better.
- Evan
I love my life. I never discuss politics if alcohol has been consumed. I'm only sing when I'm alone in my car, or very drunk at a bar. I rant a lot. On average, I have about a dozen existential crises a year. I get a lot of parking tickets. My friends and family are the most important things to me. I read for personal growth. I'll probably have a therapist until I'm 40. I sweat a lot. I cross my Z's and 7's when I write.
- John
I would prefer that you inferred from what lies beneath. :P.
- Amy
tortured artist. i like the blues. im new to brooklyn and would like to find a gentlemen to do the saftey dance with me and perhaps a kiss or two afterwards. one of these days. . .
- Thom Pugh
The situation couldn't have been any worse. The work continued to stagnate. The staff members were dropping off because of the mysterious serial killer. And, hiding something important, Tamiko, my assistant, was probably keeping a watch over me. And, it's possible because of his obsession with the production, Handawara came back as a zombie. With those two as my team, I had to complete the unidentifiable movie.
- Sean Stanley
Right now: In an alternate universe, Jim Morrison is making films and we are missing out. I'm running on four hours of sleep and strong breakfast tea I swiped from a board-of-trustee's function outside my office. Oscar The Grouch is a Timelord and his TARDIS looks like a trashcan. I'm reading upwards of five books. I love my cat, Hubris.
- Joe Stearns
To the EXTREME! I've had a fairly interesting and crazy life. Sometimes, when I'm telling people about things that have happened to me, they look at me with shock and incredulity. Good stories. A clown killed my family. I'm from Detroit and the suburbs of Detroit and I moved to Chicago 10 years ago because Detroit is scary and desolate. I really like to read or learn about cool things that I don't know anything about. I'm a total geek.
- Sean
"I wanna ask you something- How come all your friends are on their way to being somebody else?" - Serpico .............................................................................................................................................. Original Patriarch of the President/Warhol generation. Son of himself. A long time ago in a city far from Ft.
- Ben Bell
A Detailed Myspace Survey.
- Quarex
If you cannot get any sort of read on me based on the rest of this moronic profile, then, well, I guess I can help summarize. I am a hulking beast (hulking, not fat) of a man whose primary goal in life is to have the absolute best time possible and take as many people along for the ride as I can. While I like to consider myself happy beyond comprehension, "happy beyond comprehension" only describes me 90% of the time.
- Jeanne
words:.
- Will
It is truly a curse to be as beautiful as I am. My perfectly proportioned hands and feet, delicate eyes surrounded by strong facial features, and Adonis-like lean and muscled physique draws so much attention that it has become impossible for me lead any kind of normal life. Women, both old and young, throw themselves at me, begging to just touch my hair or face.
- Erich Kuersten
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
- Luq M'dusa
I'm fierce, compassionate, always unique and sometimes absurd. An androgyne who skirts the edges of definition. I've been vegan for more than a decade and maintain a long-distance affair with animals/nature, while I prowl the cityscape. I am an artist without consistence, a fashionista without a favorite designer, a humanitarian who rides the corporate machine, an intellectual sans salon, a revolutionary without an army. Your preconceptions about me are most likely wrong.
- Mel Shapiro
I am amazingly imperfect. I prefer being outside to in any day. Life is contradiction. I wanna be a farmer/lover/revolutionary/mermaid/eagle/friend/transmogrifier/queen/t eacher/student Things I'd like to do over the course of my life: Learn to speak Spanish . . .bow drilling . . . learn to surf. . . drive a motorcycle . . . go to madagascar to visit the lemurs . . . play the banjo . . . farm . . . knit . . .start a revolution Spontaneous. Outrageous.
- Alex
Any similarities between your reality and mine are purely coincidental...
- Simon
I like playing records, making music ad worrying about the volume of prawns in the world. This concern may progress to either whitebait or squid, unsure as yet.
- Helen
"I'm not addicted to drugs, I'm addicted to glamour!" -Party Monster "El mundo es redondo como una naranja" - Gabriel Garca Marqez.
- Erik Pedersen
I am Kire (rhymes with dire).
- Mateo
fuck off....for real.
- Choz
Have you ever watched a music video and been really impressed, or even had it blow your mind?.....Don't touch me there. Touch me here..... In the future, exists a brilliant thought. The innate truth of all things. Conceived by the ultimate mind that is the sum of humanity's wisdom, fusing into one conciousness. A truth so evident that it reverberates as inspiration in all dimensions, in all directions. Across space, time and imagination.