Indy/lighter punk rock; backpacking; high tech/computers; poker; go; effective activism; amateur photography; wine; my awesome friends
Music
If you say you like everything, you don't really like anything. Mostly indie rock, punk rock here. Music rocks my heart and soul.
Hot Water Music, Tool, Sunny Day Real Estate, Mates of State, The Gossip, The Blow, The Mountain Goats, Decibully, Rainer Maria, Fugazi, U2, Bad Religion, Le Tigre, Decibully, At The Drive-In, Iron and Wine, Hum, Mirah
Movies
Pi, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, JFK, Fight Club, Office Space, High Fidelity, Aliens, Napoleon Dynamite, Deconstructing Harry, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Twin Peaks (the whole thing)
Television
works well for watching movies and playing video games. I've never even checked to see if I receive any channels since I moved.
Books
Johnathan Livingston Seagull, Wrinkle in Time Trilogy, Martin's Game of Thrones series, The Razor's Edge, Janice Kim's Learn To Play Go series, McGruder's Boondocks collections, Get Fuzzy collections, Hold'em Poker For Advanced Players, Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas, Kingdom of Fear (Also by Thompson), Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends, Edwards's Climber's Guide to Glacier National Park, Rand McNally's Road Atlas of the US.
Things on the list: more Vonnegut, some Bukowski, some "non-western" political texts I picked up during school, more classic russian lit, more poker and Go books of course.
Currently reading: Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
About me: The details are all in the bars to the left. If you'd like to see the photos I post online, you can go
HERE.
Aside from that, this box is a little tricky. I'm going to turn it into a quote box for now. If I knew any HTML it would be far prettier.
"It's certainly interesting to look back at what I was talking to him about back then, and to recognize that I am still terrified of the same thing. I am afraid that if I let a huge feeling into my system, that it will take me over completely, create a havoc in my life, and maybe send me out off of the planet, in the way that I saw happen to my friend back in February. I want to feel, and there are some dramatic obstacles in the way."-- Khaela Maricich from The Blow
"Maybe the moral high ground isn't as high as it seems." -- Ani DiFranco
"That's just the way you are. You don't have to be afraid." -- Mirah
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy." -- Joseph Campbell
"One can not ask if a model represents reality, only if it works." -- Stephen Hawking
" In going on with these experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves obliged to destroy! If there is no other use discovered of elctricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain man humble."
--Benjamin Franklin to colleagues in England, 1747
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. " -- Edward Murrow
"Being outraged online is a form of entertainment, and refreshing a thread to receive a hit of consensus packs the thrill of genuine activism without requiring any sweat." -- Jerry Holkins
" Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." --Frederick Douglass
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. " --Albert Einstein
Who I'd like to meet: Someone who can show me more of the best things in life. Stunning art, fine wine, glorious hikes, brilliant technology, overwhelming music..... you get the picture.
so i'm thinking some kind of nice reunion next week.. you, me, brenda, lucali, shane, patrick, jamie, chuck, seth, whoever else.. i'm forgetting lots i'm sure. coffee? orgy? whatever? k. let me know.
thanks Dan, you're awesome...wish I could go. I picked up a shift at the Side Street tonight. I really need the funds, but feeling totally sad I won't be at the party. Hug April for me...
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth So I made lame by fortunes dearest spite Take all thy comfort and worth of truth For whether beauty birth or wealth or wit Or any of these all or all or more Entitled in thy parts do Crowned sit I make my love en grafted to this store So then I am not Lame, poor, nor despised, Whilst doth such shadows substance give That thy in my abundance am sufficed and by a part in glory Live! Look what is best that best I wish in thee This wish I have than Ten times happy me.
i was at fresh pot the other day on Mississippi and shaver and beth from the gossip was sitting right next to me. i thought of you and thought you might be kinda jealous. love you. :)
