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The island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands
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Vegan home cooking
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Woodworking with salvaged wood. Making bowls on my lathe.
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Bicycle touring, casual cruising, commuting to work & bike riding in general. Building bikes out of garbage picked bike parts & frames.
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Hiking and Backpacking
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Yellowstone National Park
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Making useful things out of garbage
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My family: my wife and our two cats.
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Board games
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Nature recording
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Guitar
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Sewing
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Footbag (hackysacking)
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Music
Lot's 'o' variety. Indie rock, metal, raggae, industrial-metal, some Hardcore/punk. Classical guitar, Tabla, Digeredoo, solo acts with acoustic guitar, I love Nature sounds cd's.
I really like electronic-techno-experimental-Ambient-down tempo-soundscape stuff
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Bands: Malory. Slowdive. Mohave3. God Lives Underwater. Millions of Dead Cops. The Noisies. Operation Ivy. Zakir Hussain. Slayer. Rancid. Earth Crisis. Joey Trimmer(MixedTape), Micheal Oster, Vate. Iron Maiden. Dread Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin. Yanni. Adorable. Beastie Boys. Bad Religion. CCR. Chapterhouse. Henry Rollins/Black Flag. KMFDM. Ministry. Moby. Morissey/The Smiths. Morphine. Neds Atomic Dustbin. Pluto. Robert Fripp. The Crystal Method. The Jesus and Mary Chain. Ray Lynch. Michael Stearns. Minor threat. Lamb of God. Tool. NWA. Gorilla Biscuits. The Ramones. R.E.M. & my Sirius satelite radio.
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Movies
Zombie movies. All Monty Python and Bruce Lee. Movies that revolve around a small group of people going against great odds. If I have to name a few: The Right stuff. Heaven Help us. The Surfer King. Dumb and Dumber. Krull. Joe vs. the Volcano. Revenge of the Nerds. The Three Amigos. The Beach. . Raiders of the Lost Ark. Escape from New York. Fantastic Planet
Television
mXc. The Soup. Survivor. Those crazy guys who do survival stuff. Old black and white TV shows. Gameshows.
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Books
Any mountain climbing non-fiction book, and any book on climbing Mt. Everest. Bike touring non-fiction books. Photo based/picture books. Old paperback Sci-Fi books from the 1950's-70's. Books on the history of the space program.
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All time fav's up till now: Watership Down. The Lord of the rings. Robotech.
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Heroes
Alby Mangels
"Travel hasn’t satisfied an appetite. It has created one" ~~Alby Mangels
Sweet Home Shs
Amherst, NY
Graduated: 1992
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: art, science and goofing off
Clubs: the envirnmental club
About me:
I am a wanderlust geek, nature enthusiast, mild mannered environmentalist & conservationist. As an patriotic American I hate George Bush, I'm trying to do as little impact as I can by consuming less, recycling more, riding my bike, living a non violent - Vegan diet and ethics. I pick up litter, an avid garbage picker and occasional dumpster diver (lotsa good stuff being tossed) I'm also an artist thru painting, drawing, and woodworking. I live for adventure and exploring like hiking/backpacking, cycling, traveling, photography. I love nature, listening to nature, watching nature, gardening in nature, and exploring it. I digg animals, trees, mountains, night skies, weird clouds & really extreme/bizzare weather. I'm tidy and dislike knick-knacks and clutter. Halloween rocks, Christmas sucks. Who ever invented black licorice needs to be jailed for life & the smell of tuna makes me wanna vomit. I'm the type of person to take a dying earthworm from the pavement and put it onto the grass, or move a bug outside instead of killing it (if my cats don't eat it first) I carry my digital camera and audio recorder with me often to capture weird stuff, sounds, people, but usually nature oriented stuff. Great guitar playing gives me goosebumps. And, Andrew Zimmern is an asshole.
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REFUSE, REDUCE, REUSE, REPAIR, RECYCLE
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"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive" ~~Joseph Campbell.
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We have a situation, ya look in a window in these modern gyms… people are riding their bikes to nowhere, what are you doing!? People are on treadmills and run to nowhere, what is up with that!? Why don’t you walk someplace? Get something done!(Bill Nie the Science Guy-2007)
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"The kingdom of God is in your heart. Break open a stone and I am there. Split a piece of wood and I am there."
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Change begins with me, instead of resisting and fighting a world that I don't like to see, I'd rather spend the energy creating a world that I envision.
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Who I'd like to meet:
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Dave, I thought I had that flyer on the Third Party Recs history page but it wasn't there. I have a box here in Chicago that it could possibly be in, otherwise its packed away in Buffalo.
Hope all is well. Happy New Year to you and your lady and please pass the same along to Darin!
