lowell pelkey
lowell pelkey
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...for this i skipped college?
Male
41 years old
Lake Stevens, WASHINGTON
United States
Last Login: 11/22/2009
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| General | music (playing / writing / recording / listening), books (mostly sci-fi and fantasy), magazines (Atlantic, Smithsonian, Nat'l Geographic, Sci-Am, Maxim, etc.), movies (bring on the summer blockbusters!), hangin' out with the best kid on the planet. playin' cards, especially poker but really any game. chess. games of strategy and skill RULE over games of chance, but when you combine the two, it's sometimes even more fun. love playin' basketball and racquetball (though i don't do enough of either). pretty much anything athletic is good. hiking is great. love the ocean. love to cook when i have the time; it's hard to find something wrong with havin' good food.
i've spent most of my working life in shops, worked with damn near every kind of tool known to man, and i love building things. i can make pretty much anything out of whatever's called for with pretty much whatever's available. 'only a poor workman blames his tools' and all that.
i've spent a lot of time running CNC machines, like waterjet cutters, torches, mills, lathes, etc. love woodworking, and would absolutely LOVE having enough decent tools to set up shop at home, build some furniture, some guitars, do some remodeling. everything takes money....and i never seem to have enough to do the things i really want to, so i s'pose i keep workin' on that...
and computers, of course. i think i'd die without the internet. for me having an internet connection is like being at the library constantly: you can find out about anything, with a little digging. there's a lot to be said for having more to read/watch/listen to than you can possibly take advantage of. vive la information overload! pick your battles, people.
i know enough about coding to throw together a decent page, though i find i like the simpler things- clean layouts, easy navigation, quality of content- better than throwing in everything you could possibly include. i have a litte web site that's always growing. myspace is just interesting enough to put up a page- this one- but it's likely just gonna get parked here; the other's more than enough work to keep me busy.
and i really like video games, but i never seem to have the time for 'em anymore....which kinda sucks. at least when i'm old and unable to do much else, the video games will be insanely amazing. | | Music |
PINK FLOYD #1, and the rest (in no particular order):
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metallica joe satriani steve vai jim croce AC/DC alice in chains kevin yost cinematic orchestra duran duran foo fighters green day pantera cream led zeppelin bad company the who the beatles tony bennett miles davis leo kotkke carlos santana the eagles linda ronstadt the police queensryche van halen eric clapton jimi hendrix CSNY sheryl crow nelly furtado aerosmith oingo boingo lyle lovett prince a flock of seagulls men at work vangelis tangerine dream howard shore bach beethoven tchaikovsky wynton marsalis tommy dorsey tower of power earth, wind & fire glen miller manhattan transfer the white stripes guns 'n roses george lynch the scorpions judas priest sammy hagar billy idol gruntruck bob dylan the temptations smokey robinson ray charles stevie ray vaughan eric johnson al dimeola pat metheny stanley jordan paul simon the fixx black sabbath.....
i could go on, but you get the idea....all over the map. | | Movies |
let's see.....
from what i've seen lately: the exorcism of emily rose, the human stain, monster, good will hunting, constantine, crash, million dollar baby, the constant gardener, emma, memoirs of a geisha, good night and good luck, black hawk down, the brothers grimm, frank miller's sin city, signs, mr & mrs smith, batman begins, war of the worlds (cruise), hotel rwanda, american beauty, ocean's 11, the last samurai, collateral, van helsing, chocolat... (all pulled from my actual website, a page that lists what i've been watching).
but otherwise...what comes to mind?
the rapture. the wall. LOTR trilogy. a clockwork orange. die hard. spider man 2. the incredibles. raiders of the lost ark. star wars series. THX-1138. logan's run. schindler's list. the life of brian (or any Python, for that matter). young frankenstein. blazing saddles. franco zeffereli's 1968 romeo & juliet. kenneth branagh's henry V. joseph fiennes'/jeremy irons'/al pacino's 2004 merchant of venice. shakespeare in love. dogma. fast times at ridgemont high. the best little whorehouse in texas. E.T. the spy who loved me. the outlaw josie wales. the good, the bad and the ugly. the exorcist. altered states. quest for fire. roots. purple rain. fight club. | | Television | just don't watch much, and when i do, it's usually sports, the news, the discovery channel, the history channel, or cartoons. | | Books |
i'll go for authors instead:
tolkein. mark twain. orson scott card. raymond feist. stephen r. donaldson. larry niven. jerry pournelle. robert heinlein. ray bradbury. clive barker. stephen king. dean koontz. terry brooks. chuck klosterman. piers anthony.
or, you could click here to check out an actual list of the books i've read lately... | | Heroes |
my son, the khoulest 15 year old on the planet.
Spider Man. Reed Richards. Joe Satriani. Abraham Lincoln. Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Jefferson. George Washington. Nikola Tesla. |
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lowell pelkey's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | this one's as good as any i guess. | | Body type: | 5' 6" / Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Atheist | | Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius | | Smoke / Drink: | Yes / Yes | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | High school | | Occupation: | machine shop grunt | | Income: | $30,000 to $45,000 |
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lowell pelkey just doesn't get to MySpace much...obviously. gimme a yell on facebook. Posted at 5:26 AM May 7
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About me:
if you really wanna know something about me, click here to check out my actual website.
if you wanna hear some of my music, you could check out my MySpace 'band' page. there are 3 tunes streamed on it.
or you could click here to check out or actually download any tunes i've posted online (from soundclick.com, a site that keeps track of usage stats for me). it's the main site i distribute music online through.
or you could click here, to get an earful of some of my stuff at unsignedbandweb.com.
or here, from betarecords.com, another mirror site i threw some tunes on.
or even here, from isound.com, another mirror site.
if you check out any of those links, let me encourage taking a good look around the sites. there are a TON of good unsigned bands.
but back to this "about me" thing. in what (for me) is a brief manner:
most people would say i'm a pretty decent guy, i try to be khoul, not sweat the small stuff, give people the benefit of the doubt, treat people like i want to be treated. i love music and books and films. hang out with my dog Chowder, mostly, and my son- the greatest 15 year old on the planet- whenever possible. i come from a great family, and got taught good things like "be honest" and "work hard"...the usual. i'm prob'ly as attractive as the average guy, and as intelligent. i have a decent- if slightly offbeat- sense of humor, and i lean a little toward perfectionism; another way of saying i'm always looking for things to be a little better than they are...which means, basically, i'm destined to live out my life frustrated with my current lot to some extent.
i play guitar and write music (neither as much as i used to, or would if i had more @#($*@!* time!). used to be a longhaired party-hound type back in the day, but being a divorced dad changes things 'fore ya know it.
i try to keep an open mind about most things, but i have to admit i'm pretty set in the compelling, if inconvenient, belief that there is no 'god'. still, if the random convergence of known and unknown subatomic particles, and the measured and unseen energies of the universe, can, in their unfathomably complex machinations, combine in practically infinite ways, randomly amounting to a cohesive structure that is 'me', and, as a preponderance of the evidence would seem to suggest, this structure has both life and consciousness, as well as that what i am is actually the sum total or embodiment of those properties, i see no reason to completely rule out the possibility that when this biological system i govern has run its course then, in the fullness of infinite time, another random convergence may statistically occur which results in the expression of another consciousness that 'is me'...or is at least as much 'me' as this 'me' is.
which is all a way of saying that i see no need for, nor evidence of, nor cause to believe in any 'intelligent design' or 'higher power' to explain the origin or nature of the universe. indeed, any such so-called answer to that mystery only supplants it with the same mystery rephrased; to wit: "what is the origin or nature of this 'higher power', this 'intelligent designer'?". but having said all that, my belief in the universe's essentially timeless existence, and infinitely complex nature, does not necessarily exclude the possibility of something along the lines of reincarnation (for lack of a better term) beyond this singular existence. if time is truly infinite, and the universe has always and will always exist, and my conscious existence has come about through the natural progression of its elements, then it follows that eventually this same type of occurence would- at least statistically- be likely to occur again.
but i'm not betting on it.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Albert Einstein; Abraham Lincoln; Thomas Jefferson; Ben Franklin; Wolfgang A. Mozart; Jimi Hendrix; Neil Armstrong; Jimmy Carter; Mahatma Ghandi (sp?); Jesus Christ; Mark Twain; J. R. R. Tolkein; Joe Satriani; myself when i was about 8; a beautiful, talented, charming, funny, down-to-Earth, interested-or-at-least-receptive single woman of approximately my age in this general vicinity (or two, or three); Bob Hope; Marilyn Monroe; John Lennon; Nikola Tesla; every one of my ancestors all the way back to origin of the species; someone who owns a time machine; anyone who doesn't pronounce the word 'nuclear' as 'nukular'; my dad when he was in high school; my grandkids (should i be so lucky someday); anyone who can make me crack up constantly; my doppelganger....
oh, and (of course): Nicole Kidman, cuz she's just plain perfect. Famke Janssen. Romola Garai. Bryce Dallas Howard. Lynda Carter. Scarlett Johannsen (sp?)
...this list could get a little too long to populate properly.
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