Nik
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"One night in Bangkok / and the world's your oyster"
Male
36 years old
Auckland,
New Zealand
Last Login:
7/2/2008
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Nik's Interests
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| General | Writin', readin', music, comics, movies, bloggin', travelin', toddler wrasslin'. Walking the earth like Kane in "Kung Fu." | | Music | David Bowie (No. 1 with a bullet), Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, The Pixies, The Beatles, Tom Waits, The White Stripes, The Who, Spoon, Björk, Johnny Cash, The New Pornographers, Richard Thompson, Big Star, Warren Zevon, Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop. Lucinda Williams, Antony and the Johnsons, TV on The Radio, The Shins, The Decemberists, Neil Young, The Ramones, Nirvana, Wilco, Blue Mountain, Marvin Gaye, The Smiths, Ryan Adams, Uncle Tupelo, The Replacements, Men At Work, Sonic Youth, Franz Ferdinand, Neko Case, Everclear, Tom Petty, Guided By Voices, Sufjan Stevens, Lou Reed, R.E.M., Wire, The Mountain Goats, Joy Division, The Cure, Ray Charles, Freedy Johnston, Sly and The Family Stone, LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire, The Kinks, XTC, Mission of Burma, The Chills, Beck, Dusty Springfield, Crowded House, Fiona Apple - that enough? | | Movies | Anything by Cameron Crowe, Wes Anderson. Stanley Kubrick. Kurosawa rocks my world. Hitchcock. Orson Welles. Peter Jackson and of course "Lord of the Rings." Almost anything Bill Murray does. Good documentaries, especially Errol Morris. Woody Allen. The original "Star Wars" saga. "Lost in Translation." David Cronenberg's "The Fly." Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." The "Spider-Man" and "X-Men" movies. "Young Frankenstein." The original "Planet of the Apes" movies. "Creature From The Black Lagoon," "A Hard Day's Night," "This is Spinal Tap," "The Man Who Fell To Earth." "Clerks." "Three Amigos." "Point Break." | | Television | "Lost," "Doctor Who," "Entourage," "Six Feet Under," "The Office" (American version), "Firefly," "NewsRadio," "Deadwood," "Wallace and Gromit." "The Young Ones," "Red Dwarf," "Mr. Show," "Fawlty Towers," "Bottom," "The Simpsons" (first 10 seasons or so), "Scrubs," "My Name Is Earl", "Arrested Development" (RIP), "Futurama," "Heroes" | | Books | Haruki Murakami, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, John Updike, Paul Auster, Tim Cahill, Mark Twain, Will Self, Chuck Klosterman, Jonathan Lethem, Christopher Moore, David Mitchell, Flannery O'Connor, Stephen King, Rick Bragg, Richard Ford, Hunter S. Thompson, Dave Eggers, Nick Hornby, Patricia Highsmith, Neal Pollack, Hugh Lofting, John Irving, Bill Bryson, nonfiction history and biography in general.
Comics world: Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Ed Brubaker, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, those great thick "Essential" black and white phone books of vintage comix. Tintin! Flaming Carrot, Tom Strong, Freak Brothers, Eightball, Local. Have read Amazing Spider-Man more or less obsessively since 1982 even when it sucked. | | Heroes | Today, Barack Obama |
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New Zealand Myspacers, David Bowie, Team Zissou, Firefly: Nothing like it in the verse, Chuck Klosterman Fans., Peter Gabriel, The Uncool: A Cameron Crowe Group
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Nik's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Grass Valley, Calif. | | Body type: | 6' 2" | | Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Journalist |
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My Top 10 CDs of 2007
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So we bought a house...
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One year in New Zealand!
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Ryan Adams live in Auckland 8-16-07 review
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Bob Dylan live Auckland 8-11-07 review
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Nik's Blurbs |
About me:
Expatriate US journalist who lives in Auckland, New Zealand with kiwi wife and 4-year-old kiwi/American son. I work for a company that edits, designs and lays out pages for NZ's biggest publications.
My main Internet haunt for blogging and more: Spatula Forum
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Who I'd like to meet:
I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it.
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