Laughing hysterically until your tummy aches, toast with jam, apartments with bay windows, cocktails with pals, people with character, music with harmony, photographs with contrast, shirts with collar buttons, and enlightening discussions with charismatic derelicts.
Music
Sheesh, I like a lot of music (doesn't everyone?!), here's some off the top of my head: Spoon, Mew, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Grandaddy, A.C. Newman / Neko Case / The New Pornographers, Ambulance LTD, Aimee Mann, The Album Leaf, Kid Loco, Ivy, Club 8, Iron and Wine, Neil Halstead, The Notwist, Out Hud, The Black Keys, The White Stripes, The Strokes, Sublime, Green Day, (old) Nas, Tribe, GZA, Raekwon, Funkmaster Flex, Manu Chou, Air, DJ Shadow, DJ QBert, Scratch Nerds, Beastie Boys, Aesop Rock, William Orbit, Barcode Brothers, Madonna, Orbital, Greece 2000, Thievery Corporation, Hooverphonic, Sigur Ros, Flunk, Helsinki Architecture, Gabin, Beck, Beth Orton, Yo Yo Ma, Mozart, Cat Stevens, The Police, Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits, CCR, Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder, Louis Armstrong, Dianna Krall, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin. Right now I'm listening to The Who
Movies
Currently my favorite movie is LA Confidential, but I also love: The Royal Tenenbaums, Clerks, The Big Lebowski, 200 Cigarettes, Chinatown, Style Wars, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, In The Soup, The Corporation, Pirates of the Caribbean, Crash, Pleasantville, Edward Scissorhands, Scarface, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Hudsucker Proxy, Lords of Dogtown, A Fish Called Wanda, Pulp Fiction (of course), Venus Beauty Institute, Office Space, Some Like it Hot, Short Cuts, The Maltese Falcon, Napoleon Dynamite, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Shawshank Redemption, Rififi, Garden State, Goodfellas, Payback, Grand Illusion, Amelie, Sneakers, The Station Agent, My Life Without Me, Slacker, Cat Ballou, Life as a House, The Big Sleep and Manhattan
Television
That shit rots your brain
Beverages
H2O Yeah, Orange Juice, Apple Juice, Iced Tea, Coffee, any Odwalla Drink, V8 w/ Tabasco and Vodka (on occasional "rough" mornings), Dr. Pepper, Sierra Nevada, Guinness, Red Hook, Modelo Negra, Gin and Tonic (w/ Sapphire) and a lemon, Maker's and Seven, Bocce Ball, Vodka Martini w/ Effen and a twist (skip the olive), Margaritas without the salt and any red wine you throw at me, I'll catch it in my mouth.
Books
Notables: Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, Flowers for Algernon, Ender's Game, The Fuck Up, Al Capone: The Biography, In The Heart of the Sea, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Tipping Point, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time, True American Crime 2004, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Enigma of Arrival, The Master Butcher's Singing Club, Foucault's Pendulum, Plainsong, The Painters Handbook, El Libro Del Arte (by Cennino Cennini), and my favourite: The Oxford Complete Dictionary
Heroes
Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles and Ray Eames, Phillipe Starck, James Dudley, Wayne Thiebaud, D.A. Bishop, Ellsworth Kelly, Bobby Evans, Quentin Tarantino, Bill Murray, Kevin Smith, Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva, David Cronin, William Mares, Mitch Hedburg (RIP), Karen Okun, Dr. Suess, Groundskeeper Willy, my father and the surfer that saved me from drowning many, many years ago in San Clemente.
About me:
Photographer of fabricated grit and splendor.
I don't swing through here too much anymore as I've bit the bullet and evolved onto the whole Facebook mindfuck: http://www.facebook.com/roamandclick. I'm also the photo editor for Material Tank, which is a pretty sick collection of imagery pulled from all over the world and posted in clean and simple format, click here to scope it.
Stereotypical American: white, goofy, chubby and don't give a fuck. Harsh, yet honest critic of all mediums. Artistically inclined. Talented in the realm of fucking "colorful" language, in fact, I'm a perpetual offender of "the line" in a verbal sense. Loyal believer of proper english. Supporter of small-scale businesses and individuals devoted to creative influence and the like.
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Who I'd like to meet: Organic (as opposed to synthetic) people with a firm handshake and a genuine smile.
If you're interested in free advertising and you've got a decent banner, contact me here. I'm a picky individual though, so if you're marketing bullshit, go fuck yourself with a cactus.
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