Photography, art, video games, hiking, biking, going to see good live music, reading, hanging out. Mold-a-rama machines. Snobby cheeses. Fireworks. Origami. Yo-yo tricks. Being snarky.
Music
Bob Dylan, Beatles, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Richard Thompson, Warren Zevon, Ramones, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Randy Newman, X (the American one w/John Doe, not the Australian one without John Doe), White Stripes, Cramps, Steely Dan, Cars, Andrews Sisters, Blondie, Liz Phair, Aimee Mann, Leadbelly, Franz Ferdinand, Leonard Cohen before his voice got so deep, Tom Waits, Lyle Lovett, Michael Penn, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Robert Johnson, Richard Cheese, X-Ray Spex, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Esquivel, most cocktail jazz, any odd numbered Hank Williams, Devo, Public Enemy, William Shatner (I'm not kidding), Buddy Guy, and most good* blues, psychobilly, and punk.
*if you get your blues from almost any radio station, we likely have a different idea of what constitutes good
Movies
Citizen Kane, Miller's Crossing, Casablanca, Fight Club, Aliens, The Big Lebowski, Office Space, Usual Suspects, Dragnet (a guilty pleasure), North By Northwest, 12 Angry Men, Some Like It Hot, The Black Pirate, The Adventures Of Robin Hood, Goodfellas, Broadway Danny Rose, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Paint Your Wagon, True Grit, The Shootist, Unforgiven, The Last Starfighter (even though it isn't very good), Sorry Wrong Number, The Greatest Show on Earth, Little Cæsar, Hatari!, My Favorite Brunette, The Paleface, The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux, Casino, The World The Flesh and The Devil, and almost anything the Marx brothers ever did.
Television
Twin Peaks, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Strangers With Candy, Sports Night, Lost, Buffy, Angel, M*A*S*H, Roswell, Simpsons, the early seasons of the West Wing, Battlestar Galactica (the new one), American Dad, Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs!, Aqua Teen Hunger Force (#1 in the hood, G), Thundarr the Barbarian, Gunsmoke, Dragnet (both Jack Webb versions, but more the one from the 60s wherein the whitest and unhippest man alive says "Heroin is the bomb." I am not making this up, people), Roseanne, How I Met Your Mother, Boston Legal, Mad About You, Cheers, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Everybody Loves Hypnotoad (first 2 seasons only).
Books
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut. Most anything by Hemingway. I'm starting to like Sinclair Lewis a lot. Somerset Maugham gets too little credit. Anything Sherlock Holmes is good, assuming it's by Conan Doyle or one of the better pastiche authors. Terry Pratchett, Sue Grafton, and Donna Leon all write things that are a fun way to kill an hour or 5. 1984 and Brave New World changed me a lot, but so did everything I read in my late teens. I like Andrew Vachss a lot, which isn't to say that he's good. Jim Thompson will mess with your head, but you won't mind at all. And you should try to read Shakespeare because it makes people think you're smart, even if you're not (and it gets sort of enjoyable after a time).
Heroes
Leonardo da Vinci, Alan Turing, Kurt Vonnegut, Jimmy Carter, Winston Churchill, Abe Lincoln, FDR, Bob Dylan, Thomas Merton, the Dalai Lama.
Ernie's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Duluth, MN
Body type:
6' 4" / Slim / Slender
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Other
Zodiac Sign:
Cancer
Smoke / Drink:
No / No
Children:
I don't want kids
Occupation:
Geek (not the chicken head eating kind)
Ernie went on photo odyssey with Wendy today and then went to Jay's for yam jam that is both yummy and yammy. Posted 5 hours ago view more
About me:
I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of the Communist Party. I'm a vegetarian, but not the preachy kind. I'm a bit of a hedonist. I spent essentially my entire adult life in Duluth, MN, followed by a few years in St Louis, MO, and what felt like about 75 years in the Bay Area, but now am back in St. Louis where I belong. I play with databases. I travel a lot. I take more pictures than any 3 people you know. I spend a frighteningly large amount of my time reading or in art museums, and I can name all 7 dwarves.
I like to accost random people and make them get their picture taken with my Justin Timberlake bobblehead (read about it here). A fitting hobby for a former phone psychic (they're all frauds, kids)
I'm an horrid grammar snob, and delight in dropping British idiom and Bob Dylan references into my day to day conversation just to see who notices.
I blog a lot - you can see some of my better blogging here and here. Meantime, here's some general info in a quiz from August 2006:
Who I'd like to meet: People who are amusing. People who will give me free pizza, chocolate, or imported cheese. French-speaking University librarians. Art geeks. Insomniacs. Chinese acrobats. Jugglers of any nationality. Photographers. Genuine people. People who appreciate irony. People who own monkeys (or even just one monkey). Luxumbourgers.
I don't know - if you think you'd like me & my company, I'd probably like to meet you. Drop us a line. I'm all about having more friends, but if you send me a friend request, please send an email introducing yourself and explaining why you'd like to be my friend. I ignore all friend requests that arrive unaccompanied. Also, I almost certainly don't care about your band, money making opportunity, or web cam. Thanks. Oh, and I'm revising my top friends, because a lot of these people are gone now. Please bear with us during our renovations or whatever.
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People whom I don't hate
I know plenty of people who would put me up for a day or two.
GAH!!! Did you come to town and I missed you?? I hope not! Thanks for the bday wishes, no matter how late I am sending this, I appreciated it nonetheless:) Hope you're well!!
Ernie, thank you for your message . . . sadly, I cannot honour you with a reply (and yes, I am an Anglophile). If you had a new MySpace e-mail address, I could send you replies via another e-mail address.
I have gotten rather addicted to finding out about current events by means of blogging about them, so that I set up a Wordpress blogpage for the time being (until either I am in a different location or the ban is lifted).
Cenorship is really terrible, apparently via changing one’s DNS settings this could be circumvented . . .do you have insight pertaining to this???
The project is still “in the making”, and now is a halfweek working week after a four-day holiday (the end of the Fast) . . . in other words, next week. Those words sound so familiar by now that I am at a loss to what they actually mean.
Using a proxy server actually means that all you can do is visit the site, but cannot interact – no messages, no blogs, only comments can be posted, but fortunately I can still receive messages and if you have a new MySpace e-mail address, I can send you a reply . . .
