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Nick

Ride the blue and high and free...

About Me

hey, i'm nick. i play music, i paint, i've got a bfa from pratt institute, i'm currently working as a cranky short order cook but have aspirations/delusions of greatness. i haven't figured out how to achieve much of anything, but i'm working on it. in the meantime, i try to be a good person, do what's right, and not drown in bullshit.

My Interests

music, art, film, guitars, books, comics, bands, rock shows, drinking, tv, food, and various combinations of those things.

I'd like to meet:

whoever wants to be met, but mostly people who want to give me a recording contract and money to tour and put out records, or bands that want me to do artwork for them. that'd be cool.

Music:

i'm obsessive about music, so i'll name a few... the replacements/paul westerberg, trail of dead, crooked fingers, the afghan whigs, hot water music, zeppelin, cursive, black sabbath, lucero, dylan, gbv, richard hell, townes van zandt, the clash, the rolling stones, rocket from the crypt, constantines, the draft, springsteen, bearvs.shark, richard buckner, dinosaur jr., wilco, the velvet underground, planes mistaken for stars, seaweed, isis, yo la tengo, pavement, the twilight singers, anders parker, low, the thermals, minus the bear, woody guthrie, quicksand, marvin gaye, fugazi, the ramones, mission of burma, marah, son volt, howlin' wolf, the cure, fleetwood mac, big star, i love you but i've chosen darkness, the who, the band, m. ward, graham parsons, mark eitzel, hank williams sr., johnny cash, elvis costello, clutch, rival schools, tom waits, mudhoney, the hold steady, okervil river, the drive-by truckers, the weakerthans, handsome, at the drive-in, ccr, the flaming lips, sam cooke, dago frogstache, the black arrows, tiger cried beef, knife crazy, bang camaro, and tons of other crap i spend too much time obsessing over.

Movies:

kicking and screaming (1995), cool hand luke, the big lebowski, rushmore, lost highway, in a lonely place, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the dollars trilogy, the outlaw josie whales, the kill bill movies, beautiful girls, the evil dead movies, the professional, lost in translation, punch drunk love, the baxter, shaun of the dead, fargo, westerns, samurai, film noir, i don't know, the ones that don't suck.

Television:

the colbert report, daily show, simpsons, seinfeld, conan o'brian, nypd blue, letterman (leno blows), arrested development, south park, king of the hill, mr. show, scrubs, the office, my name is earl, firefly, six feet under, buffy, AND MUTHERFUCKIN' DEADWOOD!

Books:

stuff by paul auster, raymond chandler, jim thompson, david goodis, dashiell hammet, h.p. lovecraft, johnathan letham, that guy that wrote choke and fight club whose name i can't remember right now, stephen king (yeah, so?), robert e. howard, neil gaimen, raymond carver, and lots of comics.

Heroes: