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Adam

falling down to get back up

About Me

writing, rolling and living psyched

My Interests

traveling, skateboarding, writing, painting on trash, crossword puzzles, magazines, newspapers, books, alleyways and warehouses, wandering, old photographs, yoga, progressive politics, people who challenge themselves.

I'd like to meet:

writers, artists, skaters, thinkers and old friends

Music:

Always: Bob Dylan, Cat Power, Fugazi, Yo La Tengo, Wilco, Jay-Z, Pavement, Guided by Voices Lately: Band of Horses, Wolf Parade, Radiohead, Cold War Kids, Wolfe Parade, Regina Spektor, My Morning Jacket, Sun Kil Moon, The Weakerthans

Movies:

Breathless, Amelie, I am Trying to Break Your Heart, Inhabitants, Sprout, Stereo: A Visual Sound, StaticII, Manhattan, Basquiat, Jaws, Don't Look Back, Good Night and Good Luck, Rocky

Television:

Northern Exposure, turning off the television and going outside

Books:

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, Kerouac'sDharma Bums, Snyder's Turtle Island, Least-Heat Moon's Blue Highways, Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Mailer's The Fight, Weiland's The Answer is Never, Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries, Celine's Journey to the End of the Night, Steinbeck's Cannery Row, Garcia-Marquez's Strange Pilgrims, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Burn Collector and Cometbus zines

Heroes:

My parents, Gandhi, Che Guevara, Allen Ginsberg, Terri Gross, Craig Stecyk, Ocean Howell

My Blog

a brooklyn list

upon request of a gorgeous little fish, a list about the new amazing that is my amazing new neighborhood.cold beer on hot evenings being roommates with Benny (one of the best humans ever)people with s...
Posted by Adam on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 06:20:00 PST

my dillema

I've been having a nagging dillema lately. Remeber when everybody used to give more of a shit? I know this is a broad statement, but seriously. It seems to me that we all used to be more idealistic an...
Posted by Adam on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:16:00 PST

portland

just got back from Portland on a trip the swoosh paid for. Portland is rad. lots of skating, cute girls on bikes, 50 santa clauses at burnside, sessions at Department of Skateboarding and the Nike TF ...
Posted by Adam on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:56:00 PST

september list

the good parts of early september:surfing 204s before worksurfing Mariposa after workreading Jonathan Franzen's The Discomfort Zonebeing able to do Mon, thru Weds crossword puzzles almost every timeth...
Posted by Adam on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:46:00 PST

new lists

things that have been exceptionally awesome in the last two weekseast coast/mid west road trip skate adventure with all the Philly homiesgrinding pool coping in Ohioroad sodas in the van in Ohioreadin...
Posted by Adam on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:45:00 PST

first day of summer

first day of summer and what a sick way to set it off. Drove up to Venice Beach for a Go Skateboarding Day event and had fun watching the baffoonery scene that is Venice; lags and cholos acting tuff a...
Posted by Adam on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:01:00 PST

memorial day weekend

what a brodeo this weekend. I feel like I was in college only way more "college" than when I was actually in college; like I joined a frat at 27 but only for 48 hours. hilarious.the short list for a l...
Posted by Adam on Tue, 30 May 2006 11:34:00 PST

one year ago

I just realized that this time last year I was sweating bullets trying to finish all my finals, papers and such for my degree. I was wishing I could be outside and getting stomachaches from stress won...
Posted by Adam on Mon, 01 May 2006 12:31:00 PST

lists

things I'm feeling this week:crooked grindsthe new Rainer Mariasunburned shoulderswearing shorts for the first time this yearcomplicated woman who aren't crazyJoe Strummer singing "coma girl"orange an...
Posted by Adam on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:58:00 PST