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PlaidBuford

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About Me

"Y'all don't know what it's like being male, middleclass, and white." -Ben Folds: Rockin' the Suburbs------------------------------I am a high school teacher and a coffee shop barista...yes a man of many talents. I'm a proud member of JDA where I met the love of my life.------------------------------------------------------- ----Here's the deal. I am a high school teacher, and I know that many of my students are on here, and do find my profile. I've been on here for years and years since before it was really popular and the sole reason I continue to keep up my page is that it's the best way I know to keep in touch with lots of old friends from high school and college. If my students do happen to find me on here, and want to be my friend, I'll usually say yes, but I expect them to be as professional as I am.

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My Interests

Acting, Reading, Theatre, Movies, Traveling to Europe, Music, and Coffee!

I'd like to meet:

Johnny Depp and Tim Burton would be cool. I've already met two of my childhood heroes: Gordon from Sesame Street and Dustin "Screech" Diamond. Oh yeah, I'd like to meet you too!

Music:

So many, but here we go anyways: Weezer, Ben Folds, Ben Kweller, Alkaline Trio, Dave Barnes, Better than Ezra, Death Cab for Cutie, Sufjan Stevens, Brand New, Cake, Counting Crows, Coldplay, Beatles, E, Eels, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Jimmy Eat World, Crash Test Dummies, Dave Matthews Band, Keane, The Killers, Modest Mouse, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Pain, REM, Something Corporate, Travis, Park, Dashboard Confessional, Pixies, Franz Ferdinand, The Who, Weird Al, All-American Rejects, Blink 182, PUSA, They Might Be Giants, OKGo, Saves the Day, and many many others.

Movies:

Garden State, Donnie Darko, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Shakespeare in Love, V for Vendetta, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., A Bug's Life, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl, Austin Powers, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Good Will Hunting, The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Say Anything, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Slacker, School of Rock, Waking Life, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Sleepy Hollow, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Wicker Man, A Clockwork Orange, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Amelie, Dead Man, Benny and Joon, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast, Animal House, The Breakfast Club, Swingers, Rules of Attraction, Memento, Man on the Moon, The Truman Show, Dazed and Confused, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Fargo, Fight Club, Troy, Roger and Me, The Big One, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheith 9/11, Cannibal: The Musical, Baseketball, Orgazmo, South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut, Team America, Lord of the Rings, Finding Neverland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Election, About Schmidt, Sideways, High Fidelity, About a Boy, Raising Arizona, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, The X-Men, X-Men 2, Hulk, Daredevil, Sin City, Big Fish, The Muppet Movie, Eraserhead, Cry-Baby, Ed Wood, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Citizen Cane, Jesus' Son, Orange County, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Dawn of the Dead, Psycho, Super Troopers, Club Dread, Labyrinth

Television:

Simpsons, Seinfeld, Six Feet Under, Smallville, South Park, SNL, Scrubs...and other shows that don't start with an S...ooh Family Guy and American Dad. I grew up on British comedy like Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Young Ones...now I love Coupling and The Office.

Books:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton, The Stranger by Albert Camus (my favorite!!!), Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn, Matchstick Men by Eric Garcia, Staggerford by Jon Hassler, What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, About a Boy by Nick Hornby, High Fidelity by Nick Horby, How to Be Good by Nick Hornby, Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin, Pure Drivel by Steve Martin, Shopgirl by Steve Martin, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, The Things They Carried by Tim O'brien, Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, Fightclub by Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk, Sideways by Rex Pickett, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, All the Harry Potters by J.K. Rowling, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, 9 Stories by J.D. Salinger, Barrel Fever by David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, Naked by David Sedaris, Anything by Dr. Seuss, For Love of the Game by Michael Shaara, Hamlet's Dresser by Bob Smith, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Working by Studs Terkel, Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut, Big Fish by Daniel Wallace, Night by Elie Wiesel

Heroes:

Abraham Lincoln (when you're born and raised in Springfield, IL you either love him or hate him),Dr. Seuss,Andy Kaufman!

My Blog

Our House...

...in the middle of our street.Jenna and I have super exciting news! We are now home owners! We have been house hunting like crazy in the last couple weeks, and after seeing some houses that we h...
Posted by Oi! Buford on Sat, 19 May 2007 08:57:00 PST

My Spider-Man 3 Review

WARNING: If you haven't seen the movie yet, there may be some SPOILERS in this review. The biggest summer in movies has officially begun and of course the film to start it all is Spider-Man 3. I had b...
Posted by Oi! Buford on Sun, 06 May 2007 11:06:00 PST

RIP Due Gatti

God and Shakespeare are truly playing one truly cruel cosmic joke on all of us. "Beware the ides of March!" Beware indeed. Two important Italians died today it seems. Julius Caesar and now Due Gatti C...
Posted by Oi! Buford on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:33:00 PST

Favorites Films of 2006

So here it is, March 5th  '07, and I am finally creating my list of favorite movies of 2006. Why so late you may ask? Well like every year they never seem to release the best movies till the very...
Posted by Oi! Buford on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:44:00 PST

Oscar Night Baby!

Tonight is my favorite night of television! This is MY Super Bowl. I am a movie and film buff to the point where my collection has now filled up another shelf. I'm at 648 DVD's currently, but that num...
Posted by Oi! Buford on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:35:00 PST

Opening Night!

After six weeks of rehearsal, opening night is here. However, we've had tons of hang-ups going on with this show. Getting it off the ground has been quite the chore. It's almost like it was cursed lik...
Posted by Oi! Buford on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:11:00 PST

Worst Looking Movie Ever!!!

Oh my god!!! I've found something that deeply offends me more as an English teacher than the Demi Moore Scarlet Letter. I can honestly say I've never seen a worse idea for a movie...and it doesn't eve...
Posted by Oi! Buford on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:16:00 PST

Engaged!

As of last night (January 21st), Jenna and I are officially engaged! So a year and five months from then, we will be married on June 21st, 2008. Save the date! I couldn't possibly happier.
Posted by Oi! Buford on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:40:00 PST

The Underpants

I'm in a play! That's right. I get to return to the stage in MacMurray College's winter play. I auditioned the other night, and it was my first audition in years. I was a little nervous, but it will b...
Posted by Oi! Buford on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:35:00 PST

Sweet November

This blog update has absolutely nothing to do with that cheesy, stupid movie with Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron&but this month in particular has been an extremely wild and exciting one, and of cour...
Posted by Oi! Buford on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:42:00 PST