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paul

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About Me

I'm one of 600 people who can be identified from space. I'm a lot more intense than my bad posture and Midwestern charm might indicate.
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My Interests

petting squirrels, music, baseball, koalas, red pandas, Europe, songwriting, dictator chic, staying up way too late.

I'd like to meet:

Alan Rickman. Rudi Dutschke. Frank Zappa.

Music:

Tindersticks, Hooverphonic, Portishead, Mogwai, Husker Du, Replacements, Buffalo Tom, Bettie Serveert, Juno, Sugar, American Music Club, Brahms, Bruch, The Verve, Richard Ashcroft, Cast, Pixies, Luna, Galaxie 500, Damien Jurado, Pedro, most anything with strings. early David Bowie. The Divorce, Peter Gabriel, Buddy Holly, Haloween, Alaska ... Aveo, Crooked Fingers, Archers of Loaf, Spain, and on and on. The new Low album is amazing. OK, it's not that new anymore, but you get the idea.

Movies:

Veronica Guerin, Red/White/Blue trilogy, Das Boot, Bowling for Columbine, Big Sleep, Have or Have Not, Gaslight, The Kids are Allright, Red Rock West, Fire Walk With Me, State and Main, Best In Show, Europa Europa, Storefront Hitchcock, Cry Freedom, Hudsucker Proxy

Television:

Syndicated, news and rentals, that's pretty much my deal. I've gotten hooked on Alias recently. Twin Peaks, The Prisoner, The Daily Show, South Park. WKRP in Cincinnati, Mystery Science Theatre 3000. McClaughlin Group, Real Time with Bill Maher. Simpsons, of course.

Books:

Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Master and the Margarita, short stories by Nikolai Gogol, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, They Shall Know Us By Our Velocity, The Long Goodbye, Flowers of Evil.

Heroes:

Steven Biko, Nelson Mandela, Robyn Hitchcock, Veronica Guerin, my mom.

My Blog

Hamburg musings of a feigned tourist

So here I am at the end of what has nearly been a month in Hamburg, working for a great German newspaper and suddenly feeling like I'm in a meaningful spot, all the while taking in the harbors, the mu...
Posted by paul on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST