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Phil N. Thropist

He's so crooked bullets can't hit him! -Rokka

About Me



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My Interests

Jan Montyn's The Last Voyage

I'd like to meet:

Seeing as how I met Ronald McDonald when I was 7 years old...I guess meeting Indiana Jones (NOT Harrison Ford)would be nifty. But only friends...I have Elina!..

Music:

Richard Wagner, J.S. Bach, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, NOFX, Franz Ferdinand, Bad Religion, No Use For A Name, MXPX, WEEZER, Wizo, Die Toten Hosen, Al Stewart, Simon and Garfunkel, The Doors, Lynard Skynard, Sublime, RADIOHEAD, I love classical music soundtracks, The White Stripes, The Rolling Stones, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, The Misfits, Bush, Joan Jett, Queen, Verve Pipe, Billy Idol, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Dimitri From Paris, Good Charlotte, The Cars, Blondie, Tool, Muse, The Killers, The Who, Pink Floyd, Dick Dale and the Del Tones, Sonic Youth, Håkan Hellström, Kaizers Orchestra, Bob Hund, Zen Cafe, Bloc Party, Jason Mraz, Johnossi, The Cure, Blur, Pulp, Operation Ivy,

Movies:

Talvisota, Red Heat, Attack and Retreat, The Sum of All Fears, The Four Feathers, The English Patient, Die Brucke, Stalingrad, Cross of Iron, The Eagle has Landed, Zulu, Decision Before Dawn, M, The Shawshank Redemption, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Donnie Darko, The Anchorman, The Boondock Saints, Kill Bill 1+2, The Pianist, Dude Wheres My Car, Blow, Dirty Harry, All the Star Wars (but the first one), Gangs of New York, Gladiator, all of 08/15, Der Artzt von Stalingrad, King Arthur, Gladiator, Kate and Leopold, Naked Gun 1, 2, 3, Dazed and Confused, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Road Warrior, 1984, Apocolypse Now, Lawrence of Arabia, Scarface, Good Fellas, Breaker Morant, Gallipoli, The Lighthorsemen, The Odd Angry Shot, Office Space, Tigerland, Mad Max, Platoon, Hamburger Hill, Catch 22, Formula 51, Die Blechtrommel, Ghost Dog, Fight Club, A Life Less Ordinary, Peacekeepers, American History X, Horatio Hornblower (more of a miniseries really), Man on Fire, Requiem For A Dream, The Jacket, The Seven Samurai, Way of the Gun, Zoolander, Masterpiece Theater, Farhenheit 451, Tuntematon Sotillas, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, La Bataille d'Alger, Etulinjan Edessa

Television:

History Channel, Simpsons, Sealab 2021, Futurama, Family Guy, Colbert Report,

Books:

Group Portrait With Lady, The Train Was On Time, The Clown, A Soldier's Legacy, Billiards at Half Past Nin, the entire Gunner Asch series, Night of the Generals, On The Beach, The Histories by Herodotus, The Odyssey, The Iliad, Count of Monte Cristo, All Quiet on the Western Front, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, The Forgotten Soldier, Fields of Fire, The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Six Silent Men, Whats to Become of this Boy, The Casualty, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Road Back, poetry by Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Scapegoats of the Empire, collected works of Heinrich Boll, Tuntematon Sotillas, Storm Over The Land, Talvisota, Under the North Star,

Heroes:

Martin Niemöller, Dietrich Bonnhoeffer, Erich Maria Remarque

My Blog

I'm ever so graceful

The time is 6:30 am...the air is cold. All set to go to work, grudgingly, as sleep was the best rest I'd had in weeks. Walking over to my Passat, my feet fly in front of me, and I land on my back on t...
Posted by Phil N. Thropist on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:13:00 PST

The IED

Not a poem or any type of creative writing...just insight to a world some of you may not know: You hear about the roadside bombs going off...so I'll help you understand what goes on. You're driving d...
Posted by Phil N. Thropist on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:08:00 PST

Drive on

You wake up early, groggy, the same as every day this week,When is your day off? When will you be able to finally rest?You go out to the Humvee, and get it ready, do your best,The .50 cal cuts your ha...
Posted by Phil N. Thropist on Sun, 04 Sep 2005 10:23:00 PST

Featured Poem

Today's featured poem goes to Wilfred Owen: DisabledHe sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the parkVoices of boys ra...
Posted by Phil N. Thropist on Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:46:00 PST

Senatorial Visit

So today a senator visited our base, and was in a blackhawk helicopter conducting an aerial view of the base and the surrounding areas. Being the good democrat I am, when he flew right over our a...
Posted by Phil N. Thropist on Mon, 22 Aug 2005 03:46:00 PST

Thats A Cute Smooth Buffalo You Have There :)

Sooooo! On our way to a raid recently (won't say when or where...GOOOOOO OPSEC!) we were driving into position...and a herd of water buffalo were crossing the highway. Seeing all those Vietnam movies,...
Posted by Phil N. Thropist on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A Fourth of July Message

My father, Reverend William Chrystal is the guest-blogger today and certainly sums up my political mindset. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Lately, an image from my ...
Posted by Phil N. Thropist on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Amazon.com....my addiction

I dropped $248.00 at Amazon.com this morning and realized its really easy to do. Being a bibliophile is an expensive hobby, as each time I order something on there I usually buy about 10 books. But wh...
Posted by Phil N. Thropist on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

R&R

Here's an old one I found in my notebook, written on the C-130 en route to Qatar: "Get to the hanger, get your shit," Hurry and Hurry, there I will sit, Many want it but I am blessed, to relax i...
Posted by Phil N. Thropist on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Ameri-Iraqi Complex

The Americans are here, worred about American way of life, They create many rules, they take over all the roads, Our complains on deaf ears fall, they care not of our strife. The Iraqi remains am...
Posted by Phil N. Thropist on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST