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Iain

What are you doing here?

About Me

I'm a recent graduate of UC Davis. I've got a Master's in Anthropology, which I may or may not use to forward a career in graverobbing. I currently reside in Santa Maria, where I substitute teach and search for an escape. I play bass, or I like to tell people I do. When I have the time, I like to read the odd book, the odder the better. I watch a lot of movies, and I listen to a lot of music. Mostly, I live to entertain myself.

My Interests

Industrial, goth, rockabilly, grunge, alt. country, literature, sci-fi, horror, archaeology, science, chemical analysis, alcoholism, piracy, arson, foreign films, crummy horror movies, theatre, idol worship, idle worship, music criticism.

Music:

16Volt, Abandoned Pools, Android Lust, Atari Teenage Riot, Babyland, Beck, Ben Folds, Big Black, Bile, the Birthday Party, Bloodhound Gang, Breeders, Buck-Tick, Butthole Surfers, Chainsuck, Cracker, the Cranes, Dead Milkmen, Diary of Dreams, Die Krupps, Die Warzau, Dinosaur Jr., the Eels, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Electric Six, Fiendflug, Foetus Inc., Foo Fighters, Fountains of Wayne, Funker Vogt, Gary Numan, Gravity Kills, Green Day, Hocico, Incredible Moses Leroy, Jesus Lizard, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Killing Joke, Kings of Leon, KMFDM, Laibach, Lords of Acid, Love and Rockets, Magnetic Fields, Meat Puppets, Mindless Self Indulgence, Modest Mouse, Mussolini Headkick, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Oingo Boingo, Pig, Pitchshifter, Pixies, Placebo, Portishead, Powerman 5000, Primus, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Rammstein, Razed in Black, Revolting Cocks, Rufus Wainwright, Scrathc Acid, Sisters of Mercy, Snake River Conspiracy, Soundgarden, Sow, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Static X, Superdrag, They Might be Giants, Toadies, Tom Waits, Tool, Violent Femmes, VNV Nation, Voltaire, Weakerthans, Wolfsheim...There are probably others.

Movies:

Arty foreign films, terrible horror movies, and everything in between. Except romantic comedies.

Television:

Law and Order, NYPD Blue, Star Trek, Futurama, The Simpsons, and whatever else happens to be on.

Books:

Douglas Adams, Iain Banks, Saul Bellow, Umberto Eco, William Faulkner, William Gibson, Joseph Heller, Aldous Huxley, Ernest Hemingway, H.P. Lovecraft, George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Dante Aleghieri, Jim DeRogatis, Hunter S. Thompson.

Heroes:

Emperor Norton I, Robert C. Dunnell, Lenny Bruce, Fatty Arbuckle, the first human to figure out that clams were food.

My Blog

It's been a long while...

... but I've been waiting for something momentous before I updated. I have a learner's permit.  And I've been practicing driving every day since Sunday.  I'm actually doing rather well. ...
Posted by Iain on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:18:00 PST

Now what?

The play is over. In my humble opinion, it was a pretty solid success. Audiences seemed to like it, and for the most part I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Thank you to everyone who made it up here...
Posted by Iain on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:03:00 PST

In Vino Something Something...

Through a combination of alcohol, philosophical conversation, and the content of two Sex and the City episodes (Boo!), I have been brought to a Biblical sort of introspection tonight. Specifically, I'...
Posted by Iain on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:32:00 PST

Cool, cool flat top

As per the director's instructions, I have revived the old "Iain flat top." It's pretty short and extremely flat. And very cooling in the heat. I had my beard trimmed to match the length of my sidebur...
Posted by Iain on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:47:00 PST

I am the finest of assholes

So, on a whim, I tried out for the next play that Civic is putting on. The same day that the summer children's show I stage managed closed. Yeah yeah, out of the frying pan and all that. At the time, ...
Posted by Iain on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:24:00 PST

Okay, Chaucer, I take back what I said about Valentine's Day

Since I from Love escaped am so fat,I ne'er think to be in his prison ta'en;Since I am free, I count him not a bean.He may answer, and say this and that;I do no force, I speak right as I mean;Since I ...
Posted by Iain on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:20:00 PST

Hammer of Teenagers

I am once again gainfully employed.  As of this afternoon, I have completed and returned the paperwork which qualifies me as a substitute teacher in the Santa Maria Joint Union High School Distri...
Posted by Iain on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:12:00 PST

Last Reminder:

Party at my house tomorrow. Food served at or around 2:00 pm. Come then, slightly before or thereafter. At some point during the day, we will adjourn to the park or a local abandoned lot to participat...
Posted by Iain on Sat, 20 May 2006 02:39:00 PST

Alarm!

As a few of you may be aware, I proved foolish enough to sign on as the stage manager for the Fairy Tale production at the Civic Theatre this summer.  Gina Greathouse is directing, and we're doin...
Posted by Iain on Tue, 16 May 2006 01:35:00 PST

My life fits into a PT Cruiser...

...but I may not. My folks and I will be making the trek homeward tomorrow.  I have accumulated a pretty huge pile of indespensible crap over the last two years, though, so there may be no room f...
Posted by Iain on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:32:00 PST