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About Me

I was afraid to be alone, but now i'm scared that's how i like to be.

My Interests

sociology, chemistry, psychology, and astrology

Music:

The Shins, Iron & Wine, The Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie, Elliot Smith, Jack Johnson, My Chemical Romance, Coheed & Cambria, Ladytron, Portishead, The Beatles, Frente!, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Toad the Wet Sprocket, The Dream Academy, David Bowie, Nirvana, Yellowcard, The Ataris, Blink 182, Nick Drake, Badly Drawn Boy, Rilo Kiley, Duncan Sheik, Snow Patrol, John Mayer, Keren Ann, Pinback, Alien Ant Farm, Azure Ray, Box Car Racer, DJ Tiesto, DJ Tricky, Bjork, Hooverphonic, A Perfect Circle, Joshua Radin, She Wants Revenge, Voxtrot, Depeche Mode, Minus the Bear, Broken Social Scene [the list goes on and on...]

Movies:

The Nightmare Before Christmas, Igby Goes Down, Amelie, Napoleon Dynamite, Sixteen Candles, American Beauty, Leon The Professional, Garden State, The Big Blue, Princess Mononoke, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, The Wizard of Oz

Television:

fight the addiction.

Books:

Cyrano de Bergerac, Everything is Illuminated, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, Norwegian Wood

Heroes:

she

My Blog

but you wont say a thing

and if you say that you know what you're doing, then i'll leave you alone. yeah i'll leave you alone to your problems. if you tell me of your adventures i'll listen in awe, and i won't question a sing...
Posted by manchild on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:33:00 PST

because my computers dead. (a fictional piece inspired by semi-true events, poetry and school)

I take another drag of my cigarette and think of John, think of John who is gone now too. I can still hear him. Laying in the backyard of our friend's house, all long, jet black hair and smiles, choki...
Posted by manchild on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:43:00 PST

A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush

In Spokane, Washington there was a man who dreamed of living on an island. He placed sand in his bathtub and thought he waded in the ocean. He broke open coconuts and pineapples and imagined himself a...
Posted by manchild on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:36:00 PST

All The Shit I Had On Facebook

this is going to be a long blog...THURSDAY, August 3, 2006I stare at the round planters filled with gravel. like metropolitian crop circles, their purpose eludes me. There is another not too far off f...
Posted by manchild on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:34:00 PST

time may change me

I wonder what you'll look like when you're older,when your heart's a little bolderand your eyes have become colder.I wonder if you'll need a shoulder to cry on when you're older.I wonder if you'll sti...
Posted by manchild on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:02:00 PST

chain smoker memoirs OR exhale

Exhale. The smoke singed my nostrils, and I instinctively winced. Who am I fooling? I like the fire and I like the burn. Inhale. Deep, deep, the flame goes deep inside my lungs and warms me to the cor...
Posted by manchild on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:53:00 PST

Another story...

The purging of Outsiders that had begun six months before was executed outside the Thompson residence with cool acceptance, while Mrs. Thompson's dinner party (five months, one week, two days, sevente...
Posted by manchild on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

collage

two headed boy she is all you could need she will feed you tomatoes and radio wire and retire to sheets safe and clean but don't hate her when she gets up to leave (taking with her the heart from you...
Posted by manchild on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:41:00 PST

don't have any dreams don't have any plans.

and in the end, nothing ever changes. all that ever was is all there will ever be.We sat in the rain on a Sunday night and watched as everything melted away. The colors ran down every wall, fusing and...
Posted by manchild on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:25:00 PST

Turkish Gold Chp. 2

So, here's chapter 2. I'm not as fond of this one, but whatever. And that was also how one of the more important moments of my life s...
Posted by manchild on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST