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Tony

Why, I wonder, is my heart full of holes?

About Me

Who the hell wants to know?

My Interests

I'm interested in getting my dog to learn to play dead, fetch the paper, and snag beers from the fridge for me. Also, I'm interested in getting beers.

I'd like to meet:

People who share my contempt for first names.

Music:

The Strokes, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder (Innervisions, Songs in the Key of Life, Talking Book), Madvillain, Beck, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Modest Mouse, Guided By Voices, Nirvana, Weezer, The White Stripes, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest, Superdrag, Supergrass, Beach Boys, The Flaming Lips, MF Doom, Solo Project, First Natural, PANDA!, Wilco, Bright Eyes, the Grey Album, Gorillaz, Bloc Party, LCD Soundsystem, King Geedorah, The Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, Gnarls Barkley, Spoon, Eagles of Death Metal, Neutral Milk Hotel, My Morning Jacket, Jens Lekman, lots of stuff. Oh, but not fucking Sam Bush. I hate that guy.

Movies:

Raising Arizona, Unbreakable, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Rock, Blazing Saddles, Fight Club, MST3K.

Television:

Arrested Development, Lost, The Office (US).

Books:

Fight Club, Survivor, Native Son, Middlesex, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dune, Lord of the Rings, American Psycho, Less than Zero, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Geek Love, Waiting for Godot, Perfume, The Physics of Baseball, Where the Wild Things Are.

Heroes:

Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Dwight Shrute.

My Blog

big changes in the air

North Korea comes to a tenative arrangement regarding nuclear development. Yay. Good deal. Nuclear annihilation stops for a beat. More interesting is that it was allowed to happen at all. US negotiato...
Posted by Tony on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:40:00 PST

Alright, so it's been a while

Not that anyone would notice. (Throwing a little pity party here for myself.). Well, a lot has happened since I last blogged. My friend Derek, my sister, and I went for a short overnight backpacking t...
Posted by Tony on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:57:00 PST

Quick update

Well, I haven..t written a blog in quite a while. Been kind of busy with school and what not. Completed the Hood to Coast race. The team performed admirably and everyone had a reasonably good time, gi...
Posted by Tony on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:21:00 PST

Just Once Before I Leave

Alright, my list of things to do this summer is almost complete. I went canoeing. I got the dog. I got my license back. Made new friends. Fulfilling summer all around right? Right.So let's look at the...
Posted by Tony on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:34:00 PST

Decisions are being made for you even now.

Alright. This summer is about 66 percent over and i've run into a couple of problems. In no particular order, here they are: not enough money, no woman. This summer has really been a mixed bag. I feel...
Posted by Tony on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 02:21:00 PST

So, okay...it is on for real now

My water park mission has now been bolstered by the raw unyielding sense of entitlement that flowers from telling a ten year old that you will take them to Sunsplash. All of the sudden the water park ...
Posted by Tony on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:04:00 PST

keeping busy

i need to get a job. i mean, having nothing but free time is great and all, but eventually either you run out of things to fill your day, or money, or both. The benefit is that you have plenty of time...
Posted by Tony on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:05:00 PST

Big Plans

So i've got some big plans for this summer. One canoe trip for sure is in the works. Two or three backpacking trips are definitely going to happen. I think i'm going to do my first solo multiday outin...
Posted by Tony on Wed, 17 May 2006 03:04:00 PST

This blog is stupid.

Has anyone else had a moment where they realize that they have been doing something obviously stupid for most of their life? I had one on monday. I realized i had been spelling Connecticut incorrectly...
Posted by Tony on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:32:00 PST

Touche

I guess maybe i'm too cynical for my own good. I must concede that the commentor's to my last blog bring up an excellent point, that point being that some may hang on for too long out of pure love for...
Posted by Tony on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:47:00 PST