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machine

sick of terrorists '07

My Interests

Music:

SLEATER-KINNEY

Movies:

magnolia

Books:

WILLFUL CREATURES, the fountainhead

Heroes:

the parents, all smiles and pre-children the sister the cousins minus the weird girl in front, who we plotted to assassinate for her insisting on singing k-sera, sera, sera over and over again in front of the campfire. old now.

My Blog

the new year in shows

my only new year resolution will be that I will not spend new years at a certain southside loft which has eaten my last two new years. emerging from that place at fiveAM for the past two consecutive J...
Posted by machine on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:57:00 PST

i only cuss when it comes to politics/pain

this is funny:Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich launched his second bid for president on Tuesday, a long-shot candidacy fueled by his frustration with his party's effort to end the Iraq war.As long as O...
Posted by machine on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:40:00 PST

a non-year of expostulations and replies

sarah marine's most-loved fiction books from 2006 adventures in reading:1. lullabies for little criminals by heather o'neill2. the children's hospital by chris adrian3. flash fiction forward 4. willfu...
Posted by machine on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:42:00 PST

people taking pictures from bridges

continuing a recent conversation i had with an esteemed colleague of mine about the ipod and the shrinking size of the gadget i would like to imagine a world in which humans could implant albums into ...
Posted by machine on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:15:00 PST

emo; minus the emotion, plus skinny ben sherman tie

o glorious pay day of goodness! ive been riding E for four days and eating bowls of rice with curry powder and aminos for too long. today i will buy: plain tofu, herbed tofu, cans of delicious soup, t...
Posted by machine on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:06:00 PST

balin and balan

the decent or the monstrous.
Posted by machine on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:09:00 PST

the great democratizer

when it snows for the first time, when winter comes in with a bang, its acceptable to walk in the middle of oakland avenue, its not creepy to get out of your car and join in the fun of pushing a stran...
Posted by machine on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:18:00 PST

lost catholic souls with bars of nickel

story:as a ten-yr old i found it very exciting and challenging living next to a cemetary. constantly dodging ghosts, the spirits of pitchfork-weilding farmers roaming around the abandoned silo in my b...
Posted by machine on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:37:00 PST

godfathers interested in the genius of their godchildren

after reading a short story in the collection 'birds of america' by lorrie moore about an actress who moves from los angeles to chicago in hopes of reaching a plane of sanity i have decided that there...
Posted by machine on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:17:00 PST

my grandpa contemplated madness in three lakes, wisconsin

i prefer crowded bars in the "big city". theres a maddening ingredient within all of the boys looking skinny for each other, the girls with coifs and mediocre post-post-post punk bands that breed like...
Posted by machine on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 08:08:00 PST