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roy

blue skies, untouched powder and 5, 000 feet of vertical on a cold, crisp day...

About Me

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Grew up in Southern California, now a corporate peon in Washington and the only thing I know how to cook is chicken.

Also Sergei Rachmaninoff had mighty hands...mighty.

My Interests

Snowboarding. Something about riding the edge of disaster on a piece of wood, carbon and glass laminate, with 3 layers of gortex between me and the unforgiving elements...enthralls me.

When I'm not shredding up the bunny slopes, I'm usually at home watching a movie, reading a book, or doodling away...

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Music:

In no particular order:

Led Zeppelin
Alice In Chains
Metallica
Depeche Mode
Thievery Corp
Morcheeba
Waldeck
Massive Attack
Death Cab
RHCP
Rolling Stones
U2
Pearl Jam
Radiohead
Hooverphonic
Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Coltrane and other jazz masters...

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Movies:

Grave of the Fireflies
The Usual Suspects
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Reqiuem for a Dream
LOTR
American Psycho
Napoleon Dynamite
Dumb and Dumber
Anything Miyazaki

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Television:

Entourage
The Daily Show
Firefly
Battlestar Galactica
Grey's Anatomy (shutup)

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Books:

Been reading magazines more than anything these days (Nature, The Economist, People *cough*), but I have an affinity for sci-fi and fantasy, embarrassing as that is to admit.A sampling of some favorites off my bookshelf:

House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn
Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
Blink - Malcom Gladwell
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Dune - Frank Herbert
Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Anything by Gaiman (Stardust, Neverwhere, Smoke and Mirrors, ...)

My Blog

Feb 08, 2007

I came across something terrifying the other day.AAHHHHHHH!!!!  MOTHERFUCKING AHHH!!!!!...imagine myself standing under them and..and having them rain down on me....or...wonder what it would feel...
Posted by roy on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:38:00 PST

Jan 17, 2007

Well, I've been telling myself I'd post an update for the past week now. It's 11pm, I'm comfortable on my couch, girl cat is dozing next to me, magically dispersing double her weight in cat hair into ...
Posted by roy on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:05:00 PST

Dec 27, 2006

Midnight Longing on a Warm Summer's EveTime: 18 minutesKinda felt like doodling tonight.  Just turned on some music and zoned out for 15 or 20 minutes and ... I'll call it "midnight longing on a ...
Posted by roy on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:48:00 PST

Dec 21, 2006

People have been slowly filtering out of Seattle for the holidays most this week, and I've essentially been running a shuttle service to the airport the past few days.  This means I've spent a la...
Posted by roy on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:43:00 PST

Dec 19, 2006

I rejoined my old team at work yesterday and damn, talk about timing.  Just today, a little more than 24 hrs after I had left, the group I was previously a part of effectively got dissolved in a ...
Posted by roy on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:15:00 PST

Dec 17, 2006

Went boarding the other day with Dave and Kevin.  Its the first time I've tried out all my '07 gear together:Rome Anthem 158cm snowboardRide CAD bindingsSalomon Malamute bootsWhat a humbling expe...
Posted by roy on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:24:00 PST

Dec 16, 2006

I've never been in the habit of keeping a journal.  I always end up embarassed over how naive and simple I was when I read my entries later on.  Besides, I'm no writer - I tend to strip sent...
Posted by roy on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:21:00 PST