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Astr0z0mbie

I aint no G.D.S.O.B!

About Me

I'm devolving.

My Interests

Film, art, music, reading, writing, technology, interactive media (video games), robots, anime, jazz, punk, 77, oi!, philosophy, science,

I'd like to meet:

I like independent thinkers, goofballs, rockers, hackers, punks, philosophers, scholars, dropouts, sweeties, bitter bastards, old souls and young souls. And a good sense of humor is actually the most important thing. Humor is valued by most because it's probably the healthiest coping mechanism for lifes "slings and arrows."

Music:

Punk:
Misfits, Black Flag, Fugazi, The Minutemen, The Dickies, Strychnine, Lars Fresrickson and the Bastards, U.K. Subs, GBH, The Ramones, Johnny Thunders, Social Distortion, The Distillers, Joan Jett, Bikini Kill, The Cramps, etc.
Jazz:
Mingus, Miles, Parker, Billie, Thelonius, Ellington, Brubeck, Coltrane, etc.
Soul:
Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Lauren Hill, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. and the MGs, Wilson Pickett, etc.
Blues:
Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, John Lee Hooker
Classical:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Country:
Johnny Cash

Movies:

All Time Favs:Fight Club
Royal Tenenbaums
Emperor and the Assassin
Ran
Sin City
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Spirited Away (Almost anything by Miyazaki)
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
Citizen Kane

Television:

All Time Favs:
Daily Show
Nova
The Office (bbc)
Firefly
Modern Marvels
Cowboy Beebop
Samurai Shamploo
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Ranma 1/2
Cowboy Bebop
Current Favs:
The Colbert Report
Daily Show
History Detectives
American Chopper

Books:

Rule Of Four, Yellow Raft on Still Water, Ishmael, Ender's Game, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Fear and Loathing in Las vegas, The Great Shark Hunt, Beneath the Underdog, Post Office, Ham on Rye

Heroes:

Malcolm X, Joe Strummer, Ghandi, Muhammad Ali, Frida Khalo, Pancho Villa, Kieth Morris, Orson Welles, Francis Ford Copola, Marlon Brando, Johnny Cash, Will Wright, Steve Jobs, Sitting Bull, Miyazaki, Joey Ramone, Akira Kurosawa, Miyamoto, Red Cloud, Caesar Chavez, Howard Zinn

My Blog

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Hello all, Had a mellow weekend.  Mostly.  Bought new guitar strings!  Went to the music store to buy a PA and bought a new guitar amp instead.  Met up with Kiki and her friend fo...
Posted by Astr0z0mbie on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:43:00 PST

Busy Weekend

Busy Weekend (list of events): Attended the last bay area game Industry Night at the BBC hosted by Josie, now I am the master! Karaoke'd "9 to 5" by DOlly PartOn as a last request by Jo...
Posted by Astr0z0mbie on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:33:00 PST

Biopics!

As many of you know one of my favorite things in life is bio-pics.  This year there are three that I'm very much looking forward to. "Capote" (as in Truman) "Notorious Bettie Page" (greatest pinu...
Posted by Astr0z0mbie on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:00:00 PST

Multimedia

Read a cool article with John Stewart in this months Wired.  It's an interesting article, I'm a huge fan of the DS but a lot of what they are saying is so obvious.  No one cares whether or n...
Posted by Astr0z0mbie on Sun, 11 Sep 2005 05:17:00 PST

Katrina and stuff

The Katrina disaster has been the most dominating topic in my thoughts over the past week.  I remember early in the morning, the day before hurricane hit, hearing a description on NPR of the wors...
Posted by Astr0z0mbie on Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:18:00 PST

We're "The Devolvers"

OK.  Ive been prompted back to blogdom by the indubitably insightful Mr. Mansfield.    New news:  I have a band, were The Devolvers   We also have a website:   http...
Posted by Astr0z0mbie on Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:14:00 PST