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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Kids who like good music. People who share an obsession with verbally reprimanding other people who touch glass. DC drivers who aren't trying to kill me. Someone who knows my buddy Woody but hasn't seen brains.

Music:

Stars, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, Stars, The Crimea, Bishop Allen, Heartless Bastards, Muse, Rogue Wave, Radio4, We Are Scientists, Ra Ra Riot, Captain of Industry, Ryan Adams, MPMF, Radiohead, Band of Horses, The Clash, Fionna Apple, Heather Nova, Talking Heads, Kings of Leon, New Order, Better than Ezra, Alexi Murdoch, Peter Bjorn and John, Peter Adams, Ben Harper, Wilco, Lou Barlow

Movies:

Madison. Its about hydroplane boat racing.

Television:

The Stanley Cup playoffs. Now that's reality television.

Books:

1984, Chuck Klosterman's stuff, Freakonomics, Fast Food Nation, books about the history of Metro, a few others.

Heroes:

Don't worry...if it was you, I'd tell you.

My Blog

California...

Just kinda felt like adding something to the blog. It's entitled California, because I'm going to California in the morning. I'm terribly excited to go work in the desert for a week. I don't want to m...
Posted by royce on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:49:00 PST

Please explain this to me.

On my nightly walk through the serene neighborhood of overpriced Del Ray, I noticed a bumper sticker on a car that I've never seen. As someone with an urban planning background, I'm all for 'smart gro...
Posted by royce on Thu, 24 May 2007 11:09:00 PST

Not that I'm counting the days...but...

I realized today that it's officially been a year since I've been in DC, and that's another blog entry, but I've also realized that today is my unofficial 29.5 birthday. Yes, in six short months, I wi...
Posted by royce on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:17:00 PST

A few fun things about this place

Of course, we all love lists. So I thought it was time to compile a list of the top few things I absolutely really really like about DC. It's a cool place. 1 - Great Falls (and other parts o...
Posted by royce on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:04:00 PST

Seriously, don't touch the glass

Alright, so my OCD is coming out in the public...and it's manifesting itself in a strange way. I have only a few pet peeves, one of which I seem to be witnessing more and more frequently. Having worke...
Posted by royce on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:05:00 PST

'bout time...

I find it slightly amazing that I hadn't played hockey since December.  That's the longest I've gone in probably 20 years. I'd like to think it's because of the move, and I found some pretty cool...
Posted by royce on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:18:00 PST

Losing faith in humanity, example 1

Alright, so I had an experience that has me a little shaken up.  Not sure how I feel about witnessing it - a mixture of anger, dispair, shame, and hopelessness. At some boring suburban strip mal...
Posted by royce on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 06:19:00 PST