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asilas

techgnostic tameshi-giri

About Me

born in wa, raised in pa, livin' and lovin' in the 'ville (pardon my apostrophes). i've accomplished almost everything i wasn't aware i'd moved here to do. looking into the rest.
that said, i'm generally a laid back kind of guy. levity is an art. mirth, like psychic combustion. gotta keep up though, 'cause i'm not killing the joke.
i tend towards passionate rants about topics that interest me. i would ride my bike to work every day if i could. i prefer a manual transmission in a vehicle, and i'm in the habit of jiggling the shifter to make sure its in neutral. i wear sandals 9 months out of the year, but not since my last pair disintegrated. i'm constantly inspired to draw things for people, but i've got pages and pages of unfinished work. i strike my zeroes. i dance like bill cosby, especially after inordinate consumption of fermented beverage. i have two guitars, but only remember two of the three chords i ever learned. not even sure how i got the 2nd guitar. the gf has nearly converted me to veganism, but she doesn't make me food much anymore... i realize its a moral decision to make, but the winning argument is generally my own laziness. i AM becoming paranoid about what i consume though. i was an unrepentant creature of the night... but getting off late can whittle @ one's options for constructive outlet. living a block from a bar has taught me the joys of alcoholism. currently transitioning. its been years since i've seen 9am w/ any positivity, its about time i got a day job, and i don't get enough afternoon delight.
i must admit, despite the insistent flicker of annoyance at being so materialistic, i want this car. so fucking bad it hurts.
like 8 bitches on a bitch boat.

My Interests

hiking : biking : kayaking : skiing : camping : reading : inking : live music : the 4 fundamental elements : martial arts : imbibing quantities & launching things w/ my 3man slingshot : engaging in eclectically evocative elocution : making tires w/ the gf

I'd like to meet:

some living :: jerome david salinger, katsuhiro otomo, alexander shulgin, maynard james keenan

but mostly dead :: hunter stockton thompson, philip kindred dick, frank patrick herbert, carl gustav jung, hermann hesse, johann wolfgang von goethe, wong fei hung, siddhartha gautama

Music:

hip-hop, trip-hop, dark & soulful, but i dig on just about anything, depending on the mood and situation...

Movies:

a scanner darkly : wave twisters (chapter 10 shown above) : fear & loathing in las vegas : the big lebowski : donnie darko : i heart huckabees : flight of the navigator : rocky horror picture show : fist of legend : fight club : lock stock & two smoking barrels : snatch : trainspotting : pi : requiem for a dream : jacob's ladder : blade runner : the shadow : the abyss : tenacious d - pick of destiny : kill bill : alien trilogy : studio ghibli films : david lynch films : stanley kubrick films

Television:

history channel, discovery channel, nova, aqua teen hunger force, samurai champloo, cowboy bebop... can't watch the news w/o feeling manipulated. ~~ utterly deprived of a multi-media mental reference library (considered inherent by my peers) due to growing up where PBS from 3 counties away was the only available channel... if you go on about old programs, i probably won't know what you're talking about... doesn't mean i'm not listening though :) ~~

Books:

fiction by j d salinger : fiction by herman hesse : fiction by philip k dick : fiction by kurt vonnegut : ender wiggin series (card) : dune series (herbert) : dark tower series (king) : hagakure (yamamoto) : dracula (stoker) : faust (goethe) : a clockwork orange (burgess) : jonathan livingston seagull (bach) : atlas shrugged (rand) : akira (otomo) : lone wolf & cub (koike/kojima) : trout fishing in america (brautigan): the moral animal (wright) : guns germs & steel (diamond) : pretty much anything i can get my hands on that looks good from the rear ;)

Heroes:

bill reed and the others i've listed that i'd like to meet