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Dave

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About Me

I hate mediocrity. Mediocrity is the best of the worst or the worst of the best. Never be mediocre!
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Clever people.

Music:

A few that I like, in no particular order: The Beatles, The Stone Roses, Oasis, The Verve, Seven Mary Three, Bruce Springsteen, Ocean Colour Scene, Coldplay, Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan, Paul Weller, Spacehog, CCR, Neil Young, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, River, The Sex Pistols, Ride, Tom Rush, The Black Crowes, Chris Robinson, John Lee Hooker, Nivana, U2, The Chieftans, The Dubliners, The Happy Mondays, Kasabian, Hurricane Number 1, Red Anthem, Inspiral Carpets, Supergrass, Mozart, Alice in Chains, Heavy Stereo, The Rolling Stones, Gordon Lightfoot, Stereophonics, Slowdive, Queen, Guns 'n Roses, Buffalo Springfield, Buffalo Tom, The Who, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Pink Floyd, Chuck Berry, Travis, The Talking Heads, Weezer, REM, The Clash, Sloan, The Doors, Thornes, Ryan Adams, Jet, The Dead 60's, Tom Petty, The Animals, Cracker, Joni Mitchell, Ian Brown, John Entwistle, The Strokes, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, The Kinks, The La's, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, Peter Paul and Mary, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, The Boo Radleys, The Small Faces, Arctic Monkeys, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cure, The Coral, Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys

Movies:

Lots

Television:

Some

Books:

Pretty much any biography on any interesting person, any left-leaning political book, and right-leaning ones for laughs

My Blog

Why I support John Edwards

I had thought about posting a blog today about why I support John Edwards for President and was about to put my thinking cap on so I could come up with a well-worded and informative argument that may ...
Posted by Dave on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:21:00 PST

That was quick

Wow!  I put my house on the market just over a week ago and got a contract on it yesterday.  I certainly didn't expect it to go that quick and wasn't quite prepared for it, but the closing d...
Posted by Dave on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:25:00 PST

Not sure which is more sad...

...the fact that ESPN 2 was showing the National Paper, Rock, Scissors championships today or that I watched it for more than 10 minutes.
Posted by Dave on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:57:00 PST

Why didn't anyone think of this earlier?

I was at the grocery store with Caitlin last night, trying to figure out what to cook for dinner when out of the corner of my eye I see a box of Old El Paso "Stand and Serve" taco shells.  F...
Posted by Dave on Fri, 04 May 2007 06:05:00 PST

Good vibrations needed

Some of you may know my theory on how the outcome of the annual grudge match that is the University of Florida-University of Georgia football game has a direct effect on my life.  If you're not f...
Posted by Dave on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:28:00 PST

Breaking and entering? Or just entering?

I came home from work today and quickly realized that someone had been in my house.  A few things were not where I'd left them and the back door was unlocked.  All of my electronics, guitars...
Posted by Dave on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:18:00 PST

I just don't know who I am anymore

As far as the Beatles go, I have always - always -  been a John fan.  But man, something has changed.  I've been listening to more George Harrison solo stuff lately and I've got to say ...
Posted by Dave on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:01:00 PST

Fuck you and your Hummer

Without even looking at the signs at gas stations, I know that prices are falling.  Over the last few days, I've seen more Hummers on the road than I have in months.  Yeahthey bring them out...
Posted by Dave on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:01:00 PST

The Sovereign State of South Carolina

I made a road trip down to Florida this past weekend with my dad.  We know all the best BBQ joints along the way and always make sure to stop at one of them.  There's a place called Maurice'...
Posted by Dave on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:03:00 PST

The Genius of Mike Hurley

I was reading some posts on a forum about the election on the Richmond Times-Disgrace&errr&Dispatch website this morning when I stumbled across a very interesting post by a man named Mike Hurley. ...
Posted by Dave on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:24:00 PST