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Pardey

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About Me

coffee, travel, laziness, friends, burritos, eating out, wandering around,sleeping and not sleeping, up all night, gambling, lonely beaches, excess and wisdom,girls (I'll try not to stare too long, but...), guitars, don't forget tacos, costa rica daydreams, on and on, whatever. Someday I'm gonna buy a motorcycle and ride it to Argentina and back, wanna come with me? I'm thinking Spring 2008, let me know if you can make it. Below is a collection of photos an anonymous fan gathered of myself and my friend Brandon. I guess he's a big deal or something..... .

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Yonah Shimmel, Willie Nelson, Woody Allen, Darryl Strawberry( Circa 1986), Larry Bird, Jack Kerouac, Marilyn Monroe, Keith Richards, Morrissey...

Music:

The Smiths(It all stops and starts with them),Howling Bells (lovely folks from down under... really), Apples in Stereo, Death Cab For Cutie, Elliott Smith (The world is a much sadder place without), Willie Nelson( Life on the road couldn' be defined any better), T rex, Bowie, Interpol, Belle and Sebastian, Ambulance ltd, The Beatles, Talking Heads, editors, bloc party, kaiser chiefs, elton john, new order, the cure, joy division, morrissey, roxy music, new york dolls, depeche mode, roy orbison, elvis, cash, dylan, the faint, the shins, my bloody valentine, nick drake, the rolling stones, tegan and sara, evening, stellastarr*, Billie Holiday, Beck, Pavement, sebadoh, beulah, sea and cake, dinosaur jr., guns n roses, jim croce, Nirvana, R.E.M., oasis, blur, stone roses, teenage fanclub, pulp, Cab Calloway, Kraftwerk, hhh, !!!, lcd sound system, iggy pop, rilo kiley, magic numbers, flaming lips, wilco, the stills, postal service, pink floyd, ramones, nuetral milk hotel,weezer (pinkerton), mobius band...

Movies:

thin blue line, godfather, fog of war, when harry met sally, annie hall, radio days, bullets over broadway, crimes and misdameanors, star wars, blues brothers, bugsy malone, dead or retarded, the cactus that looked just like a man, sunset blvd, Casablanca, China Town...

Television:

Curb your enthusiasm, Sex in the City, and the Food network. Family Guy makes me smile too.

Books:

Jack Kerouac,David Sedaris, Hunter S. Thompson, Shakespeare, Hemingway, Whitman... a lot of good stuff out there.

Heroes:

Special Agent Dale Cooper...

My Blog

Barcelona

Ah yes, here I am, once again, in the middle of the night, unable to sleep, sitting here on a Sunday night, in a hotel lobby, trying to shit out a few words that might convey where I am and what&rsquo...
Posted by Pardey on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:28:00 PST

Milano

I’m sitting in a hotel room about twenty kilometers outside of Milan sipping on some chianti I bought at a gas station coming in from Zurich this afternoon. Our room is on the 7th floor overlook...
Posted by Pardey on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:55:00 PST

A few bored words from a hotel room

At the moment, "Mobius Band" and I are stuffed into a room in the French ferry border town of Dunkirk or Dunkerque. The town was flattened during WWII and was rebuilt in a utilitarian way leaving it g...
Posted by Pardey on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:12:00 PST

London to Glasgow with Vauxhall and I

I guess I woke up this morning with a bit of a swish going on in the old head due to the simple fact I had put the hurt on the better part of a fifth of Jameson and hadn't consumed the proper amount o...
Posted by Pardey on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:24:00 PST

29 years old, in London, on my Birthday

Right now, I am sitting in a flat in East London while my friend Victoria is chopping vegetables and raw chicken in preparations for Chicken and Leek pie. Today is my twenty-ninth birthday and for the...
Posted by Pardey on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:48:00 PST

I dont sleep much these days

Sometimes, in the middle of the night, the house gets quiet and for a moment I can almost get all those thoughts that creep and crawl around all night and for moment there's a silence. There's a momen...
Posted by Pardey on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:56:00 PST

the coffee slinger

There are many days when my only wish is to disapear to the Northwest United States to take a job behind a counter slinging coffee. People would wonder why sometimes I did this. I would make coffee an...
Posted by Pardey on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:24:00 PST

I'm still here I think

I woke up a few minutes ago and forgot where I was. I knew I was on the bus because of the rockin' around, but I couldn't remember where we had come from or where we were going. I got out of my bunk. ...
Posted by Pardey on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:17:00 PST

Merry Christmas!

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Posted by Pardey on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:32:00 PST

soft spoken in sitka

 I was tired as I stumbled off the plane from Seattle on that early June day with the fatigue that had been the culmination of several months of intense living, travel, and poor sleeping habits t...
Posted by Pardey on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:13:00 PST