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The Boomerang of Alterity

About Me


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My Interests

Music. History. Dogs. Roadtrips. Film. Literature. Trains. Boggle. Baseball. Weather.

I'd like to meet:

Lee Harvey Oswald, Mark Twain, Billy the Kid

Music:

The Pantheon: Robert Johnson, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, Talking Heads, Radiohead.The Greatest Album of All Time: Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.Newest latest: The Dodos, Bodies of Water, The Mae Shi, The Silent Comedy, Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eyes, Shearwater, Two GallantsGenerally, I like music that is honest and/or challenging. Angular is better than smooth. Also, it shouldn't suck.

Movies:

I tend to prefer indie films, or old classics, or foreign. Not a fan of your average Hollywood schlock, though I do love me a Bond film. Key directors are Wes Anderson, Coen Brothers, Jarmusch, Peckinpah, Herzog, Kurosawa, Leone, Malick, Scorsese, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some others. Just about anything with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart is gonna be good. If it emphasizes story over spectacle, I'll probably like it. There Will Be Blood, upon second viewing, went from fucking great to overwhelmingly fucking great.

Television:

Much as the strike did for regular supermarkets a few years back, the writers' strike seems to be making TV more or less irrelevant for me. And I don't think I miss it much.

Books:

Mostly nonfiction, a lot of history by people you've never heard of. Favorite books you have heard of: Moby Dick, Catch-22, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Trial, On the Road, The Great Gatsby, The Plague, Gravity's Rainbow, and anything by Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett. Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry are currently enjoying heavy rotation whenever school gives me a chance to read for pleasure. In fact, McCarthy knocks my socks off. McMurtry just spins a good yarn.

Heroes:

Joel Hodgson. The Mythbusters. Smedley Butler.

My Blog

An open letter to Barack Obama

Barack,So word comes that the brains over at Republican HQ are getting ready to smear you as a liberal. Republicans, recognizing the n-word is out, resort to other choices. And you know what? If you r...
Posted by The Boomerang of Alterity on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:52:00 PST

What I do for fun nowadays (only without footnotes; couldnt get this to format em properly)

             In 1958, Norwegian ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl, known worldwide for sailing his Kon-Tiki raft from South America to Polynesia, releas...
Posted by The Boomerang of Alterity on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:20:00 PST

A good reason to support your local music scene

I have seen many bands play live. The fact that I have, for twenty years, consistently exposed my tympanic membranes to damaging levels of noise is a pretty clear sign that I enjoy that sort of thing....
Posted by The Boomerang of Alterity on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:01:00 PST

10 albums that changed my life

In order of my hearing them:1. The Beatles, 1962-66 and 1967-70 (I'm going to guess I heard these around 1983 or so). Well, ok, that's really two albums. And they're compilations at that. But nonethel...
Posted by The Boomerang of Alterity on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 06:12:00 PST

Priorities

$1.9 trillion. That's what our esteemed leaders have spent on their various wars (Afghanistan and Iraq) over the last 5+ years. (Yahoo News) $1.9 trillion. That's 1,900,000,000,000. Guess what else we...
Posted by The Boomerang of Alterity on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:48:00 PST

If there’s someone brown in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?

What the fuck is this, and how many of my tax dollars were given to some Coleman College graphic design dropout to create it?This, good people of America (apologies to my international readers) is the...
Posted by The Boomerang of Alterity on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:28:00 PST

Dance like no one is watching follow-up

They were back at the Dirty Sweet show on 5/26.  My buddy Tre got a taste, but the room was too crowded for them to break it down properly.  Disappointing.  
Posted by The Boomerang of Alterity on Thu, 31 May 2007 04:15:00 PST

Dude, "Chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature...

I am completely against the death penalty (although I do think most people are incredibly stupid and the world would be a much better place if 3 or 4 billion of them were dead...ironic, yes?), but I h...
Posted by The Boomerang of Alterity on Wed, 30 May 2007 03:56:00 PST

A good start

When I heard that Jerry Falwell had died, I wanted to write something witty about what a horrible person he was (or at least what a horrible person he chose to portray himself as to the public...I gue...
Posted by The Boomerang of Alterity on Fri, 18 May 2007 02:35:00 PST

Deep, heavy stuff

I generally find it difficult to be eloquent in describing things that are in themselves already eloquent (or beautiful, or sublime, or various other positive superlatives).  I find whatever word...
Posted by The Boomerang of Alterity on Thu, 17 May 2007 04:16:00 PST