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About Me

fat, grumpy, old, but entirely loveable at times. i don't really drink anymore-but find it hard to resist a margarita. love burritos. love my mom. love my friends. loner. drug days are well behind me. collect stupid toys that are making my bank balance smaller and smaller. i've got to get it together...and soon. i have great social anxiety so don't freak when i don't stick around. have distant crushes. love portland and seattle. cut a mean lawn.

My Interests

burritos. more stuff. hanging out. being boring. more hanging out. good times. toys. old tom snyder interviews. i am really boring and old. i'm not much good to anyone.

I'd like to meet:

new pals, friends i already know, people who need their lawns cut and those who can make me a million dollars..the lotto isn't working. so far. my crushes....oops.

Music:

richmond fontaine, ryan adams, shudder to rhink, (old) wheat, shellac, lcd soundsystem, portistatic, pj harvey, weakerthans, chris page, blondie, smog, afghan whigs, twilight sibgers, band of horses, bare jr., interpol-all that shit...

Movies:

dog day afternoon, fast times at ridgemont high, hud, paris texas, a very long engagement...any hal hartley film...

Television:

nypd blue... er... dave... six feet under... strangers with candy...only on dvd now. my name is earl rules! baseball playoffs. i watch hockey but i still say fuck 'em! sopranos, desperate housewives-yup, i said it, so what?

Books:

anything by richard ford, love raymond carver, hunter s. thompson, kristen den hartog, madison smart bell, jim thompson, owner's manuals...self help books 'cause i need 'em.

Heroes:

mark fidrych, tom snyder, hal hartley, tom zallen, bootsy collins.

My Blog

2005..the year my voice broke

so it's 2005 and i think some resolutions may be in order. while they're made to be broken, i think i may actually emply a fre this time out. they're between me and no one else but it's time for some ...
Posted by garnet on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

four more years of the blithering hayseed!

well, the peopleof the excited states have spoken. four more years of the idiot. the man who cannot pronounce anything with more than seven letters... a man who has never run a business successfully, ...
Posted by garnet on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

who decided this?

who decided that i had to work twelve hours a day every freakin' day? all week it's work and sleep..maybe some food in there somewhere. i guess a guy has to make a living. but it still sucks. all this...
Posted by garnet on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

red sox...

a week or so ago i was on my way home with my friend marc and we were listening to some sports station and they were giving away tickets to the next giants game. i phoned in and then realized that i w...
Posted by garnet on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i remember now...

i wrote this seven years ago or so... i just found it... man, i am some kind of sappy dude sometimes.. cowshead chronicles june 1997 "you look terrified of me, you could do worse" 'the...
Posted by garnet on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

back at it...soon.

so after a little time off which included a trip to france/spain, a short driving trip to california to get an in-n-out burger in which i had car problems for the first time and almost didn't make it ...
Posted by garnet on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

jacket interuptus returnus

about a month ago, while working on set with my fellow film geeks, i lost my jacket. and since there were only my fellow workers there it only stood to reason that one of them had stolen it or acciden...
Posted by garnet on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

damn curtains!

so last night after looking at my curtains sitting on a chair in my place i had a couple frinds come over and help me sew 'em up-because i don't know how to sew..i should but i don't. marcy had cut th...
Posted by garnet on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

good times, bad times...

i have met many different women in my life and had the pleasure of even dating some of them. i have been lucky in my lifetime. but the luck i had in the last nine months or so may have been my best lu...
Posted by garnet on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

european vacation

so after years of driving around the states in my car and sleeping in the back off it every night -which included showering at truck stops...literally 47 states and thousands of miles..i am going to ...
Posted by garnet on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST