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Ken

Just don't rib the big buck

About Me

What about me?

My Interests

So many things it defies description. Star Wars, wrestling, X-men, History, Philosophy, girls, video games, disco songs from the seventies, JRFs, Dawn, making the connection, cookie monster, vintage toys, new toys, hi-tech gizmos, Muppets, a certain someone, old rasslin mags, tell all biographies, Saint John, 1978, scandelous exposes, Catholics in Quebec, African literature, Victorian literature, chess, Super Street Fighter 2, viking history, the true English, Hobo watching, the matches of Abdullah the Butcher, cheesy horror flicks, the Doors, the doors of perception, Machines Of Loving Grace, Who Killed Teacher?, underdog stories, messages of hope and redemption, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance on tape, Zombies Ate my Neighbors, Mulkeymania, the man behind the curtain,... Oh yeah, don't forget Jivin the system, freakin the squares, Quiet Revolution, five more minutes, and pulling off that one last job.

I'd like to meet:

Nice people, Bruce Dickenson

Music:

Mellow seventies, the love songs of Lionel Ritchie. The greatest songs of all time on AM 1440. I have a list of old favorites like Iron Maiden, Sting, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Dinosaur jr. When I am around other people who like the 80's its like the summer of 82' all over again. I still remember the first time I heard Safety Dance, but I think that was 83. Most recently it has been Leonard Cohen, Looking Glass, the Neverending Story song, and Weird Al has really outdone himself. The 40's will always be the forties. Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Glen Miller, Benny Goodman. On the Jazz side of things Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Songs about magic. I just realized I am a Neil Diamond fan, and that comes as quite a shock.

Movies:

I have been watching a lot of movies lately. The Lord of the Rings, All six Star Wars, Italian horror movies by Fulchi, any movie from the year I was born, good or bad. Chicago, The Cold Eyes of Fear, The Last Picture Show. Magnolia, Dirty Harry, The Gift, American Psycho, Ready to Rumble, Rocky III, Talented Mr. Ripley, Closer, the first 10 minutes of Blade, Crybaby, 2001, Death to Smoochy, The Messenger, The Fifth Element, Lady in The Water, The Village. Ingmar Bergman; I never knew. Feel free to look at my list http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=2449608

Television:

I watched more T.V as a little kid. Ginsu commercials, big time professional wrestling, Space Giants, I Dream of Jennie

Books:

Have a Nice Day, The Axe, Crime and Punishment, The End of the Affair, The Brothers Karamazov, Steven King until Needful Things, Finnegans Wake, For that matter anything by Joyce. Right now I am rereading Dubliners. Almost anything by John Irving, I went through an old English spell, but I am over that now thank god. Still like Gerard Manly Hopkins.

Heroes:

Sir Oliver Humperdink, John F. Kennedy, Joseph Campbell, Batman, John Wayne, Hulk Hogan, John Lennon, Cookie Monster, Yoda, Big John Studd, Kermit the Frog, Klaus Kinski, My Dad, and Granddad,

My Blog

Will the revolution be televised or not?

        I can remember real subversion. Once upon a time there was real punk, and everything was fresh and new. These days, I don't know. Everything seems so commercial, I know I s...
Posted by Ken on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:40:00 PST

An endless sea

       There is an endless amount of new things to see and do. I just realized how much of everything is entertainment. We are all being distracted away from something. I...
Posted by Ken on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:52:00 PST

What to do next?

   I believe that anything is possible. I don't mean jumping 50 feet in the air is possible. I guess what I mean to say is that anything could happen. This is the sort of realization I am so...
Posted by Ken on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:20:00 PST

Magic

      For some things there is no explanation. This may come as a shock to some people who are accustomed to the cause and effect train of thought. I used to look for a reason behind ev...
Posted by Ken on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:12:00 PST

Scrooge

     I watched a Muppet Christmas Carol the other day. I like the Muppets, and it seems like there have been dozens of versions of A Christams Carol. In fact I can r...
Posted by Ken on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:19:00 PST

Rage against the wind

     The world is trying to kill me. I realize this when I walk down the street and the wind tries to blow me into traffic. If I were not strong enough the wind would have it's way...
Posted by Ken on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:54:00 PST

Being 4 years old

    How well do you know yourself? Every person you have ever been, every phase you have gone through is still inside you somewhere. So here is the challange, post a comment about some ...
Posted by Ken on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:43:00 PST

One sweet dream

     I stand amazed at the magical way life is unfolding. Not really a long blog, but I had to get that out.
Posted by Ken on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:56:00 PST

One question

   I just wonder, outloud, who is reading my blogs? This is what I find so amazing. My blog counter goes up, but my profile views do not. Is there some thing I am missing? So here is the cha...
Posted by Ken on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:59:00 PST

Libra

   This is my favorite time of year. There is something about October. I don't know what it is. Maybe it is the holiday season on the horizon. I don't know. On this day of all days. I can fe...
Posted by Ken on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:15:00 PST