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Sprads

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About Me



My Interests

Pneumatic tubes, the word "jaguarundi", giant dj headphones, one minute dance parties, certain sentences, epcot circa 1985, natural history museums, woodpaneling, party-cake-optimism, trampolines, discussing my favorite part of that Don Henley song "Boys of Summer".

I'd like to meet:

Fictional characters and prescription medication, whatever you have should be fine kthx.

Music:

R.E.M., David Bowie, Beck, Sonic Youth, Pavement, The Magnetic Fields, Cibo Matto, Animal Collective, Sparks, The Knife, Pulp, Hot Chip, Brian Eno, Imperial Teen, Leonard Cohen, The New Pornographers, Pinback, Of Montreal, Radiohead, Enon, Now It's Overhead, Micheal MacDonald on tour with Steely Dan, Love, Air, The Flaming Lips, Make Up, Belle and Sebastian, Outkast, Adam Ant, Telex, Spoon, Pop Levi, Ween, The Lovekevins, Architecture In Helsinki, Je Suis France, The Beatles, The Beta Band, Rufus Wainwright, Talking Heads, Buddy Holly, The Dandy Warhols, Cut Copy, LCD Soundsystem, The Handsome Family, The Decemberists, Falco, Final Fantasy, Iron and Wine, Girl Talk, Northern Soul and Bubblegum Pop. And Young Jeezy.

Movies:

Annie Hall, The Royal Tenenbaums, Reds, The Philadelphia Story, Schizopolis, Charade, The Hours, Manhattan, A Hard Day's Night, The Graduate, Trainspotting, Me and You and Everyone We Know, High Fidelity, Harold and Maude, Blue, A View to a Kill, Death Race 2000 and the comedy stylings of Matthew Barney. Oh, and The Warriors.

Television:

30 Rock, The West Wing, Arrested Development, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Flight of the Conchords, Strangers With Candy, Look Around You

Books:

The Sun Also Rises, Infinite Jest, Play it as it Lays, The Great Gatsby, Franny and Zooey, Junky, Less Than Zero, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, A Wrinkle In Time, V, Fear and Loathing, the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, T.S. Eliot and ee cummings.

Heroes:

Is a show I can only assume is about sandwiches.

My Blog

Roboclash: The Reckoning

Possible taglines:"The final battle between good and evil. And robots." "In the year 2525 only the ROBOTS will be alive." "When the world is ruled by robots no one is safe except the robots." "In the ...
Posted by Sprads on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:55:00 PST

Ways to Make Super Tuesday Even More Super

-Call it "Super Fucking Tuesday"-Replace "Tuesday" with "Bowl", replace "voting" with "football"-Make sure Monday is just average.-Place your "I Voted" sticker on a lamppost, just to worry people. -Ev...
Posted by Sprads on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:54:00 PST

Flying and Some Puppies

I'm not sure when I developed such a fear of flying. Or maybe it's just a hatred of flying. It's probably a little of both, wrapped up neat in a headache-shaped package. It never used to bother me. I ...
Posted by Sprads on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:39:00 PST

PM Dawn of the Dead

I really wish "setting adrift on memory bliss" were slang for something. "hey what's up""oh not much, just going to go set adrift on memory bliss" Though I'm not sure why someone would say 'not much' ...
Posted by Sprads on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:47:00 PST

Possible Names for Future Sitcoms Starring Alan Thicke

In the Thicke of ThingsBlood is Thicke-r Than WaterThrough Thicke and Thine (with Stephanie Thine)The Thicke and the DeadThickes and ThonesTerminally ThickeAre You Thicke of Me Yet?The Thickening...
Posted by Sprads on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:05:00 PST

A Band Will Surely Justify My Existance!

(The Journey of This Idea I Have Every Few Months) In the spirit of philanthropy I have decided to start giving back to the musiclusterfuckwhatever scene which has given so much to me: Appropriat...
Posted by Sprads on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:27:00 PST

Hey guys take my poll and feel like you matter

// Begin Pollhost.com Poll Code // --> One, two, three THROW! Paper! Rock! Scissors! Free polls from Pollhost.com // End Pollhost.com Poll Code // -->...
Posted by Sprads on Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:52:00 PST

CCLXIV Papalympiad

Before emerging victorious as the ultimate papal champion, the new pope must first prevail in a series of mental and physical challenges. Challenges which have been kept a secret until this very momen...
Posted by Sprads on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

La Dolce Vittorio Furioso Deus Ex Machinations Un Chien

The sun is dissappearing again and I don't know why it even bothers showing it's useless face this time of year. Last I checked it's only duty was to provide warmth and the fact that it takes a half h...
Posted by Sprads on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Weather! And what is it's problem, anyways!

I wrote this several months ago, whilst a field weather reporter for my own weather reporting purposes sent to the very eye of the storm. Here is all that was left of my report. Hurrican Ivan, nam...
Posted by Sprads on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST