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Andrew

I am here for Dating and Friends

About Me

My headline is my own. I first uttered it while sharply dressed and somewhat bored, having driven 150 miles to see friends who now live much farther away. It is actually rather revealing, as I am quite libertine in some ways, while surprisingly (to me) conservative in others.

My Interests

Good Humanities, Good Prose, Good Food, Good Humor, Bad Humor, Reading, Writing.

I'd like to meet:

Credulous heiresses disinclined towards prenuptial agreements.Or maybe just a good conversationalist.

Music:

Bjork, Broken Social Scene, Mingus, Lucero, Sizzla, Iron and Wine, Mos Def, Bach, Quannum, Death Cab for Cutie, De La Soul, M M & W, Miles, Coltrane, The Roots, Boards of Canada, Shoenberg, Puccini, Verdi, Autechre, Plaid, Blind Melon, RJD2, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ryan Adams, low, Emmylou Harris.

Movies:

Manchurian Candidate (original), Get Carter (original), True Stories, Fight Club, Being There, Blue, Raise the Red Lantern, Lolita, Barry Lyndon, Clerks, The Big Lebowski, Strangers With Candy...

Television:

I subsidize HBO by way of Blockbuster.com. I believe television is a medium with a lot of potential that is rarely realized. When it is, I enjoy it. Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Rome are all great. I'll start on Six Feet Under soon...

Books:

I most enjoy well written scifi and fantasy: William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Philip K Dick, Vonnegut, Neil Gaiman. New Fiction Favorites: Burrough's Naked Lunch and Cities of the Red Night. Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy, Gibson's Pattern Recognition, PKD's Valis. Old fiction favorites: Neuromancer, Everything by Douglas Adams, Frannie and Zoe, The Razor's Edge, You Can't Go Home Again. Non-fiction favorites: Heisenberg's Physics and Philosophy, Blumenthal --Clinton Wars and Rise of the Counter Establishment. Graphic Novels: Sandman, Lucifer, Kabuki, Akira (whole set).

Heroes:

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My Blog

Gray skies and a sore throat&

I just finished the first season of the Wire in just less than 48 hours. I managed this 13 hour feat because of the foul weather and my even fouler illness. My throat started itching an hour after my ...
Posted by Andrew on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:35:00 PST

Sci-Fi fragment

It's the little things that let you know they know. Twitches of the eyes, slips of the tongue, knitted brows. What do they recognize, my dear reader? What is it that they know? What do they mean with ...
Posted by Andrew on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:36:00 PST