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Your Friend, Kevin

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About Me



I'm easily amused by communication. Words, grammar, low-budget advertising, visual rhetoric: I love the things people say and how they say them. I'm wittier in the shower.

I'm well-rounded. In any given competition, I'd like to believe I could come in second place. I'm pretty good at hearts.

I have a re-occurring theme in my dreams dealing with Superman II.

I tend blur the lines of genuineness and sarcasm. I had to look up the noun form of "genuine", because genuineness looked silly. I am both self-deprecating and self-appreciating, and others can expect the same treatment. I do it out of love in both cases.

My Interests

Pop Music, Film, Graphic Design, Art Pre-1945, Words and Grammar, Boxing, impulse ebay purchasing, obsessive self-hair removal, duck and it's delicious duck flavor, over-analyzation, writing to excess, the devil's advocate, narcolepsy, narcissism

I'd like to meet:

People who know more than me. Beautiful people who know more than me.
Beautiful people who think I'm God damn hilarious.

Who I don't really want to meet: Anyone who took a quiz to find out what character from a movie or T.V. show most accurately sums up their life. Anyone who took a quiz to figure out what parts "friendship" and what parts "courage" make up the cocktail of their soul. Anyone who took a quiz and didn't pass.

Music:

Modest Mouse, Guns N' Roses, Belle and Sebastian, Thicke, Talk Talk, The Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, Bob Hund, David Bowie, ABBA, Simon and Garfunkel, Nirvana, Cooper Temple Clause, Kent, Queen, The Sea and Cake, Hoboerotic, Jeff Buckley, The Strokes, Neil Diamond, Nick Cave, Guided by Voices, The Clash, The Stone Roses, Velvet Underground, Muse, The Smiths, Thirteen Senses, Serge Gainesbourg, T-Rex, The Beatles, The Fire Theft, The Shins, The Promise Ring, Television, Kasabian, Luna, Portishead, Al Green, Doors, David Bowie, Supergrass, Interpol, Weezer, The Veils, Love, Iggy Pop, Andrew WK, The Boats, The Mira Flores, The Pixies, Bob Dylan, Keane, The Arcade Fire, Built to Spill, The Soundtrack of our Lives, Metric, Blue Oyster Cult, Bjork, Patti Smith, Swiss Auto Club, The Catherine Wheel, Bloc Party

Movies:

Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, Annie Hall, Godfather I, Godfather II, Spinal Tap, Catch 22, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Bottle Rocket, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Bad Santa, Pulp Fiction, The Graduate, City of God, Fight Club, I Heart Huckabees, Sideways, Election

Television:

Are you smarter than a fifth grader... it's all the proof anybody needs to go on a shooting spree.

Books:

All Sedaris. The Dirt by Motley Crue

My Blog

From The Vault

The year I was in second grade, it was the peak of the Double Dare obsessions. Marc Summers knew everything, and his obstacle courses were better than any elementary school playground. One day in the ...
Posted by Your Friend, Kevin on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:19:00 PST

Security at the West Palm Airport

Old, but stern security guy: (looking at the ziplock bag that has replaced my toiletry bag to comply with airport regulations): Hold it! The airport stops to recognize and fear my potentially Isl...
Posted by Your Friend, Kevin on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:45:00 PST

Bangalore Ho!

So it's the end of my first day in Bangalore and these are my observations:   1) Everybody's smelly sometimes, but there should be a special award for the sort of person who gets on an airplane ...
Posted by Your Friend, Kevin on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:10:00 PST

Mine sever intestines.

One year at summer camp, when I was thirteen or fourteen years old, there was a counselor named Jenn Colasacco. She was curvy, but thin, with wide hips, horizonal hair, fizzy and long, with ...
Posted by Your Friend, Kevin on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:33:00 PST

the numer rules

Yesterday my alarm clock of 17 years stopped functioning. It started in the late afternoon, chasing me with its ticks, rattling for no reason, but to keep a tempo for my head. It continued like this, ...
Posted by Your Friend, Kevin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Imposters, fashion, and Jesus with Tracy Motz

tmotz917: none of you guys have a sewing machine, do you?karponius: is this a comment about our attire?tmotz917: because you are all so impeccably styled in today's latest vintage fashions, I thought ...
Posted by Your Friend, Kevin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST