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Mr. Claxton

It ain't easy bein cheesy

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


Music:

!!! Air Akron Family Animal Collective

At the Drive-In The Avalanches Battles Beck Billie Holiday Bjork Blonde Redhead The Blood Brothers Blur Botch Boy Eats Drum Machine

Busdriver Cibo Matto CocoRosie The Cocteau Twins Cornelius Cursive Dan the Automator De la Soul
Del tha Funky Homosapien Devotchka, Dilated Peoples Dillinger Escape Plan, The Dismemberment Plan Dixie Dirt Don Caballero The Dresden Dolls Dysrhythmia El-P Elliott Smith Fiona Apple

The Go! Team Godspeed You! Black Emporer Gorillaz Handsome Boy Modeling School Imitation Electric Piano Immortal Technique Isis Jurassic 5 Liberation Prophecy Lovage, The Mars Volta Maserati Menomena Mew Miles Davis Minus the Bear Modest Mouse

Mr. Bungle Murder By Death, Pele Pinback Poe Portishead, The Postal Service Pulp Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum Radiohead Refused RJD2

The Shins Sigur Ros Sonic Youth Stereolab Sunny Day Real Estate The Talking Heads The Good Life The Sound of Animals Fighting Thievery Corporation Tomahawk Tortoise TV on the Radio U2 The Velvet Underground Xiu Xiu XTC Zero7

Movies:

American Psycho, Brain Candy, I Heart Huckabees, The Big Lebowski, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, The Science of Sleep, Being John Malkovich,, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Squid & the Whale, Happiness, No Country for Old Men, American Gangster, Little Children, The Weather Man

Television:

Weeds, Arrested Development, Project Runway, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Robot Chicken, Lucky Louie, Family Guy

Books:

David Gilbert, Douglas Adams, Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, Fyodor Doestoevsky, PJ O'Rourke, Ken Kesey, Robert Anton Wilson, Chuck Palahniuk, Tom Robbins, Nietzche, Sartre, Milton Friedman, Aldous Huxley, David Sedaris, Brett Easton Ellis, Douglas Hoffstedder, Non Fiction dealing with the social sciences, mainly economics and politics.

My Blog

Concert Calender

3/7 - Black Mountain, Bon Iver, Phantom Family Halo - Headliners3/14 - Built to Spill, Meat Puppets, Helvetica - Headliners3/28 - British Sea Power - Phoenix Hill4/2 - Why? - Bear's Place (Bloomington...
Posted by Mr. Claxton on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:11:00 PST

Smoking Bans: Good for Non-Smokers; Bad for a Free Society

Following an alarming trend that is sweeping across our supposedly free country, the local powers that be have taken to the fad of slowly moving towards complete and total ban on tobacco use. Next ye...
Posted by Mr. Claxton on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 04:52:00 PST

Facts About Sexual Inequality the Bush Administration Doesn't Want You to Hear

Americans should be outraged by increasing inequality in our nation.  There are no social patterns more alarming than the growing gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots", and the ever increas...
Posted by Mr. Claxton on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:37:00 PST

Corporate America - Part 3 - Starbucks

Of all the anti-corporate rhetoric that leftist types like to throw around, the angst directed at Starbucks, Americas largest coffee chain, perplexes me the most.  It seems to me that if ever th...
Posted by Mr. Claxton on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 09:10:00 PST

Corporate America - Part 2 - Big Oil

Ok, so now Im looking at the oil industry as a whole.  I chose to examine oil as an industry rather than any individual firm, because the rhetoric of the anti-corporate crowd does the same. ...
Posted by Mr. Claxton on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:46:00 PST

Corporate America - Part 1 - Wal-Mart

At some point it became fashionable among fringe groups of intellectuals, especially college students, artists, hollywood actors, musicians, and others to be adamantly anti-corporation. While this ant...
Posted by Mr. Claxton on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:57:00 PST

Tips for calling tech support.

As a person who does tech support for a living, I know that calling tech support can be complicated and often times frustrating beyond any experience.  Here are a few tricks i have gathered from ...
Posted by Mr. Claxton on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Harlem Globetrotters do NOT belong on Gilligan's Island!!!

It's just wrong, people!!!! 
Posted by Mr. Claxton on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

What I Do For Money

  Me: Thankyou for calling Charter Technical Support. My name is Josh, may I have your home telephone number, area code first, please?Customer: 842-5369Me: Ok sir, can I have the area code please...
Posted by Mr. Claxton on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Shroom Journals: 6/14/04

Herein lies the complete record of the mushroom trip of Josh, Cindy (aka C-I-N-D-Y Spells Sex), and Lady (aka Liar, aka Lindsey) transcribed as accurately as humanly possible from what eventually beca...
Posted by Mr. Claxton on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST