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Tim

Swimmy

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Are you slow? The alleged lie that you might have heard me saying, allegedly, moments ago? That's a parasite that lives in my neck.

. . .

Mars will never put up with this.

Music:

Jawbreaker, Sambomaster, The Oblivians, Built To Spill, The Mountain Goats, The Weakerthans, Apocalypse Hoboken, The Pixies, Need New Body, Hella, The Mr. T Experience, Pavement, This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb, Spiritualized, The Rentals, Superchunk, Les Savy Fav, Hüsker Dü, Lifter Puller, Kid Dynamite, American Steel, Propagandhi, One Reason, Pit Er Pat, The Blood Brothers, Helloween, The Clash, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Neutral Milk Hotel, Slayer, Dragonforce, The Hold Steady, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Leatherface, Streetlight Manifesto, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Lawrence Arms, Limp Wrist, Coachwhips, Pink and Brown, Ziegenbock Kopf, John Dwyer in general, Anal Cunt, The Gayrilla Biscuits, The Queers, Compulsive Gamblers, The Go! Team, The Stooges, Danzig-era Misfits, Elliott Smith, Bomb the Music Industry!, Skip James, Fiona Apple, FYP, Rush, The Velvet Underground, Lightning Bolt, Ash, Akira Yamaoka, Deerhoof, The Epoxies, Daly's Gone Wrong, Songs: Ohia, Tanguy Ukulele Orchestra, Joanna Newsom, Virt, Goto80, Jamiroquai, ManowaR, Jon Mikl Thor, Taco the Wonder Dog, Jam Handy, LARGE PRIME NUMBERS, Prince, Dethklok, and Engineer Bear Bunny

Movies:

Undead, Trainspotting, Transformers: The Movie, LA Confidential, Dead Alive, Return of the Living Dead, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Angus, Feeders 2, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Comet, Un Chien Andalou, Doom House 2000, Wild Zero, Being There, Dellamorte Dellamore, NUKIE, Raptor, Street Fighter: The Movie, Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare, The Langoliers, Gates of Hell, A Scanner Darkly

Books:

Swimmy

Heroes:

Milton Friedman mostly.

My Blog

I imagine a world

. . .In which people can put on their resumés, along with their GPA, the age at which they lost their virginity as an indication of intelligence.(I suppose this could cause a few problems.)...
Posted by Tim on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:56:00 PST

DWVII

Maximum nerdiness on display right here.
Posted by Tim on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:32:00 PST

There are those who call me. . . Tim

Whenever I read for a long time, I stroke my beard. This is the only thing that reminds me to trim it; it bothers me when it's too long. You'd think a longer beard would be better for stroking, but no...
Posted by Tim on Wed, 16 May 2007 03:18:00 PST

Improve your facebook (and myspace)

By undoing all the terrible changes they keep making!Here's how: If you're using Firefox, download the Greasemonkey extension. You need it for everything that follows. After that, surf on over to user...
Posted by Tim on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:50:00 PST

MUSIC OVERLOAD: REVIEWS FOLLOW

A few weeks back a good internet friend told me about a deal Asian Man Records was having: 25 random CDs for $25. I got in on it, and over the past couple weeks have slowly made my way through each al...
Posted by Tim on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:07:00 PST

Dear women,

Please smile at me more.Researchers have shown women rate a man as more attractive after they've seen another woman smiling at him. By contrast. . . male observers rate a man as less attractive after ...
Posted by Tim on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:52:00 PST

You'd be laughin'.

I saw my favorite person today. We don't see each other very often, but she was my first drunk dial, so that should tell you how close we still are. After our typical conversations about how Ann Coult...
Posted by Tim on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:08:00 PST

Big McLargehuge!

I've never made a New Year's resolution before. I always subscribed to Calvin's philosophy (the comic, not the Christian): "I resolve to stay exactly the same. It's everyone else who needs to change."...
Posted by Tim on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:04:00 PST

Friedman

Milton Friedman, my favorite economist and longtime hero, has passed away.I was an apathetic teenager. I did my work for high school, but I dreaded going to college. I remember speaking with a friend ...
Posted by Tim on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:36:00 PST

This is another entry about making out.

Me: I want to make out in a dumpster.Somebody else: no thanks Me: Not with you....
Posted by Tim on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:16:00 PST