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A Man for All Seasons

Play along chubsy and there's a pie in it for you.

About Me

My life has been compared to an episode of Seinfeld. This is true.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
If I was in Air Supply, I'd write a song called "Love the One You Love, With Love."
Talking to my dad about "Singin' in the Rain" Me: "Yeah, I just watched it a couple weeks ago. That Debbie Reynolds was gorgeous." My dad: "Yeah, she was a looker."
I dance around my room to Frank Sinatra. You doubt it, but it's true.
"I like man, not men." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been discovering this year, more than any previous one, that I care less and less like looking like an idiot.
"Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back."
"Grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted, to understand, than to be understood, to love, than to be loved."
I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
My favorite aroma, soul silhouette.
I thoroughly believe that one cannot have too much Tom Petty, but there is a definite limit on the amount of Journey one can handle. That limit has been exceeded for the next three months, thanks in part to Becky's household.
I enjoy Honest Tea products. Especially Green Dragon Tea and Black Forest Berry.
I am also not a fan of Thunderbirds.

My Interests

Grace getting eaten by a penguin.

Walking. Music. Trying to work on myself and become better in every aspect of my life.

I'd like to meet:

Someone:
-who enjoys listening to music.
-who likes to take random drives.
-who has an interesting hobby in some subject I know nothing about.
-who will put up with my random rants/raves on any, but not limited to, the following subjects: History, music, stupid anecdotes, stories about professors, stories about work, stories I make up, etc.
-who won't mind listening to a new song I might be working on.

In addition:
Peter Gabriel, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Michael Rutherford, Tony Banks, Steve Hackett, Tom Petty, Trey Anastasio so I can kick him in the ass, I'd put Tim Reynolds here but I've already met him many times.

Music:

Top 5 Albums: 1. Spooked - Robyn Hitchcock 2. Dislocation Blues - Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang 3. Secret World Live - Peter Gabriel 4. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis 5. Reiter In - Chris Whitley

Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Alison Krauss, Flecktones, Tim Reynolds, Chris Whitley, Flaming Lips, Phish, Jack Johnson, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Postal Service, Van Halen, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, ELO, Outkast, Nappy Roots, Sam Cooke, Afro Celts, Nick Drake, Beck, Polyphonic Spree, Tom Petty, Journey, Damien Rice, Baaba Maal, Ayub Ogada, James Horner, The Police, Colin Hay, Blur, Al Green, Harry Gregson-Williams, Supertramp, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Drake, Liquid Tension Experiment, Lyle Lovett, Gorillaz, Leon Redbone, Redbone, Three Dog Night, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, John Williams, The Samples/Sean Kelly (even though they are off the deep end now), Chick Corea, Grateful Dead, Chris Whitley, Ben Folds, Talking Heads, David Byrne, Tony Levin, Pink Floyd, David Rhodes, Barenaked Ladies, Led Zeppelin, Styx, Ben Folds, Steve Hackett, Paco de Lucia, Zawose & Brook, The Zombies, Neil Young, Barenaked Ladies, RUSH, Tony Banks, Mike and the Mechanics, Pink Floyd, The Who, Stones, Harry Gregson-Williams, King Crimson, Devo baby!, Allman Brothers, Blues Brothers, Yonder Mountain String Band,

Movies:

The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Northfork, The Shawshank Redemption, Princess Bride, Braveheart, Life of Brian, MASH, The Big Lebowski, The Ladykillers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Say Anything, Punch-Drunk Love, Big Trouble in Little China, The Wall, Bittersweet Motel, The Weatherman, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Dr. Strangelove, The Life Aquatic, Lord of War, Constant Gardener, Love Actually, Casablanca, The Reckoning, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, The Proposition, Million Dollar Baby, Antz,

Television:


Deadwood is my ultimate favorite TV show anything that is written in Iambic Pentameter is glorious, Seinfeld, Fraiser, M*A*S*H, Any Law and Order series, Colbert Report, Daily Show

Books:

"Self Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Almost any Stephen King especially The Dark Tower, Christopher Moore is a genius a combination of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen, glorious stuff! The Princess Bride by William Goldman, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris, any Robert Crais, any Plato, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Sharpe Series by Bernard Cornwell, Vonnegut, Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama, Lord of the Rings, Kafka what a fucked up guy, Catch-22, Harry Harrison, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Xenophon, Plutarch, Homer, Thucydides, Arrian, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lord of the Rings, The Sun Also Rises, and on and on and on...

Heroes:

My father, mother, and grandparents. Theodore Roosevelt. Duke of Wellington. Peter Gabriel. Tim Reynolds. Steve Hackett. Chris Whitley. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Jack McCoy (Sam Waterson)

My Blog

Easy doesn't enter...

Well, it's been a tumultuous month.  That's really the only word for it.I want it to be Thanksgiving Break.  Screw my birthday and the headache it will deliver.  Thanksgiving Break and ...
Posted by I saved Latin on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:14:00 PST

Chris Whitley (A Road Dog)

Chris Whitley is by far my favorite musician of all time, having surpassed Peter Gabriel and Tim Reynolds.  He passed away last Thanksgiving and in the past ten months two albums of his material ...
Posted by I saved Latin on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:19:00 PST

On the cliffs of your wildcat charms I'm riding

So mid-August has come upon us once again.  A majority of people I know are dealing with classes, hopefully all is well for you all.This is by far the best I've felt about being an RA.  I li...
Posted by I saved Latin on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:05:00 PST

Glass horizon over head, awake alone in a water bed

Sometimes I become so overwhelmed by the sheer amount of amazing and beautiful music in the world, and I become frustrated that I'll never be able to hear it all.  I'm feeling particularly inspir...
Posted by I saved Latin on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:41:00 PST

How terribly strange to be seventy

Well, last Saturday Eric and I played for about 40 minutes at The Coffee Garden in Sacramento.  Despite Eric's being sick, we rocked.  I did my solo thing and threw in a little Led Zeppelin ...
Posted by I saved Latin on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:40:00 PST

If you gotta go, go now, or else you got to stay all night

Another year closes out.  Well done to all graduates, everyone else who is sticking around, I'll see you around.  It was a damn good year, by far the best of the last four years.  Hopef...
Posted by I saved Latin on Tue, 23 May 2006 11:14:00 PST

On "Dramastic"

Either last year or the year before, I created a new word."Dramastic" = (Adj.) when an event is both drastic and dramatic.I'm a major proponent of the word, and you should be as well.  Use it fre...
Posted by I saved Latin on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:28:00 PST

April

It is fast approaching six months without a drastic haircut, I had things cleaned and evened up a week ago. April weekends are busy:April 1st-2nd, a part of Cesar Chavez day and all that entails.April...
Posted by I saved Latin on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 01:59:00 PST

Son, he said, grab your things I've come to take you home

Because I can't clear my head in Chico, I'm going home for the weekend, and I'm taking along Thoreau, Beecher, and Emerson with me, along with my block of Mizithra cheese.  Sorry Vierstra.And as ...
Posted by I saved Latin on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:04:00 PST

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin is one of the greatest books I have ever read.  It hit me hard, in a way that hasn't happened since I read Flowers for Algernon or To Kill a Mockingbird.  And to think, 80...
Posted by I saved Latin on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:06:00 PST