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Adam

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About Me

I graduated from college awhile ago and, since then, have been looking for a way to get paid to do one or more of the following things: play basketball, read magazines, draw pictures, buy cds, drink coffee. yeah i haven't had much luck so far.

My Interests

I like basketball and music and art and chocolate milk and magazines and guacamole. I don't surf and I don't have any tattoos and I don't like mayonnaise or George Bush. And I am not really that into reggae.

I'd like to meet:

John Lennon, Jenny Lewis, Kobe Bryant ...

Music:

Currently: the get up kids, the strokes, broken social scene, wolf parade, the arcade fire, band of horses, bright eyes, elliott smith, refused, wu tang clan, kings of leon, taking back sunday, the rapture, clap your hands say yeah, tokyo police club, at the drive in, interpol, radiohead, common, neutral milk hotel, classic rock, gangsta rap, etc..

Movies:

If it's got: a) time travel b) a fight club, or c) people who can fly I'm down.

Television:

Pushing! Daisies!

Books:

Still Life With Woodpecker; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; High Fidelity; Lamb; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Catcher in the Rye; The Perks of Being a Wallflower; Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs; Less Than Zero...

Heroes:

"Fuck having heroes—be your own hero."

My Blog

The Loneliest Colors

Apparently the only words in the english language that rhyme with absolutely nothing are orange, purple, silver and month. I don't know about y'all, but I find that very depressing. Imagine every othe...
Posted by Adam on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:17:00 PST

The Futures SO Bright

I broke another pair of sunglasses so now I don't look cool anymore. And the sun in my eyes is causing irreversible damage to my retinas. It's piercing and unavoidable and reminds me of how I stayed a...
Posted by Adam on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:03:00 PST

Universal Nacho Bars: The Time is NOW

"On this January morning of two thousand and eight, more than sixty years after President Truman first issued the call for national nacho bars, we find ourselves in the midst of an historic moment on ...
Posted by Adam on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:09:00 PST

Things To Do When Youre Sick

1. watch The Price Is Right.2. cough to the beat of Billie Jean by Michael Jackson. film it. youtube it.3. write a letter to one of your enemies. lick the envelope like you're a dog and it's peanut bu...
Posted by Adam on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:32:00 PST

Gatorade and Taxes

It's Friday and I'm bored at work, so I've decided to bless you all with a (very) random summary of my week:1. Went and saw "Control" (The Joy Division/Ian Curtis movie) yesterday. It was great. I eff...
Posted by Adam on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:50:00 PST

Cooler Than Disney

I came across this in some book just now. It seems like remarkably cool advice, and has thus convinced me that Walt Whitman was the coolest Walt the world has ever known. (He dethroned Disney.)"This i...
Posted by Adam on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:37:00 PST

25 Reasons...

So. With the release of amazing new albums by both Band of Horses and Radiohead in the past 48 hours, I am forced to make official something that has been swimming around behind my eyeballs for a coup...
Posted by Adam on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:54:00 PST

Dear Cricket in my living room,

Dear Cricket in my living room,If you do not shut the fuck up, I will kill you. I will find you and I will kill you. You probably think you're really clever, sitting over there in the corner, cheep-ch...
Posted by Adam on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:35:00 PST

They Love Me Here

Top 4 Names I Am Affectionately Called At Work:1. "Muffin"2. "Vanilla Face"3. "Fuckin' Adam"4. "Douche"
Posted by Adam on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:40:00 PST

I Kid

The following is an imaginary conversation between me and a representative for the One Laptop Per Child Project*. For more information about the project, check out www.laptop.org.*Readers note: I kid ...
Posted by Adam on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:59:00 PST