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aaron

About Me

I'm living in Wilmington, NC currently, and you can come visit. We have a spare room and bed and we are 10 minutes from the ocean. I recently spent a year and a half in Australia and New Zealand after living in St Louis with my manwife Lauren for 7 years. Now he's in Jersey with his lady and I wander this ragged countryside, my hat in my hands.... I've been doing some touring lately, as lighting director for a spanish Flamenco Dance company. And, man, I need to learn some spanish, let me tell you. ok, a bit more...I am currently torn between about 27 fantasies about what to do with my life, some of which include: get my MFA in film and teach intro production at some university somewhere; open a coffeeshop that also does music and art and wonderfulness; have a music venue/bar; travel around the world volunteering to do random stuff; learn every percussive instrument possible; go back to doing university theater tech direction; open up nashville's most pimpest hostel/backpackers; write write write write write; just have a workshop and make furniture and lamps and lovely dumb stuff. so that's some of them. And if i can do those things without ever flying again or eating mcdonald's, well, all the better.

My Interests

drums, guitar, glassblowing, furniture making, woodwork, lighting design, technical theater, hairy physicists, live music, reading, writing, screenwriting, night driving, water...and some other stuff

I'd like to meet:

if i knew you back in the day, if i can play drums with you, if you suggest movies books or music, if you want to be my friend in wilmington, NC...

Music:

over the course of my music-listening life, some of my larger crushes have been: ben folds, radiohead, portishead, fat freddy's drop, outkast, indigo girls, every band i've played in, and a million other things. Did i say indigo girls? i'm not sure that's even true. i did see them in concert once...and i went to lilith fair twice...maybe it IS true. what else? john prine, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, the 1997 MLK Pops Ensemble, Sac Lunch, The Carter Administration, Liz Phair, Deathcab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Clannad, Linkin Park (yes, i seriously like their 2nd album, though i agree it looks especially funny coming after Clannad), Garbage, The Bangles, and karaoke the world over.

Movies:

yes please. good ones. ok, that's way too simple an answer for someone so overly into movies. (but not so overly that i call them 'films'). I like dramas with nice human touch moments. I also appreciate a good sex scene. some movies i've liked lately: Closer, Crash, 25th Hour, Royal Tennies, Garden State, Election, Spanglish, Shortbus, Talk to Her, Lucia y el Sexo, 21 grams, Annie, and about a bzillion others. but sometimes i'm a real snob. 3/5/08 update: what else, yo? Um...I didn't see the big deal about American Gangster. I've never seen Lord of the Rings (but I've been to New Zealand - does that count?). I think Alfred Hitchcock had a knack for putting hoooooooot ladies in his movies. Eternal Sunshine was grand, as were Hoosiers, Shane, True Romance, and some others...

Television:

eh. here and there.

Books:

i read about 30 books in the past year, but what were they? i have a crappy memory. 03/05/08 - recent ones: Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Blood Meridian, and No Country for Old Men; Robin Hobb's Tawny Man trilogy; Dosteyvsky(sp?)'s Crime and Punishment; John LeCarre's The Perfect Spy; The 1,000 Mile Diet; and some other stuff.

Heroes:

nah. we all just do the best we can.

My Blog

au revoir, mssr nashville

so, i've moved to Wilmington, NC. if you live in wilmington, and play music, watch music, like games, do theater/events, build things, like gardens, make tea, like beers, play on the beach, et cet et ...
Posted by aaron on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:35:00 PST

busted!

i was just busted being for being sly, only not. i didn't switch to 'single' when claire left town, i been 'single' since i made a profile on this-a here thang. real flesh-and-blood relationships come...
Posted by aaron on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:12:00 PST

nashville round two.

well, i'm not gonna make this a regular thing, because i keep a blog-ish type thang over on www.livejournal.com/the_A_frame. but i also feel very boring on here. people are all writin', messagin', put...
Posted by aaron on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:31:00 PST