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Darin

William Randolph Shakespeare said: 'Love...doth be...poison'

About Me

Ninjas are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.
Facts:
1. Ninjas are mammals.
2. Ninjas fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

The clinically insane woman who runs the Sugar Bush Squirrel website.
She's given the squirrel its own catchphrase. That catchphrase is "You've been squirreled." That doesn't even make any sense. I'd love to do an fMRI on her to see what part of her brain is malfunctioning (or missing).

Music:

Alice in Chains, Ben Folds, Ani Difranco, Counting Crows, Dover, The Folksmen, Frank Zappa, G. Love and Special Sauce, Jack Johnson, The Gourds, Green Day, Guns n Roses, Harvey Danger, King Missile, Alejandro Sanz, Shakira, Manu Chao, Live, Metallica, Neil Young, Otis Redding, Paul Simon, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Reel Big Fish, Soundgarden, Soul Coughing, Stone Temple Pilots, Spinal Tap, Susan Tedeschi, Tool, A Perfect Circle, System of a Down, They Might Be Giants, Toadies, The White Stripes

Movies:

Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Usual Suspects, Being John Malkovich, Blue, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, A Mighty Wind, Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, South Park, Amelie, The Good Thief, Seven Samurai, Spirited Away, Almost Famous, Monster, Traffic, Requiem for a Dream, Donnie Darko, Gangs of New York, Elf, High Fidelity, Mulholland Drive, Garden State, Casablanca, The Incredibles

Television:

I don't really watch TV, but I've been known to enjoy Scrubs, South Park, The Daily Show, Simpsons, Futurama, The West Wing, Reno 911

Books:

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Bean Trees, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, High Fidelity, East Bay Grease, Cryptonomicon, Sandman, Maus, Nickeled and Dimed, Fast Food Nation

Heroes:

The Onion's Guide to Net Acronyms:

LODLSM - Logged on Dressed Like Sailor Moon

XIF - Christ, I'm Fat

DYHTNTMBG? - Did You Hear The New They Might Be Giants?

18/F/NYC - Pockmarked 46-Year-Old in Bathrobe

IHTWBSAP - I Have Trouble With Basic Spelling and Punctuation

JEOMK - Just Ejaculated On My Keyboard

NTBUSWAB - Not To Bring Up Star Wars Again, But...

TOMTB - Taking Off My Training Bra

CILIMBF? - Can I Lock You In My Basement Forever?

HOGMP - Hang On, Getting More Pringles

WSTS - Weeping Silently To Self

My Blog

Dear MySpace

My God, who the fuck designed your website?  Was it monkeys chained to desks that were running ColdFusion?  It's pretty sad that the site was designed in such a way that if someone sends you...
Posted by Darin on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:24:00 PST

Musical plagiarism

The clearest example of musical plagiarism I'm aware of is also one of the most obscure: the song Step Into the Light by Dust for Life is almost indistinguishable from Dam That River by Alice in Chain...
Posted by Darin on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:54:00 PST

She'll also give 110%, I bet

Yesterday I was typing up a letter of recommendation for someone as part of my GAship.  Aside having done a really poor job writing it to begin with, the professor included the line, "She will gi...
Posted by Darin on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:23:00 PST