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About Me

I'm a writer I guess, and a teacher, and a student (i.e. a philosopher, but that sounds rather pretentious). I spend very little time in my apartment, unless I'm sleeping, which I probably do more than most people. I keep wierd hours. I like to cook. I can stare at aquariums and monkeys for very long periods of time. My latest plan is to sell my car and buy a motorcycle, which seems like a bad idea objectively, but that usually doesn't dissuade me. I enjoy life. Even though it can be pretty brutal sometimes, it is full of surprises.

My Interests

alphabetizing, art, barbeque, literature, philosophy, "politics", riding my bike, skateboarding, sponteneity, tattoos, urban planning, whiskey, writing, etc.

I'd like to meet:

Bands that I don't know or care about, people who are trying to sell me things, and women who want me to "check out their website". Sadly, I can't seem to find anyone like this on myspace.

Music:

Good Metal (Dillinger Escape Plan, Shai Hulud, Cave In, etc.)Bad R&B (Jodeci, R Kelly, 112, etc.)Tough Hardcore (Earthmover, Walls of Jericho, Premonitions of War, etc.)Sad Emo (The Promise Ring, The Get-Up Kids, Bright Eyes, etc.)Political Punk Rock (Against Me!, Fifteen, The Broadways, etc.)And that one Gwen Stefani song about bananas.

Movies:

American Beauty, Big Fish, Breakin', Closer, The Corporation, Donnie Brasco. The Dreamers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, The Godfather, Lost in Translation, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Natural Born Killers, Scarface. The Science of Sleep.

Television:

I have a nice one, which gets apprx. 3 channels on a good day.

Books:

My favorites: Crash by J.G. Ballard. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevski, Al Burian's Burn Collector, Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.

My Blog

Tisha Cambell, my dream girl.

So, I saw the movie 'Terminal' on TV the other day, the one where Tom Hanks is stuck in a NY airport for months and months because his fake country is having a civil war, etc. It must have lodged...
Posted by Drew on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:19:00 PST

my new favorite quote

So I guess Mike Tyson just got busted with a bunch of cocaine, and when the police asked him about it he said, "Its my cocaine and I use it whenever I get my hands on it". I thought that in itself was...
Posted by Drew on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:05:00 PST

things, as of late.

Thanks for all the job search advice. Sadly and predictably, I have found a job waiting tables at a cafe on navy pier - mentally and physically taxing, but financially acceptable, and ultimately toler...
Posted by Drew on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:49:00 PST

please help

I am slowly coming to the realization that I'm going to have to get what folks call a "real" job this summer (as oppossed to teaching, fetching books from the library, etc.). I really did not want to ...
Posted by Drew on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:21:00 PST

bird shit and bad luck

As soon as I got back to Chicago this week, a pigeon shat on my head. It pissed me off. Then my friend told me that more than one culture sees a bird shitting on your head as a sign of good luck....
Posted by Drew on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:12:00 PST

RIP Stanley Williams

Did anybody really expect Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator, to grant someone clemency? Just curious. Stanley "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Los Angeles Crips, was executed this morning. Y...
Posted by Drew on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:15:00 PST

more spiritual guidance.

Now that I'm attending a Catholic school (I know, I'm not sure how it happened either) I figure I should supplement my previous comments on "new age" spirituality with some musings on its old-fashione...
Posted by Drew on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:28:00 PST

spirituality...

is a sham. Not that old-fashioned god-fearing kind. That's a whole other can of worms, but at least it doesn't purport to be fashionable. I'm talking about "new age" spirituality. Most of it seems to ...
Posted by Drew on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 02:01:00 PST

it's a slippery slope

As I was walking home from the grocery store today, a local sketchball asked me, "Hey man, wanna live forever?" Instinctively I responded, "No thanks." But immediately after I got home I thought, wai...
Posted by Drew on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:27:00 PST

more things that annoy me.

The list is almost endless. I could just say "shopping" and be done with it: you know, the whole fetishization of the process of procuring goods and services that people (imagine they) need, as if th...
Posted by Drew on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 05:20:00 PST