A Nolan Ryan fastball blew up the Alamo profile picture

A Nolan Ryan fastball blew up the Alamo

And thus, I was named.

About Me

I'm really not that cool of a guy.

My Interests

log rolling to decide conflicts

I'd like to meet:

Someone lamer than me.

Music:

American Football, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Antioch Arrow, Appleseed Cast, Arcade Fire, Archers of Loaf, Art Blakey, At the Drive In, Belle and Sebastian, Big Star, Billy Bragg, Bjork, The Books, Braid, Broken Social Scene, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Camera Obscura, Cap'n Jazz, Cheap Trick, Christie Front Drive, Circle Takes The Square, The Clash, Clikatat Ikatowi, Coheed Cambria, The Cure, Cursive, David Garza, Death Cab For Cutie, Destroyer, Dinosaur Jr., Drive Like Jehu, Duran Duran, Earlimart, Elliot Smith, Elvis Costello, Explosions in the Sky, Fugazi, Ganger, Ghosts and Vodka, Glassjaw, God Speed You Black Emperor!, The Go-Gos, Guided By Voices, hoover, Hot Rod Circuit, Iron Maiden, indian Summer, James Collett, Jawbreaker, Jeff Buckley, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Jimmy Eat World, Joan of Arc, John Coltrane, Jonathan Cash, Jolie Holland, Joni Mitchell, Julia, Kerosene 454, Lifetime, Lou Barlow, The mars Volta, Mates of State, Mazzy Star, Miles Davis, Mineral, Mock Orange, Modest Mouse, Mohinder, Moneen, Moss Icon, The Music Tapes, Nellie McKay, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Drake, Owen, The Owls, Pavement, Pink Pocket Knives, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Peter Gabriel, The Pixies, The Police, Portastic, Prince, The Promise Ring, Q and not U, Race Car Riot, Ranier Maria, Regina Spektor, The Replacements, Rescue, Richard Buckner, Rites of Spring, Ryan Adams, Ryan Fergeuson, S, Samiam, The Sea and Cake, Seaweed, Sebadoh, Sigur Ros, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Soul Coughing, Stars, The Sugarcubes, Sunny Day Real Estate, Superdrag, Talking Heads, texas is the reason, Thelonious Monk, 'til Tuesday, Townes Van Zant, Van Halen, Van Morrison, The Velvet Teen, The Weakerthans, Ween, The Who, Wilco, Woody Guthrie, you and i

Movies:

Seven Samurai, Audrey Hepburn and Sophia Loren films, Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, Ben Hur, really any movie with Charlten Heston being a total prick, Cary Grant films (North by Northwest, His Girl Friday), Akira, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, La Dolce Vita, Paul Newman films (Hud, Slapshot, Cool Hand Luke, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Hustler), random Film Noirs: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Detour, Touch of Evil, Gilda etc., The Big Lebowski, Blade Runner, Trainspotting, Magnolia, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: a Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, Patton, The Man with No Name Trilogy, The Graduate, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Lost In Translation, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Squid and the Whale, The Deer Hunter, Life of Brian, Unforgiven, The Princess Bride, Stardust Memories, Casablanca, On The Waterfront, The Wild One, Godfather I, II, The Great Escape, Hell is For Heroes, Taxi Driver, The Last Waltz, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Thin Red Line, The Bridge on the River Kwai, In the Mood for Love, Leon, Beautiful Girls, Garden State, Roller Ball, Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, Seven, A River Runs Through It, Legends of the Fall, Seven Years in Tibet, Out of Sight, Solaris, Traffic, The Pawnbroker, Brubaker, Shawshank Redemption, Unforgiven, The Shipping News, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, A Very Long Engagement, Lawrence of Arabia, Four Feathers, plenty of John Ford movies, Sneakers, The Candidate, The Sting, A Bridge Too Far, The Natural, Downhill Racer, Winning, Good Will Hunting, Mall Rats, L.A. Story, Shop Girl, Sixteen Candles, Better Off Dead, Say Anything, City Hall, Grosse Pointe Blank, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Being John Malkovich, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Reality Bites, Dead Poets Society, Before Sunrise, Gattaca, Suburbia, Happy, Texas, The Cable Guy, Wonder Boys, She's the One, Ash Wednesday, Less than Zero, Spies Like Us, Swingers, The French Connection, Three Kings, Big Fish, Good Will Hunting, Drowning Mona, Smilla's Sense of Snow, etc. for now.

Television:

The West Wing, UCB, hours and hours of TCM, Fourty Deuce, certain seasons of the Simpsons, Kids in the Hall, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mr. Show, ER, Rescue Me, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Dinner for 5, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Frontline, The Colbert Report, Outlaw Star.

Books:

Things Fall Apart, Invisible Man, Big Sur, The Plague, The Stranger, On the Road, Dharma Bums, The Power and the Glory, Breakfast of Champions, The Platform and Heart Sutras, In Cold Blood, Breakfast At Tiffany's, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Green Hills of Africa, Franny and Zooey, Subterrraneans, Satori In Paris (yeah, I like Kerouac) etc. etc., I can't find all my books.

Heroes:

Jesus, Rey Mysterio, Jr., Rick Flair (Nature Boy), Casey Affleck, Michael Rapaport, Batman, The Human Torch, the inventor of sweat pants