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About Me

My pirate name is: Mad Dog Rackham Part crazy, part mangy, all rabid, you're the pirate all the others fear might just snap soon. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr! Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.

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My Interests

Lindy hop. Video Games. Brain teasers. Anything that makes you physically and/or mentally exhausted. Gym. Jogging. Biking. Juggling. DDR. Guitar Hero.

I'd like to meet:

People who: love to dance, have something interesting to say, have something entertaining to say or will listen to my stupid stories/jokes.

Music:

I'm an old school fan of "alternative" music: The Cure, The Cult, Hoodoo Gurus, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Replacements, Stone Roses, Charlatains, Faith No More, The Church, Depeche Mode, etc.

I listen to a lot of house and trance when I'm programming, at the gym, or driving too fast in my car.

Movies:

I never realized just how many movies I've seen over the years until I joined Netflix. Since then, I've rated over 1200 of the movies that I can remember seeing. Here are a few of my favorites:
Classic: Casablanca, Cool Hand Luke, Dr. Strangelove, Harvey
Action: The Professional, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, The Crow
Anime: Ghost in the Shell, Princess Mononoke
Children/Family: Labyrinth, Goonies, Never Ending Story
Comedy: O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Singles, Better Off Dead, Real Genius, Clerks, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Drama: Apocalypse Now, Big Fish, Pump Up the Volume, Dead Poets Society, Shawshank Redemption, Searching for Bobby Fischer
Foreign: La Femme Nikita, Run Lola Run, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Amelie
Horror: 28 Days Later, Event Horizon, Lost Boys, The Prophecy, The Ring, The Seventh Sign, Event Horizon
Independent: Clerks, Donnie Darko, Trainspotting, Pi
Romance: Princess Bride, Say Anything, Pretty in Pink, High Fidelity, Shakespear in Love
Sci-Fi: Blade Runner, Highlander, Legend, E.T., Tron, Empire Strikes Back, The Matrix, Mad Max, Alien, Time Bandits, The Fifth Element, Return of the King
Thriller: Silence of the Lambs, Memento, The Usual Suspects, Seven, Sneakers

Television:

I haven't had cable in almost 4 years now, but I've Netfix'd a few great shows:

Dead Like Me, Firefly, Nip/Tuck, Family Guy, Simpsons, Robot Chicken

Books:

American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Arcadia - Tom Stoppard
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Snowcrash - Neal Stephenson

My Blog

I finally did it.

I love big cities. Always have. Even when I was a kid, I felt more at home in places like New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Houston than I did in Sulphur, LA (population 20K). I've lived in.... hold on whi...
Posted by Kirk on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:44:00 PST

Alimento De Los Muertos

So, apparently Dia De Los Muertos isn't just a festival to honor the dead. It's also a festival ripe with food to hasten the hardening of our arteries:This is a bacon-wrapped hot dog. I think the one ...
Posted by Kirk on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:06:00 PST

Sac Swing Jam

I just have to say that this past weekend was a complete blast! I've been to Lindy Hop weekend workshops and camps before, but this was the first one where I've felt totally comfortable with my dancin...
Posted by Kirk on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:53:00 PST

not again...

I was really looking forward to sharing lots of great stories about my trip home, but it's all ruined because the first thing I see is that the top is cut on my Miata and all the idiots got was a half...
Posted by Kirk on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:12:00 PST

7 songs

It's been requested from a certain traveling friend of mine that I post 7 songs that I'm "in to" right now:1. Unsung - HelmetThis is a Guitar Hero song that I loved in high school and is a blast to pl...
Posted by Kirk on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:07:00 PST

to all of my friends...

I just wanted to take a little time out today to thank all of my friends who have been there for me during the past couple of weeks. Sometimes it surprises me that I've made such good friends here in ...
Posted by Kirk on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:48:00 PST

Dancing is hard...

If you aren't a swing dancer, you probably won't understand what I'm talking about hereSo, I've gone out dancing three times here in Atlanta and it's been pretty frustrating.The first night, I did a b...
Posted by Kirk on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:19:00 PST

First Performance

Well, after more than a month of weekly classes and extra practice sessions, I finally had the opportunity to perform the Jam Session routine at the 9:20 Special last night. While it wasn't perfect, I...
Posted by Kirk on Sat, 13 May 2006 05:39:00 PST