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Toxic Shock!

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About Me

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Is it hard to take, does it feel so bad to be 28?
You were 23, you could do anything
Now you open your mouth and spit the gutter out.


how many joints are you on ?!?!?!
what synthesizer are you?
You are a MiniMoog-Everyone wants you-You are very popular-You have a vintage look and unique personality-You are loved by indie rockers the world over-You are a leader and always get the melody
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My Interests

music, astrology, writing, drinking, the occult, design, printing, mini moogs, words, preventative medicine, learning new things, adventure, human potential, finding uses for useless things, the unknown, art, science, philosophy, politics, futurists, sarcasm, psychology, strange and exciting mathematics, physics, spirituality, metals, computers, lighting, travel, noise, making up words, innovation, inventing recipies with natural foods, environmentalism, conspiracies, biting the hand that feeds, poetry, social issues, divination, symbolism, ulterior motives, ghosts from the past, building my own furniture, walking my cat, underacheiving, hangliding, self sufficiency, city planning, color, change, making new things out of old things, the "long now", changing my hair color, arguing, propaganda, the big picture, possibilities and abstract thinking.

I'd like to meet:

Nerds, adventurists, rockers, artists, people who will inspire me to get off my ass and do something interesting, people who are interesting, people who like to trade books and music, someone who'll teach me how to play this fucking accordian, john denver (so we can go hangliding together), people who've found the secret to keeping their lives balanced, people organizing for change, people with realistic ideas about the state of the world, people who enjoy discussing astrology, divination, how the mind works, music or art and anyone bored enough to talk to me.

Music:

In random order: Gang Of Four, Blue Oyster Cult, The Velvet Underground, The Cramps, Mclusky, Jawbreaker, EARLY Ultravox, AC/DC, Tomorrow, Bob Dylan, Supertramp, Built To Spill, Propagandhi, Shriekback, Otis Redding, Luc Van Acker, The Lost Sound, The The, Nurse With Wound, Lifter Puller, The Guess Who, The Coachwhips, Skinny Puppy, Gong, Holly Golightly, Drive Like Jehu, Fugazi, The Damned, The Epoxies, Kate Bush, Brian Eno, Archers Of Loaf, Patti Smith, The Bush Tetras, The Kinks, Sonic Youth, Lloyd Cole, Turbo Negro, Cabaret Voltaire, The Neutral Milk Hotel, Stiff Little Fingers, At The Drive In, Sebadoh, Kraftwerk, The Black Keys, The Fall, Killing Joke, The Exploding Hearts, Roy Orbison, Cop Shoot Cop, The Animals, Can, Fluke, The Ex Models, Television, Mothman, The Swell Maps, Fred Neil, KRS-One, Front 242, The Stranglers, Mark Stuart, Bloodbrothers, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Polvo, Soundgarden, Neil Diamond, NoMeansNo, LCD Soundsystem, Pavement, Wire, Einsturzende Neubaten, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Guided By Voices, Psychic TV, The Minutemen, The Dwarves, Josef K, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Public Enemy, British Sea Power, The Icarus Line, The Misfits, X, Woody Guthrie, Magazine, Peter Hope, Underworld, The Pixies, Bauhaus, The Stooges, The Liars, The Greenhornes, Per Ubu, The Icky Boyfriends, Les Savy Fav, The Spits, I could go on forever, but I'll stop for now...Man I need to update this but the doctors say I'm lazy...

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Dark Passage, Don't Look Back, Stranger Than Paradise ("T.V. - that's television" "I know what T.V. is"), Pee Wee's Big Adverture, I Heart Huckabee's, Rushmore, Momento, that awesome MC5 documentary.

Television:

I've decided that tv's poisoning me again...They should put a section on here for your favorite websites...That's how I get my alphas... What's my favorite new web tv thing? ROCK COURT!

Books:

The Crying Of Lot 49, Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World, A Confederacy Of Dunces, Chaos!, Dante's Inferno, Furniture You Can Build, Race Matters, Your Own Worst Enemy, Crossing the Rubicon, Physics For Poets, Anima Mundi, anything by Liz Greene or Robert Hand, In Persuasion Nation.

My Blog

Trick-or-treating for Psychocandy

I saw the Jesus and Mary Chain last night. They were much better than I expected them to be, in fact it might have been the best performance of theirs that I've seen. Last time I saw them was on the S...
Posted by Toxic Shock! on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:01:00 PST

Other People’s Parents

After all these years I finally met my best friend's parents. They're awesome. They're visiting from Detroit. They seem to be enjoying the arty chaos of our lives, which, in turn, we are getting a kic...
Posted by Toxic Shock! on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:32:00 PST

I-80 song in progress

I've decided to start writing songs in my head on the way to work in the morning when my brain's all fucked up. Here's the beginning of what I hope to evolve into something better...Had some mighty st...
Posted by Toxic Shock! on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:59:00 PST

Ouch! I’m injured! (PICNIC OF DEATH!)

This morning I was cutting Avocados with a rediculasly dull knife (I don't know why I capitalized avocado, but I'm going to leave it like that, I like it). I cut my hand up really badly. I have no ins...
Posted by Toxic Shock! on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:01:00 PST

Picture of my tattoo

Thanks Anthony!http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthonysanfrancisco/147 0146096/(the link is right above this line, it might be difficult to see)...
Posted by Toxic Shock! on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:35:00 PST

Evidence of progress surrounds my day

Wow, what a busy weekend. I'm tired. But today was so productive. And so  beautiful! There was only one errand I needed to run that I didn't get to. Maybe in the morning before work...This m...
Posted by Toxic Shock! on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:10:00 PST

How I Retrieved My Car From The Depths Of Ambiguity

1. I went to the SFGOV website to the "pay your parking tickets online" area.http://services.sfgov.org/dptpark/ (oddly enough, I did not see a link to this on the DPT site, and found it using a Google...
Posted by Toxic Shock! on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:11:00 PST

Gaft Tape and Toilet Paper

Note: this was written this morning prior to finding my car. I will try to blog about that adventure tomorrow. In the meanwhile, check out my friends at the Rickshaw tomorrow night. I had hoped that a...
Posted by Toxic Shock! on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:58:00 PST

An array of summer salads to keep my fears at bay

I took the day off work to look for my car. I guess that was stupid because I didn't find it. Where that leaves my job across the bay or my island of modern amenities, I don't know. I guess it's back ...
Posted by Toxic Shock! on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:04:00 PST

Aloha Eno Indeed

So, my car got stolen.On the one hand, it's easy come easy go.On the other hand, I've already built my life around this, I can not afford to replace it or repair it, and thus will have to let all that...
Posted by Toxic Shock! on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:16:00 PST