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Chipmonkey

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm more interested in Classic Rocky than Classic Rock.
My favorite animal is the fox.

I like laughing more than almost anything else. And if my stomach hurts after, I know it was true.

My Interests

sleeping reading musicing eating dancing movieing laughing distracting toasting stumbling showering listening talking whispering tasting immersing walking riding driving hiking roxying slumberpartying suzanneing cookshowing televisioning handstanding...

I'd like to meet:

Honesty

Music:

*WHAT I'M PLAYING OUT FOR MYSELF THIS WEEK: Hot Chip - Wrestling (some artists) JRG, Everest*, Star Hill Academy, Elliott Smith, Bat For Lashes, Magnetic Fields, Devendra Banhart, Laura Jansen, Aretha Franklin, Buddy Holly, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Eels, Irving, Morphine, Magnet, Jeff Tweedy, Jeff Buckley, Wilco, The Libertines, Razorlight, Grandaddy, Earlimart, Audrye Sessions, The Flaming Lips, Elbow, The Gossip, Dylan, Springsteen, Supergrass, Bright Eyes, Weezer, Spoon, IZ, Queen, Aerosmith, GNR, JBJ - you, yeah you, you know what I'm talkin' bout. (Plus there are too many to name!)

(some songs) Bullet and a Target, Sunbeam Smile, The Book Of Right-on, Picky Bastard, Brighter Than Sunshine, Fall Fall Fall, Stumble and Fall, Crazy (the PC one) In Spite of Me, The Theme From Blinking Lights, Poison Letter, Radio Cures, Broke the Furniture, Now It's On, Pearl, First Day of My Life, Last Goodbye, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Do You Believe in Rapture?, Or.

Movies:

Recently:I really need to go to the movies.

Always:The Jerk, Raising Arizona, A Thin Red Line, Stand By Me, American Psycho, Bottle Rocket, The Big Lebowski. Pretty much all low-brow commedies, in fact, I like most of the movies I see. It would be easier to name ones I don't like!

Television:

Dexter. If you haven't, do it.
Why didn't ANYONE tell me about this show... Lost?

Books:

Currently:
National Geographic's World Almanac
Recently:
History's Greatest Untold Stories: Joseph Cummings
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
"The Book of Lost Things" John Connolly
"Jesus Land" Julia Scheeres
"The Kite Runner" Khaled Hosseini
"A Man Without a Country" Kurt Vonnegut
"The Sunflower" Simon Wiesenthal
"Slaughterhouse Five" Kurt Vonnegut
"The Magic Bottle" Camille Rose Garcia and Monte Beauchamp
The Agony and the Ecstasy (no it's not a smutty romance novel it's about Michelangelo
"Magical Thinking" Augusten Burroughs
"The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant
"Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
"The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
"The Devil Wears Prada" by Lauren Weisberger
"Blindness" by Jose Saramago
"Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk
"Beasts of No Nation" by Uzodinma Iweala
And Always:
"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
and may I proudly present an addition... "A Man Without a Country" Kurt Vonnegut

Heroes:

Heidi and Joel. The two most creatively motivated people I know.
My Pops and Moms... They are rad. They can still hit the slopes and sing a tune. They have fun. They are fun. They are smart. They are awesome.

My Blog

Hooray For Friends!

The Antarcticans new album (INHUMANCENTRIC) listening party & video premier for "The Ghost of The Trees and The Erase of Man" 5/2/08 Laemmle Playhouse Seven Pasadena   Last Friday I made the...
Posted by Chipmonkey on Fri, 09 May 2008 05:45:00 PST

It had to happen eventually....

Sly and the Family Stone House of Blues, Sunset 4/26/08 Braving the Sunset strip is never an easy task.  I avoid it as much as I possibly can.  But when I was presented with the last minute ...
Posted by Chipmonkey on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:38:00 PST

Please mister postman look and see, If theres a letter, a letter for me

4/21/08 Johnathan Rice @ Spaceland (April Residency: Week 3)   Dear Johnathan Rice,   It has come to my attention, after bearing witness to last night's show, that the girls of Los Angeles l...
Posted by Chipmonkey on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:33:00 PST

I thought Id blown it. (But trust me, this story has a happy ending)

On Sunday night I noticed that Johnathan Rice was going to be playing the very next night at Spaceland.  He is doing the April (free Monday nights) residency, but I suddenly found myself fixated ...
Posted by Chipmonkey on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:18:00 PST

Youve Got the Only Key To My Heart...

4/1/08 The Black Keys w/ Jay Reatard @ The Wiltern   Let me start by saying, I’m learning more and more that it really pays off to get to a show on the early side. I used to roll in just ...
Posted by Chipmonkey on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:30:00 PST

My cheeks hurt from smiling!

And I bet everyone else’s do to! "The best show I’ve been to in a REALLY long time." -Suzanne of the Sunshine Delicious Weekly I have never been to a concert where everyone looked so happ...
Posted by Chipmonkey on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:57:00 PST

You better run for your life if you can, little girl...

The day started off off with a dream. A dream before waking. To help rationalize not getting out of my cozy bed, my subconscious decided to play games and tricks on me. Fooling me into hitting the sle...
Posted by Chipmonkey on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:42:00 PST

And when you smile...

...those sad eyes, look sadder and sadder still.   Bat (sigh) For (sigh) Lashes (sigh) Spaceland July 31, 2007   If I were going to have a crush on a girl& Who am I kidding?  I have a b...
Posted by Chipmonkey on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:25:00 PST

No, MY mathematical mind&

And it says it's 500 degrees in here, but I'm still gonna dance (at least a little bit).   This was the week of Spoon.  My first and second live shows taken in during 48 hours.  T...
Posted by Chipmonkey on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:36:00 PST

I will hang my head, hang my head low.

But that's only from the weight of my bear helmet. Another doozey of a weekend that was just supposed to be a dooze.  After missing the bus to the happiness of bonfires and music and getting l...
Posted by Chipmonkey on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:19:00 PST