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Martin

Cobalt Bottles and Shiny things too

About Me

Let see who am I? Always been a city boy. So all things city interest me. Eating out; Clubbing; Coffee houses and live music. But my biggest passion is food. Love going out to eat. Indian; Chinese; Mediterranean; Coffee Houses; Tapas; Sushi; Local Taco Stands(Still looking for a Martinbertos :-p), love them all. Local favorites:Royal Thai; Tea Station; Surfside; Bronx Pizza; too many to list. When in LA love El Pollo Inca; Lee's Sandwiches and Dim Sum. Definately my favorite pasttime.
Then there is traveling. Find it amazing how everyone accomplishes the same thing(eat, live, work, socialize, etc) differently. So much to learn from everyone. Culture, art, thoughts, way of life. Even within a city, people do things differently. So far been to Philadelphia(Philly Cheese Steaks), NYC(thin Crust pizza), Chicago(Gino's East), Florida(Cuban Coffee), SJ, Sacramento, Seattle(Seafood near Pike's Peak), Portland(Elephant Ears), Berkeley(Zachary's), SF, Phoenix(Food sux), and LV(All food). Love the food. If only I could get Elephant ears here. That is between the trips to LA.Internationally been to Mexico( of course) Tokyo, Seoul, Panama, Grenada, London, Finland, Vancouver, Bangkok and Hong Kong
In between it all, hang out with friends and family. Usually go with the flow and what the day brings you. Sounds cheezy but, life is amazing, as long as your eyes are open to see them. Recently the flow brought me: free tix to BEP; trips SF; Amazing restaurant that let me sign my name on the wall; Snowboarding in Tahoe; BDay party w/ food, alcohol, bounce house and best part... no one got sick :-). Amazing!!!
Also love movie, art, glass, woodworking and video games.

My Interests

Friends, Family, Snowboarding, Rollerblading, Food, Music, Travel, Kinetic Art, Clocks, Watches, Art, Movies, Cobalt bottles, Automatons, Psychology, Video Games, Interior Design

I'd like to meet:

Someone who can appreciate good food. Lots of food. Mmmmmmmm food. Someone funny, smart and fun to hang out with.

Music:

Techno; 80's; R&B; Hip Hop; House; Pop; Everything really.Ja Rule; Ashanti; Black Eye Peas; Destiny's Child; Eminem; Jay-Z; Nelly; Mya; Pink; Eve; Usher; TLC; T-Boz; Mary J Blidge;E-Type; Massive Attack; the Chemical Brothers; Orbital; DJ Tiesto; DJ Keoki; Linkin Park; Paul Oakenfold; Crystal Method; Fatboy Slim; Lucas; PVD; Timo Maas;Erasure; Depeche Mode; Beatles; OMD; Pet Shop Boys; New Order;No Doubt; Dido; Sherryl Crow; Nelly Frutado; Poe; Janet Jackson; Pizzicato Five;

Currently listening to: DJ Icey:Different Day ; MTV Mashups; Erasure:Other People's Songs

Movies:

Matrix, Infernal Affairs 1&3 (Wu jian dao), Blade Runner, Meet Joe Black, Drumline, Fifth Element, Spy Games, Enemy of the State, Lilo & Stich, Snatch, Lock stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Pulp Fiction, Dark City, Blade, Indiana Jones, Star Wars 4-6, ET, Goonies, Interview w/ a Vampire, City of Lost Children, Amadeus, Nightmare before Christmas, Kill Bill, Edward Scissor hands, Sleepy Hollow, Beetle Juice, Army of Darkness, Reservoir Dogs, Ghost in the Shell, Tenchi Muyo In Love, Akira,.. width="425" height="350" ..

Television:

24hr; Desparate Housewives; Friends; Frasier; Coupling; Trading Spaces; Dave Chapelle; Will & Grace; Transformers; Gundam W; Adult Swim; Family Guy; Angel; The New Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre (Yi tian tu long ji); Legend of the Condor Hero(She diao ying xiong zhuan"); (Sin tiauw hiaplu)

Books:

The Tipping Point; Blink; Davinci code; Seventh Son; authors: Roald Dahl, Orson Scott Card, John Grisham, Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

Heroes:

My Parents

My Blog

How Much is that Free?

Cleaning house and found a VOSS water bottle.  For those of you who don't know what it is, VOSS is bottled water from Norway.  But most people know it for the really nice bottle it comes in....
Posted by Martin on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:45:00 PST

Starbucks and Satan

Man there are a lot of starbucks.  Don't get me wrong.  I used to drink their coffee all the time.  Haven't in months. Yeah I know part of the ubiquitous army of people holding white cu...
Posted by Martin on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 09:48:00 PST

Martin M@rtin Mart1n

Read this page that talked about web addresses.  Turns out all two letter combinations are gone.  So if you want www.aa.com or www.za.com its taken.  Same is true with all three letter ...
Posted by Martin on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:16:00 PST