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Mark

You can be scars or you can be eggshells...

About Me

I'm a musician. I play bass for two bands, Modern and Radio Reset. This is the only marketable skill I have and it tends to define me. This isn't just what I do, it's what I am. And sometimes I write...

My Interests

Music, Fender Basses, Ampeg Amplification, Writing, Movies, History, Cooking...

I'd like to meet:

Myself, Roughly Fifteen Years Ago...

Music:

Radio Reset, Modern, Luna Halo, The Drama, Placebo, Angels and Airwaves, Magnet, Lovedrug, Rock Kills Kid, Auto Vaughn, Dashboard Confessional, (+44), The Working Title, Grey Market, Taking Back Sunday, Dust and Blood, VCR, Finch, The Clash, Third Eye Blind, The Blood Brothers, Operation Ivy, Radiohead, Fall Out Boy, Acceptance, Hum, Morrissey, Oasis, Chevelle, Imogen Heap, Fountains Of Wayne, Bright Eyes, Cartel, Armor for Sleep, Box Car Racer, Ryan Adams, Green Day, Alkaline Trio, Anberlin, Heavens, The Bouncing Souls, Blink 182, Switchfoot, Deftones, Need To Breathe, Kelly Clarkson, Motion City Soundtrack, Paul Simon, 80HD, Dredg, The Starting Line, Matchbook Romance, The Postal Service, Snow Patrol, Muse, Butch Walker, Stabbing Westward, The Cure, 30 Seconds To Mars, Rancid, Foo Fighters, Clear Static, Shiny Toy Guns, Journey, Phantom Planet, Brand New, The Beatles, The Used, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Smashing Pumpkins, Copeland, Keane, Hank Williams Sr, AC/DC, Rage Against the Machine, Ben Folds, Rush, Mae, Tears for Fears, Midtown, U2, Andrew W K, Jack's Mannequin, Sugarcult, Head Automatica, One Man Army, Lit, Rooney, The Wallflowers, Nine Inch Nails, The Zombies, Marvelous 3, Panic! at the Disco, Goldfrapp, Coldplay, All-American Rejects, Stu Hamm, Pinhead Gunpowder, Boston, Mercury Program, Simon and Garfunkel, The Get Up Kids, Asobi Seksu, Marilyn Manson, Stiletto, The List Goes On (In No Particular Order)...

Movies:

American Beauty, Usual Suspects, American Werewolf in London, Big Fish, Brick, Apocalypto, What Dreams May Come, Team America, The Professional, La Femme Nikita, Unleashed, Amelie, Princess Mononoke, Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell:Innocence, Blade Runner, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Spartan, Snatch, Mean Machine, Ronin, Jackass, Magnolia, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of The Jedi, Revenge of the Sith, The Machinist, The Sandlot, The Seven Samurai, American Psycho, Spun, Macross, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Willow, The Notebook, Neverending Story, Old Yeller, Stand by Me, The Goonies, Sleeping Beauty, Death of a Salesman, The Fifth Element, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Othello, 8mm, Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the King, Appleseed, The Devil's Rejects, Jumanji, Schindler's List, Man On Fire, Sin City, True Romance, Reservoir Dogs, Anchorman, The Ref, The Way of The Gun, About Schmidt, The Weather Man, You Can't Seriously Expect Me To List Them All

Television:

Lost, Venture Brothers

Books:

Letters From The Earth, The Screwtape Letters, The Hobbit, Rainbow Six, Another Fine Myth, Cycle of the Werewolf, DMG and PHB 3.5

Heroes:

My Dad, Matt Erickson, Darrell Elser, Jake Flanders, The Drama, Robert Alderman, John Moses Browning, Jaco Pastorius, Audie Murphy, Tony Viera, Harry Blackledge, Leo Fender, Adam Clayton, Bakiti Kumalo

My Blog

Sorry. My metaphor is hanging out again...

The train stops. With a hiss, the doors part and I'm glued to the window. The rumble in my feet reminds me to choose quickly. And wisely. Here or there. Here or there. Probability begs me to...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:50:00 PST

From The Balcony...

If I'm not the same, then why do I need the parachute? The masonry is chipping and I've been less than diligent with repairs. Maybe I quietly want thin walls and open windows. I should attend to the a...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:38:00 PST

"Further to fly"...

I mustn't get too far ahead of myself with analysis and debate over pages yet to be inked. Not while so much is still left unknown. Too often, I search for the question to an answer. Keep your he...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:34:00 PST

The Great Crusade...

The bags under my eyes are packed and something is missing. The exhale will be as sweet as the plunge. I could get used to the click and flash. The thunder at my back and beneath my feet. The velvet r...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:17:00 PST

"There is no try"...

The moment is nearly upon us. The test. The culmination. I'm quoting Dwight Eisenhower in my head and finding little serenity. Perhaps, I should be quoting Yoda instead. Or maybe Magnet."I'm gonna do ...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:50:00 PST

Perspicuus quod tritum...

Like judging a book through its cover. Opacity was never my strong suit. I'm predictable.
Posted by Mark on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:13:00 PST

the brick sale is postponed...

This is precisely why it pays to mind Ockham. No assumptions and nothing is granted. Lest we be thrice shy.
Posted by Mark on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:17:00 PST

On an unrelated matter...

A vote is not a fashion statement...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:17:00 PST

Masochism...

This isn't Cheers. This is all smoke and high frequency. Cramped bathrooms wrapped in drunken graffiti. A beer-soaked floor painted a sickening orange and red by cheap can lighting.&nbs...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:51:00 PST

the middle children...

Please don't think us bitter. We are not blind or ungrateful. We are simply the shaken. The insatiable skeptics. We insist on reciepts and signatures for divine promises. We are quite u...
Posted by Mark on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:57:00 PST