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About Me

Back home after a year in Europe. Here's the rundown

Europe 2005-2006:

Netherlands:
Amsterdam
Amersfort
Den Haag (the Hague)
Deventer
Groningen
Haarlem
Leiden
(My housing complex after a storm)
Maastricht
Rotterdam

(Erasmus bridge)
Utrecht

(view from the roof of our building)
Venray
Belguim:
Brussels
(EU headquaters)
Ieper
Diksmuide
Brugge
Antwerp
France:
Aras
Paris

Val Thorens
Verdun

(WWI cemetary)
Italy:
Florence

Pisa
Cinque Terre

(The Town of Vernazza, part of Cinque Terra
Switzerland:
Geneva
Montruex
Gryon
Interlakken
Lucerne
Bern
Zermatt
Lausane
Germany: Berlin
Koln (Cologne)
Dusseldorf
Munchen (Munich)
Austria:
Wien (Vienna
Hungary
Budapest:
Czech Republic:
Prague
Spain:
Madrid
Barcelona
Bilbao

San Sebastian
Granada (inside the El Alhambra Palace)
Portugal:
Porto
Lisbon
(Belem Tower with Ponte de 24 April [Golden Gate Bridge Clone])
Ireland:
Dublin
Great Brtian
Edinburgh
Manchester
London

My Interests

Kayaking

cycling

hiking

Snowboarding

smashing imperialism, volunteering, working for a better world, -SSP, good beer, getting the crap beat out of me at shows, making obscene gesutres at SUV drivers

I'd like to meet:

Travelers, beer drinkers, cyclists, hippies, communists, people with passions and opinions. Folks who don't mind me going on and on about Europe.

Music:

supermodelsuicide,the start, jason webely quitter, minus the bear, dredg, hella, mars volta, secreations, groovie ghoulies, helper monkeys, muse, !!!, cursive, bad religion, operation ivy, a perfect circle, jurrasic 5, radiohead, alkaline trio, le tigre, dredg, deftones, onelinedrawing, gratitude, q and not U, rufus wainright, screeching weasel, mynock, link 80, luckie strike, epoxies, Anti-flag, !!!, Broken Social Scene, The Album Leaf, flogging molly, cake, Ted Leo, lesdystics. basicly anything that is unique and doesn't suck

Movies:

anything showing at the crest or the tower. support your local independent movie house! City of God, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Fear and Loathing, Blade Runner, Shawshank Redemption, Boondock Saints, Bowling for Columbine, Clockwerk Orange, Clerks, Run Lola Run, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Motorcycle Diaries, I (heart) huckabees

Television:

PBS, Family Guy, (old) Simpsons, Daily Show

Books:

Tom Robbins, Chuck Palihuink, Douglas Adams, and anything radical/political

Heroes:

Eugene Debs, Oscar Romero, Che Guevara, Caeser Chavez, Dorthy Day, Herbert Marcuse, Gandhi

My Blog

Brown Rice and Bicycles

The title comes from this neat article, and is used derisively to refer to people who life a certain lifestyle. It seems to perfectly describe my current lifestyle, which I am quite happy with.Today w...
Posted by Kevin on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:58:00 PST

spain, italy, germany

after lisbon, it was granada,w hich was a freakign awesome city. a great little hostel on a hill, with a view of the Alhambra, one of the most beautiful buildings anywhere. We were also there fo...
Posted by Kevin on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:16:00 PST

cultural pornography

I promise a real update tomorrow, but I just had to share this.At a party yesterday, I ended up talking to a physics student from Munich, who is quite close to earning PhD, but thankfully did not want...
Posted by Kevin on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 05:14:00 PST

The great facial hair debate.

So for those of you who haven't seen me lately, I've been a bit lazy with my personal grooming. Before I do something drastic, I thouhgt I'd offer some options and solicit opinions. I was inspired by ...
Posted by Kevin on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 03:36:00 PST

The great war, 90 years later.

In Flanders feields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row& [J.M.] It wasnt the right season for poppies, but 90 years after the Great War, the crosses still stand. Neither words n...
Posted by Kevin on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:27:00 PST

Hey, let's cross the sea and get some culture.

Twelve hours after successfully completely my last final, I was on a bus to Paris. I didnt get a ton of sleep on the seven hour bus ride: It was not only the lack of leg-room, I was too excited. Pari...
Posted by Kevin on Thu, 03 Nov 2005 05:18:00 PST

weekend update (fun without snl)

Cinco de Mayo and St. Patricks Day are good excuses for Americans, no matter what their ethnic heritage, to get drunk. Id like to add another holiday, The Relief of Leiden So heres the story : th...
Posted by Kevin on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 02:09:00 PST

Two month round-up from the land of tulips, cheese, and windmills

"Always bring your sunglasses and umbrella" is common advice in guidebooks on the Netherlands. Often a beautiful, sunny day will turn rainy at the blink of an eye, but the maxim is great in a broade...
Posted by Kevin on Sun, 09 Oct 2005 03:54:00 PST

getting drunk, getting international.

Thanks to this crazy block system thing, finals are less than 4 weeks away, but for whatever reason, I have done almost all of my reading. Normaly, I do a fair amount, but I have never done this much...
Posted by Kevin on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:17:00 PST

classes and other fun stuff.

School is now in full swing and is going quite well. Well most other UC students are just starting classes, Im already entering my third week of classes. Heres the breakdown: Dutch Politics. The...
Posted by Kevin on Tue, 20 Sep 2005 04:40:00 PST