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shane

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

yep, still here.

My Interests

too many.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

jesu, neurot recordings, young god records, skinny puppy, southern lord records, merzbow, jarboe, sleepytime gorilla museum, the end records, boris, hands records!

Movies:

BRICK, renaissance, begotten, suspect zero, the grifters, the element of crime, maltese falcon (duh!), 1984, citizen kane, a scanner darkly.

Television:

buffy/angel, twin peaks, dead like me.

Books:

last good book(s) i read: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand (highly recommended by moi); Valis, by P.K. Dick; The Coming Plague, by Laurie Garrett last good comic i read: The Walking Dead, by Robert Kirkman last good poetry i read: Time Capsule, by Pat Lowther; Viper Rum, by Mary Karr

Heroes:

ayn rand, charles bukowski, justin broadrick, alfred hitchcock, lance armstrong, MLWTTKK!!!

My Blog

strong silent type

after too many days of hard sunlight and heavy wet heat, finally, a soft grey whispering day. i am in my room today, 2 incandescent lamps glowing here and there. resting. reading. joyce carol oates' ...
Posted by shane on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:08:00 PST

catching up

big changes in the works. soon i'll be returning to the grand halls of academia, where i intend to earn a couple of degrees and get out with my intellect intact. i read ayn rand's Atlas Shrugged this...
Posted by shane on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:17:00 PST

hedonism 101

for those of you too young to remember this album, "confessions of a knife" is a classic classic classic cd from my life with the thrill kill kult. everyone should hear it at least once. and then once...
Posted by shane on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:15:00 PST

do i know you?

i don't know who reads this blog and generally i don't care - if i did it wouldn't be public - however, given recent circumstances, i feel that it's necessary to clarify something: if i knew you ...
Posted by shane on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:25:00 PST

should old acquaintance be forgot?

so someone out of my distant, largely forgotten past has expressed an interest in catching up again and it's my choice whether or not to open that door, but i can't decide what i want to do about it. ...
Posted by shane on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:19:00 PST

YESSS!!! FTF in Barrie!

it's a good thing i check tour dates for my favorite bands periodically: Fuck the Facts will be playing barrie on JUNE 13. write it down on your calendars, folks. extreme metal fans - don't...
Posted by shane on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:48:00 PST

doom with a view

(wow, i never noticed before that there's no books category for blogging here. that sucks.) i just finished reading connie willis' "the doomsday book" again. what a great story! i'm sure there are alr...
Posted by shane on Mon, 28 May 2007 06:23:00 PST

i missed the lynch mob?!?

dammit. david lynch's new movie, inland empire, screened in toronto AND I MISSED IT!!! the world can end now. please. (it was here three weeks ago! i'd been checking the website period...
Posted by shane on Fri, 25 May 2007 07:38:00 PST

25 years

since i won't be present for Not_digital's show at Artcite (25th anniversary) tomorrow night, it seems appropriate that i listen to gary numan's "the pleasure principle" instead: it's been a...
Posted by shane on Thu, 24 May 2007 02:35:00 PST

guns and sunshine

just a couple of things: i have the day off so i've been tinkering with my bike. its a cheap ($100), old mountain bike that has seen more kilometres than any mechanical device of its ilk should e...
Posted by shane on Thu, 24 May 2007 10:40:00 PST