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Booty Bandito

I don't wanna bore you with my trouble

About Me

I'm just me.
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Name: Nick
Birthday: 25 March 81
Birthplace: Upland
Current Location: Claremont
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Height: Five foot Five
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Mexican, Irish, French, Native American
The Shoes You Wore Today: Addidas
Your Weakness: Beauty
Your Fears: I've way too many to name
Your Perfect Pizza: I'm not sure
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: With one month left in the year I'm going to say write more.
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: I'm not sure
Thoughts First Waking Up: I need to get more sleep
Your Best Physical Feature: I haven't the foggiest idea
Your Bedtime: Around 2 AM
Your Most Missed Memory: Hanging out with my little sister when she was in high school
Pepsi or Coke: Pepsi
MacDonalds or Burger King: Burger King
Single or Group Dates: Either is fine
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Nestea
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: I'm not sure
Do you Smoke: A pipe when I'm reading
Do you Swear: Constantly
Do you Sing: poorly
Do you Shower Daily: Yes
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: I'm currently there
Do you want to get Married: Yes
Do you belive in yourself: In academic endevours yes, in anything else I'm not sure
Do you get Motion Sickness: No
Do you think you are Attractive: No
Are you a Health Freak: No
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: No
Do you play an Instrument: Yes
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes
In the past month have you Smoked: Yes
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No
In the past month have you gone on a Date: No
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: No
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: No
In the past month have you been on Stage: No
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No
Ever been Drunk: Way too many times
Ever been called a Tease: Nope
Ever been Beaten up: Not that I recall
Ever Shoplifted: When I was a child
How do you want to Die: peacefully
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: A writer and teacher
What country would you most like to Visit: right now Peru to see Macchu Pichu
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Brown
Favourite Hair Color: light brown
Short or Long Hair: long but short is good as well
Height: I don't really care
Weight: it depends on the person
Best Clothing Style: again it depends on the person
Number of Drugs I have taken: Legal tons illegal just one
Number of CDs I own: in the neighborhood of 6 or 7 hundred
Number of Piercings: None
Number of Tattoos: None
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Far too many
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My Interests

The DODGERS!!!!, The Meaning of Life, Beauty, Love, MOVIES, Reading, Passion, Politics, The News, seeing how close I can come to death without dying, BBQ, Meat, Philosophy, Art History, beautiful people and Virginie Ledoyen

I'd like to meet:

Cool Peeps

Music:

Clifford Brown, John Mclaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchastra, Allan Holldsworth, UK, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Danny Gatton, The Redneck Jazz explosion, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Weezer, Tupac, Biggie, Busta Rhymes, James Brown, Led Zepplin, Tony Bennett, Charles Trenet, Alain Suchion, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Ornette Coleman, Louis Armstrong, Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bjork, Rage Against the Machine, Buckethead, Dream Theater, Yes, Rush, Mahler, Leonard Bernstein, Stravinsky, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, John Cage, Rossini, Wagner, GERSHWIN, Debussey and many many more

Movies:

I LOVE movies by: Truffaut, Godard, Kurosawa, Welles, Donnen and Kelly, Scorsese, Passolini, Fassbinder, Hawks, Allen, Woo, Kar-Wai and tons others. I guess the easiest way to to list my top 20 movies of all time: (in no real order)Dazed and Confused Chungking Express Fallen Angels Singin In the Rain Salo Hiroshima Mon Amour Stolen Kisses 400 Blows Goodfellas Rashomon Citizen Kane Manhattan Breathless Bringin Up Baby Vertigo Fear Eats The Soul Raging Bull Last Year at Marienbad Rules of the Game Red Beard

Television:

I don't have TV. But on the few occasions I do watch TV it is usually Baseball.

Books:

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again-David Foster Wallace, Choke-Chuck Palahniuk, Plato's Symposium, Crito-Plato, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract-Bill James, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out-Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman-Richard Feynman, Cien Sonetos De Amor-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and A Song Of Despair-Pablo Neruda, The Little Prince-Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Unberable Lightness of Being-Milan Kundera, Cahiers Du Cinema 1950's Neo-Realism Hollywood New Wave-Bazin-Truffaut-Godard et al, One Hundred Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn-Betty Smith, Scorsese on Scorsese-Martin Scorsese, Poet In New York-Frederico Garcia Lorca, How To Read A Book-Mortimer J. Adler, Hegemony or Survival-Noam Chomsky, Crime and Punishment-Fydor Dostoyevsky and The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath...Those are the ones that come right off the top of my head

Heroes:

Richard Feynman, Akira Kurosawa, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Howard Hawks, Martin Scorsese, Socrates, John Coltrane, Fritz Lang, Andre Bazin, Albert Einstein, Carl Gauss, Issac Newton, Masaccio, Paul Cezanne, Jackson Pollock, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sandy Koufax, Bill James, Rob Neyer, My Mom, My Sister, Andres Cardenas, John Huang, Linus Torvaldes, Dorian Yates, Shawn Ray, Willem de Kooning, Edward Weston, Maya Lin, Robert Mapplethorpe, John Mclaughlin, Allan Holldsworth, Danny Gatton, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Branch Rickey, Noam Chomsky, Gabriel Garcia Marqez, Pablo Neruda and Martin Luther King Jr.

My Blog

Artists

I've noticed on this websites people who are "artists." And I've always been perplexed by why a person would slap that type of label on themselves. I mean what does it mean to be an artist and who get...
Posted by Booty Bandito on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:55:00 PST

Bergman

Bergman's dead. I guess he gets to find out about God's silence. 
Posted by Booty Bandito on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:51:00 PST

Antoine Doniel

"Antoine Doinel is still in love and because he's still in love, he's still alive."Francois Truffaut
Posted by Booty Bandito on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:32:00 PST

I thought it was funny.

I saw a poster today for a design class. It read: "Join the Design Revolution." I thought it would have been better as a political science poster that reads: "Design the Revolution." Well at least I f...
Posted by Booty Bandito on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:52:00 PST

Luck

I was watching the Ken Burns' Jazz series and a commentator was saying how people cannot imagine having lived before Mozart, because Mozart's music is so important to the Western tradition. And he was...
Posted by Booty Bandito on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:37:00 PST

The Joy of reading Big Willie Shakes

From Henry V"a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or rather the sun and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps his course truly. If thou would have such a one, take ...
Posted by Booty Bandito on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:47:00 PST

Would

Would Christians, if they had the chance, stop the death of Jesus? I mean if they would I can see having some sort of beef with Judas, but if not what are they (the Christians who hate jews) angry abo...
Posted by Booty Bandito on Mon, 28 May 2007 12:22:00 PST

Bible or books to live by

I think that as human beings we need books or something to live by. A code a phrase, whatever. And for many people they find this in religious books such as the Bible, Torah, Koran et cetra. But I was...
Posted by Booty Bandito on Wed, 23 May 2007 01:20:00 PST

Things that make life worth living

I 've done this before but I always think it's a good thing to think about what makes life woth living. And with that in mind I submit this list:My familyMy catsMy friendsStarsBeautiful poetryBeautifu...
Posted by Booty Bandito on Sun, 20 May 2007 03:34:00 PST

Kitty Kats and little Rats

I haven't the foggiest idea why I'm labeling this blog but I have to announce I just found a cool Spanish version of the song I will Survive :)
Posted by Booty Bandito on Wed, 16 May 2007 08:01:00 PST