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plHlq

So's yer face.

About Me

It is almost impossible to write anything here without coming off pretentious, so I am not going to try too hard. What's more, I am lazy. Please refer to my hastily-written list of interests for some insight into my personality. Also, I am from El Paso, TX, and if you know anything about that place, then you have a pretty good idea where I'm coming from. It's a love/hate relationship.

My Interests

Music, movies, cooking, skateboarding, technology, monkeys, astronomy, fitness, 01100111011001010110010101101011011001000110111101101101, urban development, linguistics, biking, bonsai, snowboarding, photography, unusual books, beer, martial arts, red or green, travel, dystopia, economics, cats...

This is my new photos section, cuz MySpace handles photos like crap:

Cheeky Monk, February 2008

New Year's 2008

Snakes on a Mo-Fockin' Plane

Halloween in Vail - 2007

Labor Day 2007 - Dave's Place

Denver - Rainy Happy Hour, July 27, 2007

Keystone Bluegrass & Beer, August 4, 2007

AZ Trip - May 2007

Steamboat Lake, Memorial Day 2007

Some embarrassing shit from about a year ago:

Jarrid's Big Send-Off, June 2006

I'd like to meet:

Ernest Hemingway, Bjork, Stephen Hawking, John Coltrane, Alan Turing, Mark Sandman, Terry Gilliam, Bruce Lee, W.A. Mozart, Neal Stephenson, Jane Jacobs, Lady Ada Lovelace, and of course other fascinating people I would actually have some chance of meeting.

Aussies love to make fun of outsiders who believe that every creature in Australia is dangerous. My friend Paul sent me this (cuz he thinks I am one of those people...):

Unaired Mythbusters segment - this is hysterical:

Not Dave's finest hour...

Music:

Desert Island Records
Dusk - The The
In Sides - Orbital
Ramones - Ramones
Pretty much the entire Sonic Youth catalogue
Cure for Pain, Like Swimming - Morphine
Tidal - Fiona Apple
Maxinquaye - Tricky
Dummy - Portishead
Kind of Blue - Miles
Mariachi Cobre - Mariachi Cobre
Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Meat is Murder - The Smiths
B52s - B52s
Wonders of the World - Long Beach Dub Allstars
Quartet in F-Minor - Dvorak
The Sun Years - Johnny Cash
Lush Life, Giant Steps, My Favorite Things, A Love Supreme, Crescent - Coltrane
Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
The Clash - The Clash
OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, HTtT - Radiohead
40 Oz. to Freedom - Sublime
Blue Light Red Light - Harry Connick, Jr.
Come on Pilgrim, Surfer Rosa, Doolittle - Pixies
Why Do Birds Sing? - Violent Femmes
Monsoon - Brent Berry & Honest Abe
The Inevitable - Squirrel Nut Zippers
Homogenic, Vespertine, Debut, Post - Bjork
Enter the 36 Chambers - Wu Tang Clan
29th Symphony - Mozart

Movies:

Too many favorites... Ferris Bueller's Day Off, City of God, Ghost Dog, Office Space, The Road to Wellville, Pulp Fiction, Friday, Run Lola Run, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Fifth Element, Dumb and Dumber, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Amores Perros, Donnie Darko, The Professional, Amadeus, Clerks, Better Off Dead, Amelie, Fight Club, Bartleby, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Enter the Dragon, Ghost in the Shell, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Mallrats, Raising Arizona, Dark Days, Sling Blade, The Shining, Garden State, Brazil, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, The Breakfast Club, A Clockwork Orange, Dancer in the Dark, Napoleon Dynamite, Batman, House of Flying Daggers, Heathers, Tombstone, Sin City, Fargo, Jackass, The Drunken Master, Groundhog Day, Chocolat, Kung Fu Hustle, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Metropolis, Life is Beautiful, Team America - World Police, 2001, The Straight Story, South Park, LA Confidential, Being John Malkovich, Edward Scissorhands, Training Day, O Brother Where Art Thou, Bugsy, Back to The Future, Swingers, Mulholland Drive, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, A Simple Plan, Kill Bill, 12 Monkeys, Christmas Vacation, Trainspotting, Dead Man, X-Men, American Beauty, Blazing Saddles, Happy Gilmore, Labyrinth, Gangs of New York, The Matrix, The Science of Sleep, The Shawshank Redemption, Alice In Wonderland, Sixteen Candles, Apocalypse Now, Un Chien Andalou, Happy Gilmore, The Chinese Connection, Contact, Dr. Strangelove, Ghost World, Mars Attacks!, The Man Who Wasn't There, Primer, Lords of Dogtown...

Television:

Scrubs, My So-Called Life, That 70s Show, Dave Chappelle, South Park, The Simpsons, Drawn Together, The Office - UK, Da Ali G Show...

Books:

Titles
The Sun Also Rises, Catch-22, Catcher in the Rye, The Diamond Age, Neuromancer, 1984, We, Brave New World, A Clockwork Orange, Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, All Tomorrow's Parties, The Hobbit, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Code Book, 2001, 2010, 2061, 3001, Candide, Solaris, Invisible Man, A Brief History of Time, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Time Machine, Fahrenheit 451, Contact, Night, The Road to Wellville, The Souls of Black Folk, Le Petit Prince, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...

Authors
Ernest Hemingway, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Jane Jacobs, Arthur C. Clarke, TC Boyle, Simon Singh, George Orwell, Ralph Ellison, Carl Sagan, Mark Twain, PK Dick...

My Blog

Please please please

Let me, let me, let me.... let me fucking sleep.
Posted by plHlq on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 03:58:00 PST

Timing

...One of my favorite things is when the song I am listening to in the car ends at precisely the moment I park and turn off the engine......
Posted by plHlq on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:30:00 PST

Brisk

This music is a day that looks warm but feels cold. It is a day in autumn when the sun is out but the air is chilled, the grass is still green, the thinning trees are changing their color, and faint ...
Posted by plHlq on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:03:00 PST

(The Worst) Toilet (In Denver) - Bring cash

Drawn like moth to flame by the hiss of cymbals, the wail of the saxophone, and the resonant slap of the bass, you pass through the low dingy doorway and are transported to another time and place.&nbs...
Posted by plHlq on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:47:00 PST

Travelogues to come.

Soon I hope to transcribe some of my fountain pen scrawls to the cold hard world of ascii text. Stay tuned, loyal reader.
Posted by plHlq on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 01:47:00 PST

Rope burn

Don't say it.
Posted by plHlq on Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:51:00 PST

Il faut qu'une porte soit ouverte ou fermée.

Some things really are black and white.
Posted by plHlq on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 08:03:00 PST

Highlands Rant, Vol. III

# # # Twelve-minute errand Inexplicably becomes An hour-long torture # # # ...
Posted by plHlq on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

It was the only way

Listen, we clearly cannot inhabit the same space and get along peacefully, so one of us has to go, and it won't be me if I can help it.  I know you think you have every right to be here, but this...
Posted by plHlq on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Highlands Rant, Vol. 2

. . . Countless minivans Meander down snake-like streets Heads up their asses . . . ...
Posted by plHlq on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST