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About Me

"They're very nice and kind," answered Pipkin, "but I'll tell you how they strike me. They all seem terribly sad. I can't think why, when they're so big and strong and have this beautiful warren. But they put me in mind of trees in November."
-from Watership Down, by Richard Adams

Two-Thousand-and-Seven is going to be a good year for me. My horoscope said so, and I don't mess with the stars.

My Interests

Atlantis (the song by Donovan, and the legendary lost land)
Heaven's Gate
Schadenfreude
Detective and murder shows
Bad, old sitcoms
Cult films
German Mysticism in WWII
Wikipedia
Vermont
New York
Stargazing and cemeteries
Screenwriting
Theater of the absurd
Reminiscing
Autumn
French onion soup
Pangea-Ultima
Fucking
Laughing
Loving

I'd like to meet:

People who stimulate me, creatively.
People who really never get offended at offensive humor.
People who sometimes just want to have pretzels and hot apple cider, and othertimes, just want to go dancing.
B-horror movie addicts
The type of people who could watch a Wes Anderson movie over and over.
Guys who are a little rough around the edges, but are still good guys...
Guys who don't fit a stereotype.
Aesthetes.
Loners.

Music:

Cat Stevens
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan
Johnny Cash
Nick Drake
Phantom Planet
Bjork
The Cure
Le Tigre
The Beach Boys
Boston
The Vanity Police
Dangerous Muse
Judy Collins
Peter, Paul and Mary
The Shins
Ace of Base
Men at Work
Beck
Blondie
old Britney
CSN&Y
Daft Punk
David Bowie
Scissor Sisters
A.C. Newman
Spoon
Hot Chip
Good covers of good songs

Movies:

The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Harold and Maude
Rosemary's Baby
The Shining
Lord of the Rings
Silence of the Lambs
Rebel Without A Cause
East of Eden
Star Wars
The Graduate
Kill Bill vol. I (but moreso II)
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
Taxi Driver
American Psycho
Being There
Dr. Strangelove
E.T.
Annie Hall
Big Fish
Showgirls
I'm a film addict.

Television:

Twin Peaks
LOST
Seinfeld
Columbo
Simpsons
The Office (British version)
Alias
Father Ted
24
Faulty Towers
SNL (sometimes)
The O.C.
The 4400
Family Guy
Desperate Housewives
Reno 911
Full House and/or Step by Step
The Kids in the Hall
Mr. Show with Bob and David
Monty Python
Prisonbreak
Extras
Golden Girls
Cold Case Files
Murder She Wrote
Dallas
The Cosby Show
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman

Books:

A Prayer for Owen Meany
The Sun Also Rises
Franny and Zooey
Tolkien (including but not limited to The Lord of the Rings)
Narnia
A Clockwork Orange
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Great Gatsby
To The Lighthouse
The Divine Comedy
The Odyssey but not the Illiad
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub
The Hungry Caterpillar
Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?
Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret
Bad Twin
The Wasteland
The Masque of the Red Death
Frankenstein
The Cider House Rules
Graendal
Watership Down
The Adventures of Tintin
The Stand

Heroes:

James Dean
John Lennon
John Irving
Cat Stevens
Wes Anderson
Orson Welles

My Blog

Adios, dudes

So I'm gonna go ahead and say this is my last entry here, ever. I guess I just have other things to be doing with my time these days.It's been swell, folks.
Posted by AJ on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:44:00 PST

Random Music Stuff

Ten Different, Entirely Random Music Things I Like:10. I've pretty much been over Guster for a long time, but there's this harmonica solo 1:55 into "Backyard" from the album Keep It Together, and for ...
Posted by AJ on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:19:00 PST

If ever I were to have a crush on a girl...

It would be Sherilyn Fenn.
Posted by AJ on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:13:00 PST

This post is (almost) all about Lost

Surprised that I haven't talked about the Lost finale yet? Yeah, me too. There are a couple reasons why. One, I left the day after it aired for a weekend in Rochester, and I've just been b...
Posted by AJ on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:11:00 PST

Something Disturbing

I'd completely forgotten about this until a moment ago, but yesterday I was walking along 14th St. by 2nd Ave. - near Nathan's Hot Dogs (at least that's what I think it was), and there was an Asian ma...
Posted by AJ on Wed, 16 May 2007 11:28:00 PST

Sigh

I'm tired of being single.Not that I would force a relationship just to be in one.But it would be nice to fall in love, just once.That's all.
Posted by AJ on Tue, 15 May 2007 08:01:00 PST

[Insert Subject Here]

I had a dream last night that I was on a rickety boat with Michael, from Lost, and he was looking all scruffy, and we were part of a Dharma Initiative attempt to rescue all the survivors. Lost has rea...
Posted by AJ on Thu, 10 May 2007 01:30:00 PST

First, a Dream, then Five Thoughts

I had this dream last night where I was driving in a taxi through the streets of Manhattan with my head out the window, yelling at things, only suddenly the streets of Manhattan turned into a for...
Posted by AJ on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:44:00 PST

Nothing's Gonna Change My World

words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither while they pass, they slip across the universe. pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind, posessing ...
Posted by AJ on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:17:00 PST

Lost, Taxes, Zombies, Dreams, Bad Album covers (now, with pictures!)

Big episode last night, on Lost. Here's what we learned:1. The Others can't give birth - the mothers all die during the pregnancy.2. Claire's kidnapping didn't go as expected. When she was...
Posted by AJ on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:02:00 PST