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Richie

oh, that's just an optical illusion.

About Me

i'll let this internet quiz speak for me, since it seems to know me so well:
Your Birthdate: November 23
You're not good at any one thing, and that's the problem.
You're good at so much - you never know what to do.
Change is in your blood, and you don't stick to much for long.
You are destined for a life of travel and fun.

Your strength: Your likeability

Your weakness: You never feel satisfied

Your power color: Bright yellow

Your power symbol: Asterisk

Your power month: May What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

My Interests

weather, redundant arrays, optics, obsolescence, paper, proprietary connectors, akzidenz grotesk, carbonation

I'd like to meet:

redheads, UI designers, pack rats, nostalgics, canadians.

Music:

harmonia, will oldham, faust. joni mitchell, the books, the blood arm, electrelane, eno, can, neu, gbv, mbv, mob, ac newman, new pornographers, mother mallard, final fantasy, clinic, wire, self, stereolab, free design, breakin' soundtrack, dando shaft, fairport, steeleye, mccarthy, styx, ace of base, guillaume de machaut, laurie anderson, kate bush, tears for fears, adam ant, air, elo, entrance, gerry rafferty, cat power, amon duul ii, cat stevens, aphex twin, julee cruise, lee hazlewood, burma, roxy, simon and garfunkel, et al...

Movies:

playtime, mon oncle, aguirre, precautions against fanatics, alice in the cities, alabama 2000 light years, drei amerikanischen LPs, paris texas, nashville, pas de deux, ali fear eats the soul, lili marleen, cleo from 5 to 7, sans soleil, les bonnes femmes, red desert, l'avventura, soapdish, dog's dialogue, songdelay, vertical roll, soapdish, reality bites, lost in translation, magnolia, punch-drunk love, mary poppins, michel gondry's video for Let Forever Be

Television:

never heard of such a thing.

Books:

A Year of Magical Thinking, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, The White Album, Play It As It Lays, Salvador, Run River, Where I Was From, Book of Common Prayer, Straight to Hell, Moby-Dick, Postcards from the Edge, Naked Lunch, Project on the City Vol. 1 & 2, The Underminer

Heroes:

joan didion, kurt dahle, klaus dinger, jaki liebezeit, carl newman, charles and ray eames, shigeru ban, brian eno, buckminster fuller, e.b. white, bonnie cashin, corb, herzog, burroughs, terry riley

My Blog

This bird's done flown

That's right, my lovely readers. It's time to say goodbye to this particular media franchise. I'm afraid this scrappy little outlet was bought out by the massive Village Voice Group (alternative wee...
Posted by Richie on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:48:00 PST

THIS JUST IN

OFFICIALLY OVER: wire photos of Iraqis defiantly holding up the "Purple Voting Finger". You heard it here first, folks! Mission Accomplished!
Posted by Richie on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:24:00 PST

ah, my dear readers

Ah, My Dear Readers or She's A Grand Old Blog, She's A High-Flying Blog or, alternatively Where've You Been, Old Friend? or, additionally Oh, Right, You Mentioned That Already, Over IM Toda...
Posted by Richie on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:48:00 PST

notes on now, in progress

Ive never heard anyone from my generation speak, in earnest, of our generation. Coming after the ideologically charged Gen X hydra, it is actually unclear what defines a generation at all, excep...
Posted by Richie on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:49:00 PST

strawberry passion awareness

remember this?
Posted by Richie on Sun, 11 Sep 2005 03:51:00 PST

ford, der zorn gottes

From Wikipedia, today's entry reminds everyone to THINK BIG! Fordlândia ("Ford-land") was a vast tract of land purchased by automobile tycoon Henry Ford in the 1920s. Covering over 10,000 km² of ...
Posted by Richie on Sun, 11 Sep 2005 03:45:00 PST

Don't Be Fooled

So you're at the store and wandering the produce section, because you really should be eating more fruits and vegetables, and maybe the fiber would be good for your digestion, and maybe the vitamins w...
Posted by Richie on Tue, 06 Sep 2005 06:10:00 PST

don't forget chicago...

that plucky mac system font that brightened your menu bar with its charming, graceless asymmetrical weighting. remember chicago? with OS X, the Lucida Grande hegemony hit, in a big way. Gone were...
Posted by Richie on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:46:00 PST

this thing we hold onto

People in times of great anxiety form coping mechanisms, bulletproof and character-definining. A partial list (definitions courtesy of http://changingminds.org/explanations/behaviors/coping/copin g.ht...
Posted by Richie on Mon, 29 Aug 2005 03:55:00 PST

Spyglass

Blind Item! A certain Crafty Carpenter threw a real hissy-fit last night as hairdressers attempted to comb out his signature dread-locks for an upcoming engagement. The claws were out as the bedra...
Posted by Richie on Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:59:00 PST