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Ian

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About Me

I know a lot more about lights then most people should. Also, I tend to ramble.

My Interests

Art mainly, theater within that, Justine, peace in our time, large bodies of water, my friends and family, long drives on the coast, excelling, banter, good coffee, cooking, good wine, combinations of things on this list, swimming, yoga, cats, dogs, fashion, crafts, New England, travel, trying to learn another language, working hard, good beer, Theory, naps, fuel efficiency, science, Synchronicity, architecture, ancient cultures, evolution, astronomy, philosophy, physics, film, paint, design, books, household appliances, writing, and so on.

I'd like to meet:

I consider the title of this section a declarative statement. I would like to meet. Where should we meet? Wanna get coffee? We could catch up and see what we've each been doing since the last time we spoke.

Music:

Oingo Boingo, David Byrne, Bjork, Debussy, The Art of Noise, The tin hat trio, Clare Fader, Medeski Martin and Wood, Kings of Convenience, Finley Quaye, Talking Heads, Ben Folds Five, Atmosphere, Moloko, Brazilian Girls, Danny Elfman, Philip Glass, Cyro Baptista, Four Tet, Lou Reed, The Strokes, The Pixies, ELO, Giberto Gil, Seu Jorge, David Bowie, Soul Coughing, M. Doughty, The Damned, Ozomatli, J5, Mr. Lif, RJD2, Self, Depech Mode, KMFDM, Basement Jaxx, Chemical Brothers, Jassanova, Mr. Scruff, Stone Temple Pilots, Sound Garden, Ibraham Ferrer, Ry Cooder, Dick Dale, Royksopp, Marumari, Adam Freeland, Julian Coryell, Rufus Wainwright, Johnny Cash, Curtis Mayfild, Stevie Wonder, Jamiroquai, Gorillaz, and others.

Movies:

True Stories, The Quiet Earth, Mindwalk, Brazil, The Price of Milk, Secretary, Reality Bites, the Qasti Trilogy, Waking Life, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, When Harry Met Sally, Annie Hall, Casablanca, The BIg Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, My Favorite Year, Wet Hot American Summer, The Conversation, What the Bleep do we know, the collected works of Burton, Juenet, Gilliam, Jan Svankmejer.

Television:

I don't have television. I own a television. But I don't like commercials and find a lot of television painful to watch. When I download, rent, buy or netflix a television series they have been: LOST, Six Feet Under, Mr. Show, The State, Stella, Kids in the Hall, Early SNL or Early 90s SNL, Arrested Developement, The West Wing, Alias, My Name is Earl.

Books:

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Mcluhan), Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon), The End of the World News (Burgess), Einstein's Drems (Lightman), City of Quartz (Mike Davis), Dragons of Eden (Sagan), Hitchhiker's Guide (Adams)... miscellaneous theory ... zizek, foucault, Horkheimer and Adorno et al, books of illustration like Gorey and Addams.

Heroes:

Marshall Mcluhan, Keith Haring, the Eames, Andy Warhol, Arnold Aronson, Matthew Barney, Tim Burton, Danny Elfman, Spalding Gray, My Parents, Robert Rauschenburg, Ed Kienholz, Joseph Cornell, The Rigdons, Michael W. Dean

My Blog

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Posted by Ian on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:37:00 PST