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.\\hard//.

Turning pages like Johnny-5

About Me

I am a whiffle ball master. I love to get tropical. Horizontal is my favorite plane. Sunday will always be a holiday from September to the first weekend in February. I firmly believe that San Fran needs to get its shit together and get a great Texas BBQ and a TexMex spot. WTF, we can have hundreds of Chinese Donut shops and not one fucking TexMex spot? Do donuts really have to be categorized by nationality? If so, doesn't that seem a little racist?When the Eagles and Cowboys play each other, I just wish the stadium would blow up. I specialize in rooftop decks.

My Interests

"No Matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day." -Chuck Palahnuik- With that in mind....Laugh as much as possible

I'd like to meet:

...A ton of drummers most people never heard of....Someone with a film crew and an oversized check on my door step...Thom Yorke, Barack Obama, Art Monk, Cal Ripken, Page McConnell, Greg Mortenson, Tony Kornheiser, I would love to sit down and have a case of beer with all the members of Broken Social Scene. And MOST importantly, I absolutely love meeting my friends that reside in far away places!!!

Music:

Yes please....If I was a homeless person, and music was change, I would live on Market Street.

Television:

first and foremost, The Wire, Dexter, Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia, WonderShowZen, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, 6 Feet Under, PTI, Around The Horn, SportsCenter, Flight Of The Concords, The Sopranos (seasons 1-4, and the last season), John From Cincinnati, Oz

Books:

A People's History of The United States. Freakonomics, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, A Brave New World, The Mastery of Love, The Power of Now, A New Earth, Shaman Healer Sage, 3 Cups Of Tea . Everything by David Sedaris, Chuck Palahnuik, Brett Easton Ellis, Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn

Heroes:

Thomas Joseph Sheridan. Harry Edwards. The Lost Boys of the Sudan. Darfur refugees. Martin Luther King Jr. Gandhi. Sean Taylor. Christopher Paul McCandless. Fela Kuti. Art Monk. Greg Mortensen. Thom Yorke. Miles Davis. John Coltrane. Jaco Pastorius.

My Blog

Best of Summer ’08

1. My Morning Jacket @ Greek Theatre 9/192. NIN @ Oracle Arena 9/53. Radiohead @ Outside Lands Festival 8/224. The Raconteurs @ Bimbo's 365 4/235. Lettuce @ The Independent 7/19-206. We Funk Rad...
Posted by .\\hard//. on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:01:00 PST

Summertime Album Madness!

So far, what was thought to be a pretty sleepy summer as far as album releases go, has not been such the case. Maybe it is one of those "don't have expectations and you will be surprised" kind of dea...
Posted by .\\hard//. on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:59:00 PST

Dr. Awesome

Life is a tricky ride. We all have our place, and at different times we seem to find it one way or another. Beyond that we have moments of indifference and fire that can falsely define who we are, a...
Posted by .\\hard//. on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:13:00 PST

Best of 2007

Here is a rundown of my best of's. Of course some things will not concur with yours. That is why it is mine.Best Thing of 2007 - moving to San Francisco. Starting over in one of the best cities in ...
Posted by .\\hard//. on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:55:00 PST

Best of 2006

a'ight! here is my first installment of the best of 2006 list. check 'em out.Best Albums of 2006 Hard Rock:Tool -10,000 Days. One of the most anticipated releases of 2006 got analyzed like a pric...
Posted by .\\hard//. on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:54:00 PST

Looking for SF Bay Area Musicians!!!!

hey hey.... My girlfriend and I are moving to SF/bay area soon and I am looking for musicians to get down with, create and possibly start things out with.  Go to my friends page and go to Frank T...
Posted by .\\hard//. on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:54:00 PST

early 2006 best albums

Ok, before the holiday season hits and we are bombarded by a bunch of crap that record labels will want you all to wallow in, here is a brief summary of some of what i have found to be the best releas...
Posted by .\\hard//. on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:41:00 PST

thank you for the warm wishes

thank you all so much for the thoughts on my birthday.  what am i going to do?  well, i am gonna soak in hot springs, take a nap, stuff myself full with good food, and most likely get really...
Posted by .\\hard//. on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:14:00 PST