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antipedant

dropping coins in the piggy bank to finance a revolution

About Me

honesty is my policy. sarcasm is my wine. music is my elation.

My Interests

sarcasm, art, banjo, vodka, absent-mindedness

I'd like to meet:

i dislike people-- hate even sharing the species with some

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Music:

andrew bird, the kinks, the beatles, bob dylan, the clash, tom waits, the mountain goats, elliot smith, leadbelly, fyp, the fugs, the weakerthans, woody guthrie, johnny cash, neutral milk hotel, bjork, erin tobey, jonathan richman and the modern lovers, talking heads, regina spektor, dr. john, the moldy peaches, this bike is a pipe bomb, the holy modal rounders, crass, tori amos, the slits, fairport convention, richard thompson, pixies, yo la tengo, elvis costello, uncle dave macon, django reinhart, violent femmes, pere ubu, devo, captain beefheart, velvet underground, michelle shocked, gang of four, olivia tremor control, bela fleck, radiohead, the cramps, james mathus knockdown society, showcase showdown, frank zappa, they might be giants, lou reed, action patrol, buddy holly, dead milkmen, new lost city ramblers, bright eyes, the replacements, wilco, the sparks, mission of burma, collected field recordings such as the anthology of american folk music or smithsonian folkways releases...

Movies:

the shinig, brazil, dr. strangelove, fear and loathing in las vegas, cannibal the musical, life of brian, clockwork orange, apocalypse now, donnie darko, full metal jacket, the decalougue, the squid and the whale, magnolia, bringing out the dead, royal tennenbaums, happiness... i generally perfere either "films" or really pathetic horror movies with plenty of gore

Television:

...is bad for you, but i'm guilty of watching the daily show and seinfeld.

Books:

shel silverstien, mark twain, henry david thoreau, david sedaris, j.d. salinger, kurt vonnegut, neil postman, jack kerouac, e.e. cummings, george orwell, charles bukowski, allan ginsburg, noam chomsky, t.s. eliot, howard zinn, edward gorey, egar allan poe, dr. seuss, tich naht han...

Heroes:

i only put people on pedestals for the thrill of watching them fall

My Blog

if only my writing was as poignant

"we emerged from youth all wide-eyed like the rest.shedding skin faster than skin can grow, and armed with hammers,feathers, blunt knives:words, to meet and to define and to...but you must know the sa...
Posted by antipedant on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 10:06:00 PST

organizing the sock drawer of my mind

and still too many incomplete pairs
Posted by antipedant on Mon, 15 May 2006 10:55:00 PST

yeah, it's a run-on sentence. what's it to you, punk?

"...before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned ...
Posted by antipedant on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 05:35:00 PST

wtorek

wczoraj wieczorem cztalam ksiazke... nie mam czasu
Posted by antipedant on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:11:00 PST

i know that a man ia a human being. that's enough for me; he can't be any worse

...humans are the most unfortunate creatures, but only for that which they subject themselves to.  it is a bizarre and perverted ritual to live, and yet we all go through the motions without fail...
Posted by antipedant on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 07:14:00 PST

to quote steinbeck is to lead a horse to water. somehow. trust me-- just drink

i have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty and security-- out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am; are submerged...
Posted by antipedant on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:46:00 PST

jak to sie mowi po angielsku?

prosze przjac wyrazy wspolczucia naprawde szkoda
Posted by antipedant on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 05:27:00 PST

plentiful grows the desire to think

    friday makes me shiver. i forgot my mittens. lukewarm black tea with orange peel and vanilla bean and jasmine creates the perfect prelude to 3d kung-fu nuns with vengence and axe fi...
Posted by antipedant on Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:42:00 PST

I egged the president

Mark Twain once said, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics".  I feel compelled to add the Bushian Lie.  It's really a hybrid of the first two, with added evangel...
Posted by antipedant on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST