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About Me



Hola. My name is Raymond Blind. I'm fun, bright and I like a lot of different things. I moved to SF from NYC in 2005 to work at UCSF. I just got back from teaching med school in Africa for 4 months so I'm getting back into the SF groove again. I go out a lot and don't hold much back.

I am very much like a curious 12 year old boy, easily fascinated.

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* i love falling down, NASA, snow, wearing sandals with socks, the no girls in the pit rule, skating way too fast down broadway with music blaring in my ears, Gustav Klimt, getting a good result and chicks in boyshorts.

* i listen to NPR all day. i play drums and piano, i love motorcycles, hockey, my bro and sis, cheap alcohol, doing my science, passionate chicks, new music and compilations from good labels.

* i want to go to a saddle creek show in omaha. i love sounds that foods make, music that makes me think about my life and drinking on ocean beach and at coney island.

* i love when they cut the grass in the park, thinking of experiments, fireplaces, driving by myself, lubbock TX, tattoos, winter, the Stanely Cup Playoffs, green cargo pants and white t-shirts.

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My Interests

generally: music, alcohol, science, dates, motorcycles, writing, skating, chicks, tattoos, cities, hockey, humanity, zeitgeist.

more specifically: invading other people’s personal space, waking up in strange places with strangers, giving myself bad haircuts, mending my clothes and fixing things. playing drums, playing piano, playing. riding motorcycles, fixing motorcycles, motorcycles. smiling at babies, making babies smile, making babies. zeitgeist.

alternatively: west texas lifestyles. fathering Cokie Roberts’ children. being president of the Marie Cavosora fan club. exposing myself to high doses of beta radiation. sending out flag day cards. studying maps of the US interstate highway system. zeitgeist.

I'd like to meet:

Tall, hot chicks that are ultra fun, laid back, and cracker jack bright. And preferably that wear glasses. And anyone that likes motorcycles, hockey or science.

Someone i can take on the whole world with - back to back, with long knives drawn.


Me playin' some Rockabilly with Jack and Jimmy...



Music:

Rainer Maria, Criteria, Blonde Redhead, Sigur Ros, Sunny Day Real Estate, TV on the Radio, The Cramps, Bloc Party, Coldplay, Interpol, Morrisey, The Bomboras, Cursive, On The Might of Princes, Big Sandy and The Fly Rite Trio, Zykos, Death Cab for Cutie, Muse, Flogging Molly, The Bravery, Social Distortion, Mike Ness, Dinosaur Jr., Hole, NOFX, U2, Bright Eyes, Saddle Creek, Nekromantix, Gogol Bordello, Mindless Self Indulgence, Parts and Labor, Classic Classical, Operas, my boys mozart and beethoven, Fugazi, Bad Religion, Primus, Rancid, Liz Phair, Sheryl Crow, Reverend Horton Heat, Swinggin Utters, Sleater Kinney, The Quakes, Southern Culture, Milemarker, Tiger Army, Aphex Twin, Raamstein, The Faint, Ray Charles, Pedro the Lion, Roy Orbision, Scrawl, Rusted Root, Weezer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Butthole Surfers, Afghan Whigs, Bjork, Breeders, Pixies, depeche mode, Howlin Maggie, Midnight Oil, Radiohead, Three Bad Jacks, Johnny Cash, Elvis, anything that sounds new and, of course, lots of old punk.

Movies:

guess who's coming to dinner, penguins, spaceballs, big lebowski, sideways, marx bros, the fog of war, anchorman, old school, the magnificent seven, the good the bad and the ugly, fistfull of dollars, the incredibles, for a few dollars more, niagra, anchorman, singles, thirteen days, presidential documentaries, empire strikes back, eternal sunshine, indiana jones, documentaries so I don't have to read books, all the dirty harry movies, lots of others...

Television:

i don't own a television - but twin peaks rocked.

Books:

i don't read books. i read heaps, just not books. i like to read science magazines, journals, newspapers and the like. i love leaves of grass, if that counts.

Heroes:

fiorello laguardia, walt whitman, ben franklin, FDR, my father, anyone who loves cities, casey harrison, the buffalo sabres, marie cavosora, allen wensky, jeff blind, you and yours.


My Blog

Allen's squirrel

My friend Allen is a great guy with an even bigger heart. He'll go out of his way to help a stranger, even if it means putting himself in harm's way. Warm, kind, generous, loving, genuinely funny an...
Posted by ray blind on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:06:00 PST

My Busted Tooth

so i was at bay to breakers a couple months ago which, for the non-san francisconians, is a big outdoor drinking parade occurring with a large fraction of the participants naked. typical san francisc...
Posted by ray blind on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:28:00 PST

Shapes Peel Letters off Librarians Boobs

Associated PressSan Francisco, CA  In a remarkable display of rock star power at a recent show in San Francisco, New York City-based band The Shapes caused the iron-on letters of a fan's t-shirt to l...
Posted by ray blind on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:15:00 PST

Two Poems by Ray

slender, soaring...oh these wonderful gifts!given myself, to myself.the first to greet you andthe last to say goodbye.softly, your icy breath surroundsand flows between them.this prickling manebrushin...
Posted by ray blind on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:02:00 PST

MetroNorth

This was a conversation that a great friend of mine in New York overheard on the MetroNorth train.  It's friggin Hi-larious:So this guy got on the same MetroNorth train as me the other night as I...
Posted by ray blind on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:36:00 PST

African Update

This is an email I sent out to a lot of my friends in the middle of October in 2006. I was teaching biochemistry to medical students in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on the East Coast of Africa, and had be...
Posted by ray blind on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:34:00 PST