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Tristan.Zimm

For one to Rise One First Must Fall.

About Me

_Bullet Points:.
  • I need to finish school, though I want to find a school that fits my "special needs".
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  • I love web design, graphic design, interior design, which is what I will be going back to school for. It's funny how affected we are by simple things; aesthetics, implied value, context, and so forth.
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  • I love politics. I worked with the Maricopa County Green Party and was the president of the Amnesty International club at Phoenix College and it was fantastic. I'm feeling the pull again to leap back in, and as I write this the '06 midterm elections are at full boil, so it might just be the electricity generated by so much human interaction and friction, but the magnetism never really leaves me. Lately I've just been reading and writing and thinking about where I want to invest my political focus next.
  • I'm a band called Dust Jacket in which I play the keys.
  • My friends take precedence over most anything. I think the world would be better if people showed how much they cared for others, and did so with 100% conviction.
  • I'm learning how to better manage my time, my money, and myself. It feels very good.
  • My Interests

    adult swim, amnesty international, architecture, art, art museums, blues, cheese, cooking, dominic deegan, ebay, economics, essays, fark, feminism, fresh fruit, friends, fuck the wto, gandhi, green politics, hardcore dancing, homestarrunner, human rights, ikea, jazz, lux, mac hall, mill's end, modern art museums, music, my dog bender, penny-arcade, phoenix college, plaid eatery, playing synthesizer, poetry, political science, politics, progressive politics, public citizen, pvp, ralph nader, reading, redecorating my room, religion, sad bastard music, saying goodnight, singing, social activism, social stratification, socialism, sociology, star trek tng, synthesizers, the green party, the phoenix finger, the tate modern, thrift stores, traveling, vegetarianism, vocoders, voting, workers rights, writing

    I'd like to meet:

    I want to meet..J%~ny&*... [transmission lost]

    Music:

    5 on 1, aesop rock, american nightmare, at the drive in, blink-182, bright eyes, byline, choking victim, color store, converge, cursive, dead prez, death of marat, dropkick murphys, dust jacket, edaline, fat boy slim, fugazi, george moshington, interpol, jaw breaker, jets to brazil, kyds vs columbus, left over crack, less than jake, mineral, modest mouse, mustard plug, operation ivy, other voices, poison the well, propaghandi, radio head, sage francis, shat, system of a down, the alkaline trio, the arcade fire, the beatles, the black keys, the bled, the blues brothers, the faint, the fromminator goes solo, the get up kids, the ghost, the good life, the mountain goats, the pixies, the postal service, the rapture, the refused, the rolling stones, the velevet teen, the wunder years, this instant, thursday, tuesday, ugly but honest, where eagles dare

    Movies:

    all kid n' play movies, another state of mind, bowling for columbine, bread and tulips, dazed and confused, detroit rock city, falling down, flight of the navigator, italian for begginers, labyrinth, l'auberge espagnole, manufacturing consent, neverending story, office space, roger and me, spun, star wars 4, 5, and 6, super troopers, the breakfast club, time bandits, where the buffalo roam, willow, y tu mama tambien?

    Television:

    Primarily I watch Cartoon Network, CNN, Comedy Central, and Turner Classic Movies... okay, and some MTV. I mean, Pimp my Ride? Fucking awesome.

    ...X to the Z!

    Books:

    1984, a brief history of time, a peoples history of the united states of america, crashing the party, culture of fear, fear and loathing in las vegas, fear and loathing on the campaign trail '72, hells angels, manufacturing consent, my world, no logo, poems all sizes, the electric kool-aid acid test, the decline and fall of public broadcasting, the end of utopia, the monkey wrench gang, the wasteland

    Heroes:

    In this case, I will define Hero as anyone who inspires me to create or be a better person.

    Edward Gorey , Ralph Steadman , Frank Miller , Warren Ellis , Jeffrey Rowland , Jerry Holkins & Mike Krahulik , Andrew Bell , Sam Brown , my parents , my brother , all of my friends .

    My Blog

    I Made These

    CLBFOOT: POHEAD: I also made one of Jeff. You can see it over at his page, or you can see it here.You can make your own here. I highly suggest it....
    Posted by Tristan.Zimm on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:20:00 PST

    Trapped in a sinister city of monsters

    I'll have to keep this brief as I'm fairly busy at work, but the point of this post is pretty straight forward. Check out this and this.  It is made by him.  Variety magazine says ...
    Posted by Tristan.Zimm on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:03:00 PST

    Hooray 25

    So I'm 25 now.  It's very magical. I'm sure there are plenty of quarter century people out there who can relate the absolute blahness that is aging at this stage.  It doesn't mean much to ge...
    Posted by Tristan.Zimm on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:50:00 PST

    Ka-background!

    Today I created a new background for my... Myspace... and I changed the color scheme to match.  It features a description of the background and a squirrel.  I have not yet named the squirrel...
    Posted by Tristan.Zimm on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:02:00 PST

    Feh.

    Here's me being bored, and filling out one of those charming "get-to-know-you" questionnaires.  Delightful!The idea is that you show your start and end time and then say how long it took you to f...
    Posted by Tristan.Zimm on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:14:00 PST

    I am awesome

    Your results:You are Will Riker Will Riker 80% James T. Kirk (Captain) 75% Worf 60% Chekov 55% Uhura 55% Jean-Luc Picard 55% Mr. Scott 50% Deanna Troi 50% Geord...
    Posted by Tristan.Zimm on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:52:00 PST

    Word

    I am so totally done with work for the day.  Now I'm surfing the Internets since my own computer at home is still crippled by the new and daring Cosiam-K virus.  I fucking hate that virus, a...
    Posted by Tristan.Zimm on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:12:00 PST

    Redesign, redecide, reinvent, recombine

    It's time for a myspace redesign. I love my background, and I was going to do a sequel to it (and I still plan to) but the newest one will include a bat. I don't know what I've named him.  F...
    Posted by Tristan.Zimm on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:03:00 PST

    The water's fine

    I'm depressed.  I've been trying to be strong, and generally I have been.  but Everyone needs a break, and I suppose emotional breaks sometimes mean sinking down below the waves and letting ...
    Posted by Tristan.Zimm on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:59:00 PST

    It's almost four...

    and this bottle of wine has been breathing with me for about an hour and a half now.  I've been waiting up, and for no real reason.  Riana is out of town, so she isn't coming home tonight--t...
    Posted by Tristan.Zimm on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:50:00 PST