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Max

Don't you want to go to the moon also?

About Me

I'm floating with invisible wings and hyper jet boots made from my own invention. Wanna join the ride? Who knows where they'll take me next!

My Interests

reading, writing, laughing, poking fun at life, the ordinary, humdrum, and commonplace, creating something out of nothing, and helping others, even if it's just to make you smile

I'd like to meet:

Someone to dance with.

Music:

Miles, Coltrane, Bags, Cal Tjader, Bill Evans, Thelonius Monk, Madlib, YNQ, ATCQ, the Roots, the Pharcyde, Bob Marley, Billie Holiday, Radiohead, Zero7, Erykah Badu, Living Legends, Freestyle Fellowship, Black Star, Gang Starr, Nina Simone, Bjork, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Roy Ayers, James Brown, Antonio Carlos Jobim, J-Rocc, Beat Junkies, just good music!

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Akira, City of God, Science of Sleep, Pulp Fiction, Mononoke Hime, Amelie, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Fight Club, The Matrix, Lost in Translation, The Big Lebowski, The Shining, Adaptation, Rear Window, Blade Runner, The Godfather, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Sin City, Pan's Labyrinth, There Will be Blood

Television:

Lost, Heroes (cuz it's really a comic book), and the Lake Show (forever), No Reservations, Flight of the Conchords

Books:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, On the Genealogy of Morals, Coin Locker Babies, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, The Razor's Edge, Of Human Bondage, Catch-22, The Fountainhead, Cannery Row, The Lord of the Rings, Naked, Watchmen, Discipline & Punish, The Uncanny X-Men, White Teeth, Narcissus and Goldmund, A Wild Sheep Chase, Where the Wild Things Are, Metamorphosis, 69 (Not what you think you dirty dirty), The Stranger, On Beauty, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Interpreter of Maladies, A Personal Matter, Cathedral, Madame Bovary

Heroes:

My family and friends, and all those dreamers who've learned to sleepwalk during the day.

My Blog

Spring

At certain times in the city, the trees begin to awaken after what seems like centuries-long slumber, the colors vibrate, rattle, and shake, and young people begin to smooch and hold hands, in other w...
Posted by Max on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:14:00 PST

black holes

I came home the other day to a gaping hole at the top of my ceiling where one of the pipes runs down towards the floor. Obviously the lousy construction workers have lost their minds (again)...
Posted by Max on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:53:00 PST

opening moves

He had a mind to say something, but instead just sat there, scratching his chin. How long had they been at this? he thought. Obviously too long, for they can't even see the end, and it's so close! Ago...
Posted by Max on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:31:00 PST

its snowing again...

The sky is pure white and flaking off onto the earth like dandruff. It's drifting down outside my window now; small and big clumps riding on the biting wind. Snow! the first of the season and, as they...
Posted by Max on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:29:00 PST

Thank You for Dinner

The bearded ninja, the skinhead, Bruce Lee, and James Dean were all playing 3's in the kitchen. As usual, J.D. was down to his last role. Having scored four 3's earlier, he was in high spirits. He jus...
Posted by Max on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:16:00 PST

crowd surfing

I like walking directly into the crowd, when commuters are piling out of office buildings, buses, and subways, and the masses close in on the city like a swarm of worker bees. It's strangely gratifyin...
Posted by Max on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:28:00 PST

Rainy daze

Sometimes when it's drizzling outside and i can hear the cars stroll by on the wet pavement, i get a lonely feeling in the pit of my stomach, almost as if i've forgotten something terribly important a...
Posted by Max on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:41:00 PST