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ashley

It's a moving world.

About Me

Six foot eight and rail thin. I like to go to shows when the music is good and I don't forget my earplugs. I like used book stores, thrift stores, seeing tons of movies, and just walking around. I like record stores, too, but usually stay away because I spend too much money at them. I hate cigarette smoke but won't preach at you unless you specifically ask my opinion. Getting a drink is nice, but being wasted and partying a lot is not fun to me. I have a little music project called Bearded Seals. www.myspace.com/beardedseals. I make movies. You can see one below if you care to. For a price I can make you one just like it.

My Interests

anti-cynicism, bearded seals, dictionary illustrations, picture dictionaries!, fishes with human faces, giant squids, good human beings, thinking important thoughts, unassuming intelligence, wearing earplugs

I'd like to meet:

People who genuinely geek out over good music, rather than using it as a fashion accessory or a way to be superior. People who genuinely love art but don't think it has to depress the hell out of you to be legitimate. People who genuinely seek truth rather than just struggling to be right all the time. Realists who are also optimists. People who find life beautiful and strange.

Music:

bowie, leonard cohen, eno, roxy music, talking heads, robert wyatt, mingus, faust, dumbwaiters, brian wilson presents smile, early blues and roots music , plus lots of odd soundtracks and experimental soundscapes

Movies:

blue velvet, casablanca, taxi driver, royal tenenbaums, blue, the graduate, mulholland dr, persona, eight and a half, monty python, kicking and screaming, dazed and confused, virgin suicides, lost in translation, punch drunk love, unbearable lightness of being, walkabout, calendar, eternal sunshine plus some video art, weirdo experimental stuff

Television:

Twin Peaks, Lost, Freaks and Geeks, Six Feet Under, MASH, All in the Family, Fishing With John

Books:

Kobo Abe, Dylan Thomas, Paul Celan, Rilke, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, Auster's New York Trilogy, Barthelme, Don Quixote, Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, Beowulf, Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, Whitman, Sartre's Age of Reason, Grendel by John Gardner, Viking Portables, Norton anthologies, History+Philosphy+Science overviews

Heroes:

is possibly Bowie's greatest album.