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Sam

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About Me

I enjoy damaging the self esteem of today's youth, terrorizing humanity with my mad accordion skills, and going cruising with my kitten.

The first Squeezebox Sam music video:
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My Interests

audiophile, bibliophile, mid-century americana, occasional illustrator, sometime photographer

I'd like to meet:

I don't particularly like "meeting" people... the computer keeps everyone at a fine distance for my taste.

Music:

in general anything creatively low-fi, raunchy, cinematic, and/or obnoxious... if it's over two minutes long, there'd better be a good reason

Movies:

Touch of Evil, Forbidden Planet, True Grit... by these three all others are judged

Television:

Who has time to watch television?

Books:

Huxley's "Brave New World", Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death", Lewis' "Space Trilogy", Tolkienite, anything Patricia A. McKillip

Heroes:

my father, for teaching me how to be a real man by example... and Johnny Cash, for having been there and done that, and not being afraid to admit that he learned something from it

My Blog

Viva Las Vegas Dud

So, is it my imagination, or has anyone noted just how completely un-stellar the lineup for Viva Las Vegas 10 is?I don't want to step on anyone's toes, since I know that Sleepy LaBeef is certainly not...
Posted by Sam on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 10:28:00 PST

the problem with "white pride"

I don't know how truly "white" I am. My students, who are 99% Latino, tend to easily toss me into that labeled bin. But the problem is that I myself have a cultural heritage that is 99.9% Finnish Amer...
Posted by Sam on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:12:00 PST

Bring on the gas war my ass

The only way to force gas companies to lower their prices is to just stop having to buy so much gas.  That means walk to the grocery store down the street, raise the seat on yer lowrider bike and...
Posted by Sam on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 04:42:00 PST

I'm dying

So, I am dying.  Much sooner and much more quickly than I originally intended.  I have never had pneumonia before, and from a fresh standpoint, this is what it's like:  Imagine having b...
Posted by Sam on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 04:43:00 PST

when life becomes a movie

So, I have the (usually) unenviable job of dealing with America's youth on a daily basis as they try on different identities and try to figure out who they are.  This typically involves wearing c...
Posted by Sam on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 07:24:00 PST

"She's alive! ALIVE!"

After nearly five years in limbo, we fired the shoebox up on saturday afternoon, sans any exhaust but the header pipes.  My neighbors came out onto their porches, their faces scrunched up in disa...
Posted by Sam on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:02:00 PST

what the hell is "rockabilly lifestyle"???

Being someone who often thinks that old junk is just plain "cooler" than new junk, I have found myself thinking lately about these people who will often say that they live the "rockabilly lifestyle".&...
Posted by Sam on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:48:00 PST

Possession

"Did you find it as strange as I did, that we should so immediately understand each other so well? For we did understand each other uncommonly well, did we not? Or is this perhaps a product of the o...
Posted by Sam on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Am I old, or is it just me?

So the first night I move into my house, I am talking to my cousin on the phone. Around 10-11-midnight, can't remember the exact time, but it was late, there is some sort of commotion outside that se...
Posted by Sam on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

rocka psycho whatever

So, I went to the rat fink reunion on saturday over here in canoga park. It's a show basically in my backyard, so I don't enter my car cuz I like to come and go to it... this time I went home or off ...
Posted by Sam on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST