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Luke G

swedishmetal99

About Me


My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Whomever'd like to meet me and then some: great spellers, master debaters, check maters, pundits, nudists, Buddhists, meditators, Muslims, hoopaholics, Shadowclad fans (LOL), the Jesus Seminar, Nyquil addicts, wiseguys, ping-pongsters, transexuals, Vikings, Valkyries, bee keepers, pimps, Mainers, comediannes.

Music:

Me in the shower, Me out of the shower, Shadowglad, Shadowpants, Sweaterclad, In Flames, Low Thin Square, 3 Inches of Blood, The Fab Four, Lamb of God, Third Eye Blind, Markus Aurelius, Soulfly, Amorphis, Skynyrd, Shaded Enmity, R.A.T.M., Sepultura, Ra Scion/Common Market, Unearth, Classic Motown, Maiden, Live, Meshuggah, Alice in Fuckin Chains, Jedi Mind Tricks, Dokken, B. Marley, John "Poopy" Quinn, SRV, Gravy Pants, TooL, Immortal Technique, Floyd, Thin Lizzy, The Wiggles, Son of Magnes, Mastodon, Wacko Jacko (early shit), Gentle Bent, Mad Season, Marc Rizzo, Megadeth (Yo this is Tod....alright...), Swing Music, Pachelbel, Black Dahlia Murder, QOTSA, The Mighty Zepp, Nailbomb, Foo Fighters, Melvins, Deftones, Van Morrison, Roy, Sissy and the Buttercup Bunch, Darkest Hour, Barefoot Barnacle, Converge, The D, Despised Icon, Collective Soul, Whitesnake, FMLY, Only Human, Down, Ice Cube, CCR, Botch, Candiria, The Temptations, The Drifters, DION!

Movies:

Mobster shit

Television:

Shmelevision

Books:

Conversations With God, Calvin and Hobbes, Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Tao te Ching, The Satanic Bible, The Non-Satanic Bible, The George Burns Cigar Bible, The Proslogion, JRR Tolkien, Small is Beautiful, North and South Trilogy, Beach Music, American Theocracy, Chomsky, The Price of Loyalty, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Yes! Magazine

Heroes:

Mom and Dad and Rejean and Pat McGroin, and KEITH OLBERMANN.

My Blog

Oi!

"Oi" of course being Portuguese for Hi!   I'm writing this from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  I am about to get in the car and head north to Belo Horizonte with my friend Andre after a great we...
Posted by Luke G on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:29:00 PST

Abragado

Hey everyone, just a quick note to let you all know that I arrived safely in Brazil this evening and am very happy to be here.  I am staying with my friend Rafa(el) in his hometown of Porto Aleg...
Posted by Luke G on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:56:00 PST

Uruguay

Hey friends, family, After 3 great weeks in Argentina I´ve moved on.  I took a boat across the River Plate to Colonia, Uruguay and am spending the night here before moving on to the capitol of Mo...
Posted by Luke G on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:08:00 PST

Top 10 List: Things Ive learned in South America Thusfar

10.  4" foam twin size mattresses aren't that uncomfortable.  9.  The tango is hard.  8.  Riding on buses are good for meeting interesting people.  7.  There's no su...
Posted by Luke G on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:39:00 PST

Up-diggity-date

I booked my ticket to South America the other day.  I'll be leaving for Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 1st and staying there for two months.  I will most likely trek out to Chile, Peru, ...
Posted by Luke G on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:19:00 PST

Goin ta Argentina with an achin...in my heart.

So I've been pretty overwhelmed with the decision of how to do this trip I'm taking: like where exactly to go.  I was thinking I was going to make Peru my first stop, go to Machu Picchu first and...
Posted by Luke G on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:33:00 PST

Right to Health Care Now!

The U.S. currently spends $2 trillion annually health care.  That is half of the world's spending and we only have 3% of the population.  You'd think that kind of spending would produce the ...
Posted by Luke G on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:15:00 PST

Fellow AAs: Check out this Bullshit

It kind of creeps me out how easy it is for myspace to tailor its advertising to things I might like since my profile is full of info about what I like and dislike. But when I saw an ad link that had...
Posted by Luke G on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:23:00 PST

I'm Getting Rid of All My Shit

Just a heads up that over the next couple of months I'm going to be selling and/or giving away almost everything I own before I go traveling. Send me a message if you are interested in any of these t...
Posted by Luke G on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:09:00 PST

"Conservative" Talk Radio

So I usually listen to NPR (94.9 fm) or KPTK (am 1090) for my talk radio but once in awhile I like to switch over to FoxNews Radio (am 570) to round out the information I'm getting with a portion of t...
Posted by Luke G on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:29:00 PST