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TheFiend

The world is an ass, and we are its farts. Each of us stinks in our own way-that is the spice of lif

About Me


Western Australia


Holga/Oktomat photos

My Interests

Australia, Guinness meat pies, Week-end bbq, chips and salsa, Dimanche après-midi avec Jeu d'esprit, making the most out of week-ends, learning about wine, toy cameras, Lomography, photography, mountain biking in remote areas far away from life's problems, windmills, donuts, Factoids-useless trivial information, bad puns, classic cars, people who are into cars, drive-in theaters, cruise night at Bob's in Burbank, Italian food, German food, foreign languages, mowing my lawn,

Desert Modern architecture, Eichler homes, vintage furniture, 40’s-50’s advertising/design, Winston Smith art, floating on a raft in my pool on summer afternoons, entertaining, cooking new recipes, tending to my vegetable garden, my goofy pets

I'd like to meet:

The one.

Music:



Metropolis on KCRW
Nocturna on KCRW
www.somafm.com
(the secret agent channel)
www.luxuriamusic.com
(The Lounge King show)
music with banjos or vibraphones.

Currently in rotation:
misc. Itunes comps
Groove Armada
Australian Public Radio comp
Amy Winehouse
Air
Beck
The Shins

Movies:


I Walk the Line, Toby Dammit, Escape from Alcatraz, The Italian Job (the original one), Ocean's 11 (the original one), The Graduate, Lost in Translation, The Party, Viva Las Vegas

Television:

The Wonder Years (repeats are back!), The Soup, LOST, 24, MXC, Family Guy, WRC Rally, anything on Food Channel, American Hot Rod, weird Japanese gameshows

Books:

Taschen Books, cook books, photography and design books

Heroes:

Jeu d'esprit. Just try and walk a week in her shoes and you'll know why she is in this section!!

Art terrorists like:

My Blog

R.I.P. Colin McRae

I just read this morning in rally news that my rally racing hero Colin McRae was killed in a helicopter crash in Scotland this morning. He was my age. I'm shocked. During is rally career he cheated de...
Posted by TheFiend on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:35:00 PST

The curse of Barry Manilow

I just read a thread on a VW Vortex message board about fuse box wiring in VW Rabbits. Some guy was talking about how his car burned down after his radio wiring caught on fire while playing a Barry Ma...
Posted by TheFiend on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:26:00 PST

GTI: The long road to hell and back

I drove out to Temecula to help my friend pick up a car we had found on the internet. Of course it had to be on the hottest week-end of the year! Temecula is one of those places where you'd never go u...
Posted by TheFiend on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:39:00 PST

Holga down under

I had some good results with the Holga in Australia. Check them out here.Cheers!...
Posted by TheFiend on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:37:00 PST

My guest appearance on Australian Public Radio

Last night I was a guest on a radio program called Time Capsule which is on Australian Public Radio. Guests of the show pick out songs that have some kind of meaning to them and tell their stories rel...
Posted by TheFiend on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:57:00 PST

Koalas!

This was really a cool experience! My aunt's sister works at an animal park. She was able to get us in to see the koalas. They have very sharp claws. The woman who works there was wearing a sweatshirt...
Posted by TheFiend on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:13:00 PST

Fremantle footy match

I went to an Austrlian Football match today in Perth/Subiac. I'm not usually a big sports fan but this was a lot of fun! The Fremantle Dockers (the home team) won by a big margin. From what I gathered...
Posted by TheFiend on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:00:00 PST

Australian Public Radio

Tonight I went to the radio station while my uncle did his German music radio show on Australian Public Radio. It was pretty cool to be part of it. Here is a link to some pics from tonight.radio show ...
Posted by TheFiend on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:08:00 PST

A day in Australia

Today I had an Australian brunch and went for a drive through the countryside. I saw a wild Kangroo for the first time. I then went to my aunt's sister's house out in the country where I watched the e...
Posted by TheFiend on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 07:54:00 PST

My Mini goes Hollywood

My Mini was an extra today in the filming of a pilot episode for a possible tv series. Nobody on the set that I talked to knew what the name of the series would be.Everything was shot on green screen ...
Posted by TheFiend on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:29:00 PST