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About Me

life is a series of calluses,
this is just another layer.

"The mind & body must be
subjected to extreme stimulus,
by means of drugs & music."
-Hunter S. Thompson

As long as the music's loud enough,
we won't hear the world falling apart.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

"need somebody to help me
shatter my foolish heart" found him.

Music:

weezer, phantom planet, the exploding hearts, the pink spiders, louis prima, cursive, the hives, the decemberists, ted leo & the pharmacists, the jim carroll band, the clash, gogol bordello, talking heads, travis, the germs, x, adam ant, the faint, violent femmes, the ergs!, the unlovables, the tattle tales, hellogoodbye

listen to my show

Movies:

CRY-BABY,Teen Wolf,The Great Outdoors, Taxi Driver, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Detroit Rock City, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Slackers, RUDY, Encino Man,Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Little Monsters, Everything Is Illuminated, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Legend of Billie Jean, Wet Hot American Summer, Life is Beautiful, Basketball Diaries, Point Break, The United States of Leland, The Warriors, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Dear Wendy, Class of 1984, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Desperately Seeking Susan, ...& really bad horror movies.

Books:

favorite authors include Jim Carroll, Arthur Nersessian, Charles Bukowski.

Heroes:

John McGuirk.

My Blog

things i need to start doing, but aren’t necessarily resolutions:

-exercise! at least get in some kind of shape before Hawaii.-continue to do yoga even though i'm not taking the class anymore.-find a new home for this DAMNED CAT!!!!!!-make the most of my last semest...
Posted by im.a.pretender on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:06:00 PST

2007 a year in review

So the year's not quite over yet, but I figure there's not much left of it. Though I am looking forward to being home for more than just a weekend for once, and I'm also looking forward to throwing an...
Posted by im.a.pretender on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:56:00 PST

regarding my cat

everyone probably thinks i'm a mean person because i'm looking to maybe give away my cat. when i got him, i knew i wasn't a cat person. but i thought maybe i'm not a cat person because i never had one...
Posted by im.a.pretender on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:54:00 PST

what’s wrong with the world

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. -- Jimi Hendrix
Posted by im.a.pretender on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:33:00 PST

twelve notes

"In the whole entire history of music, the whole shit, there's only twelve notes. Bam. That's it. Beethoven to the Ramones to us. Twelve notes." "And your point being?" "There are only so many ways to...
Posted by im.a.pretender on Sun, 27 May 2007 09:43:00 PST

i'm having one of those days...

...where you sleep in til 1PM ...where you don't leave your place ...where you don't do anything but sit around on the net or in front of the tv and eat every few hours out of boredomand only get up t...
Posted by im.a.pretender on Mon, 21 May 2007 03:21:00 PST

sincerity.

i realize for the past couple entries, i've only written when sad, or depressed, or pissed off. i never write about the good things. i want to write about the good things. i am going to write ab...
Posted by im.a.pretender on Mon, 07 May 2007 08:06:00 PST

april's fool

Life is too shortDeath doesn't askIt don't owe you thatSome things you loseYou don't get backSo just know what you haveAnd make a plan to love me sometime soon these words just fit.if this song...
Posted by im.a.pretender on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:46:00 PST

defeat

so it's official. i'll be gutted like a pig on the 11th.
Posted by im.a.pretender on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:55:00 PST

upset doesn't begin to describe it

i'm going fucking crazy. they want to do the surgery* on the 11th. i do not want it on the 11th. i will not be better in time for the 15th. what is the 15th you ask? iggy motherfuckin pop. i c...
Posted by im.a.pretender on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:02:00 PST