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Caleb Lyons

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About Me

I'm a 22-year-old journalism major, IT minor at UMass Amherst living in Northampton with my fiance.I currently work in Springfield at MassLive.com , a WMass based news website. I also keep a comic book based (kinda but not) blog there: Comic Book Zeitgeist if your interested...

My Interests

Likes: Hunter S. Thompson novels, Apple stuff, most Warren Ellis, sushi, journalism, wine, writing and cooking. I love cooking, man...

I'd like to meet:

What the fuck: everyone. Doesnt mean i'll like you tho. Doesnt meant i'll hate you either.

Music:

Muzak: Radiohead, The Smiths, Arab Strap, Tom Waits, Godspeed You Black Emperor, A Silver mt Zion, Angels of Light, David Bowie, MC Chris, Miles Davis, Infected Mushroom, Q and Not U, Exhaust, Joe Jackson, The Clash, Eric Satie, Cursive, James Brown, Calla, The Minibosses, Coil, Amon Tobin, Cursive, Devendra Banhart, Fugazi, Do Make Say Think, The Swans, Aphex Twin, Billy Holiday, Wesley Willis, Johnny Cash, Kraftwerk, United Future Organization, V-Neck, Squarepusher and most recently Low, Text, X-Dream, M. Gira, Plateau, Zegota, Orbital, Autechre and Steve Reich.

Movies:

American Beauty, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Amelie, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Biodome(sorry), Kill Bill 1 & 2, and many many others. Oh, and anything by the Coen brothers, minus Barton Fink.

Television:

Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Nip/Tuck, My Name is Earl, Six Feet Under, The Daily Show w/Jon Stewart and Surface.

Books:

Hunter S Thompson was my favorite author. I also dabble in classics like Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and the "Oedipus" trilogy along with any GN written by Warren Ellis.

Heroes:

Tom Waits, all of the members of Fugazi, Malcolm Middleton, Warren Ellis and Hunter Thompson, before just recently...

My Blog

UMass Police article: unedited

The below article is the unedited version of my very first article for the UMass Daily Collegian. The edited version was published on October 25th, and can be found at the below link: http://www.da...
Posted by Caleb Lyons on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:40:00 PST

Superstition: The Religion Of Myspace

Now, some of you may remember when i made a terrifyingly angry post right before valentines day encoraging those of us unfortunate enough to have received chainletters from this ridiculous site to let...
Posted by Caleb Lyons on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

An annecdote by Mr Warren Ellis

bad signal WARREN ELLISÊ "Those who've been following my occasional pieces on genre TV might be interested to learn that ENTERPRISE was finally cancelled today. Story's on AICN right now.Ê ...
Posted by Caleb Lyons on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Pauly Shore Live!

Well it's back to school for me. Seems like that's the only time i update this dumb thing. Anyhow, i kinda didnt want to go back to school, since i enjoy my job soo much, but i could feel my mind gett...
Posted by Caleb Lyons on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Bald or not?

So my hair has been falling out now for what seems like forever, but is actually a year or so. It's just stopped doing so, and i'm left looking like an asshole. (My pictures speak for themselves) So, ...
Posted by Caleb Lyons on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Back to School time

So i'm back at WoState, enjoying the busy life once again. I have a different roommate from who i was supposed to: one of my better friend's named Dan who is now going to UMass Amherst, like the rest ...
Posted by Caleb Lyons on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

First Entry

So 2 days ago i got my appendix removed. I'm going to be out of work for the next couple of weeks, and i have been reduced to watching my Six Feet Under DVD and playing with the internet for amusement...
Posted by Caleb Lyons on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST