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ropeydope

You can have the sun, the rain belongs to me.

About Me

Bored. It's not you though, it's me.

My Interests

typewriters, cheeseburgers, film, fries, vixens, concrete, eyes, guitars, dogs and some cats, antique chairs, social experiments, dreams, baseball, howlin' at the moon, sticks, taking things apart, fucking with obnoxious folks, football, throwing rocks, love, the ones who think I don't understand, and typewriters.

I'd like to meet:

Jennifer Saunders, Robert Smith, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Fraser, Edith Piaf, Bessie Smith, Nina Hartley...

Music:

Idaho.Jeff Buckley.Radiohead.Chris Whitley.Rebecca Moore.J5.Constantines.Satie.The Cure.The Man In Black.Dylan.Kinnie Starr.Soundgarden.Big Black.JD Walker.Jim O'Rourke.Swans.Phantom Buffalo.The Roots.Flux Capacitors.Sontiago.Interpol.Built To Spill.Spottiswoode & His Enemies.Bloc Party.Mick Turner.Marianne Nowottny.Hater.FUMUNDAH. .Cat Power.Shoukichi Kina.Naked Eyes.Stephen Brodsky/Cave In.Atmosphere.Johnny Hartman.Mills Brothers.Chet Baker.FUCKEMOS.Neko Case.Foo Fighters.Depeche Mode.all the Cerberus ones.Big D Brahms.Nick Cave.Quicksand.GBV/Robert Pollard.Red House Painters.Heather Duby.Cocteau Twins.Outkast.High on Fire.The Cramps.Mark Lanegan.Blind Lemon Jefferson and most of the other blind guys.Steve Kilbey/The Church.Queens of the Stone Age.Peepshow.Big Gay Alaska.Anything with Gavin Protas or Nyk or Jose or Chris Lomba or Jack Star or Rafe Stepto in the mix.

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Fight Club.Memento.Wild at Heart.Babe.Princess Bride. Punch-Drunk Love.Big Lebowski.Love Liza.An Angel At My Table. Amelie.Strangers in Good Company.Driver 23 & Atlas Moth.They Live.Thundercrack.The Weatherman.SlingBlade.Breakfast Club.The Outsiders.Oscar and Lucinda.A Room With A View.Me and You and Everyone We Know.Dead River-Rough Cut.Meeting People is Easy.The Fountain.

Television:

Absolutely Fabulous.Trailer Park Boys.all 3-time World Champion New England Patriots games.Everything else pretty much sucks.

Books:

Suttree, The Drinker, The Stones of Summer, Vurt, The Lorax, any Harry Crews or Lorrie Moore or Emily Dickinson, Sexing the Cherry, Sword of Shannara

Heroes:

Charlie Burgess, Oliver J. Foster, Priscilla Montgomery, The Butcher, Delta, all Molly's, my Mom, Jeff Dice, Kalaisha, and R.I.P.

My Blog

I love you too.

Some will say I am just (getting) old.I say, "Fuck you". Skateboarding has caught up with this new generation, and I don’t like it. Or most of them for that matter. What I mean by this is tha...
Posted by ropeydope on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:11:00 PST

On schedule.

A Well Known Standard.I'm backI'm back to learningAlways learningCan't be separate from anythingOh sureSure you thinkBut sure my footTwo things in life, he saidRepeating a well known standardYet one t...
Posted by ropeydope on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:52:00 PST

Libationary Libertawdriness, vol. II

So I was thinking today about how I hardly go out, as in to the or "a" bar(s). I've come up with a list of some of the reasons for my lack of such sociality. Perhaps some will ring true for a folk o...
Posted by ropeydope on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:47:00 PST

Supple and soft, not soft and supple.

So I watched a full season of 'America's Next Top Model', (ANTM) a week or so ago. All at once. It was on VH1, as some sort of modelthon. Jesus, Tyra Banks is a looker. Bet she's a blast at partie...
Posted by ropeydope on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:42:00 PST

So, you have your papers?

Letters. This should be a season of them. Long ones, short ones, hell even postcards. I have some nice photos that would be perfect 4x6 postcards. And I'm sure you do as well. But, if I may, no t...
Posted by ropeydope on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:06:00 PST

And this year ends in perfection.

My beloved New England Patriots finished their regular season with a record of 16 wins and no, zero, losses. The search for the intrepid one continues. Music is playing a larger role than previously...
Posted by ropeydope on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:53:00 PST

Actually leaving seattle.

Well, I ended up here, in Seattle, for a couple more days. A bit of heavy rain in the NY region on Monday eve, the culprit. Proved to be quite welcome. I got to see my friend Ben and hang with him ...
Posted by ropeydope on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:25:00 PST

Hangin with the Space Dink.

First of all, track down The Legends, "Up Against The Legends" cd. It is fuckin' amazing. In fact track 5, "Nothing to be done" is one of the best songs I have ever heard. I'd go on but it'll get s...
Posted by ropeydope on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:50:00 PST

Farting in the tub.

Some asshole Jets fan is suing the Patriots for "deceiving customers". God, I wish I could deliver their eventual slap.Don't knock farting in the tub. It could very well make your day.Please, stop ...
Posted by ropeydope on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:32:00 PST

For Those Who Wonder, X

90 thru 99.90. I hate the summer in Portland for one reason, the tourists. Now, I am aware that this hatred of mine is nothing new to anyone who lives here in this beautiful city on a year-round bas...
Posted by ropeydope on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:42:00 PST