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Tyler Owen

Sad Songs Are Nature's Onions

About Me

I like to watch movies by myself while eating Nibs.

This painting is finally hanging on my wall:

Jealous? You should be!

My Interests

Baking Cookies, BBQ's, (The Color) Blue, Britcom, Classic Literature, Colored Vinyl, Crown Floats, Family, (European) Football, Geocaching, Hockey, Letter Writing, Mix Tapes/CD's, Music, Puzzles, Rafting, Risk, Scrambling, Slow Cooking, Steeped Tea, XBox

Music:

Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Starflyer 59

Movies:

Batman Begins, Battle Royale, The Big Lebowski, Beyond the Sea, The Big Lebowski, Crash, Donny Brasko, Dumb and Dumber, Fubar, Full Metal Jacket, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Heat, It Had to be You, The Last Present, My Sassy Girl, My Tutor Friend, Office Space, Ong Bak, Pans Labyrinth, The Protector, Scarface, Seven, Taxi Driver, Underworld, X-Men

Television:

Absolutely Fabulous, 'Allo 'Allo, Are You Being Served, Arrested Development, Bottom, Fawlty Towers, Invader Zim, Lost, Monarch of the Glen, Monty Python's Flying Circus, My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancee, Mr. Show, The Office, Reno 911!, The Sopranos, Transformers, X-Men

Books:

Novels:

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Bleak House, Blood Ties, Children of Dune, The Count of Monte Cristo, Dombey and Son, Inferno, Double Helix, The Drought, Dune, Empire of the Sun, God Emperor of Dune, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Kidnapped, The Master of Ballantrae, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiousity Shop, Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, The Prince and the Pauper, Running Wild, The Silmarillion, That Hideous Strength

Comics:
Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America, DMZ, Gotham Central, Invincible, Punisher Max, Samurai - Heaven and Earth, Ultimate Spider-Man, The Walking Dead, Y - The Last Man

Heroes:

Elias and Isaac

My Blog

Trekking Poles

I've decided that I'm going to cave and purchase trekking poles. I have always been one to make fun of people who used trekking poles but now that I've been scrambling alot this season I can see their...
Posted by Tyler Owen on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:51:00 PST

Scrambling Weekend Part II: Mount Indefatiguable

Mike, my sister's boyfriend, called and left a message Thrusday saying he had the weekend off and wanted to know if I wanted to scramble. Due to playing phone tag we weren't able to hook up for Middle...
Posted by Tyler Owen on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:16:00 PST

Scrambling Weekend Part I: Middle Sister

My goal this summer was to peak both Big and Middle Sisters of the Three Sisters Mountain that rises above Canmore. Big Sister I bagged at the end of July so, after a weekend away from home, I felt it...
Posted by Tyler Owen on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:24:00 PST

Music

2 years ago I saw Jesse Cook perform at the Eric Harvie Theatre in the Banff Arts Center and until yesterday it was the single greatest musical performance I had ever witnessed. The musicainship of no...
Posted by Tyler Owen on Mon, 07 May 2007 08:08:00 PST

You Know I'm Bored When ...

I make mix CD's. So there is another random one by yours truely up for grabs. First to claim it gets it.
Posted by Tyler Owen on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:29:00 PST

Will You Just Shut Up?!!?

Now that no one will want to read my blog ever again (see last post) read Ed's instead LINK. Best blog ever....
Posted by Tyler Owen on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:35:00 PST

Nerd Alert! III

Be forewarned, this is WAY nerdier than my previous two Nerd Alert posts. It's just no one I hang out with reads comics as much as I do so I have no one to do the nerd thing with. So, I'm spilling the...
Posted by Tyler Owen on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:12:00 PST

Wish Me Luck

I'm back to the real world and work tomorrow. I really enjoyed school but it was beginning to wear on me. If you hadn't already heard I know I passed but I have to wait for my final mark. If I had fai...
Posted by Tyler Owen on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:01:00 PST

Nerd Alert! II

I bought a GPS today and THIS is what I'll be doing with it. Anyone that wants to come along is welcome.Or - even better - if you live out of town let me stay at your house so I can run around your ne...
Posted by Tyler Owen on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:37:00 PST

School

Today was my first real day at school. Yesterday was spent getting my books, student ID and standing in lines to do so. My schedule is great. I have shop from 7:30 - 10:30, the occasional lecture at n...
Posted by Tyler Owen on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:10:00 PST