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davey

About Me


"you can't make friends with ozymandias in your profile..." ~ lisa garbled
"never tell me the odds." ~ han solo
shrug
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
This is Just to Say
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the iceboxand which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
William Carlos Williams
In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Ezra Pound
Six Word Story
For sale: baby shoes, never used.
Ernest Hemingway
My Six Word Story
Widower dropped crossbow at perfect angle.
inspired by Kenneth Creamer

My Interests

absurdity, obscurity, and profundity

I'd like to meet:

compassionate geeks.

Music:

album leaf, appleseed cast, blonde redhead, broken social scene, neko case, dick cheese, the clash, miles davis, the decemberists, bob dylan, engine down, feist, ella fitzgerald, explosions in the sky, flaming lips, iron and wine, kings of convenience, led zeppelin, huey lewis and the news, maritime, minus the bear, modest mouse, murder by death, my bloody valentine, neutral milk hotel, rosa passos, pinback, postal service, promise ring, the radio dept., red animal war, rolling stones, slowdive, the smiths, snowden, springsteen, starflyer 59, the strokes, tokyo police club, emiliana torrini, the who, yo la tengo, zero zero

Movies:

ATHF:MFT, babel, brick, children of men, the departed, the fountain, grindhouse, el laberinto del fauno, half nelson, little children, little miss sunshine, punch-drunk love, stranger than fiction, la tigre e la neve, volver, zwartboek

Television:

battlestar galactica, the boondocks, burn notice, house, invader zim, lost

Books:

current: life of pi, yann martel
last: children of men, p.d. james
next: in the skin of a lion, michael ondaatje

Heroes:

jean-dominique bauby, sam beam, robert browning, guy fawkes, terry gilliam, robin hood, randall jarrell, john locke, odysseus, tim o'brien, thomas paine, bartholomew roberts, voltaire, kurt vonnegut, orson welles, william carlos williams

My Blog

hilda! hilda! ive invented a maneuver!

so tonight i had the honor of saving my father's life, in all its slimy, chicken-sputtering glory.  my mother couldn't seem to pull off the heimlich on old dad, so i got called to the rescue.&nbs...
Posted by davey on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:22:00 PST

older... wiser?

on wednesday, androo bush and i went to see tokyo police club at sonar in baltimore.  then we danced our asses off at some joint near the harbor, courtesy of too much jameson.  i think ...
Posted by davey on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:12:00 PST

im on fire

we got to hang out on scott's porch last night with two bottles of very tasty wine.  things started to wind down, so i said goodnight and started driving home.  about halfway there, i pulled...
Posted by davey on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:13:00 PST

Cookies for Peace

"Father said if I gave the boy who was teasing mea bloody nose he'd stop.  Mother didn't thinkit was good advice.  She said I wouldn'tget far in life if I tried to punch everyonewho bothered...
Posted by davey on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:39:00 PST

freaks and geeks

wow.  i can't believe this didn't get picked up for another season.now i know why the guys in the onion's av club geek out about it so much.span.fon_container{ height:15px !important; whi...
Posted by davey on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:53:00 PST

suture

an online lit mag issue that i helped put together has finally seen the light of day.  you can download the .pdf file here.  i recommended 7 out of the 11 features (p.9 & 10).  see ...
Posted by davey on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:47:00 PST

epigraph of the blushing god

don't be afraid of being afraid. try not to regret what we've made. together. span.fon_container{ height:15px !important; white-space: nowrap !important; } span.fon_flag{ background: ...
Posted by davey on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:03:00 PST

children of men

"He listened again to the forest, to its secret life. Now the sounds, seeming to increase as he listened, were full of menace and terror: the scaveneger scurrying and leaping on its prey, the cruelty ...
Posted by davey on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:48:00 PST

import

several months ago, i had devoted quite a bit of time to helping a chinese lady try to get in contact with customs and import officials.  she was trying to start a small business h...
Posted by davey on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:15:00 PST

california

proof that people make the place: i sat in the airport for fifteen minutes and seriously considered not getting on the plane to come back.
Posted by davey on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:49:00 PST