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Captain Solo

Soy un perdedor.

About Me

I do everything I can. And a number of things I can't.
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My Interests

Literature, film, LA Dodgers baseball, KC Chiefs football, surfing, tennis, guitar, theoretical physics, culture, history, science fiction, video games, fantasy sports, art.

I'd like to meet:


Music:

Sinatra, Neil Diamond, Harry Connick Jr., Dean Martin, Gershwin, Mozart, Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Working for a Nuclear Free City, Cut Chemist, The Most Serene Republic, the Band, David Gray, Ben Folds Five, The Shins, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Elliot Smith, Jimmy Eat World, Damien Rice, Nick Drake, Death Cab, Colin Hay, Rage Against the Machine, Ben Kweller, Sufjan Stevens, Coldplay, David Holmes, Iron & Wine, Roberta Flack, Duncan Sheik, Ryan Adams, Imogen Heap, Milli Vanilli.

AA Bondy on Conan
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Movies:

Thousands and thousands, but the any time, any channel, any starting point, all-time classics: Star Wars III-IV-V-VI, Indiana Jones I-II-III, Aliens, Back to the Future I-II-III, The Matrix, E.T., Blade Runner, Braveheart, Fight Club, Casablanca, Point Break, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Wedding Crashers, The Jerk, Old School, Grosse Pointe Blank, Garden State, Guys and Dolls, The King and I.

Television:

Battlestar Galactica - BEST SHOW ON TV - Firefly, Mythbusters, Human Weapon, Dogfights, Deadwood, Cowboy Bebop, Futurama, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, FLCL, Prison Break.

Books:

On the Road, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, Neuromancer, All Tomorrow's Parties, Virtual Light, Pattern Recognition, To Have and Have Not, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Lord of the Rings, the Dune series, The Hyperion Cantos, any Isaac Asimov, The Stars: My Destination, The Light of Other Days, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Fountainhead, Catch-22, 1984, A Clockwork Orange, Catcher in the Rye, Atlas Shrugged, The World According to Garp, Faster than the Speed of Light, The One Percent Doctrine, Dark Ages America.

Heroes:

Anyone and everyone awake and alive and fearless.

My Blog

I’m taking July

All my life I've had these peculiar crystalline moments where I stop, look around, and say to myself, "Look where my adventures have taken me now." Rarely - perhaps never - were those moments had...
Posted by Captain Solo on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:30:00 PST

New Blog

I'm consolidating my blogging to a new site: www.xanga.com/willbusker Drop in sometime! Or, don't!
Posted by Captain Solo on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:47:00 PST

Shroud

Today my TiVo - which sometimes has an evil mind of its own - decided to go and get a KTBN program called Ancient Secrets of the Bible that "debated" the veracity of the Shroud of Turin. I use th...
Posted by Captain Solo on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:28:00 PST

Process of Elimination

I've held out for strength, decisiveness, integrity, originality. I've learned to evade the lure of archetypes, recasts, or molds. Minor sacrifices have been made for the prom...
Posted by Captain Solo on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:36:00 PST

Criteria

Among the million other factors that weigh into the decision to give a girl credit for more than her anatomy, I have decided that an enjoyment of baseball is paramount. Fuck you if you hate ...
Posted by Captain Solo on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:01:00 PST

Last Lecture

It rained tonight. Really rained. This doesn't probably impress many of you, but here in SoCal it is so rare you can't help but feel like you stumbled into the climax of a John Hughes movie....
Posted by Captain Solo on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:24:00 PST

The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off

The internet - like the world itself - is full of garbage, this much is clear. The Chris Crockers of the world pollute human consciousness like nothing I've ever seen; so terrifyingly soulless an...
Posted by Captain Solo on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:56:00 PST

Quake

I think my idea of hell is a place where you have so much to say - life knowledge and experience streaming from your core detonating fire blossoms of creativity, vibrance, humor, h...
Posted by Captain Solo on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:01:00 PST

Zeitgeist

It is 3 AM on a Saturday, and I am shaken to my core. There is fear scraping by outside my window, knocking on the front door, snaking through cables and wires. I sit in the middle of a...
Posted by Captain Solo on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:05:00 PST

Fires

I'm in sheer amazement at the level of arrogance and blindness one can encounter in people even in a creative forum. All right, there are no right or wrong answers, but it should be abu...
Posted by Captain Solo on Tue, 15 May 2007 11:04:00 PST