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David

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About Me

I'm just a midwest boy lost in the fucking desert right now. I'm in Tucson now, having moved here because of work. I'm a union organizer, so I actually got out of that deadend job that I had been at for so goddamn long. I've been organizing for about eight months now, not too long but I've been over this county too many times to count. I hate the airports and the planes that arrive and depart from them. Stinking pits of people and booze and hurried-ness. I'm from the great state of Wisconsin, but lived in the equally great state of Minnesota for almost eight years. To all my friends and family out there, I'll try to keep the MN nice spirit alive down here. Peace!

My Interests

Drumming for sure, thats usually been number one for the last years. Politics and human rights. This is the basic track that I would and am going to persue in law school. In the past, I was a basketballer, not so much after I chose to start smoking instead. So I guess that smoking is an intrest of mine too, just would like to not be interested in it at all. I'm into reading the large, boring non-fiction books, Thomas Freidman, Bob Woodward, Naomi Klein, sometimes will read the books that I used to buy for my Anthropology classes just for fun. I bike when I can, when there isn't four feet of snow on the ground in this god for saken area of the country. At least for six month out of the year. Ah...more later

Music:

The classics: Cash, Clash, Cure, P. Collins, Ella, Miles Davis, Ramones, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys (don't forget about them), Billy Idol, Billy Joel, Muddy Waters, Coltrane, Chet Baker, Duke E, The King, Madonna (its true, she still got it), J. Brown, Patsy Cline, Bobby Dylan, and the stereotypical Beatles, (etc)Whatever is out there now: OzoMatli, Jurassic Five, Beastie Boys (see, they fit in so many categories), The Shins, Jay-Z (the lyrics, yknow?), Old and New White Stripes, The Black Keys, Tribe Called Quest (even though broken up), Handsome Boy Modeling School, Op Ivy, Jet (why not), and on, and onHardcore: Asinine Solution, Defacto Oppression, Civil Disobediance, Gifted Dick, Subhumans (Oi too), The Scuzz, Brother Inferior, Doom, and some Street Punk: the Bristles, The Casualties, can't think of anymoreMarleyThats some of it. I'm sure I'll update from time to time...

Movies:

Usual Suspects, Hunt for Red October, Fight Club, Half Baked, Farenheit 9/11, Adaptation, LOTR Trilogy (shit, I might be a dork), Star Wars too, Ray, Harold And Kumar go to White Castle, Super Troopers, Night of the Living Dead series, Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, I'll give most Horror/Action/Suspense Thrillers a chance, The Life of David Gayle, The United States of Leland, Stanley Kubrick movies-all of them, Tank Girl, Anything with Naomi Watts-she is so damn fine, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, and Puff the Magic Dragon

Television:

I love cable. It is something that was sent from the heavens and given to mortal man. TNT for basketball and Law & Order, FX for The Sheild and some other sitcoms, Comedy Central for...um...well...I guess I'll watch pretty much everything on that channel. If I had the premium channels nothing in my life would get done at all. Those fix-em-up shows with Jesse James and the mustachioed geeks on Discovery, every once in a while the "Top 100" blah blah blah blah shows on E! and VH1, whatever. Reality TV is the programming that WILL rot your brain.

Books:

Reading Bob Woodward's "Plan of Attack" basically mapping how this Bush's administration was planning from the get go to do something, anything they could to defeat Saddam. Next up is Thomas Freidman's "The World is Flat." I've heard good and bad things about both Freidman and this book. Should be interesting. I got the coolest book for Christmas tho, "The Pop-Up Book of Phobias." Pop up books were cool when I was a kid, and now their cool when I'm an adult. Wait, I'm an adult?

Heroes:

My Grandfather, William Hartwick. My father, Steven Fredrick Hearth. Joseph Conrad. John F. Kennedy. Nobody. Everybody.