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Darin

Banned for life. Wow! That's a long time.

About Me

I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal. I'm very important. People know me. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany. I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. ********************I'm the best there is. Plain and simple, when I wake up in the morning I piss excellence. I'm just a big hairy American winning machine, you know? I've sent in my application to the Real World. So I'm hoping to hear back from that. I'm putting A LOT of my eggs into that basket, the MTV basket. I'm also thinking about getting a gun, and dealing crack. Being a crack dealer. Not like a mean crack dealer, but like... like a nice one. Kinda friendly like, "hey, what's up guys? Want some crack?" I'm just waiting on those two things to flesh themselves out.*******************************************************W ell I guess it all started the first time I went through the second grade. I caught my reflection in a spoon while I was eating my cereal, and I remember thinking "wow, you're ridiculously good looking, maybe you could do that for a career. I wasn't like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an astronaut, I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree. Richard Gere's a real hero of mine. Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot. ************************************************************ ******************* When I die. I want to be frozen. And if they have to freeze me in pieces, so be it. I will wake up stronger than ever, because I will have used that time, to figure out exactly why I died. And what moves I could have used to defend myself better now that I know what hold he had me in. When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered, that I had resorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No, I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.****************************************************** The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it. *********************************I love where I live. I want to go to grad school in the next year or two.
You Are a Margarita
You aren't just the life of the party, you are the party!
You mix a good drink, bust out some great music, and know how to get down. What Mixed Drink Are You?

My Interests

Playing Hockey, Camping, Backpacking, Traveling, Music, Academics, people watching, swimming, darts, cat naps, pondering deep thoughts, Anthropology, people who speak with accents, fishing, skiing, white water rafting, drinking with my friends, geology, sunsets, going to see shows/concerts, growing food to eat, animals, children, people watching, teaching, going to school, chasing my cat and then pouncing on him (to show him what its like) photography, cooking, discovering hidden places, day dreaming on company time, Disneyland, collecting sea glass on the beach, laying on the beach, spinach salads, Vegas, learning languages, kettle corn, fish tacos, red wine, fine dining, 80's dance parties, dive bars, persian food,

I'd like to meet:

Let's see. Swim? Swammi? Slippy? Slappy? Swenson? Swanson? Samsonite! I was way off! I knew it started with an S, though.---------------------------------------------- Amy & David Sedaris....they are the only people that understand me. Other than those two. If you are cool and like to laugh odds are we will get along. I would like to meet more people that live near me and expand my social circle. So don't be shy and lets hangout.

Music:

The Arcade Fire, Regina Spektor, Sufjan Stevens, Radiohead, the doves, the raconteurs, modest mouse, peter bjorn and john, pinback, spoon, the promise ring, art of fighting, DCFC, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Kweller, Coldplay, travis, the postal service, the gloria record, idlewild, the jealous sound, the frames, sigur rose, beatles, slowdive, sunny day real estate, kent, the shins, Michael Jackson, Franz Ferdinand, bloc party, REM, GNR, U2, NWA, sounds that make people dance....

Movies:

28 weeks/days later, Elling, Walk the line, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Napoleon Dynamite, dumb and dumber, meet the parents, kingpin, Willy Wonka (Original), Meet Joe Black, The Notebook, Departed, Casino, Goodfellas, Crash, Ground Hog Day, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Nightmare Before Christmas, (Most Tim Burton movies), Donnie Darko, The Princess and the Warrior, Once Were Warriors, Revenge of the nerds 1 & 2, Ma Vie en Rose, Broken flowers, Lost in Translation (most movies by Bill Murry).................I really like foreign films that do not have the traditional lame American ending. It really says something about our culture when most movies have a sugar coated "everyone lived happily ever after" ending. We are so lame sometimes!! I think that gangster/mob movies are some of the best American cinema to date.

Television:

the office, lost, Family Guy, Frontline, Sharks Hockey, Daily Show, South Park, and fox news when I want to laugh

Books:

Fast Food Nation, Remembering Satan, Persian Mirrors, the giving tree, the spirit catches you and you fall down, Funny Farsi, Everything you know is wrong, choose your own adventure, me talk pretty one day, I like you

Heroes:

Mom, Bruce Lee, John Cheechoo, Paul Farmer, Michel Foucault, MLK Jr., 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, Diamond Dave, Zoe Bell, Bub Rub and Lil' Sis

My Blog

Tiki Trouble

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYqEPgc40oM ...
Posted by Darin on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:27:00 PST

I’m Voting Republican

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Posted by Darin on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:48:00 PST

Voices for Peace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81wviXYTiM0 ...
Posted by Darin on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:19:00 PST

The Story of Stuff

Why ads make us feel bad to buy more crap to ruin the world. http://www.storyofstuff.com/
Posted by Darin on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:42:00 PST

It has never been proven to act as an effective deterrent

Lawyers' group urges death penalty moratorium --> END HEADLINE --> --> BEGIN STORY BODY --> By James ViciniMon Oct 29, 10:40 AM ET The American Bar Association said on Monday it was renewing its...
Posted by Darin on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:27:00 PST

Dick Cheney 1994 Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I Dick Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire ...
Posted by Darin on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:53:00 PST

God loves you...just don’t be a fatty

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070812/us_nm/pastor_texas_arres t_dc;_ylt=Ams.I1hVVEvo3CyhWmVdSroDW7oF SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A Texas pastor and a colleague have been charged with tying a 15-year-old gir...
Posted by Darin on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:09:00 PST

Police Warn Of Sexual Assaults Near UCB Campus

http://www.ktvu.com/news/13853639/detail.html BERKELEY -- Police have issued a warning for young women in Berkeley after two UC students were victimized by a brazen rapist in recent weeks. Neighborh...
Posted by Darin on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:10:00 PST

What would Thomas Jefferson do?

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance ...
Posted by Darin on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:28:00 PST

People just do not care anymore

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070704/ap_on_re_us/stabbing_vid eo;_ylt=Am08fVj4TPF1NR6seB2ZvDMDW7oF By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer Wed Jul 4, 7:57 AM ET ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:sche...
Posted by Darin on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:26:00 PST