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highway chile

feed your head

About Me

"America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies.
America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.
I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet.
When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid.
My mind is made up there's going to be trouble.
You should have seen me reading Marx.
My psychoanalyst thinks I'm perfectly right.
I won't say the Lord's Prayer.
I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.
America I still haven't told you what you did to Uncle Max
after he came over
from Russia." - Allen Ginsberg

My Interests

peace
music
amnesty international
road trips
politics
trees
moccasins
turtles
gitchigami
gonzo journalism
looking for america
van gogh
museums
free tibet
tea
burts beeswax
the farm
sustainable living
the north country
history
chippewa river
neon bible
tommy
the source
malcolm x
no cars go
hemp
sunny side up

I'd like to meet:

Green Day
Hunter S. Thompson
Neal Cassidy
Theo Jansen
Willie Nelson
Kurt Vonnegut
Wayne Coyne
Pete Townsend

Music:


amy winehouse
andrew bird
the arcade fire
the beach boy
the beatles
beck
bell orchestre
big brother and the holding company
the black keys
black rebel motorcycle club
blind melon
blind lemon jefferson
bob dylan
buffalo springfield
cloud cult
country joe and the fish
creedence clearwater revival
the cure
david gray
death cab
the dears
devotchka
dusty springfield
explosions in the sky
the fratellis
the flaming lips
flogging molly
the futureheads
george harrison
the grateful dead
green day
gnarls barkley
harvey danger
the hopefuls
howlin' wolf
icollide
ima robot
interpol
the jam
jeff buckley
jimi hendrix
john denver
john lennon
johnny cash
the kinks
leadbelly
led zeppelin
the libertines
marjorie fair
matisyahu
mc5
modest mouse
nada surf
nina simone
nirvana
patsy cline
paula cole
pearl jam
pink floyd
placebo
the polyphonic spree
portishead
postal service
prince
queen
red hot chilli peppers
regina spektor
robert johnson
rogue wave
rolling stones
the shout out louds
skip james
the smiths
the sounds
the stills
stun
system of a down
thunderclap newton
the vines
the wackers
ween
weezer
whirlwind heat
the white stripes
the who
wilco
willie nelson
wolfmother
the yardbirds

Movies:

A Clockwork Orange
Almost Famous
American Beauty
American Phyco
American History X
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
The Big Lebowski
Boondock Saints
The Breakfast Club
Clerks
Cool Hand Luke
The Deer Hunter
Detroit Rock City
Easy Rider
Elf
Fargo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fight Club
From Dust till Dawn
Ghost World
Ginger Snaps (trilogy)
The Graduate
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
High Plains Drifter
Into The Wild
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Leon : The Professional
Lost in Translation
Mean Streets
Natural Born Killers
No Country For Old Men
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
the Pick of Destiny
Pretty in Pink
Princess Mononoke
Pulp Fiction
Raising Arizona
Rebel without a Cause
The Royal Tennenbaums
The Rules of Attraction
Rushmore
The Secretary
Super Troopers
Taxi Driver
There Will Be Blood
Tommy
Tommy Boy
Trainspotting
Wet Hot American Summer
You, Me and Everyone We Know

Television:

Aqua Teen Hunger Force
The Daily Show
The X-Files
Robot Chicken
Six Feet Under
Turner Classic Movies
Wild Boyz
Rob and Big
PBS

Books:

About a Boy
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Midsummer's Night Dream
Breakfast of Champions
The Dharma Bums
The Dark Tower The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test
Everything is Illuminated
Falling Leaves
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
High Fidelity
I Am Charlotte Simmons
Kingdom of Fear
Less Than Zero
Lolita
On the Road
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Rules of Attraction
Seven Years in Tibet
Slaughterhouse Five

Heroes:

Hunter S. Thompson
Atticus Finch
John Lennon
Paul Wellstone
Bob Dylan
Janis Joplin
Kurt Vonnegut

My Blog

goodbye mr. vonnegut

This shouldn't be a surprise. He was 84, even Kurt didn't know how he made it that long. But I do, he was great that is why. A real freak, a snow leopard and one of the last. Late my friend....
Posted by highway chile on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:47:00 PST

would be 85.

happy birthday you beautiful fiend.
Posted by highway chile on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:05:00 PST

signs signs everywhere are signs!

It is 46 fucking degrees here. Last weekend we got 2 feet of snow. ... and yet still some people don't believe in global warming. x_x;
Posted by highway chile on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:57:00 PST

he not busy being born

Well. It's been awhile. And if for nothing other than my better karma i shall feed this mediocre blogsphere machine with an update. I live in the north country now. Superior. "Superior Wisconsin, the ...
Posted by highway chile on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:32:00 PST

Do you know what I love so much about these My First Wedding ads?

Which by the way, I believe is a sign of the apocolypse. There's a little fun fact for ya. That aside... You know that Rachael Leigh Cook has truely fallen from grace when the ad for her film clea...
Posted by highway chile on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:33:00 PST

Loose Change, the truth about 9/11

If you haven't seen this already, DO IT NOW! Find an hour and 20 minutes, and watch it...as soon as possible. Unless you're one of those "ignorance is bliss" types. If you had any faith left in our ...
Posted by highway chile on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:35:00 PST

Delicously bored

  Katharine Hepburn You scored 16% grit, 52% wit, 42% flair,  and 0% class! You are the fabulously quirky and independent woman of character. You go your own way, follow your own drum...
Posted by highway chile on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 11:45:00 PST

Was it just too jew for you?

The Oscars, a time when Hollywood sets aside their petty difference for a night, glams up and pretends to be merely humble craftsmen for one night. A night with red carpets, more paparatzi than Prince...
Posted by highway chile on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:05:00 PST

Fear and Loathing on the weekends

Strange thoughts on this early, early for me anyway, morning in February. The night before is coming back to me in pieces. All of which seem utterly amusing, but slightly forgien. As if that strange n...
Posted by highway chile on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 06:17:00 PST

I blog, therefore I am.

This is officially my month...of....DOOM. Got to kick it into gear. Too much of my loan money at stake to not get good grades. That and that whole "rest of your life" thing. Figure I can handle ...
Posted by highway chile on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:49:00 PST