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Travis Hi.

I ate the insides of a clock. Then I died.

About Me

I’d like to say a few words in defense of our country, whose people aren’t bad nor are they mean. Now the leaders we have, while they’re the worst that we’ve had, are hardly the worst this poor world has seen. Let’s turn history’s pages, shall we? Take the Caesars for example. Why within the first few of them They were sleeping with their sister, stashing little boys in swimming pools and burning down the City. And one of ‘em, one of 'em appointed his own horse Consul of the Empire. That’s like vice president or something. That’s not a very good example, is it? But wait, here’s one, the Spanish Inquisition. They put people in a terrible position. I don’t even like to think about it. Well, sometimes I like to think about it. Just a few words in defense of our country, whose time at the top could be coming to an end. Now we don’t want their love and respect at this point is pretty much out of the question, but in times like these we sure could use a friend. Hitler. Stalin. Men who need no introduction. King Leopold of Belgium. That’s right. Everyone thinks he’s so great. Well he owned The Congo. He tore it up too. He took the diamonds, he took the gold, He took the silver. Know what he left them with? Malaria. A President once said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Now it seems like we’re supposed to be afraid.It’s patriotic; in fact and color coded. And what are we supposed to be afraid of? Why, of being afraid. That’s what terror means, doesn’t it? That’s what it used to mean. You know it pisses me off a little that this Supreme Court is gonna outlive me. A couple of young Italian fellas and a brother on the Court now too. But I defy you, anywhere in the world to find me two Italians as tightass as the two Italians we got. And as for the brother...Well, Pluto’s not a planet anymore either. The end of an empire is messy at best. And this empire is ending like all the rest. Like the Spanish Armada adrift on the sea, we’re adrift in the land of the brave and the home of the free Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. -Randy Newman

My Interests

.. pop culture, liberal politics, love, writing, drawing, photography, celebrity, museums, walking, running, falling, dusting myself off, circumstance, happenstance, certain drugs, skin, and you. i am trying to control myself, i want to find my spirit animal, it might be a duck. or some kind of gargoyle.

I'd like to meet:

The future me.

Music:

"I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats. "Reasons to Be Cheerful" by Ian Dury. Anything by Belle and Sebastian or Magic Cave.

Movies:

The Muppet Movie. Spinal Tap. Me and You and Everyone We Know. Anything Wes Anderson's made.

Television:

The Daily Show, Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks.

Books:

Bellow, Franzen, Updike, Morrison, Chabon, Salinger, a bunch more.

Heroes:

According to one account, Faust's infamy became legendary while he was in prison, where in exchange for wine he "offered to show a chaplain how to remove hair from his face without a razor; the chaplain provided the wine and Faustus provided the chaplain with a salve of arsenic, which removed not only the hair but the flesh"

My Blog

I’m kidding!

Sometimes when you're talking I make movies of you in my mind.  And sometimes I'm just waiting for you to stop talking.  There, I admitted it.I'm neither as well-intentioned or evil as I hav...
Posted by Travis Hi. on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:44:00 PST

I’m in the Sheboygan Press! Wooo?

I was hanging out in the Mead Library (Sheboygan WI) not long after xmas when a reporter asked me a few questions about new year's resolutions. Quoth the Jan 1st article quoting me:"Resolutions somet...
Posted by Travis Hi. on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:19:00 PST

Brain cloud

I've been diagnosed with a brain cloud and given 6 months to live.  An eccentric millionaire offered me access to his fortune if I jump into a volcano on an island populated by tropical Jews who ...
Posted by Travis Hi. on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:03:00 PST

noble enough

"Dewey was wrong when he said that being noble enough is all we can ask for in this world, because we can ask for so much more than that.we can ask for a second helping of pound cake, even though some...
Posted by Travis Hi. on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:04:00 PST

better

I'm trying to think outside myself.  Be more loving, acccept love, talk less shit about others and myself.  why is it so hard to be a good person?  is that just me?  i do try. ...
Posted by Travis Hi. on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:04:00 PST

for a girl

ive run out of reasons.my reasons were always excuses.i'll eat apple cores if i want.anything to make myself miserable.missing you isn't enough.i don't call because i shouldn't.really shouldn't.i have...
Posted by Travis Hi. on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 02:37:00 PST

red & purple, black & white, green & orange

dear myspace blog, 2005 is almost over and I say, good riddance. good fucking riddance.   It almost killed me, didn't make me any stronger, nothing good came of 2005.  There's an old chin...
Posted by Travis Hi. on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:48:00 PST

oyster cracker, plaster caster

shaping up to be a LONELY XMAS.  but i got a kiss last night.  and i danced a little, tho i was sad.  I got punched in the face last night.  How come all my father figures are vi...
Posted by Travis Hi. on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:36:00 PST

aging fast

i suddenly feel old.  very very old.  sometimes when i'm struck with this feling i tell myself that i'm better off, that i'm not making the same mistakes i did as a younger man.  but th...
Posted by Travis Hi. on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 06:10:00 PST

...Prove it !

A wise if oversexed man once said "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you [bl]eed." 1.Always look both ways before you cross yourself. 2. Th...
Posted by Travis Hi. on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 05:23:00 PST