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xnbach

Stranger in A Strange Land

About Me



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My Interests

Art, Buddhism, cycling, Eden Studios, horror, indie movies, indie music, pulp, spirituality, stuff, Unisystem, writing, vegetarianism

I'd like to meet:

Other writers, other artists, other Seattlites, and other kewl people.

Music:

Zero 7 - Destiny



I love this song. Used it as the theme for a game I ran two years ago.

TV On the Radio - Wolf Like Me



TV On The Radio and Werewolves. What's not to like?

Living dead Girl - Rob Zombie



One of my favorite Rob Zombie songs

My Bloody Valentine - Soon



So if Christian Bach had a theme song, this would be it.

Evil - Interpol



I love this song, even if it is about a serial killer or whatever

smoosh - rad



Everyone in Seattle loves Smoosh. Two of the most talented girls ever. Laurie Anderson, Arrested Development, B-52s, Erykah Badu, Johnny Cash, Common, Dead Can Dance, The Decemberists, De La Soul, Devo, Dresden Dolls, Guttermouth, Flight of the Conchords, Fugazi, Interpol, Ivy, Jurassic 5, Melon Galia, Bob Mould and all his iterations (Husker Du, Sugar), My Bloody Valentine, the Pixies, the Roots, Scissor Sisters, Jill Scott, the Smiths, Smoosh, Stereolab, Talib Kweli, Tenacious D, They Might Be Giants, A Tribe Called Quest, TV on the Radio, Ugly Duckling, U2, Vandals, Vast, Rob Zombie

Movies:

An American Werewolf in London, Big Trouble in Little China, Boondock Saints, Buckeroo Banzai, Dawn of the Dead, Dog Soldiers, The Hunger, Ghost Dog, Kill Bill, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run), Lord of the Rings (Jackson, not Bakshi), Monty Python movies, Night of the Living Dead, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Shaolin Soccer, The Shining, Shaun of the Dead, Six String Samurai, Snatch, They Live, The Thing, Way of the Gun

Television:

Angel, Buffy, Carnivale, Dead Like Me, Doctor Who, Heroes, Justice League, Northern Exposure, Pushing Daisies (so far), Smallville, Venture Brothers (see below) .. width="425" height="350" .... width="425" height="350" ..

Books:

My favorite writers are Carl Hiaasen, Alan Moore, Charles de Lint, Chris Moore, Chuck Palahniuk, Douglas Adams, Elmore Leonard, Grant Morrison, Joe R. Lansdale, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Umberto Eco, and me.

My Blog

Stardust

I finally saw Stardust yesterday. Am I the only one in all of geekdom who was actually disappointed by this movie?
Posted by xnbach on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:03:00 PST

Redbull Soapbox Race

 This was a lot of fun yesterday.
Posted by xnbach on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:11:00 PST

Not an orphan yet...

After hours and hours, dad got through his surgery as well as could be expected and they got out the bulk of the tumor. He's still got paralysis down his left side, and he still has tendrals of tumor ...
Posted by xnbach on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:18:00 PST

Yom Kippur

Talked to my dad, the surgery will be on Monday because all the really good doctors are off for Yom Kippur. He's got a nasty tumor in his head that's spider webbing its way through his brain, so they ...
Posted by xnbach on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:50:00 PST

More News About My Father

In the 30 second conversation I just had with the stepmother, I learned that the tumor is indeed malignant, though they don't know what grade yet, and they want to hold off on surgery for at least two...
Posted by xnbach on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:50:00 PST

News About My Father

My step-sister just called me, and apparently my father is in the hospital with partial paralysis from a brain tumor. They haven't done a biopsy yet, so nobody knows if it's something simple or someth...
Posted by xnbach on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:04:00 PST

Getting Paid

Eden Studios finally sent me a chunk of the money they owed me over the weekend, so that was pretty good news for me. Some of that will be going to upgrade the computer to something from this century ...
Posted by xnbach on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:56:00 PST

From the KEXP playlist....

DJ Comments: David Bowie recently celebrated his 400th birthday (earth years) by levitating himself and a bus full of school children across the English ChannelI don't know about you lot, but I find t...
Posted by xnbach on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:20:00 PST

CoDA

I went to my first CoDA meeting tonight. It was a unique experience to be in a room with seven other people who were all just as broken as I am. It's nice, because you don't feel like a freak and you ...
Posted by xnbach on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:42:00 PST

...and just like that

Holy crap, it took all of a minute for Alex and George to respond to my email. They must be smelling the possibility of lawsuit in the air. Either that, or they really don't want to piss off the guy w...
Posted by xnbach on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:02:00 PST