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drew

Avoir, Adieu, Goodnight

About Me



My Interests

feedback, practical jokes, beliefs, photography, darts, tattoos, open-window driving, loud reckless music, quiet solitary music, music that matches the moment, music that plays in my head, and then more music, traveling, meeting people with something different to say, guitars, painting, creating, all things vintage, sounds, peace of mind, films, art in general, changing scenes, dreams.

I'd like to meet:



Music:

Tom Waits, Steve Reich, Melvins, Jesu, Boris, Mark Lanegan, Yeong-wook Jo, Earth, Swervedriver, Soundgarden, Isis, Jeff Buckley, Debussy, and lots and lots of Sabbath.

Movies:

Waking Life, Network, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Mitchell, Psycho, Idiocracy, Sane Man, Old Boy, Vertigo, Love Liza, The Fountain, My Own Private Idaho, La Dolce Vita

Television:

Cops
Six Feet Under
West Wing
Arrested Development
MST3k
South Park
Kids in the Hall
and Sports Night

Books:

The Gods of Winter by Dana Gioia
A Year with Thomas Merton
On the Road by Jack Keruoac
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Entire Collection of Calvin and Hobbes
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Demian and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
The Bible
and all things Shakespeare.
I like to wander through book stores and read random passages, mostly from philosophy, religion, science sections and biographies.

My Blog

I miss my love

The hills are alive with the sound of feedback. Soft, delicate feedback, loud biting melody, orchestrated distortion, and lulling mids with cranked presence to a steady beat. I want a quartet with m...
Posted by drew on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:14:00 PST

Christian Taoism, anyone?

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion....In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This...
Posted by drew on Thu, 24 May 2007 03:49:00 PST

Do all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place you are.

"Some one ought to do it, but why should I?" -- "Some one ought to do it, so why not I?" Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution. - Annie Besant just thought i would share s...
Posted by drew on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:47:00 PST

Down on the Upside / or something i hearing is waiting

Upon The SandSaid one man to another, "At the high tide of the sea, long ago, with the point of my staff I wrote a line upon the sand; and the people still pause to read it, and they are careful that ...
Posted by drew on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:29:00 PST

What Kind of Day Has It Been

ok I am done.  I have a had a horrible day, I am looking at some unpleasant times ahead.  So I am making a decision, a year from this January, mark your calendars, its on.  What will ha...
Posted by drew on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:26:00 PST

S w i (op.3)

A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream. - ...
Posted by drew on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:58:00 PST

I'm free now...flexing like a heartbeat

I have successfully moved all of my stuff into my new apartment now.  its very small, quiet and small.  but its done.  I am without a computer and a TV for now.  I may not get a TV...
Posted by drew on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:21:00 PST

Example 1

If the past is unredeemable, and the future unpredictable, what more practical course is open than to safeguard the present by constant rememberance of the divine?Paul BruntonNotebooksI don't want to ...
Posted by drew on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:09:00 PST

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

"Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it." - Neale Donald WalschNorthwest Country Blues. Acoustic songs against a rainy...
Posted by drew on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:16:00 PST

In need of Reason

I had a great blog written before this one, a huge rant on the state of my human condition and a formulated opinion on the steady downfall of western society, but then Tom Waits "Closing Time" came on...
Posted by drew on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:52:00 PST