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E.W. LaCombe

THAT'S JUST HOW THAT SHIT WENT ON TEE VEE

About Me



• i live with 3 cats.

• Wii code:
5707 1508 4527 5849

• x360 gamer tag:
melkface

• And I also enjoy polluting the cultural landscape:
www.orthopedicjackboot.com*
*but unfortunately my shit is down for the time being.
HOWEVER
it lives here in temporary, very slow-to-load form:
http://home.comcast.net/~eric.lacombe/

My Interests

delayed gratification, please, thank you, gauze eypatches, Mel*C® Brand Poodle Snacks, music, movies, video games, design, illustration, animation, photography* (*amateurish), the typing of words, incinerating weighted companion cubes, Brad Neely , bowling, shitty CG on bowling alley monitors, sane lefty politics from the safety of my armchair, the Huffington Post every damn day, metal, google image search, knives, married to the sea , maintaining chip-free shoulders, that certain transcendent level of crazy that only japanese art/toys/pop culture can hit, Costco, Zesto's vanilla milkshakes, simulated meats, camping, cats, sanrio, Zero Punctuation , perfectly executed gore FX, black coffee strong enough to dissolve my gums, manual transmissions, driving, road trips, cornering at imprudent speeds, krumping, surprising the people with the nice things, taking my rightful place as a loyal yet suffering 3rd generation Detroit Lions fan, the bloggings of Chris Kelly , indian food, thai food, middle eastern food, mexican food, food in general, dining out and eating said food, action.

I'd like to meet:

maybe just some nice people.

and/or:

Music:

In lieu of jamming an endless list of bands in your eyeholes:

Beyond this - if you miraculously give half a damn - you can lookit my recent listening habits here: www.last.fm/user/dirtstache/

Movies:

American Movie, Amelie, Barfly, Buffalo 66, Capturing the Friedmans, Children of Men, City of God, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Dawn of the Dead (old & new), Delicatessen, Election, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo, The Fog of War, Full Metal Jacket, Glengarry Glen Ross, Happiness, High Plains Drifter, Hoop Dreams, Jackass 1 & 2, The King of Comedy, Kung Fu Hustle, Lost in Translation, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miller's Crossing, No Country For Old Men, Paradise Lost, Punch-Drunk Love, Raising Arizona, The Royal Tenenbaums, Shaolin Soccer, The Squid and the Whale, Taxi Driver, The Warriors, Windy City Heat.
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This really could have been horrifyingly long.

Television:

THE WIRE, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Tim And Eric Awesome Show Great Job!, The Office (both), Extras, Real Time with Bill Maher.
R.I.P.: Rome, Deadwood, Strangers With Candy, Wonder Showzen, Mr. Show, The Sopranos, Larry Sanders, Ali G, Jackass, T.V. Funhouse.
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but really... i sure don't watch a whole helluva lot of tee vee. Kinda rather buy/rent the DVDs.

Books:

Post Office, Please Kill Me, Street Kingdom, The Dirt, Clockers, Naked, Breakfast of Champions, Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail '72, Rum Punch, Grab onto Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way... uhhhh... muhhhhh...
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oh, who am i kidding. i read so many more internets than books these days. I am not so proud of this fact.

Heroes:

Who the hell invented the sandwich?

They ought to write a book about him.

My Blog

And this is where i blog now, america:

Because i have nothing of any real importance to add to the national discourse, i just prattle on in concentrated bursts here:http://twitter.com/ewlacombeyep, every entry is restricted to 140 characte...
Posted by E.W. LaCombe on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:23:00 PST

2ND and FINAL dispatch from New York

Man, i'm hungry. There's an empty 25¢ box of Boston Baked Beans on this desk that i keep staring at in hopes that it will regenerate its former contents.actually, shit... i remembered that there's som...
Posted by E.W. LaCombe on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:34:00 PST

I AM IN NEW YORKS NOW

Okay, Brooklyn specifically. Sweating in a pair of nylon shorts & black socks (if you saw the floors in my brother's loft, you'd know why.) Me need a shower. Bathroom is occupied.So far i have taken a...
Posted by E.W. LaCombe on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:25:00 PST

Science Corner

Not sure how many of you are aware of this, but the corner of a slightly freezer-burned Mrs. T's Pierogie actually becomes a piece of chipped porcelain after being fully baked. My rear molars have con...
Posted by E.W. LaCombe on Sat, 26 May 2007 07:57:00 PST

Never ever EVER NEVERRR

Let anyone ever tell you that i'm hard to please.I got irrationally excited/enraptured when one of my cats SAT IN AN EMPTY BOX today.
Posted by E.W. LaCombe on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:41:00 PST

Hungry.

Okay. I've been a well fed fuck today. I even made myself a delicious vegetable curry for dinner. And ate plenty of it. But goddammit, i'm still hungry.And now I'm just trying to figure out what combi...
Posted by E.W. LaCombe on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:32:00 PST

Best thing I've heard out of him since Off The Wall

Got a link to this amazing fantastical story, via my daily internet news haunt, The Huffington Post:------------------------------------------MICHAEL JACKSON WANTS VEGAS ROBOT03/27/2007 4:00 PM, Yahoo...
Posted by E.W. LaCombe on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:02:00 PST

I WILL SURRVYYVE

Okay, so now I'm working out regularly at the gym embedded at my workplace... And I can't help but notice every song played over the house speakers is some "empowering" techno romp about regaining pos...
Posted by E.W. LaCombe on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:34:00 PST

Written without the slightest droplet of irony

Marching in the streetsDragging iron feetLaser beaming heartsRipping men apartThat's right... I just got Judas Priest's British Steel again. Well, I already own it on vinyl, but who wants to operate a...
Posted by E.W. LaCombe on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:01:00 PST

GET IN SHAPE, GIRL

Okay, so here at work we moved to a new building a week ago and now I'm on the 6th floor. The elevators* have been slow & crowded, so i finally decide to start taking the stairs. I know i'm out of sha...
Posted by E.W. LaCombe on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:21:00 PST