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Shane

I hear you fancy yourself a tuba player

About Me

I'd say I'm cynical but I'm not opinionated enough. Maybe I'm wading through too many -isms and undecisively sealing my fate as a fence sitter. Or maybe there is no truth at all and we're all going to hell. Whatever the case, I'm still optimistic sometimes

My Interests

Buying stuff for cheap, especially stuff like tins of peanuts and popcorn from goodwill. Speaking spanish and eating it on my skateboard are important, and watching people walk by eating at Caspians. Playing saxophone (again, someday) and making jewelry (again, someday).

I'd like to meet:

Douglas Adams, but now he is dead. God probably smited him for being an atheist, but he would not have admitted it.

Music:

Kill the Forensics, Sublime, The Distillers, Led Zeppelin, River City Rebels, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillepsie, Thelonius Monk, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Bob Dylan, Count Basie, Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Adicts, Soba Noodle Band, Dexter Gordon, Pure Imagination sang by Gene Wilder, Wes Montgomery, John Lee Hooker, Reel Big Fish, Wolfmother, AC/DC, Operation Ivy, Common Rider, Jimmy Cliff, Rockbottom Scoundrels, John Prine, The Specials

Movies:

Willa Wonka and the Chocolate factory, Requiem for a Dream, Spun, Trainspotting, The harder they come, Gladiator, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, SLC Punk, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Television:

Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, Daily show, Arrested Development.

Books:

Harry Potter, Angela's Ashes, Jack Kerouac's On The Road and The Dharma Bums, Any written word or picture by Bill Watterson, Requiem for a Dream by Herbert Selby Jr., Paulo Freire, Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, El Periquillo Sarniento is the epitome of Rockbottom Scoundrelness, The Awakening, Marx's Ecology, a clockwork orange, Pablo Neruda writes some good poetry

Heroes:

Gary Larson, Bill Watterson, Ben Hartley, Max Beeken, Bradley Nowell, John Coltrane, Jody Henderson, Zaphod Beeblebrox

My Blog

Mexican Immigration in the U.S.

In the past three decades, a rapid influx in the number of immigrants arriving from the U.S./Mexican border has caused national attention. Several different trends in immigration are also present in t...
Posted by Shane on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:24:00 PST

Mexico and La Malinche

Mexico and La Malinche "Si la Chingada es una representación de la Madre violada, no me parece forzado asociarla a la Conquista, que fue también una violación, no solamente en el sentido histórico, ...
Posted by Shane on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:22:00 PST