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Tristram

you'll begin to wonder why you came...

About Me

sports(playing tennis, racketball, hockey), watching football, reading fiction/fantasy, chess, lifting, debate, politics, martial arts, and meditative deliberations on life's nuances. i'm outspoken, competitive, terribly amusing, and utterly contemptuous of on-line networking and dating web sites.
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My Interests

ever evolving

I'd like to meet:

Beavis, Cartman, Brian Boru, Borges, Cleopatra, Einstein, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Lee, Nabakov, J.F.K., F.D.R., Bill Clinton, Bob Marley, Malcolm X, Janis Joplin, and all those i haven't but should...

Music:

i like a smattering... Hip hop: Wu Tang Clan, Biggie, Pun, Eminem, Jadakiss, G-Unit, Terror Squad etc... Rock: Tool, A Perfect Circle, System of a Down, Radiohead, Tragically Hip, Audioslave, Rage, etc... not a big fan of most mainstream college rock radio crap.

Movies:

Lord of the Rings, Matrix, Pulp Fiction, Usual Suspects, Braveheart, Iron Monkey, Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Grosse Point Blank, High Fidelity, As Good As It Gets, Big Lebowski, Matchstick Men, Lost in Translation, Memento, Miller's Crossing and a whole mess of others...

Television:

24, entirely too much CNN, sports (besides baseball and soccer), South Park, the Daily Show, Dinner For Five on IFC, Bullshit!, that 70's Show, and i'll admit to Everybody Loves Raymond...

Books:

Catch 22, Steppenwolf, Labyrinth (Borges), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chronicles of Amber, Red Branch, the Gunslinger, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Foundation Series, Wheel of Time series, and a few bookshelves more...

Heroes:

Yossarian, Cuchulain, and Jack Bauer

My Blog

Whatcha reading?

I don't read nearly as much as I used to, what with this damn computer-game addiction I have going...it kinda cuts into my leisure-reading timeso for any of you who have the misfortune of reading thes...
Posted by Tristram on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:55:00 PST

Andre Agassi

one of the greatest athletes plays in his last professional tournament tonight and this nostalgic bastard will have a hard time seeing him leave when/if he loses...here's to hoping he plays long past ...
Posted by Tristram on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:46:00 PST

Tipsivity

had a few drinks and came home early to make a phone call...that was a mistake...saw most of Star Wars III for the first time today. it pissed me off, the dialogue was so damn bad. cardboard cut-outs ...
Posted by Tristram on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:57:00 PST

Sometimes i wish she was you

a part of me smokes the cigarette, a part of me listens to her words echoing in my head...
Posted by Tristram on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 02:00:00 PST

A Sudden Liberating Thought

An excerpt from something i'm having a hard time reading:"The world isn't what it used to be. For example, it takes more time to live now. I'm well into my eighties but it isn't enough. I'm far too he...
Posted by Tristram on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:32:00 PST

Don't play with reality, you'll end up losin'

take my hand to bite it take my back to stab it take my trust to betray it take my anger to feed it take my pity to confuse it take my words to believe it take my eyes to deceive it leave my illusions...
Posted by Tristram on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:14:00 PST

unfinished...

i hate the wait...just sitting here waiting...the distractions don't work, not completely...the brain's doing a poor job of filtering, the same thought keeps getting through...
Posted by Tristram on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:42:00 PST

i'm pretty sure i used to be happier

a friend asks "how are you, are you ok?"...i always say yeah, i'm fine...i'm not though, and i'm pretty sure the friend knows...the question is more important than the answer. it's to let me know they...
Posted by Tristram on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 07:10:00 PST

who cares

There's a line written by someone other than me that goes "it's so deep it's meaningless"...i like what i think that means...i like how music does whatever i need it to do, to match or enhance whateve...
Posted by Tristram on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 11:25:00 PST

A conversation with God...or at least one of His agents

>A PARTIAL LITANY OF THE SAINTS>>O Rosa Parks and Thurgood Marshall, pray for us. O Oscar Romero and Raoul>Wallenberg; O Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Medgar Evers, O William Wilberforce,>pra...
Posted by Tristram on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:23:00 PST