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Imperial Units

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About Me

Nearly froze making this . . .
Blue Skies for Black Hearts - Siouxsie Please Come Home from Kelly Simmons on Vimeo .

But enough about me . . . let's talk about you.

My Interests

music, travel, cats

I'd like to meet:

you

Music:

Hockey, Jimmy Smith, M83, The National, Fast Computers, Sam Cooke, Beach Boys, Teddybears, The Parties!!!, Metric, Arcade Fire, The Equals, Dionysus, Death From Above 1979, Lackthereof, Swords, Cursive, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Kings of Leon, Blonde Redhead, R.E.M., At The Drive In, Mars Volta, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Sunset Valley, Spoon, Onelinedrawing, Deerhoof, Crooked Fingers, Afghan Whigs, Cake, The Plimsouls, Elvis Costello, The Divorce, Guided By Voices, Creeper Lagoon, John Vanderslice, MK Ultra, Beastie Boys, Brad, Death Cab For Cutie, Enon, French Kicks, Roy Orbison, The Tragically Hip, The Standard, Rival Schools, Exploding Hearts, Richmond Fontaine, Nas, Mike Doughty, Queens of the Stone Age, King Brothers, Hot Snakes, Gipsy Kings, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Green Circles, Desparecidos, Murder City Devils, Simon & Garfunkel, Rally Boy, Kula Shaker, Iron On, 1090 Club, The Minus 5, Jimmy Eat World, The Crosswalks, Old Stones, Matthew Good Band, The Wrens, The Thermals, Climber, Dance Card, Blitzen Trapper, Cornelius, and of course Blue Skies For Black Hearts, Lael Alderman and The Very Foundation . . . my hands are tired . . . no more typing . . .

Television:

been absent in my life going on 2 years now. sweet.

Books:

halfway through Sorrows of Empire, Natural Capitalism & the Alexiad. sigh.

Heroes:

I am firmly convinced they do not exist any more. Which I find sad. Wait, I take that back. The Dalai Lama . . . now that guy is amazing. But I'm pretty sure he's the last one. All the others hopped off this bloody handbasket when it zipped by heaven on its way to the sub-basement.

My Blog

it’s all about

the eyes
Posted by Imperial Units on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:59:00 PST

bored out of my mind musings

So . . . been sick for the last three days . . . everyone else had already gotten it, and I was thinking I was in the clear, but alas, like a ton of bricks Sunday evening.I have been pretty much at ho...
Posted by Imperial Units on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:42:00 PST

to all those I love

I just wanted to say, I'm sorry.  I've been pretty unavailable lately . . . but it ain't 'cause I don't love the holy hell outta ya.  Whoever knew such a good year could exhaust one so? ...
Posted by Imperial Units on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:15:00 PST

the sadness

ok, I know it's lame . . . but not-so-secretly, I am in love with the movie Kingdom of Heaven.  I know, I know . . . Ridley Scott . . . it's horrible . . . obvious, pandering bullshit . . . it's...
Posted by Imperial Units on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:33:00 PST

Must . . . find . . . EP

So there's this band from Australia, called Mr. Brown.  I am not sure if they are even together anymore.  Sometime around '98-'99 they released an EP called On The Radio.  The title son...
Posted by Imperial Units on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:11:00 PST

It's Official

So I've been reading a report presented to the European Commission on the benefits of the integration of intraday electricity markets in Europe.  When perusing through how current operators use l...
Posted by Imperial Units on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:57:00 PST

leggings

it's a good word.  fun to say.  at once sexy and dorky.  i find i'm bad with pain.  not the physical stuff.  that is what it is.  the didn't see it coming hole in your c...
Posted by Imperial Units on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:41:00 PST

Breaking My Heart

So it came about in the break up with my ex that I got "custody" of one of the cats we got while together.  Basically, the ex is moving to a place where the number of critters that could and woul...
Posted by Imperial Units on Wed, 02 May 2007 01:13:00 PST

FranceBlog - Shorty the (Nearly) Wrap Up

yes, I suck at blogging.  I know.  I suck at writing journals, too.  Lately I've been struggling with lyrics even.  Maybe I shouldn't write.  Maybe I should start one of those...
Posted by Imperial Units on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:04:00 PST

Well, shit . . .

I'm single. Didn't really see that one coming did ya?  Me neither.
Posted by Imperial Units on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:38:00 PST