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whistle

Apathy is a shield for the weak.

About Me

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I just completed the following video. It is a compilation of images captured during our honeymoon set to music I recorded just before the wedding. Special thanks to Chris Porter for his contribution on the song!Le Port:..

Music:

Porter Blue, The Ruby Suns, The Fiery Furnaces, Battles, Overwhelmed, Samadha, Wes Shepherd, Lightning Bolt, The Elected, Built to Spill, Sunny Day Real Estate, Hella, the Advantage, Animal Collective, Cursive, Electric Light Orchestra, Moody Blues, Starlight Mints, Rufus Wainright, Olivia Tremor Control, Ventures, Frank Zappa, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Moreland Audio, Burning Airlines, Jawbox, Creeper Lagoon, Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Do Make Say Think, Meshuggah, Primus, Flaming Lips, Hum, Radiohead, Frank Black, Tortoise, Of Montreal, Tolbert Sparks, Beatles, Beach Boys, Matt Sharp, Wilco, Allman Brothers, Aphex Twin, Mars Volta, Yes, The Lovin Spoonful, Neal Dover, The Rentals, Moog Cookbook, Pewep & The Formats, Supergrass, Fantomas, Sebadoh, Ben Folds Five, far too many to list really...etc

Movies:

Memento, House of 1K Corpses, Cabin Fever, I (Heart) Huckabees, DiG!, many other horror movies....self expression: soul expansion did a really good job on this nightmare portrayed through video:

Television:

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Books:

Non-fiction, preferred

Heroes:

My dad, you, Jesus, Ghandi, the lists go on & on for centuries

My Blog

Turn Off Your Television (or Computer)

Saturday night, we went to see my friend Bobby's band T.O.Y.T.V. (Turn Off Your Television) at a terrible venue in Cumming called Good Ol Days.   TOYTV were great. Bobby is always solid, althoug...
Posted by whistle on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:42:00 PST

For everything, there is a seasoning

A long time ago, I heard someone theorize that, universally, there is simply a strand of repeating elements that revolve around and we experience the same things over and over again throughout our lif...
Posted by whistle on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:47:00 PST

Yesterday was the National Boss Day

Every year, on October 16th, comes this unusual holiday  National Boss Day.   From Wikipedia: "It has traditionally been a day for employees to thank their boss for being kind and fair through...
Posted by whistle on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:26:00 PST

I will still take freebies, though

My birthday is coming up pretty soon. I expect that I will get some gifts. This expectation is based on the fact that every year I have been alive I have received presents on my birthday. I don't thi...
Posted by whistle on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:15:00 PST

Someone posed this question to me

Does Jenny Lewis owe the success of her musical career on the movie career she had as a child?   Let's look at the variables:   Sure, she hasn't become a major star in the music world, but...
Posted by whistle on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:44:00 PST

Grudge match: [REC] fans versus Quarantine

The horror flick Quarantine came out last weekend and made some number of millions of dollars at the box office.   It is a remake of a Spanish horror flick called [REC].   Many Americans s...
Posted by whistle on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:18:00 PST

Boy, do I ever hate Mondays&

This past weekend was a little bit over-indulgent.   I ate too much, drank too much, slept too little, and had a great time.   I want to thank everyone that came to the show on Friday; I ...
Posted by whistle on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:35:00 PST

An unscientific, but interesting internet poll

I have a confession to make&   I read gossip blogs from time to time. My favorite blog, Geekologie has a link to a gossip site called The Superficial: Because You Are Ugly that I read on o...
Posted by whistle on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:15:00 PST

Like natural, but way more so

Today I got an email from the future&   It totally freaked me out. It was spam, but spam from the future is still scary.   It was a survey about Obama. I didn't click the link in fear of w...
Posted by whistle on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:42:00 PST

exposed and vulnerable, check it out!

Amy and I had a long talk the other night about our childhoods and what sort of things possibly made the biggest impact on our lives.   I'd say my parents divorcing was pretty major for me, I t...
Posted by whistle on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:55:00 PST