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Dr. Awesome

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About Me

I live in DC again.

My Interests

hiking, camping, backpacking, cooking, riding bikes, reading, rocking out, board games, punk rock, activism, people watching, booty shakin', exploring small towns/state parks, rails to trails, unbridled passion, rope swingin' at the waterin' hole, organic gardening, homebrew, trailrunning, soccer, St. Louis Cardinals, being posi, radical pedagogy, dinosaurs, robots, zombies, birdwatching, spelunking, all things Missouri, all things METAL!

I'd like to meet:

People that have lots of passion and are very heartfelt in what they do.People with dinosaur tattoos (like me).Fellow southpaws.Punk rock teachers.Posi-people, GO!

Music:

Jawbreaker, Red Forty, Chino Horde, Current, WM17, Generation of Vipers, Five-O, Ottawa, Prozac Memory, The Souls, Grace Kelly, Warhammer 48K, The One Inch Punch, Drive Like Jehu, RFTC, Discount, Team Dresch, Lync, Karp, Unwound, Neil Young, CCR, The Boss, JCM, Assfactor 4, Heroin, Moss Icon, Born Against, U.O.A., Rorschach, Mohinder, The Van Pelt, Chisel, Embrace, The Hated, Soulside, Ignition, Circus Lupus, Swiz, Fugazi, Rites of Spring, all Mike Kirsch bands, 1905, Virginia Black Lung, Hoover, Lincoln, Kukim, Emily Haines (all projects), Neko Case, Okkervil River, Lucero, Archers of Loaf, Superchunk, Dinosaur Jr., Buffalo Tom, Husker Du, The Replacements, Wire, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Brandon Butler, the Minutemen, the Descendents, 7 Seconds, Avail, Samiam, Propagandhi, The Weakerthans, The Constantines, Dillinger 4, Crimpshrine, Pinhead Gunpowder, Lifetime, Iron and Wine, Calexico, Damien Jurado, old Metallica, Anthrax, 3rd Bass, EPMD, J. Tim, Fela Kuti and tons of other shit.

Movies:

Say Anything, Matewan, Men with Guns, City of God, 101 Reykjavik, Big Fish, the Station Agent, the Dreamers, Sex y Lucia, Butterfly, Monster Squad, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Can't Hardly Wait, Battle Royale, Ken Burns documentaries (esp. the baseball one), the Sandlot, The Rookie, Dune, Beautiful People, Talk to Her

Television:

Twin Peaks, Lost, The O.C., Dawson's Creek, South Park, the Simpson's, the Jeff Corwin Experience, Chapelle Show, Reno 911, Upright Citizen's Brigade, Futurama, Mission Hill, Robot Chicken, Strangers with Candy, the Naked Chef, the Office, Mr. Show, the Oblongs, Sportscenter, Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Family Guy, Hey Arnold, The State, Zooboomafoo, Da Ali G Show, Adventures of Pete and Pete

Books:

Siddhartha, Desert Solitaire, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Reservation Blues, Push, Oryx and Crake, the Little Prince, the Lorax, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, Confederacy of Dunces, Optic Nerve, Joe Sacco comix, Nate Powell comix, The Giver, Letters to a Young Poet, From the Mixed Up Files of Ms. Basil E. Frankweiler, Encyclopedia Brown

Heroes:

Vanessa Sacks es mi amiga en amor y lucha.My dad and the St. Louis Cardinals.

My Blog

We've Lost Beauty Again

It's about 12:30 on a Wed. night and I got some pretty bad news that I wasn't expecting. My friend, Nate Powell, had just texted me that our friend Jon Lovett had passed away from cancer that he'd b...
Posted by Dr. Awesome on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:57:00 PST

the 22nd (revisited)

I'm about ready to get on a plane and head back to my newfound home of Washington, DC. It's really interesting how much can change in a year. I've really accomplished quite a lot and know that my...
Posted by Dr. Awesome on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:23:00 PST

Metal over Morals

I was once in a band called Subscribe and we had a song called "Metal over Morals."  I actually borrowed the song title from my friend Kadd who explained a story of progressive thinking punkers c...
Posted by Dr. Awesome on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:32:00 PST

Joey Belladonna

I was pretty psyched the other day to find Anthrax's Spreading the Disease on vinyl  at Apop for 5 bucks. I went home and blasted the mosh for the entirerity and it took me back to my metal roots...
Posted by Dr. Awesome on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:46:00 PST

Perspective

I just got back from a recent roadtrip to Bloomington, Indiana to clear my head, deal with death, and see both old and new friends. I'm really glad i went because it gave me some much needed perspecti...
Posted by Dr. Awesome on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:02:00 PST

Words are not enough

My father passed away on December 23, 2005 at 8:20 pm. I was out of town visiting friends in Jefferson City and when i pulled into the garage he was in the process of dying. I pulled him out of h...
Posted by Dr. Awesome on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:26:00 PST