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Andy

this was uncalled for.

About Me

talented and bright. lonely and uptight.

My Interests

diner food, coffee, conversations about things that seem important at the time, movies, photography, reading (nonfiction, sci-fi, comic books... i'm a nerd), nerds, long alphabetized lists of bands, video games, friends, family, you probably, giving presents, talking all night and falling asleep on the couch.

I'd like to meet:

people in chicago. i live in logan square now. we can have a "scene" moment together.

Music:

aesop rock, afi, alkaline trio, alligator gun, aloha, american football, at the drive-in, atmosphere, bad religion, blood brothers, blue meanies, bluetip, braid, bright eyes, brother ali, buck 65, burning airlines, compulsion, cursive, denali, descendents, dinosaur jr, dismemberment plan, elliott smith, the faint, fugazi, further seems forever, get up kids, god's reflex, god lives underwater, the good life, government issue, helmet, hey mercedes, honor system, hot snakes, hot water music, jawbox, jawbreker, jets to brazil, jimmy eat world, killing joke, knapsack, lawrence arms, mac lethal, milemarker, minor threat, minus the bear, mr. t experience, murder by death, nine inch nails, nirvana, park, piebald, pop will eat itself, postal service, q and not u, radiohead, r.e.m., sage francis, samiam, seaweed, sex pistols, shellac, soul asylum, split lip rayfield, sunny day real estate, superchunk, taking back sunday, texas is the reason, they might be giants, thursday, tool, van pelt, vaux, weakerthans, youth brigade.

Movies:

adaptation, amelie, back to the future, beetlejuice, better off dead, the big lebowski, breakfast club, the conversation, clockwork orange, die hard, donnie darko, edward scissorhands, fight club, finding nemo, ghostbusters, goonies, indiana jones, little shop of horrors, magnolia, pee wee's big adventure, pulp fiction, princess bride, raising arizona, roger and me, royal tenenbaums, rushmore, shawshank redemption, stand by me, star wars, the sting, terminator 2

Television:

aqua teen hunger force, arrested development, colbert report, daily show, mr. show, oz, scrubs, sealab, seinfeld, simpsons, six feet under, sopranos, sports night, st:tng, tenacious d, wonder years

Books:

a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, the perks of being a wallflower, cosmos, the picture of dorian gray, cat's cradle, i robot, foundation, lord of the rings, neuromancer, rabbit run, langston hughes

Heroes:

bruce campbell, my mom.

My Blog

Record want list 04/08/06

Okay, since I got a job I started wasting all my money on records.  If you or anyone you know has anything listed here, let me know.  I'll update this ocassionally if anyone shows any intere...
Posted by Andy on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:46:00 PST

one year later

so i haven't written here in over a year now.  i guess i got busy, at least relatively, seeing as how 12 months ago i had no job and no life.  now i have an almost too regular job and no lif...
Posted by Andy on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:44:00 PST

courage was confused

when i was a kid i always used to imagine walking outside one new year's night and suddenly cars would be flying and people would be wearing white robes or something. there's still an element of that...
Posted by Andy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

caffeine or me

jobless in chicago, listening to the train go past my house fewer and fewer times every hour. i never knew how much time i was spending at work until now. i have nothing to do. strike that. i have...
Posted by Andy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

what you ready for?

i'm moving to chicago in 2 weeks. apartment 2 blocks from wrigley. rock.
Posted by Andy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST