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Chuck

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About Me

"Held like water in your shaking hands/or all the small defeats a day demands/8-6 and 9-5 trying dying to survive/never knowing what survival means" --Weakerthans

My Interests

Music:


Pretty Girls Make Graves, Mulatu Astatke, The Decemberists, MTO, Holly Golightly, Holly Gollightly and the Greenhornes, Green Day, Weezer, Oxydol, Fiona Apple, Poe, Veruca Salt, Liz Phair, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, Pixies, slavesoul, Moniskat 7, Last Standing All-Stars, Numskull, Characters in the Corner, Core, Rancid, Social Distortion, Pennywise, MxPx, Morrissey, The Pillows, Bad Religion, Mr. T Experience, Cake, Nerf Herder, Soul Coughing, Ella Fitzgerald, Cannonball Aderly, Al Hirt, Miles Davis, Smoking Popes, Ash, RCHP, Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, Cholo, NOFX, Radiohead, Andre 2000, Foo Fighters, The Temptations, The Platters, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Interpol, The Clash, The Stills, Goldfish Don't Bounce, Thievery Corporation, Lovage, Pavement, Sondre Lerche, Skatalites, Billy Bragg, The original man in black, Etta James, Otis Redding (voice makes me cry), generally speaking, I like all sorts of music

Movies:

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Empire Records, School of Rock, Nick Hornby movies, Playing by Heart, Swing Girls and a Boy, Zatoichi, Samurai Fiction, Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Amelie, Princess Bride, Willow, Braveheart, Potter Series, LOTR series, Conduct Zero, Dodgeball, Zoolander, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Dancer in the Dark, Shawn of the Dead, Fifth Element, Grosse Point Blank, High Fidelity, Pretty in Pink, My Girl, Tank Girl, Life Aquatic, Battle Royale, Royal Tannenbaums, Tampopo, Kung Fu Hustle, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Half a Loaf of Kung Fu, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, Road Home, Fearless Hyena, Drunken Master (old and new version), 36 Crazy Fists, About a Boy, Love Actually, Miracle, Fist of Dragon, Office Space, Ping Pong, Waterboys, and a lot more that I probably cant remember

Television:

Arrested Development, How I Met Your Mother, That 70s Show, Colbert Report, Office, Lost, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Studio 60, Family Guy, reruns of The Simpsons, South Park, CNN, Who's Line is it Anyway?, Battlestar Galactica

Books:

Same Difference and Other Stories, I Am Jackie Chan, Coffee and Kung Fu, Everything is Illuminated, High Fidelity, Watchmen, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Nickel and Dimed, Catcher in the Rye, The Awakening, America gah...I'll finish this list later....

My Blog

SICK DAYS

I'm generally a a healthy person--healthy in the Filipino sense of the word, meaning fat, and healthy meaning I don't get sick often. In one month, I've been out sick twice: once for food poisoning, a...
Posted by Chuck on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:24:00 PST

Pama’s Recital

Anticipation:Roz tells the kids to pipe down, OR ELSE:Cornbeef enters:And takes the stage:Cornbeef reflection...is she...walking? On WATER?!Full House:New Philosophy:Take Me Baybbeeee:Verbal Agreement...
Posted by Chuck on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:19:00 PST

Snail Party

So Thursday night was one of the nights that I went over to John's house to take care of him because he's sick. From inside his room I can hear choruses of "WHOOOOOA!" alternated with intervals of sil...
Posted by Chuck on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:11:00 PST

What I saw when I conquered the universe

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Posted by Chuck on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:29:00 PST

Puzzle Fighter and Such

There’s something about flipping a game or advancing past a really hard stage in a game that makes you feel really great and really horrible at the same time. Working in a deadline-oriented envi...
Posted by Chuck on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:39:00 PST

Oyster

Evil Oyster.You should have stayed out in the sea instead of finding your way into my stomach and hatching your toxic pearl of diarrhea in me. Should we ever meet again I will crush you with my mind p...
Posted by Chuck on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:45:00 PST

Getting Old

It dawned on John and I at the exact same time that we are getting old. The happening that prompted the realization was a commercial for a musical compilation called "Buzz Cuts".  (Click image fo...
Posted by Chuck on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:53:00 PST

Yakult

I freaking drank three Yakults in a row. My mouth tastes sour now.I just got so excited, I haven’t had those things since my Tumon Village days.Those were the days when walking to Grace Market (...
Posted by Chuck on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:51:00 PST

What the world needs

Are less people whose only way of relating to other people is by laughing at another person's expense.I am fiercely loyal to people who treat me well and resent it when they are belittled by people wh...
Posted by Chuck on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:46:00 PST

Blood, Sweat and Semen Barf

This is a long overdue account of a killer hike that two friends and I braved one Saturday morning: Hike Stats:Participants:Anne, Jean, MePre-hike food:Lime ...
Posted by Chuck on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:53:00 PST