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Blake C

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About Me

you probably know what i'm like better than i do.

My Interests

reading, writing, poetry, blogs, music, photography, cities, driving, bike riding, making lists of things i like.

I'd like to meet:

any person who's open-minded. notably: david bazan, sufjan stevens, neil gaiman, tom waits, douglas coupland, bob dylan, george orwell, stephen colbert, jon stewart, kurt vonnegut, & others various influential people.otherwise, right now i'd really just like to meet up w/ some of my friends. i miss them.

Music:

pedro the lion, sufjan stevens, bob dylan, tom waits, iron and wine, over the rhine, nick drake, elliott smith, modest mouse, johnny cash, dj shadow, the juan maclean, jeff buckley, gorillaz, frou frou, the shins, elbow, the decemberists, deathcab for cutie, coldplay, ben folds, the arcade fire, the band, the beta band, laura veirs, the libertines, rjd2, the white stripes, black rebel motorcycle club, bloc party, beck, cake, the flaming lips, my morning jacket, regina spektor, the velvet underground, et al.

Movies:

wes anderson and gus van sant movies, high fidelity, lotr, garden state, mirrormask, et al

Television:

i am of the opinion that animated shows are far better written than anything else on tv, but also appreciate the Daily Show, Rome, and Extras. oh, and scrubs and arrested development when they aren't--ya know, cancelled.

Books:

the brothers karamazov, notes from the underground, slaughterhouse five, breakfast of champions, ts eliot, ee cummings, the picture of dorian gray, microserfs, life after god, generation x, a man without a country, chronicles: volume one, the lotr, fight club, choke, 1984, ovid's metamorphoses, home land (sam lipsyte), reefer madness(schlosser), fast food nation, lincoln's melancholy, the storm, american gods, the sandman series, et al.

Heroes:

pedro the lion, eric schlosser, neil gaiman, bob dylan, james fallows, martin luther, adbusters, the ampersand--that most illustrious of grammatical-type symbols, & those who follow their heart and beliefs unapologetically and to whatever end.

My Blog

grad school news

well, i've posted this in other places online and i've let other people know by phone or email already, but i'm so excited about it that i can't help but mention it here and break my e-silence. I GOT...
Posted by Blake C on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:22:00 PST

addendum to my last post

in my last post, i noted something regarding film photography. i said how i wouldn't use film for other than a feeling of nostalgia, among other things. i want to make perfectly clear that this is so...
Posted by Blake C on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:13:00 PST

dust breeding

em got a few books for me for our anniversary recently, and i've been reading them when i can on lunch breaks and so forth. all of the books are about photography. one is ansel adams' textbook "the ...
Posted by Blake C on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:29:00 PST

unpack, damn you!

i've been up in naperville for almost two weeks and this is what my room still looks like:(this is where i'd insert a picture if i could w/o taking the exhausting effort of posting somewhere on the im...
Posted by Blake C on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:53:00 PST

moving

i'm on the verge of another move. so much on the verge in fact that this blog is a form of procrastination before i put stuff in my car to drive off tomorrow morning. i'm leaving tomorrow from nashv...
Posted by Blake C on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:51:00 PST

a silly theory i have.

so. i believe that the album "real gone" by tom waits is the perfect soundtrack to the movie "sin city." first of all, waits' material is perfectly suitable to the tone and subject matter of sin cit...
Posted by Blake C on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:43:00 PST

a silly theory i have.

so. i believe that the album "real gone" by tom waits is the perfect soundtrack to the movie "sin city." first of all, waits' material is perfectly suitable to the tone and subject matter of sin cit...
Posted by Blake C on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:43:00 PST

photos.

so. i posted some new photos on this thing recently. that's all. just thought i'd give you formal written notice, and a slight impeutus to click 'pics.' woot.
Posted by Blake C on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:17:00 PST

repressed no more. i'm now partially politicallly unloaded.

i keep looking and listening to the news and feeling this deep heaviness in my chest as if i'm about to sob. the state of the world makes me want to weep. and what makes me want to weep more is the ...
Posted by Blake C on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:58:00 PST

tom waits at the ryman.

i am sitting behind a pole in the back below the balcony. the usher who's somebody's grandmother rearranges some people who were in my seat. i sit down and lean to the left throughout the whole show...
Posted by Blake C on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 10:21:00 PST