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Kurt

Baby, I'm a big star now

About Me



This performance kind of makes my entire music collection insignificant.

My Interests

reading, traveling, listening to music, watching movies, drinking red wines, eating sushi, playing scrabble, pool and poker, graphic arts, jogging, riding my bike and lots of other "ings".

I'd like to meet:

Romantics.

Music:

KEXP
Built to Spill
Modest Mouse
Elliott Smith
Tom Waits
Pedro the Lion
Sun Kil Moon
Red House Painters
Neil Young
Bob Dylan
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Shins
Neutral Milk Hotel
Idaho
Afghan Whigs
Ben Folds Five
Damian Jurado
Smiths
Death Cab for Cutie
REM
The Cure
Counting Crows' 1st two albums
Sordid Humor
Engine 88
Sunny Day Real Estate
Guided By Voices
2pac
Elivs Costello
Dolorean
Sufjan Stevens
Headphones
Weezer
Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah
Sera Cahoone
Band of Horses..

Movies:

Mystic River
American Movie
Amelie
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
Naked Gun
Love Liza
This is Spinal Tap
21 grams
Adaption
Donnie Brasco
Godfather I & II
Bloody Sunday
Anchor Man
Aquatic Life..
Lord of the Rings
40 year old virgin
The Squid and the Whale
Me and You and Everyone we Know

Documentarys...
Fog of War,
Capturing The Feildman's
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Paradise Lost
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
The Comedians of Comedy: The Movie...
Curently finding out how fucking awesome old Paul Newman movies are..

Television:

BBC's The Office..and now the American version too
Six Feet Under
History Detectives
Lost
Arrested Development

Books:

authors i like:
Kurt Vonnegut,
Denis Lehane,
David Sedaris,
Craig Thompson,
Eric Schlosser,
J.D. Salinger,
John Steinbeck,
Frank McCourt,
Augusten Burroughs.
Mark Haddon
George Orwell

Heroes:

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. R.I.P.

My Blog

Say hello to my new roommate.

His name is Jimmy....  
Posted by Kurt on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:56:00 PST

OK NO!

I saw theses yahoos open up for Elliott Smith in Chicago at the Empty Bottle in 2000. I stuck around after the show to continue drinking (I was only 20 and the time with a fake ID and didnt want ...
Posted by Kurt on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:32:00 PST

I found Jesus today!!

...and took some photos of the guy. "A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. Do you think when Jesus comes back, he's really going to want to see a fucking cross? Ow! Maybe that's why ...
Posted by Kurt on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:24:00 PST

I think I hate you.

I don't often hate someone by just looking at them but I think I hate this David Lehre guy. You are really a film maker? are you also a fashion model? How long does it take you to get your h...
Posted by Kurt on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:30:00 PST

Michael Jackson and me.

    Michael Jackson... Thriller album.. Holly shit is this an incredible album. Nowadays he is a washed up. middleaged child-molesting freak-show but back then he was at the top of his&...
Posted by Kurt on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:47:00 PST

Fucking brilliant!

When I'm 90 years old and on my deathbed, play this episode for me so I can die a happy man. Jessie: Time? TIME??! There's never any time! I don't have time to study! I'll never get into Stanford! I'...
Posted by Kurt on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:43:00 PST

Damn you, Netflix!

Dear Netflix, I think I have pretty good taste in films and TV shows.   I've rated over 700 movies on netflix.  Anger Management Armageddon Gone in 60 Seconds Independence Day ( Look ...
Posted by Kurt on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:28:00 PST

uhh

So I read in Newsweek that a poll conducted by the American Museum of Natural History says that less than half of all American's believe in evolution. Can that be?  More then half of you think ...
Posted by Kurt on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:06:00 PST

My natural scent...

Transcript of my transaction at a Madison area clothing store today. Cashier: Hey man,did you find everything alright today? Kurt: Yeah, thanks Cashier: That will be $31.82, on a mastercard? Cashier...
Posted by Kurt on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:08:00 PST

Just Seen..

Four burley men tarring a roof while cranking "Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers. Fucking poetry. ...
Posted by Kurt on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:55:00 PST