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Inappropriately Used Verb

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About Me

Kinetic. Analytical. Overplucked eyebrows make me anxious. I always blink in flash photos.

My Interests

reading, writing, Detroit, coffee and coffee shops, walking (even in LA), music (listening, playing, writing), a turned-off TV, spicy bloody marys, Brit pubs, not losing or destroying more sunglasses, making up new words, lists, cracking girls' knuckles, Powell's Bookstore, spinner rings, dill pickle flavored sunflower seeds, bad names for bands, black and forest green, bowling, drinking games for bowling, tennis, changing popular song lyrics, greatest iPod in the charted universe, the onion crossword (and trying to not google-cheat through the pop culture references), eating all the marshmallows out of otherwise gross breakfast cereals, scrabble, not following recipes leading to food ingredient experiments, alphabetical order, changes in pattern, black fingernail polish, finding similarities in disparate things, being a nerd.

I'd like to meet:

about you:People who rarely confuse patience with indifference or kindness with weakness.Readers. Writers. Thinkers. Learners. Talkers. Listeners.Those who believe Explaining Excusing, and Understanding Forgiving.

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Music:

air, arcade fire, as tall as lions, atreyu, bauhaus, black heart procession, brazilian girls, bright eyes, bullet for my valentine, concrete blonde, the cure, dandy warhols, darker my love, dead can dance, dears, death cab for cutie, death from above 1979, deftones, depeche mode, doves, dragonforce, dresden dolls, editors, the faint, glassjaw, hearts of black science, i love you but i've chosen darkness, interpol, joy division, killswitch engage, kloven, lcd soundsystem, lords of acid, ministry, murder by death, new order, new york dolls, nin, peter bjorn and john, pixies, postal service, the rapture, replacements, sheila divine, she wants revenge, sigur ros, sisters of mercy, slipknot, spoon, stone roses, 36 crazyfists, tool, trivium, velvet underground, virgin black, tom waits, west indian girl, white stripes, wolfmother, the zombies, and various world music and jazz

Movies:

Movies that make me think or laugh (preferably both): A Beautiful Mind, Anchorman, Being John Malkovich, The Big Lebowski, Clay Pigeons, Deconstructing Harry, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 40 Year Old Virgin, Fargo, Haiku Tunnel, I Heart Huckabees, Magnolia, Pi, Royal Tannenbaums, Rushmore, Swingers, Team America, This is Spinal Tap, Waking Life, What the Bleep Do We Know?

Books:

A Confederacy of Dunces, The Historian, House of Leaves, Infinite Jest, Life of Pi, The Midnight Disease, The Paradox of Choice, Rise of the Creative Class, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and pretty much anything by these people: Douglas Adams, Charles Bukowski, Fritjof Capra, Dave Eggers, Jack Kerouac, Jonathan Lethem, Chuck Palahniuk, Steven Pinker, Tom Robbins, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hunter S. Thompson, David Foster Wallace

My Blog

The Boredom Rules

I've started a page for my book, The Boredom Rules. For those who have read some of my work, the original working title was Writer's Block.The idea is theoretical: what if a Book were conscious, and a...
Posted by Inappropriately Used Verb on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:05:00 PST

Day's Wide Open

Waited three extra hours in Chicago.Called to the desk because the lady "guaranteed" I didn't have "one of these."I showed my boarding pass to the lady, who merely reprinted it to save ...
Posted by Inappropriately Used Verb on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:32:00 PST

Moving on...

Today is my last day at Roadrunner. 9 1/2 years of music promotion at the same record company has melded with my sense of identity. I'll blog about this more later, after it sinks in a bit and I gain ...
Posted by Inappropriately Used Verb on Tue, 01 May 2007 11:16:00 PST

little jeans, green clothes and marilyn manson

Couple thoughts: Am I, like, the only dude out here in L.A. NOT wearing their little sister's jeans? St. Patrick's Day is still a week and a half away, and for the last month or so, I've seen a&...
Posted by Inappropriately Used Verb on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:37:00 PST

My Top 10 list

This is what I basically sent to Roadrunnerrecords.com ALBUM TITLE BAND NAME COMMENTS (OPTIONAL) Fear Is On Our Side I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness Secretly Canadian Records may not stay ...
Posted by Inappropriately Used Verb on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 06:53:00 PST

Genius. Pure Genius.

DETROIT LIONS UNVEIL NEW PLAN TO WIN: Lions' Defense to Wear Down Vikings' Offense The hapless Lions, losers of six straight games, have developed a new scheme they plan to implement against the ...
Posted by Inappropriately Used Verb on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:16:00 PST

Family, through glass

Corey Taylor of Stone Sour was relaxing on his bus after playing the San Bernardino Family Values date last week. I congratulated him on a great show."I know, I slayed it didn't I?" He's no stran...
Posted by Inappropriately Used Verb on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:11:00 PST

A painful combination

Bendy straw / Spicy bloody mary / MySpace One wouldn't think of that combination as being lethal, that is, unless you pull a total Kramer. Bendy straw = in glass full of freshly made spicy b...
Posted by Inappropriately Used Verb on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:33:00 PST

I'm a puppet

I've been missing out on a new game of Marco Polo, apparently. On the 4th of July, in Santa Barbara, it happened twice. The first time, walking down the sidewalk, crowded with people carrying blankets...
Posted by Inappropriately Used Verb on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:08:00 PST

Math Nerds Can Be Funny Too

Just finished a book by Paul Hoffman about a mathematician named Paul Erdos, who spent most of his life intentionally homeless. Turns out Erdos felt the rigors of home, family, and other trivial thing...
Posted by Inappropriately Used Verb on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:17:00 PST