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Now, in other news...
I live at the P-Street House of Rock
it's pretty much
the best place on earth
and it could,
at any moment,
fall over...
I'd like to meet:
Your Mom.
But for serious, anyone in the Santa Cruz area who wants to get together for a photoshoot, please let me know and we'll get to snappin'.
Music:
Thanks to Last.fm
you can check what i've been rocking
on the old iTunes lately...
or, kick the RSS Feed and get to know all the boring acoustic indie rock that I ... rock.
The Last Ten Tracks Kicking On My iTunes Were:
Here's another fun Last.fm thinger,
It's a "quilt" with neat-o art and stuff...
The last 5 albums i've purchased:
Dude, i'm so white boy suburban blues it just makes me want to kill myself.
I work in the music industry...
But, I am not even cool by proxy, i'm not even a neighbor to cool, but i do have lots of shoes and i think that says something.
I have horrific taste in music, at least that's what Emily would say, or more to the point,
i tend to listen to a lot of "boring soft acoustic indie rock" that puts emily & mia to sleep...
of course, that is hardly the case!!
Ok, so i do, i admit, i listen to boring soft and sometimes acoustic indie rock,
but i like Jay-Z, and i think that gives me some street cred,
even if that street is somewhere in the suburbs.
Lately, i've been listening to:
Jolie Holland ,
Sondre Lerche ,
Fauxmantic ,
Broken Social Scene , The Arcade Fire ,
The Killers ,
The Avalanches ,
Coley Cole and The Lost and Found Generation ,
The Crimea ,
Danger Mouse ,
Death Cab For Cutie ,
The Postal Service , Jay-Z ,
Jets To Brazil ,
Koufax ,
Lucero ,
Magnolia Summer ,
Maida ,
Mates of State ,
MU330 ,
My Punk Rock Summer ,
Nelly ,
Nick Drake ,
James Brown ,
Norah Jones ,
Red House Painters ,
Rilo KIley ,
Rufus Wainwright ,
The Secret Machines ,
The Shins ,
Simon & Garfunkel ,
Smokey & Miho ,
Smoking Popes ,
Stevie Wonder ,
Uncle Tupelo ,
Van Morrison ,
The Walkmen ,
Yo La Tengo ,
Wilco ,
Will Oldham ,
50 Cent ,
ok, this could go on for days,
i have a hundred+ gigs of music on my hard drives
(did you see the plural on hard drives? yes, i'm a geek)
and i listen to basically none of it.
I pretty much listen to one album
until i'm sick to death of it,
then i move on to the next one
and play it 'till the grooves wear out
(ok, that was a vinyl reference for those of you scoring the game at home)
speaking of vinyl, and we were
check out the new wheels of steel hottness for the digital age
IF YOUR LIFE WERE A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
How to do it:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc).
2. Put it on Shuffle.
3. Press Play.
4. For every question, type the song that's playing.
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button.
6. Be honest.
OPENING CREDITS
"Thursday Night Stomp" - David Hillyard & The Rocksteady Seven
WAKING UP
"Cohension" - Minuteman
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
"This Could Be Anywhere" The Dead Kennedy's
FALLING IN LOVE
"Breathe" – telepopmusik
FIGHT SONG
"A Spoonful Weighs a Ton" - The Flaming Lips
BREAKING UP
"Ease Your Feet In The Sea" - Belle & Sebastian
PROM
"The Bends" - Radiohead
LIFE IS GOOD
"I'd Still Want You" - Hank Williams
MENTAL BREAKDOWN
Oh - Fugazi
DRIVING
"Don't Hate Me" - The Get Up Kids
FLASHBACK
"The Ballad of Ira Hayes" - Johnny Cash
GETTING BACK TOGETHER
"Bunny Gamer" - Xiu Xiu
WEDDING
"Let's Be Active" - Erase Errata
FINAL BATTLE
"Summer Teeth" - Wilco
DEATH SCENE
"Cream Hits II" - 45 Grave
FUNERAL SONG
"Honey White" - Morphine
END CREDITS
"Killer Queen" - Queen
Movies:
Let's go see one today!
(I have rated 2404 movies at Netflix....)
Be My Friend on NetFlix!!!
Here are the 50 Best High School Movies according to EW.com
50. Splendor in the Grass 1961
49. Sixteen Candles 1984
48. Just One of the Guys 1985
47. Napoleon Dynamite 2004
46. Flirting 1992
45. My Bodyguard 1980
44. Can't Hardly Wait 1998
43. Stand and Deliver 1988
42. Fame 1980
41. Can't Buy Me Love 1987
40. Risky Business 1983
39. The Virgin Suicides 2000
38. Bye Bye Birdie 1963
37. Friday Night Lights 2004
36. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005
35. Brick 2006
34. Get Real 1999
33. Hoop Dreams 1994
32. Scream 1996
31. The Karate Kid 1984
30. Bring It On 2000
29. Gregory's Girl 1982
28. Back to the Future 1985
27. To Sir, With Love 1967
26. Pretty in Pink 1986
25. Hoosiers 1986
24. Rushmore 1998
23. Cooley High 1975
22. American Pie 1999
21. Grease 1978
20. Dead Poets Society 1989
19. The Last Picture Show 1971
18. Rock 'n' Roll High School 1979
17. Peggy Sue Got Married 1986
16. Lucas 1986
15. Carrie 1976
14. Donnie Darko 2001
13. High School 1968
12. Mean Girls 2004
11. Say Anything 1989
10. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986
09. Election 1999
08. Boyz N the Hood 1991
07. Clueless 1995
06. American Graffiti 1973
05. Heathers 1989
04. Rebel Without A Cause 1955
03. Dazed and Confused 1993
02. Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982
01. The Breakfast Club 1985
Television:
Please buy me this for Christmas.
Lately, the TV shows i've been watching via DVD are as follows:
Nip/Tuck
Reno 911
The Office
Magnum P.I.
Strangers With Candy
The Simple Life
Chappelle Show
Family Guy
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Aqua Teen Hunger Force...
you know, the exact same shows everyone else in my age/race/education/income bracket are watching, i'm so middle of the road i wear pin-stripes.
I also just bought Season One of Desperate Housewives from the Apple iTunes store .... so i guess that means soon i'll have to get a video iPod...
I am now working through the 4th season of the West Wing which is great!
Books:
I'm reading so much these days my head is going to explode!!
I'm interested in reading anything i haven't already read, which is quite a lot really. Lately, as Emily and Mia are fond of pointing out while yawning and rolling their eyes back into their respective heads, i've been reading many books on the subject of Freemasonry. I also read quite a bit about: business, culture, self-help books, i'm a fan of the "Introducing" and "For Beginners" series, i love books about science and anything to do with quantum mechanics (though i don't pretend to understand them at all) and i do tend to read pretty much anything i can that is even remotely related to Apple computers. Did i mention i love cheeseburgers? I do.
Currently Reading:
The Last Five Books I've Read
i'm also a sucker for books on tape care of Audible.com
tell me what you're reading, i'm always looking for something good
Heroes:
My Aunt Lisa is my hero, and so is Emily Neuman , Joseph Fort Newton , Nan Goldin , Erica Hilary Hope Small , Ayn Rand , Steve Jobs , William Blackstone , Dan Eldon and Jack Pierson ; as well as a whole bunch of other people, but that's another story which is better told over pizza or corn dogs or on a roller coaster .
