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Weetabix 9000

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About Me

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(Regarding FRIEND REQUESTS: I don't mind getting friend requests from people or bands that I don't know, but I insist that you at least send a message explaining why you want to add me. There are too many people out there just trying to pump up their number of 'friends' or broaden their advertising circles for me to accept requests without a reason. Sorry!)

I am easily distracted by shiny objects, pieces of twine, and folding maps. My hobbies include eating (primarily red foods such as strawberries and meat), photographing sunflower seeds against various backdrops, and riding on the backs of unsuspecting passers-by. I have an extensive collection of cat sweaters but a somewhat smaller collection of actual cats. I like the sound that a shirt pocket full of warm contented crickets makes. I firmly believe that the reason men’s and women’s shirts button on opposite sides is that they are meant to be buttoned together.

All seriousness aside...I am the bass player in Arkansas' least recognizable and most confusing surf/lounge/instrumental band, the Reverburritos . I talk to machines for a living. I think I have more affection for animals than people. I live with my cat. I'm quiet and introspective but warm, generous, kind, and fair. Sometimes I have to stir my coffee with a fork because I run out of spoons.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Weetabix 9000
Birthday: 1312 AD
Birthplace: Washington DC
Current Location: Little Rock, AR
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 6'
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Oppressive Anglo-Normans
The Shoes You Wore Today: Merrell slip-ons
Your Weakness: Chocolate
Your Fears: Anything saddening
Your Perfect Pizza: Hint: add cheddar
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Make mo' music
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: "u", "ur", "kewl", "LOL"...jeez, all of them really.
Thoughts First Waking Up: Another beautiful f*ing day
Your Best Physical Feature: I have an impressive pancreas
Your Bedtime: Just before my head explodes
Your Most Missed Memory: If only I could recall
Pepsi or Coke: Pespi
MacDonalds or Burger King: Blarg!
Single or Group Dates: Well...I suppose that would depend on the activity
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Blarg squared!
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate. And Vanilla.
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee
Do you Smoke: No
Do you Swear: Yes...sigh!
Do you Sing: No
Do you Shower Daily: Yes
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: No...I eschew fun.
Do you want to get Married: Perhaps
Do you belive in yourself: Do you believe in spell check?
Do you get Motion Sickness: No...I never move.
Do you think you are Attractive: Yes. My mom thinks so too.
Are you a Health Freak: Yes.
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes (see "Do you think you are Attractive")
Do you like Thunderstorms: No
Do you play an Instrument: Yes. Ask me. I dare you.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes...sigh.
In the past month have you Smoked: No.
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Only the OTC kind
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No, but I have strongly considered it.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: No.
In the past month have you been on Stage: Yes.
In the past month have you been Dumped: No.
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Been a wee bit cold out lately.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Rubber bands.
Ever been Drunk: Yes.
Ever been called a Tease: No.
Ever been Beaten up: Sort of, when I was a wee lad.
Ever Shoplifted: No.
How do you want to Die: Stroke might be good. Probably hemorrhagic as opposed to ischemic.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Retired but well off enough to do what I want.
What country would you most like to Visit: Iceland
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: No preference.
Favourite Hair Color: No preference.
Short or Long Hair: No preference.
Height: No preference.
Weight: Less than obese.
Best Clothing Style: In a pile next to the bed.
Number of Drugs I have taken: I dunno...a dozen maybe. All legal though.
Number of CDs I own: Hundreds.
Number of Piercings: None.
Number of Tattoos: None.
Number of things in my Past I Regret: A crapload.

My Interests

Philosophizin', playing guitar and writing music, geeky science stuff, running (usually for exercise, occasionally for fleeing), spirituality, quantum curmudgeonry, sexuality, pizza, suffering, chum, the great cycle of life...

I'd like to meet:

Steve Hackett. Anybody, really. Drop on in! Leave a comment! Say 'ello!

Music:

XTC, the Wallpaper Thieves, the Six Parts Seven, Sparklehorse, Lanterna, Slacktone, Death Cab for Cutie, Guided By Voices, Guster, Django Reinhardt, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Pinback, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Esquivel, the Magnetic Fields, the Doves, Erik Satie, the Judybats, The Cocteau Twins, Sun Kil Moon, The Sugarplastic, Skeleton Key, Man or Astro-man?, Sigur Ros, Yo La Tengo, Philip Glass, 14th century Paraguayan tin miners' threnodies...

Movies:

I'm nuts about odd movies...anything by David Lynch... I also love all of Hal Hartley's movies (Henry Fool, Flirt, Amateur, etc.) I'm also a big fan of Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, etc.) And I can't leave out Jim Jarmusch. Probably my favorite movie of all time is Until The End Of The World by Wim Wenders. I also love most of Terry Gilliam's works especially Brazil. I recently watched The Forbidden Zone again after many years...another brilliant movie. Man Bites Dog. The Happiness of the Katakuris. Can't leave without mentioning Garden State and Waking Life. Oh, and Time Bandits. And Spaceman. And Pi. And Solaris. And Broken Flowers. I know I'm leaving some good stuff out...

Television:

Ok, ok, so I watch television. Can't get enough of the new Battlestar Galactica. Or the Venture Brothers (thanks JJ for the season I dvd!) And The Office. And My Name Is Earl. Six Feet Under. The old Homicide: Life on the Street. And Da Ali G Show. Booyakashan!

Books:

I've always dug The Fermata by Nicholson Baker. I don't know if 'graphic novels' by the likes of Alan Moore can be considered 'books' as such, but...I like 'em. And anything by Glen Baxter or Gahan Wilson. Oooh, and Stanislaw Lem!

Heroes:

Surfbot, Steve Hackett

My Blog

Quicksilver Messenger Service

SO I HAVE THIS THERMOMETER that always reads roughly 98 degrees no matter what manner of cajoling and/or physical trauma I subject it to.  It's one of the old style glass bulb thermometers, the k...
Posted by Weetabix 9000 on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:56:00 PST

lifes soundtrack

I WAS DOWN at the river trail last evening working on a coronary since band practice was cancelled at the last minute.  As I was running towards the sunset listening to Godspeed You Black Emperor...
Posted by Weetabix 9000 on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:19:00 PST

I remember

the time when we were little and we tried to make friends with the squirrels by giving them thimblefuls of ginger ale and tiny suits of viking armor fashioned from aluminum foil.  I remember we'd...
Posted by Weetabix 9000 on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:19:00 PST

Just Call Me E-sama

SPAMMERS HAVE HIJACKED my email address.  My previously faithful and reliable e-moniker is now showing up as the return address for advertisements of all manner of dubious products, come-ons, and...
Posted by Weetabix 9000 on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:17:00 PST

Spring

SO TODAY I FOUND OUT what happens when one crosses a large freshly dead rat with a mulching lawn mower.  But other than that it's been a surprisingly good weekend.  I think this is the firs...
Posted by Weetabix 9000 on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 03:37:00 PST

Pathos

SO IS EVERYONE who states that they are male in their myspace profile blessed wtih the giant True.com ads featuring photos of buxom scantily clad young lasses showing up on their home page or have I ...
Posted by Weetabix 9000 on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:50:00 PST

Unknown Hinson and Plain Meanness

LAST NIGHT I went to Sticky Fingerz Chicken Shack to hear Unknown Hinson.  Hinson provides the voice for Early Cuyler on Adult Swim's animated odd-fest, Squidbillies.  It was kind of a last ...
Posted by Weetabix 9000 on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:02:00 PST

On a lighter note

FOR THE THREE OR FOUR PEOPLE in the world that actually sometimes like some of the same movies/music that I do (or at least patronize me effectively enough for me to believe that they do), I am now go...
Posted by Weetabix 9000 on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:08:00 PST

Business Venture

I AM GETTING TIRED of working for 'the man'.  I like the fact that I have regular hours, a decent retirement plan to which my employer contributes on my behalf, and health and dental insurance.&n...
Posted by Weetabix 9000 on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:47:00 PST

Not Pride but Happiness

I JUST DESCENDED FURTHER INTO DEBT buying a new Martin 12 string guitar and I must say it makes me very happy.  Having been reared on the artsy meanderings of Steve Hackett and Anthony Phillips a...
Posted by Weetabix 9000 on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 06:41:00 PST