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Oscillate Wildly

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About Me

The coolest thing about me is this:

I was born on the EXACT day the first Hacienda opened in Manchester.

I love my boyfriend, Colorado, my Saab, saltwater reef tanks, Texas hold'em, loud music, horses, and fresh grapefruit juice.



My Interests

Saltwater aquariums, horses, long reading jags, museums, interstate travel, autocross, tattoos, good coffee, sushi, the Rocky Mountains, the Holocaust, Japan, old warehouses, gin and tonics, Rickenbacker guitars, making out with my boyfriend, dancing to new wave music, sleeping and general laziness, the paranomal.
Love equals

Music:

!!!
Adorable
Air
The Arcade Fire
Art Brut
Björk
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Bloc Party
Blur
Bowery Electric
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Bright Channel
Broken Social Scene
Cat-A-Tac
Catherine Wheel
Chapterhouse
The Charlatans
The Church
Cocteau Twins
The Cure
The Dandy Warhols
Depeche Mode
Doves
Feist
The Flaming Lips
Franz Ferdinand
Fujiya & Miyagi
The Go! Team
Hard-Fi
Highspire
The Hold Steady
Interpol
The Jesus & Mary Chain
Johnny Marr & the Healers
Joy Division
Kaiser Chiefs
Kasabian
Kent
LCD Soundsystem
The Lassie Foundation
Margot & the Nuclear So-and-Sos
The Mary Onettes
Massive Attack
The Mendoza Line
Midlake
Morrissey
Muse
New Order
The Pernice Brothers
Portishead
Primal Scream
Pulp
Ride
Roxy Music
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Sisters Of Mercy
Slowdive
THE SMITHS
Spiritualized
Starflyer 59
The Stone Roses
Suede
T Rex
VHS Or Beta
Viva Voce
The Verve
The Who
Wilco
Working For A Nuclear-Free City

Movies:

Ingmar Bergman. Sofia Coppola. Andrei Tarkovsky. Fellini. Wes Anderson. Quentin Tarantino. David Lynch. Gregg Araki. Hayao Miyazaki. Alfred Hitchcock. Roman Polanski. Stanley Kubrick. Francis Ford Coppola. Akira Kurosawa. Also: Sideways, DIG!, Hot Fuzz, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Cannibal! The Musical, 24 Hour Party People, Buffalo 66, Schindler's List, Velvet Goldmine, Donnie Darko, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Being John Malkovich, Meatballs, Quills, The Kid Stays In the Picture, The Evil Dead, American Psycho, The Exorcist, The Young Poisoner's Handbook, Trainspotting, The Wicker Man, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, An American Werewolf In London, I Shot Andy Warhol, Easy Rider, (This Is) Spinal Tap

Television:

King Of the Hill. House. Coupling (British version). The Office (British version). Daria. Family Guy. Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Penn & Teller's Bullshit! Sealab 2021. Sightings. Da Ali G Show. Space Ghost. The Twilight Zone. Eddie Izzard comedy specials. Discovery Channel's Phenomethon that used to be on every Thanksgiving weekend

Books:

Chuck Palahniuk. Kurt Vonnegut. H.P. Lovecraft. Bret Easton Ellis. Dave Eggers. Ayn Rand. Jeffrey Eugenides. Nick Hornby. Charles Bukowski. David Sedaris. Alex Garland. Douglas Coupland. Albert Camus. Also: Helter Skelter, The Sun Also Rises, Still Life With Woodpecker, The Evasion English Dictionary, A Confederacy of Dunces, Man's Search For Meaning, No Logo, Fast Food Nation, The Working Poor, Silence of the Lambs, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Jungle, A Clockwork Orange, The Little Prince, The Plague

Heroes:

My ancestors who came to America because they were going to be beheaded for publicly criticizing and mocking the Queen. Ron Paul for a different version of the same reason. John Stossel for not putting up with any bullshit and being the only man who can work a mustache appropriately.

My Blog

A few moments of clarity

I am at work and have absolutely NOTHING to do.For three more hours.It's time to start bringing a sketchbook every day, probably. Or at least another book. The libraries in Raleigh suck. I don't wa...
Posted by Oscillate Wildly on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:17:00 PST

Revenge of the Swede

The easy part:We get our house back tomorrow. It's surreal and feels like a new place all over again. I am not looking forward to moving the fish tanks for a third (and better be LAST) time but that...
Posted by Oscillate Wildly on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:13:00 PST

An open letter to my life

Dear Coworkers:I a torn between hating you all for completely clearing out by 5 to go have fun and stuff tonight, and loving the fact that you are for once leaving me the hell alone for the rest of th...
Posted by Oscillate Wildly on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:12:00 PST

Temporary refugee

I have spent the major part of my late teens and early 20s in a fairly transitory state.  My nomadic tendencies are further accentuated by my sun sign and rising sign both being Gemini, and by th...
Posted by Oscillate Wildly on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:20:00 PST

Water is not your friend

Our house is now officially falling apart.  Not in a fun way where we might accentuate a caving-in ceiling by growing our own banana tree in the foyer; instead, our water heater is leaking under ...
Posted by Oscillate Wildly on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:27:00 PST

Child kidnapping 101

I could totally go back to bed right now. But I already got some dishes going and filled my coolant reservoir and after that much activity I'd manage to wind down and only get about 30 more minutes of...
Posted by Oscillate Wildly on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:06:00 PST

Lo-Fi: February 14, 2002 - July 17, 2007

My mother called me yesterday to tell me that my cat of five years, who has been living with my family for a year, laid down under their hoosier cabinet in the kitchen and never woke up.I did get to s...
Posted by Oscillate Wildly on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:46:00 PST

In One Piece

After nearly succumbing to exposure, insanity, a shorted fuel pump wire that kept blowing fuses, and incredible boredom we managed to traverse Kansas and make it to Colorado on Sunday night. First ord...
Posted by Oscillate Wildly on Thu, 31 May 2007 10:54:00 PST

Countdown to Colorado

In exactly seven days, almost to the hour, we should be on our way to Colorado!We were going to leave on Friday but Yarko decided to go to the Triad Autocross School for the Friday night class and Sat...
Posted by Oscillate Wildly on Sun, 20 May 2007 07:03:00 PST

The Good, The Bad, The Ridiculously Stupid

Tonight and tomorrow we get to move house. It all happened in a whirlwind and the excitement is somwhat being overruled by the stress of getting everything together when you are a procrastinator livi...
Posted by Oscillate Wildly on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:27:00 PST