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Charles

'...and just at the most interesting moment, the omelette flies out the window.'

About Me

I hereby propose a ban on all "comedic" references to monkeys, cheese, and crack. And emo.

Just when they least expect it, I drop in some weather reports. It blows their minds.

P2C2E

Basil Ostobee.
Baxter Ostobee??

My Interests

•self-deprecation
•rhyme / alliteration
•slouching
•writing hit plays
•inaudibility
•yesteryear
•whimsy
•double punctuation!!
•bookstores
•using British slang as deliberately and unpretensiously as possible
•the Glyphs palette
•ornament / embellishment / elaboration
•writing hit plays
•doing laundry with my girlfriend
•swash caps
•hanging punctuation
•discretionary ligatures
•art, art history, design, typography

Artists-Illustrators-Designers:
Aesthetic Apparatus
Yoshitaka Amano
John Bauer
Aubrey Beardsley
Charles Bragg
Edward Burne-Jones
Deanne Cheuk
James C. Christensen
Mike Cina
Harry Clarke
Carlo Crivelli
Edmund Dulac
Carson Ellis
FSC
Edward Gorey
Brett Helquist
Hans Holbien
Gustav Klimt
Maiko Kuzunishi
Alphonse Mucha
Kay Nielsen
Egon Schiele
Jeff Soto
Jan Toorop
Remedios Varo
Chris Ware

I'd like to meet:

cakesniffers, unspeakable cads, blaggarts, barons, hot potatoes, spoony bards, librarians, Claude Savagely, Jimmy Corrigan...

Charisma Whiteman.

DIY Demons.

Music:

Probaby yes, if it:
•compels me to hand-clap / knee-slap / foot-tap
•makes me wave my hands like I'm conducting an orchestra or shake my fist like I'm leading a parade
•tells a story (old / new / depressing / whimsical / fantastic / epic)
•is over-the-top sugarpop, not take-off-your-top slutpop
•features whistles / hoots / claps / bim-boms / la-la-las / doo-wahs / snaps
•contains words I need to look up in the dictionary
•includes a string / horn / xylophone / flute / clarinet / moog
•requires me to accompany on air percussion

Movies:

12 Monkeys
Amelie
Back to the Future, Part Two
Braveheart
The Breakfast Club
Clash of the Titans
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Edward Scissorhands
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Gattaca
Go
Jason and the Argonauts
Jesus Christ Superstar (don't tell anyone)
Hackers
Kill Bill, Volume 1
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Love Actually
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Omen
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
Shaun of the Dead
Spirited Away
Wet Hot American Summer

Television:

STILL GAME

One Tree Hill??

The Adventures of Pete & Pete
Are You Being Served?
Creature Comforts
Freaks & Geeks
The Mighty Boosh
The Office
Project Runway
Spaced
The State
Stella
The Vicar of Dibley

Books:

Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino
Hallucinations, Reinaldo Arenas
Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman
On Market Street, Anita Lobel
Squee's Giant Book of Horrors, Jhonen Vasquez
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
Elements of Typographic Style, Robert Bringhurst
Harry Potter series, JK Rowling
Gormenghast series, Mervyn Peake
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware
Amphigorey series, Edward Gorey
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie

Heroes:

Luigi: Taller, thinner, vertical floater.
Also Bob, Bub's oft-neglected blue sibling.
I guess the second player in general.

My Blog

So, basically, here's the deal:

I have the best girlfriend in the history of EVER!!
Posted by Charles on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:42:00 PST

A love so wrong it's right. Right on target. It's Target.

Do you think the Oak Park Target gets jealous because I go to the Greatland Target more often (it's the distance baby, don't be like that...)?? Or does the Super Target feel used when I go to another ...
Posted by Charles on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:22:00 PST

The best thing about The Empire Room:

If you get there early enough you get to dance to "Sexy Back" twice. And it's always better the second time.
Posted by Charles on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 01:14:00 PST

The Answer: 1 part Genius, 3 parts WTF??

Q: What are the ingredients to the On The Border radio commercials??
Posted by Charles on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:07:00 PST

Generic blog about the splendors of autumn

!!
Posted by Charles on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:29:00 PST

Attention, Oscar Mayer:

Okay, so Harry and the Potters were awesome, and Draco and the Malfoys sucked, but in that awesome way because they are required by wizard law to suck, but neither were nearly so awesome or sucky-awes...
Posted by Charles on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:55:00 PST

I haven't forgotten about the Happy Daggers, but...

I thought of another good band name last night - the Dust Jackets - but apparently it's half-taken by the group Dust Jacket, from Phoenix. But I imagine The Dust Jackets would sound better, if only be...
Posted by Charles on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 10:18:00 PST

Cc: The Wall

Dear Tilly:I really tried, you guys!! I even kind of said "Well you gotta get back up!!" during "Brave Day." It's just that I had to keep my guard up for airborne rubber balls. You understand, right??...
Posted by Charles on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:37:00 PST

Omaha + McDonald's Mayo + <3 =

Tilly and the Wall!!Not even a seven-foot tall hipster douche with a three-foot nest of hair obscuring my view or a light shining in my eye or drunk girls speaking broken Spanish as an inside joke or ...
Posted by Charles on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 10:19:00 PST

Is it paper or clocks?? I always get those mixed up...

Hey guys!!At some point last week I hit the 5000 mark. And all with minimal whoring.Wait, why do you care??
Posted by Charles on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:29:00 PST