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Andrew

Gingivitis

About Me

At age 19 I was kidnapped by Turkish pirates. Now I work for DC government making maps. Hopefully they will not fall into the hands of those pirates. I work at an art museum occasionally too and I am a professional buzkashi player. I'm a laid back dude, I like to laugh and joke around and listen to music and drink beer. I play in leagues for kiddie sports like wiffleball and kickball, and I can kick some ass at video games, but only NES and college basketball for Playstation 2. I have a foosball table too. Like every dorkus I write for some blogs , and I also write a lot of letters to newspapers complaining about stuff I read. Andy Rooney has my dream job.
If you're really bored, check out my blog: http://squidpants.blogspot.com

My Interests

going to concerts, going to bars, listening to music, laughing, video games, beer, candy, maps, kickball, jokes

I'd like to meet:

interesting folks, these guys: the bass player in this video:the girl from the snorg tees ads, and bigfoot

Music:

Air, American Analog Set, Ambulance LTD, the Avalanches, Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, Chin Up Chin Up, the Clash, Creedence, Daft Punk, Dr. Dre, EMPD, the Faint, Guided by Voices, Jurassic 5, Kings of Convenience, Kurtis Blow, Ladytron, Lansing-Dreiden, old LL Cool J, Ludacris, Lush, Moving Units, New Order, Old 97s, Panurge, Pavement, the Pogues, Postal Service, Rilo Kiley, Robbers on High Street, Royal City, Run DMC, Slick Rick, Sloan, Stereolab, Sufjan Stevens, the Strokes, the Streets, Super Furry Animals, Superdrag, Ted Leo, Teenage Fanclub, Tenacious D, They Might Be Giants, the Thrills, VHS or Beta, old Weezer, old school rap, indie stuff, catchy stuff, classic rock, brit pop stuff, bluegrass.

Movies:

lost in translation, bulworth, animal house, PCU, coming to america, old school, patton, blues brothers, half baked, american werewolf in london, pootie tang, harold and kumar go to white castle, the old star wars, l'auberge espagnole, james bond, monty python, war movies, whatever shows up in the mail

Television:

Jackass, trigger happy tv, most extreme elimination challenge, sportscenter, college basketball, the real world, dog the bounty hunter, cops, colbert, daily show

Books:

mostly non-fiction stuff about cities and architecture. Geography of Nowhere, TC Boyle short stories, Confucius, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Vibe History of Hip Hop, stuff by Witold Rybczynski, Confederacy of Dunces, Confederates in the Attic, things not about conferederates

Heroes:

Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Wesley Willis, cookies

My Blog

Weekly Music Jam 11

so it's that time again, the Music Jam. Today's jam is "Hearts on Fire" by Cut Copy. Kind of a lame song name, but it's a good one. An 80s-early 90s sounding electro rock song (do you see a theme), it...
Posted by Andrew on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:24:00 PST

Weekly music jam 10

so this is hardly weekly anymore, but here, have a jam.It's "Pogo" by Digitalism. I'd heard it somewhere awhile ago, then noticed it on a car commercial but forgot where I'd heard it in the first plac...
Posted by Andrew on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:26:00 PST

Condom, France and Fucking, Austria

so I've known about towns with names like Bumpass, Virginia, Fucking, Austria, Intercourse, Pennsylvania, and Dildo, Newfoundland (which is only about an hour trip from Conception Bay, figure that one...
Posted by Andrew on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:35:00 PST

Music Jam 9 - Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

So here's a new song I like. It's "Thou Shalt Always Kill" by Englishmen Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip. Scroobius Pip is the MC and angrily speaks an anti-mass culture screed over a hard, propulsive, bl...
Posted by Andrew on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:18:00 PST

Weekly music jam 8

So here it is, actually on time this time. It's the video for "Oh My Gosh" by Man Like Me, an English rapper type guy. I found it on my Myspace pal's page. His voice sounds like Mike Skinner from the ...
Posted by Andrew on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:38:00 PST

Semi-weekly music jam 7

So I've not been so good at writing these, but here's a video I've been enjoying. It's for the song "Chariot" by Page France, and was made by myspace user Lye la Lye. Pretty neat Chariot ...
Posted by Andrew on Thu, 31 May 2007 12:58:00 PST

Weekly Music Jam 6

I think I might have skipped a couple, but oh well. This week's jam is "Just Briefly" by Daedalus, a producer and electronic music guy. He's produced for Busdriver and others, and is on Ninja Tune (or...
Posted by Andrew on Fri, 04 May 2007 12:56:00 PST

Weekly music jam 5

so this one I saw on somebody else's profile - it's "British Mode" by Goose. And this time it's a video, wowsers Goose is a Belgian band, I think the only Belgian band I've ever heard of....
Posted by Andrew on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:26:00 PST

Weekly music jam 4

So this one's a little late. This week's pick is "Zdarlight" by Digitalism. Digitalism are German electronic guys, sort of like Daft Punk but harder and darker than the Frenchies. Link to their Mysp...
Posted by Andrew on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:48:00 PST

Weekly music jam .3

So here's the latest jam. "Pure Magic" by Girl Talk. Despite the name, Girl Talk is not a cutesy twee girl band, it's a DJ who does a lot of mash-up sort of things. This one is parts of a ton of diffe...
Posted by Andrew on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:44:00 PST