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charlie

I am here for Friends

About Me

i like food and pretty things.

My Interests

cameras, people, tea, sounds, history, blankets, dance parties, postmarks, notes, cemeteries, knitting, creating, shorelines, harbors, mail art, polaroids, exchange, underground trains, fictional places. sanity.

I'd like to meet:

myself.

Music:

matt pond pa, iron & wine, belle & sebastian, ida, ryan adams, the weakerthans, gillian welch, elliott smith, charles atlas, odessa chen, death of a party, communique, madelia, death cab for cutie, pj harvey, the postal service, green day, the shins, wire, wilco, the gossip, the lovemakers, mike doughty, soul coughing, yo la tengo, sufjan stevens, the faint, tv on the radio, rancid, the owls, mirah, le tigre, ben gibbard, the black keys, the decemberists, minus the bear, numbers, pinback, dealership, cat power, the dismemberment plan, her space holiday, imperial teen, rilo kiley, the velvet teen, blackheart procession, m. ward, mates of state, sean hayes, jolie holland, django reinhardt, john vanderslice, hudson bell, the mountain goats, songs: ohia, damien jurado, nada surf, spoon, phoenix, air, ted leo & the pharmacists, hayden, hefner, modest mouse, pete krebs, hazel, yeah yeah yeah's, the long winters, built to spill, nobody beats, the please & thank yous, the mothballs, dream date, social studies.

Movies:

the sweet hereafter, the anniversary party, garden state, spirited away, o brother where art thou?, rushmore, the royal tenenbaums, chinatown, the big lebowski, barton fink, the hudsucker proxy, big fish, breakfast at tiffany's, finding neverland, clockwork orange, down by law, lost in translation, the long goodbye, twin falls idaho, northfork.

Television:

six feet under, news radio, dead like me, 30 rock. "live every week like it's shark week."

Books:

the partly cloudy patriot, the sweet hereafter, the rule of the bone, the great gatsby, on love, middlesex, the virgin suicides, white noise, other people, time's arrow, the riders, oranges are not the only fruit, the fall, a clockwork orange, about a boy, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. m. doughty, lawrence ferlinghetti. almost anything by martin amis. russell banks, jeanette winterson, camus, nick hornby, jeffrey eugenides and the like.

Heroes:

mike doughty, martin amis, pete krebs and william eggleston. in that order.

My Blog

really, really exciting stuff.

random bits & bites: the last couple months were insane, but things are starting to settle. i work full time at the store, now and things are still pretty busy. i'm also working as the webmaster for t...
Posted by charlie on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:25:00 PST

so, i guess i'm going to see radiohead

on saturday. pretty rad, yeah? i haven't honestly kept up with them in the past couple of years, but it'll be fun, for old time's sake. maybe the Greek Theater fairy will bring me Death Cab tickets, n...
Posted by charlie on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:59:00 PST

i honestly had no idea

that so many people "subscribed" to this blog. i hope no one is actually dissapointed that i hardly ever use it. now that i have your attention, i feel that i should have something really, very import...
Posted by charlie on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:03:00 PST

delillo says

in a millennium or two, a seeming paradox of our civilization will be best understood by those men versed in the methods of counter-archaeology. they will study us not by digging into the eart...
Posted by charlie on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:36:00 PST

top ten update (april, june)

it seems i've forgotten post my recent top ten lists, here. since i know you're all dying or curiosity, here goes: april top ten: -meeting kory. -big plans with cory for the fall. -a minor thre...
Posted by charlie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

new stuff @ a minor thread

friends- So today I made A Major Update to A Minor Thread. Please have a look: A Minor Thread : http://thread.grassfire.nu what's new? -three new handbags -three handbags on sale -1" pins...
Posted by charlie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

march top ten

you know, march was a really long month. here is my top ten: +these arms are snakes +emergency first bbq of the season @ ACE +going to LA to see Julia. pizza at Jones. lavender lemondade and v...
Posted by charlie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

new discovery..

and awesome park near the port of oakland.. middle harbor shoreline park 02.28.05 | Nikon D70...
Posted by charlie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

february top ten...

in no particular order: my job, 1" button maker, nikon D70, jill bliss, riding my bike through san francisco, MUNI, the little green school desk, impromptu sleepover at 971, tsupromi, atomic pink hair...
Posted by charlie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the only thing worse...

....than getting friend requests from random bands i don't know, is getting multiple friend requests from the same random bands i still don't know. i'll probably only add you if i actually hang out wi...
Posted by charlie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST