Isaac Marion - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm the friendliest misanthrope you'll ever meet. I may want to destroy the world but in the meantime I'll give it a hi five.
I JUST WROTE A BOOK! TOOK ME 6 YEARS! GO LOOK!

Also:
"Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throughout the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with a real knowledge of the human soul."
- Carl Jung, pretty fucking badass.

My Interests

I write stories. Short stories, and very short stories. They're generally weird and odd. Please read them all HERE

ALSO:

Whiskey
Belgian Beer (La Fin Du Monde!)
Really incredible food (French!)
Cooking alot but never using recipes
Cilantro
Getting out of Washington
Getting out of the U.S
Getting out of my head

I'd like to meet:

Pretty much all I want out of humanity right now is the following three things:

People to eat lunch and dinner with

People to drink with

People to watch movies with

And if a few friendly, life-affirming makeouts slip in there somewhere, well that'd be just fine too.

Music:

Music is like MSG for emotions, amplifying everything that's going on in your life, blowing things out of proportion, and causing all sorts of health problems. But, like MSG, you really miss it when it's not in your Chinese Food.

Radiohead. Godspeed You Black Emperor. Blonde Redhead. Broken Social Scene. Cocorosie. Dave Bazan. Air. Arcade Fire. Beatles. Beirut. Boards of Canada. Bright Eyes. Cat Power. Cursive. Deathcab. Devotchka. Doves. Elbow. Elliot Smith. Explosions in the Sky. Feist. Sinatra. Iron and Wine. Joanna Newsom. Cash. Jon Brion. Manitoba. Massive Attack. Muse. Oceansize. Sigur Ros. Stars. Sufjan. Thee More Shallows. Wax Tailor. Yo La Tengo. Etc. Creepy stuff. Epic stuff. Pretty stuff. No boring stuff.

Movies:

A couch and a friend and a movie = the good life.

Eternal Sunshine
Me and You and Everyone We Know
I Heart Huckabees
Fight Club
Oldboy
Adaptation
La Dolce Vita
Lord of the Rings
Pi
Requiem for a Dream
Office Space
Wes Anderson
Christopher Guest
Into the Wild
Bug
Bodysong
Keane
I Am Legend
No Country for Old Men
Juno
Gone Baby Gone
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
ROCKET SCIENCE
King of Kong
Atonement
Iron Man
Lars and the Real Girl

Television:

The Office. Arrested Development. Curb. Flight of the Conchords. Family Guy. Planet Earth. Lost.

Books:

A dying art form, but I'm holding on.
Something Happened. 1984. The Time Traveler's Wife. Dante's Inferno. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Love in the Time of Cholera. Roald Dahl. McSweeney's. Eggers, before he became an activist. Life after God. Microserfs. Hey Nostradamus. Middlesex. Concrete Island. The Corrections. Vonnegut. The Great Gatsby. On the Road. Salinger. King. The Fortress of Solitude. The Children's Hospital. The Sun Also Rises. The Stranger. Watchmen. John Hodgeman. Stanley Donwood. Kafka. Giving Murakami another chance.

Currently reading: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Murakami)

Heroes:

I ran into Spiderman at a bar one time and somehow we started talking about our ex girlfriends and ended up in this long, heartfelt conversation about life and love and all that deep, universal stuff. It was pretty cool, we really bonded, right there in the bar. But the next week, some checks I'd forgotten about finally came through the bank, and I ended up overdrafting big time and getting all these fees, and Spiderman was nowhere to be seen. I guess my problems weren't big enough to warrant his time. So...no, I don't have any heroes.

Except of course these guys:

My Blog

ROAD TRIP! Or: We Ripped San Francisco Open Like a Pig And Roasted It!

Faced with a 4 day weekend, what other choice does one have but to drive 820 miles from Seattle to San Francisco for no reason? It's Wednesday and I get a text from my beautifully insane fri...
Posted by Isaac Marion on Thu, 15 May 2008 04:18:00 PST

Bee Civil War!

Have you heard the news lately? Recent reliable reports and research reveals radical reductions in the regional bee population, resulting in the rising rarity of these roaming rapscallions. Reason ...
Posted by Isaac Marion on Mon, 05 May 2008 08:03:00 PST

Trailer Trends

Here's another recurring theme I've been noticing. The trailers for movies named after their main character must contain a montage of multiple people saying that character's name.Some recent examples:...
Posted by Isaac Marion on Sat, 03 May 2008 09:59:00 PST

Texasaurus Wrecks

I went to Texas this weekend. Went to hang out with my friend Lori and see what Austin is all about. I'm city shopping at the moment, trying to figure out where why and how to live, and Austin sounded...
Posted by Isaac Marion on Thu, 01 May 2008 04:45:00 PST

An Attempt to Translate The Internal Dialogue of The Girls In Those TRUE.COM Video Ads

Well I'm just sitting at home in my underwear, sorting my books. I can't believe how many books I have in this armful of books! It is probably because I am not only beautiful but smart too.Oh! What's ...
Posted by Isaac Marion on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:03:00 PST

Thoughts From the Wayback

When I was a kid my family drove a Plymouth Valari station wagon the color of dirt, which was a popular color for a lot of things back then, like houses and carpets. The kids sat in the back, but if t...
Posted by Isaac Marion on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:59:00 PST

MORE BOOKS

Ok, the people have spoken, many of them in Portuglish, and I decided I have enough support to risk another print run. Guess what? This time I'm printing 100 copies. So, don't let me down, folks. Tell...
Posted by Isaac Marion on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:11:00 PST

Wedding Dream

I had a pretty strange and vivid dream last night. Interpretations welcome. In the dream, I am at the wedding of two friends who in reality are already married, somewhat unhappily. Everyo...
Posted by Isaac Marion on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:51:00 PST

SOLD OUT

Well I can hardly believe it but 2 days after getting my books from the printers, all 50 copies are already sold. Apologies to those of you who asked me to hold one for you, I would have loved to but ...
Posted by Isaac Marion on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:20:00 PST

Launch Day!

Ok dear reader types, I got my books from the printers yesterday, and mailed out all the current orders this morning. Let me tell you, it was a little uncomfortable walking into the post office carryi...
Posted by Isaac Marion on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:05:00 PST