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The Rambler

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

I hate this. I'm many things, a friend, a lover, an enemy, student, teacher, pervert, prude, mechanic, artist, lazy, workaholic, flake, model of stability, dog, intellectual, hick, punk, collector, minimalist, slob, normal, freak, fast food junkie, foody, cook, glutton, saint, sinner, priest, runaway, shut in, elitist, communist, liberal, conservative, city boy, redneck...

My Interests

I am 67% Tortured Artist.
.. Art is significant in my life, people are scum but I have the capicity to deal with it. Give it a few more years and I will either forget about art or hate the world. Take the
Tortured Artist Test
@ FualiDotCom , falling in love, Oil drilling equipment (power tongs), Sergio Leone, betting on cartoon trivia, cheese, mac mini (damn sexy machine!), having my faith in humanity restored, sailing, RVing, the fourth month, camping, road trips, coffee allergies, white water rafting, nano technology, bao, drifting, off roading, getting George W out of office, skiing, scuba, rock climbing, MAC OS!, films, rum, Guinness, Stoli, single malts, good wine (red), caviar, good champagne, tea, cooking, geese, foie gras, old cars, books, regime change (in the USA), sculpture, art in general, khmer food, viet namese food, japanese food, southern cookin', bbq, wanting a president that is smarter than I am, pointing out the blatantly obvious, mixed metaphors, Sundance Film Festival, off topic rants, old Land Rovers, stinky cheese, Porsches, S-13s, double wides, trying to be a good Buddhist, white trash, campy 80s stuff, 50s stuff, old stuff in general, I like stuff, cult films, the mod esthetic,string theory, guilty pleasures, sushi, aquariums, obsolite electronics, Atari Super Pong console, art deco stuff, bio diesel, dark chocolate, evaporative cooling, geeks of all sorts, pointing out contradictions in peoples religious beliefs, dive bars, toughing out excrutiating back pain to support friends bands (muscle relaxants and painkillers are a godsend), turning people on to good music/friends bands, ethnic restaurants, nifty gadgets, spare parts for cars I don't own any longer, Emma Peel, The Avengers (TV series), Schwinn Sting-Rays, lifting heavy things, scars, pinup art, helping friends move, grilling while drunk at friends barbqs, going to shows, fetish photography, Bettie Page, drinking on an empty stomach, fixing broken stuff, breaking stuff so I can fix it and make it stronger/ better/ faster, we have the technology..., MacGyver, Akira Kurosawa, rambling on and on, Tesla, book learnin', street smarts, learnin' from doin', fixing friends cars in the dark on the side of the road, quantum physics/ mechanics, Tigger costumes, brain farts, tiny yorkies, dancing even though I don't do it well (no really, I don't), getting drunk and adding stuff to this in random order, poorly dubbed kung-fu movies, leasure suits, all kinds of tech manuals, Wim Wenders, destroying clothes I really like because I pulled over to help some one who broke down and forgetting that I'm wearing nice stuff, obscure useless knowledge, trivia, mind over matter, small living quarters (my boat), storage containers/ lockers, magazines, diesel engines, wankels, turbos, blowers, travel, insurance, bettering the gene pool, philosophizing, spelunking, driving sideways, VWs, travel, LD, lysdexia, ADHD, ADD, etc, etc, etc... and whatnot...

I'd like to meet:

People who hate this. Deviants. Freaks. Artists. Perverts.

Music:

Polka, rockabilly, surf, garage, punk, classical, opera, swing, crooners, jump blues, soul, show tunes, banda, baroque, jazz, 80s new wave (now old wave), KCRW, 88.1, world, JUST NO "NEW COUNTRY!"

Movies:

Say Anything
Your life mostly resembles Say Anything. You are a romantic at heart. You are inclined to fall in love with someone without even talking to them.
Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com I like them. A lot. Even bad ones. Cult films, Silent films, Classics, Blaxploytation, Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka, Young Frankestein, The Man Who Wasn't There, Two Mules for Sister Sara, CQ, Metropolis, Groundhog Day, Buster Keaton films, Requiem for a Dream, The Presidents Analist, Sonny Chiba flicks, Greasers Palace, Death Proof, Shakes the Clown, The Pink Panther, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Wings of Desire, Switchblade Sisters, A Clockwork Orange, 2001, Dr. Strangelove, The Magnificent Seven, The Seven Samurai, Ghost Dog, Dreams, Yojimbo, What the Bleep Do We Know, Rashomon, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, 1941, Barbarella, Deep Throat, Raging Bull, Apocalypse Now, Spinal Tap, Bull Durham, Friday, Garden State, Election, Rushmore, The Matrix, Lawrence of Arabia, Indiana Jones, Cannon Ball Run, The Gumball Rally, Blood for Dracula, Around the World in 80 Days, Dial Mfor Murder, The Untouchables, Seven, Roger and Me, The Natural, Tin Men, Orgazmo, 1984, Bowling for Columbine, The Bicycle Thief, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Alphaville, The Devil in Miss Jones, Night on Earth, Coffee and Cigarettes, Dead Man, Chocoláte, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Down by Law, The Million Dollar Hotel, Farenheit 9/11, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, To Kill A Mockingbird, Black Sunday, The Godfather, MASH, Esther Williams Spectaculars, The Ten Commandments, From Here to Eternity, Caligula, Buena Vista Social Club, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Crow, Enter the Dragon, Birdy, Until the End of the World, The American Friend, Silver Chalice, Casablanca, Citizen Cane, Behind the Green Door, Like water for Chocalate, The Red Violin, Airplane, Andy Warhol's Blood for Dracula, Henry and June, Kids, Lifelong Companion, Boys Don't Cry, High Art, From Dusk Till Dawn, Caddyshack, 9 1/2 Weeks, Say Anything, Dogma, The Secretary, The Dirty Dozen, Basquiat, Rocky, SLC Punk, Harold and Maude, The Breakfast Club, Smokey and the Bandit, Dark City, Taxi Driver, Scarface, Monster's Ball, Monsters Inc., Monster, Saved, Finding Nemo, Glen or Glenda, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Matinee, Cinema Paridiso, The Last Emperor, LA Story, The Jerk, The Madness of King George, The Fiddler On the Roof, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Missouri Breaks, Chinatown, The Two Jakes, The Hustler, Quadraphenia, Dogs in Space, Corvette Summer, Blazing Saddles, Cat Ballou, The Unforgiven, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Being John Malkovich, Vertigo, Rope, Them, The day the Earth Stood Still, The Outlaw Josey Wales, War of The Worlds, Good Fellas, Donnie Darko, Donnie Brasco, Blow, Rush, The Blues Brothers, Twilight of the Cockroaches, Anything Imax, Ballywood films, Fellini's 8 1/2, An Andalusian Dog, The Princess Bride, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, 9 1/2 Weeks, Shaft, Time Bandits, Spaceballs, Grand Canyon, The Bourne Identity, Superfly, Smoke, Performance, James Bond films with Sean Connery, etc...

Television:

Haven't been watching much.

Books:

Fiction, non fiction, technical, reference, etc. I like to read...

Heroes:

Mimes, they KNOW we all hate them, but they just keep pushing the walls of that invisible box. People who wear pachouli, they are brave souls to expose themselves to the scorn of any one with an olfactory sense. I just admire them from afar... Plushies... Not clowns, they scare me...

My Blog

Sundance...

Just got back from the Sundance Film Festival. I had a blast! Now I'm thinking about putting together a group to go next year. Let me know if you are interested.
Posted by The Rambler on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Road trips are fun (sarcastic tone in my voice)

I just got back from a road trip from hell. My brother and I flew to southern Illinois, to pick up a '64 Lincoln Continental he bought on Ebay. Then we drove to Minniapolis, to pick up a motor hom...
Posted by The Rambler on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Holiday Parties

Must stop getting home at five in the am. This weekend was an alcohol marathon, OY VEY! I had a great time, but it's Tuesday and I still feel rough!
Posted by The Rambler on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

"Perhaps if we built a large wooden badger..."

You are Sir Bedevere! Wise and creative, you areable to counsel others as well as come up withsome really ingenious plans of attack...sortof. Which Monty Python & the Holy Grail Character are you RE...
Posted by The Rambler on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST