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Denis

Think of the apocalypse as a cosmic reboot...

About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)..

My Interests

Motorcycles (especially Moto Guzzis and Indians), bobbers, not choppers, old school hot rods, beadblasting cabinets, Carolina RollerGirls, deejaying at WXDU, mountains, biodiesel, photography, wine, camping, backpacking, Scandinavian furniture, owls, cats, reading, Gil Elvgren, books, hearses, offbeat '60s and early '70s vintage junk, movies, nature, snakes, Macs, people watching, asking Republicans who bought into it if they know where the WMDs are, tattoos, The Munster cars, Edward Gorey, Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems, MacBeth. More as it comes to me.

I'd like to meet:

Arthur Brown, Montana Wildhack, you maybe, if you're nice, and her:And Edgar Allan Poe.

Music:

Glove Box (the best band you never heard), Scotch Greens, Flogging Molly, The Pogues, Malamondos, The Detroit Cobras, Ensiferum, Built To Spill, Hearts and Daggers, The Straight 8s, Hank III, Blue Cheer, Baby Grandmothers, Gogol Bordello, Concrete Blonde, , The Spinns, Link Wray, Subarachnoid Space, The Troggs, L7, Zombies, The Cramps, Los Straightjackets, The Torch Marauder, Dash Rip Rock, Alcohol Funny Car, Luther and Toby, The Tiki Tones, Man or Astroman, Maktub, Bad Religion, Rancid, Greg Brown, Junior Brown, Zuco 103, Hot Club of Cowtown, Cowboy Junkies, Ozzy, Bevis Frond, Bob Wills, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Tift Merritt and The Carbines, The Animals, The Hate Bombs, Frank Zappa, ABBA, Golden Earring, Blue Oyster Cult, Can, Yes, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Neil Young, Helium, Scorpions, Hank, Sr., Jimmy Rodgers, Johnny Cash, Dixie Dregs, Skynyrd, Yo La Tengo, S.C.O.T.S, Neil Young, Billy Joe Shaver, Morcheeba, traditional Celtic fiddle music, Iron Maiden, Bob Dylan, Vivaldi, The Bomboras, Sam Cooke, King Crimson, Otis Redding, Philip Glass, Pink Floyd (Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Animals), '60s garage music, surf music (not the cheesy east coast stuff), Ennio Morricone's spaghetti western scores. Specific songs I can listen to at any time: Oh Bondage Up Yours, Night of the Long Grass, Astronomy, The Subhuman, Are You Receiving Me, Child in Time, Paint It Black, Orion.

Movies:

Dead Man, Alien (all of 'em), The Blues Brothers, Secretary, Munster Go Home, Terminator (all of 'em), The Good The Bad and The Ugly, spaghetti westerns in general (those are REAL westerns), Thin Red Line, Badlands, the director's cut of Blade Runner, Donnie Darko, Das Boot, Stalingrad, the Star Wars flicks (even accounting for a couple of the new ones which needed help, and less JarJar), Breaker Morant, Lewis and Clark and George, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Mad Max, On Any Sunday (the motorcycle one, silly), Return of the Pink Panther, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Being There, Jaws, The Quick and the Dead (not the Sharon Stone one, jeez), Kelly's Heroes, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill I

Television:

The TV has been relegated to a movie-watching apparatus....

Books:

I read every night, for I am king.

Heroes:

Anyone I really like.

My Blog

Happy Memorial Day!

I hope everyone remembers why we celebrate Memorial Day. My dad was sent to Vietnam in July, 1969 and while I remember going with my mom to take him to the airfield, I don't remember when he came home...
Posted by Denis on Mon, 26 May 2008 05:18:00 PST

China pisses me off.

BEIJING - China locked down the Tibetan capital Saturday after the largest and most violent protests against its rule in the region in nearly two decades. At least 10 people were killed when demonstra...
Posted by Denis on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:20:00 PST

Fuel price update..

Diesel fuel is up to $3.90. That’s an increase of 40 cents in two weeks.
Posted by Denis on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:49:00 PST

Fuel prices and other news

1. The other day I paid $3.72 for a gallon of diesel fuel. It does not encourage me to drive to the office in RTP.2. Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island," is serving six months' uns...
Posted by Denis on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:09:00 PST

To Valentines Day...

or to Black Heart's Day, as I referred to it all day, "Since you were busy, I went to a zombie movie at Carolina Theater. I saw George Romero's 'Diary of the Dead'. Sorry you missed it. It was way mor...
Posted by Denis on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:05:00 PST

Pre-Valentines Day message

All right, Valentine's Day, in case you are out for dinner tomorrow night and won't see this: BUGGER OFF!
Posted by Denis on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:26:00 PST

Bush’s last State of the Union address

My only comment is "Thank God".
Posted by Denis on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:01:00 PST

Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe

Once again, I post "The Raven" in honor of Edgar Allan Poe's birthday. And once again, someone has left roses and a half bottle of cognac on his grave. Happy Birthday.THE RAVEN.Once upon a midnight dr...
Posted by Denis on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:13:00 PST

RIP Edmund Hillary

For those of you who have ever done any serious backpacking, camping, climbing or are just interested in Mt. Everest, this will mean something.WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassum...
Posted by Denis on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:12:00 PST

For Christmas...

...someone gave me insomnia.Thanks.
Posted by Denis on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:12:00 PST