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Ashtar

I am here for Dating, Friends and Networking

About Me

Play poker. Drink. Write. Sleep on the couch.My blog:Ashtar's BlogPlease visit my blog and make some comments.

My Interests

Writing, reading, watching movies, soccer, photography, chess, pushups, pullups, Nintendo (old-school dork), gardening, rock climbing, beer, scotch, foosball, fishing, poker, dominoes, shooting poolKill some time--

I'd like to meet:

Adam West on a bender.

Music:

Deep Puddle Dynamics, Red Hot Chili Peppers, DJ Shadow, Wyclef Jean, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Immortal Technique, Jedi Mind Tricks, Old Crow Medicine Show, Old and in the Way, Outkast, The Band, Johnny Cash, Govinda, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Rza, Gza, Nappy Roots, The Album Leaf, System of a Down, Latin Playboys, Neil Young

Movies:

Collateral, The Last Samurai, Zatoichi, The Thing, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Kill Bill, Man on Fire, The Fifth Element, Ghost Dog, 187, Godzilla, Ran, The Seven Samurai, Musashi

Television:

X-Files, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Emeril, Iron Chef, Futurama, The Simpsons, Millenium, The Outer Limits

Books:

Calvin and Hobbes, Stephen King, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Matheson, H.P. Lovecraft, Bukowski, James Clavell, Yukio Mishima, H.G. Wells, Pablo Neruda, Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert E. Howard, Joseph Heller, and plenty of other authors

Heroes:

My old dog Zasha, who barked in Japanese

My Blog

Coriolanus, Act V, Scene III

"Let it be virtuous to be obstinate. What is that curt'sy worth, or those dove's eyes, Which can make gods forsworn? I melt, and I am not Of stronger earth than others...but stand As if a man were...
Posted by Ashtar on Thu, 04 May 2006 09:28:00 PST

Timon of Athens, Act III, Scene V

"He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To b...
Posted by Ashtar on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:19:00 PST

Some Philosophy...

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance." -unknown
Posted by Ashtar on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:35:00 PST

Measure for Measure, Act V, Scene I

"They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad"
Posted by Ashtar on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 02:31:00 PST

Some advice from Mark Twain

"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt."
Posted by Ashtar on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:03:00 PST

Hamlet, Act I, Scene V

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Posted by Ashtar on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:27:00 PST