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tobe

do equals glory! .. and occasionaly oh shiiiit!

About Me

i think i've lived with myself entirely too long to answer this one honestly, so lets stick to the facts. frst and formost, i love animals! A LOT. second, i can't spell and have only a flimsy grasp of the months. it does keep things interesting though. an old friend of mine once suggested that my mind should have come with a choke chain, as it's been known to wander a lot and jump up on people's laps. sometimes i'm quite and sometimes i'm anything but. other than that it's all pretty self-explanitory.

My Interests

drinking, passion, photography, photo art, being a nerd, excess, talking, reading, monkeys, other monkeys, nauture and ninjas

I'd like to meet:

someone who doesn't know what the word denegrate means, a cat with 8 1/2 lives or the devil in a black dress. (with a love of animals up her sleeve) ... oh and being patient might be a good idea.

Music:

music? i love music! my favorite kind is the good kind, except when I'm drunk then i sometimes think the bad stuff is kinda cute looking too (names names names: coldcut, shirley bassey, velvet underground, blonde readhead, siouxsie and the banshees, nightmares on wax, goldfrapp, amon tobin, z-trip, bach, K+D, deee-lite, depeche mode, the beatles, funki porcini, nin, stone roses, the white stripes, patsy cline, massive attack, beastie boys, dj shadow, unckle, prince, etc, etc, etc ... )

Movies:

dark days, breakfast at tiffanys, dead man, lost in translation, aguirre the wrath of god, crossroads (Bruce Conner), baraka, avalon (Mamoru Oshii's), clue, reanimator, the good the bad and the ugly, betty blue, city of god, the maltese falcon, everything by Kubrick, the lion king and a few other disney movies that will remain unnamed, i liked white the best, pi, city of lost children, amelie was adorable, la femme nikita was hot, and i can't beleive i almost forgot withnail and i

Television:

i don't watch much, as i don't have a tv, but when i did it was mostly nature shows or cartoons. the original 10 twin peaks were on tv and i loved them, oh and miami vice. (and i'm now actually addicted to 'top model', shhhhhh) PS: house is in teh HOUSE!

Books:

brotherhood of the grape, in the shadow of man, through a window, a brief history of time, hitchickers guide to the galaxy, snow country, junky, the old man and the sea, pornographers poem, godel escher bach: the infinite golden braid, go, the brothers karamazov, beautiful life, fierce invalids home from hot climates, all the lord of the rings and the hobbit, watership down, through the looking glass, day of the triffids, neromancer, all the way back to pieres anthony books, 'where the wild things are', 'adventures in babysitting' and 'so you want to be a wizard' (damn that last one was a good book)

Heroes:

Jane Goodall, Einstein, Audrey Hepburn, Godel

My Blog

new notes to self

1. Volunteer work is only satisfying if you are volunteering,2. Things that are amazingly obviouse almost always are.3. A good mood is very important.4. .. will allways fall somewhere before 56 gazill...
Posted by tobe on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:46:00 PST

'eff correct punctuation

ok so i have now swam in the ocean - a few weeks ago - the sharks did not eat me at all - this time. (PS: i just noticed that the thingy "collection of radio buttons, text forms etc etc that one uses ...
Posted by tobe on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:59:00 PST

some people are afraid of robots ... but not me.

i'm in danger of being replaced by a pile of clothes and an ironing board (and not even a robot one). thank jebus an iron can't play with hair.
Posted by tobe on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:44:00 PST

why I never eat breakfast anymore

This story is from a little while ago but I figured it was worth putting up anyway. It all started one dark October night (well it was dusk actually but that isnt important yet) and I was at a friend...
Posted by tobe on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:07:00 PST

mental note(s) to self (updated Sept 21!)

1. Sticking my tongue out and going "pbttttth" like a 3 year old is not, I repeated not, found charming by women. 2. Attempting to self-brew absinthe using aromatherapy wormwood and vodka is not a goo...
Posted by tobe on Sat, 03 Sep 2005 11:55:00 PST

nice pants, who shot the couch!

(inspired by a friend...) Aha! Now you have to fill out the survey. Ready, set, go....1. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.2. How long have you known me?3. When and how did we first mee...
Posted by tobe on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

man i love love love monkeys!

"Some species, such as vervets, carry this interest in genitals to such an extreme that nursing infants spend large parts of their early days tilted upside down, while "inspectors" lift their hindquar...
Posted by tobe on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

narcissism or written in the stars? or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Myself.

so i totally made out with a mirror the other night & upon walking into 'my' building i suddenly dashed over to the mirrored wall and started going to it. i promptly forgot the whole drunken incident ...
Posted by tobe on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

It must be the air.

So here I am at York. Sitting in my "lab". I've been at school since about 10am this morning and it is now 5:30. What's more I've been coming to school 3-4 days a week for the last several weeks. Sure...
Posted by tobe on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

James Watson is a goof.

How come some people regarded as geniuses are such imbeciles? "Who will play god if we don't?" What an idiotic response to whether or not genetic engineering is a good idea or not. Eugenics part two? ...
Posted by tobe on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST