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Nyx

I gave you my best, it was charity.

About Me

In Sheffield, AL. I do tech support, write for several websites.I'm writing a novel. 200 pages into it, maybe?You can contact me on aim at nyxxxxx or on yahoo as taomancer.Currently reading: World War Z, Psychoshop, Haunted by Chuck PahlaniukRecently watched: Children of MenListening to this week: Freezepop, the Clash

My Interests

Freedom, Music, Conspiracy Theories, History, Roman Empire,Books, Writing, mandolin,

I'd like to meet:

A woman who isn't a psychopathic, lying, alcoholic. Someone smart, nice and wants to settle down, have some kids.I'd like to meet a mermaid. Or a fairy. Or a girl who sleeps in the woods with her acoustic guitar. Or Jack Kerouac's illegitimate grandson. Or somebody who specializes in really obscure programming languages.Someone interesting. Someone smart.

Music:

Adam Ant, Akino Arai, The Beatles, Beth Orton, Bjork, The Clash, The Cure,The Doors,Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Juliana Hatfield, Nin, Pixies, Portishead, Pulp, Rasputina, Saint Etienne, Sarah Machlachlan, B-52's, The Smiths, Sugarcubes, The Drive-by Truckers,

Movies:

Apocalypse Now, True Romance, Ghost World, Fight Club, Cecil B. Demented, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Full Metal Jacket, Taxi Driver, Clockwork Orange, Patton, Zulu,

Television:

Buffy, Angel, Gilmore Girls, The Outer Limits, but not Twilight Zone, The Sopranos, the History Channel International, Green Wing, Black Books, Venture Brothers, Metalcolypse,

Books:

The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Generation of Swine, Naked Lunch, On the Road, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Lila, Neuromancer, Titan, Wizard, Demon, The Ophiuchi Hotline, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Rise and Fall of the Third ReichThere are about a thousand books in my house. I have trouble naming them.

Heroes:

Hunter S. Thompson, Robert Heinlein, William S. Gibson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Lenny Bruce, Andy Warhol,

My Blog

who wants to help me make one of these?

http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/781/slurpr-the-mother-of -all-wardrive-boxes
Posted by Nyx on Wed, 30 May 2007 03:03:00 PST

reading

Reading "The Possibility of an Island" Supposed to be some hot shit French novelist philosopher....maybe he is, but he's depressing. He reads like a combo of Michel Foucault and Charles Stross. Post-s...
Posted by Nyx on Sun, 27 May 2007 03:58:00 PST

Dear Modern World, I think we should break up.

Maybe it's the right thing to do. Maybe we should just go Amish and reboot western progress. Obviously we've ended up in some sort of cul-de-sac, some sort of dead end. The only thing to do is turn ar...
Posted by Nyx on Sun, 27 May 2007 03:56:00 PST

Unemployed

I just got laid off. I'm going to use the opportunity to make more web sites, finish the novel, play guitar and start a new career as a profesional online poker player. 
Posted by Nyx on Sat, 26 May 2007 08:49:00 PST

Cats and raccoons

About a year ago I thought I had squirrels in my attic. Which is kinda odd, squirrels don't really go inside. But there was something up there and it was making a lot of noise. Didn't hear it much ove...
Posted by Nyx on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:30:00 PST

a review and an asshole

Currently reading, Zed..It's a sort of science fiction novel not set in the future or anywhere else. Just a ghetto apartment building. A 12 year old girls makes her living trading info for cigs, heroi...
Posted by Nyx on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:33:00 PST

New quote

"I gave you my best, call it charity." It's from a Juliana Hatfield song that was never released by the record company, because they are all bastards who deserve to die. That's what I'm listening to, ...
Posted by Nyx on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:42:00 PST

If I'm all over the place....

My daughter is here. Having a 3 year old is much like having a large, intelligent ferret with thumbs but at least you could put the ferret back in it's cage. 
Posted by Nyx on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:41:00 PST

Conservatives were whiny kids

Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conser...
Posted by Nyx on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:48:00 PST

pug on fire

If you look closely you can see there has been a very small, very cute, change in this famous picture. http://frankkoughan.blogspot.com/...
Posted by Nyx on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:08:00 PST