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Stephen

i suppose

About Me



The Tortoise Hustle

250 hand-stamped and numbered tins. 12 banging beats from El Keter. Tracks from ognihs, Dagger, FANGFACE, and yours truly. Guest verses from Ryan Officer, JON?DOE, AthenA, RhymeWise37, iCON the Mic King, Nick Sweepah, and Adru the Misphit. Click on the auctioneer to order your copy or tap the iTunes button to get apple portability.

If you're allergic to paypal or want to pick up a copy of Still Means Something or the Rosetta Stone, get at me.

My Interests

playing de facto FEMA within the walls of our apartment, watching flicks scored from the library racks and/or free netflix trials (let's hear it for changing addresses and losing my credit card), rocking shows, pretending to be making songs, hanging out with friends every month or so, and risking the reek of onions and disdain of the beautiful tornado to savor Powers hamburgers downed with large malts.

I'd like to meet:

Shel Silverstein. Mostly, I'd like to meet someone who would hand me an unlimited airfare card so I could visit my friends.

Then I'd sell some of the miles to get: a red Volvo station wagon with factory rims, a home with double sink/washer dryer/bowling lane, vinyl and CDs pressed/promoted, beats from my friends I'd finally be able to pay, a home with a basement, a big bathtub with a hot water heater turbo enough to keep the tub stocked with nap-worthy water, hammocks in all the places I frequent and a bunch of other good stuff.

The cool thing about the unlimited airmiles card is I could sell off millions of miles and still have infinity to go.

Music:

little

Movies:

lots

Television:

Rockford Files, Banacek, Law and Order, Voltron, the Goodies, Robbery Homicide Division, Nowhere Man, Columbo, MASK, 60 Minutes, The Shield, Deadwood, Nip/Tuck, The Dead Zone, Transformers, MI-5, Monk and a bunch of other junk I don't see very often as I don't have cable.

Books:

Anything from Dick Francis, Martha Grimes, Preston and Childs, Robert B. Parker (except for the first Spenser novel), Les Roberts, S.J. Rozan, Bill Kent, Donald Westland, James Rollins, Nicola Griffith, Michael Connelly, and all the other novelists whose library stashes I've run through. I'm currently on a Bartholomew Gill run which is more like a leisurely stroll. If you have suggestions for other dope mystery novelists, please let me know.

Heroes:

Blarney the pirate.

My Blog

what dreams look like


Posted by Stephen on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:20:00 PST

the tortoise hustle cup starteth runnething

I recently went into the studio and dropped vocals for 8 songs.  When all's said and done, I should have anywhere between 15-18 tracks clocking a grand total of an hour.  RhymeWise37 hit the...
Posted by Stephen on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:12:00 PST

photos from photovillians

This past Thursday I attended the Whammys (the Whatzup-aka local free paper-'s annual awards show), for which I was nominated four times. The highlight of the evening was getting to perform and that a...
Posted by Stephen on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:33:00 PST

what's been keeping me busy

With many options from which to choose, the process of selecting student learning philosophies for classroom application becomes a study in determining the most effective. Though it is possible to pos...
Posted by Stephen on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:51:00 PST

footlocker

.. My daughter has returned from sleep-away camp, but my son has left on a road trip. Not only is it a great way to store your own bookmarks, but. Mutti would only eat the red bits so we switched to...
Posted by Stephen on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:23:00 PST

not thinking

I sit here watching a freshly cleaned (thanks to a Target gift bag promo wipe) television and an advertisement for the new Bond flick comes on.  Wondering who's directing it, I go to imdb.com and...
Posted by Stephen on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:35:00 PST

TV on no radio

When I first moved to Fort Wayne (about 5 years ago), I'd get bored, check out a videocamera and ramble on about whatever. I did so for seven episodes and then got a message from someone telling me my...
Posted by Stephen on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:09:00 PST

news from the land known as Shirt

I just put in an order for some more of these suckers: Which I should have in time for Thanksgiving. Black-XS, M, XXL (2), XXXL(2) dark chocolate-L, XL Daisy-XS, S, M, L, XXL Irish/Kelly green-...
Posted by Stephen on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:20:00 PST

this is the same blog as at my music myspace page

Seeing as Greg Locke at the Whatzup did a better job of summing up my release than yours truly, here's what the fellow wrote:  "there are 60 copies, something something, coming soon."  That'...
Posted by Stephen on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:13:00 PST

same old same

Keter told me Grimace (McDonald's playland character) started as an evil entity with six arms.  The fellow behind that Puffinstuff guy was called upon to create characters and even jacked the Ham...
Posted by Stephen on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:01:00 PST