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About Me

Live in the city, work in the suburbs. I try to snowboard and wakeboard as much as possible. DJ for fun, sometimes ca$h. I make animated cartoons when I find time. Occasionally I meet up with my friends for after-work-numb-my-mind-so-I-can-forget-I-have-a-real-job drinks. I'm always down for a good time, rather spontaneous about it. Alas, I'm still discovering what the spontaneous things to do are in this town. So if anyone has suggestions, I'm eager to hear them. Travel, live music, movies, food, naked hot tubs, snowboards...I enjoy many aspects of life.

My Interests

I'll try most everything once. Snowboarding, wakeboarding, bungee jumping, running with bulls, surfing, scuba diving, drawing, DJing, salt water aquariums, feeding sharks, mouthwash, photography, bansai, reading, camping, hiking, and on and on. I also enjoy simple things like going out for a pint of good brew with the gang.

Music:

Rock, Hip-Hop, Classical, 80s, Swing, even polka has it's time and place. I DJ as a hobby, so I like a lot of different stuff, but I also don't like a lot of stuff. I hate being funneled into a category like "rock only". I'm eclectic. Beastie Boys, Chemical Brothers, Beethoven, Beatles, Hives, Jack Johnson, Portishead, Thievery Corp, K& D, The Who, White Stripes, DJ Shadow, Jurassic 5, Z-Trip, DJ Krush, Danger Mouse, Gorillaz, Eminem, Elvis, Oasis, Frank Fucking Sinatra, DJ Q-Bert, Mix-Master-Mike, or all of ISP for that matter, Surf style, Roots, Mark Furina, Oakenfold, DMB, AC/DC, the first 20 years of the Rolling Stones, Cypress Hill, Eazy-E, NWA, Nirvana, Deep Dish, Sublime, Blink 182, Jay-Z, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Modest Mouse, De La Soul, Pharcyde, Tribe Called Quest, Ramones, Led Zepplin, Foo Fighters, RHCP, David Bowie, Paul Simon, Franz Ferdinand, Johnny Cash, Green Day, and let's not forget the greatest Rock & Roll band in the world.......Western Aerial!!!! Want me to keep going?...

Movies:

Cinema

I've watched a lot of movies. I counted over 1400 ratings on Netflix. That's not even counting the ones I've seen 50 times!! I've seen a lot. I've passed over a lot. If it looks stupid or a carbon copy of something original, I won't even rent that crap. I get lost in movies though, as you are meant to. Lord of the Rings were my favorites the last three years and now I have nothing to look forward to. I tend to buy the epics on DVD like Gladiator, Braveheart, the Godfather, or Rocky, although I've been slowly working on some other "Great" movies like Caddyshack, Raising Arizona, Kill Bill, Old School, Cool Hand Luke, Goonies, Boondock Saints, Napoleon Dynamite, Ferris Bueler, Monty Python, Trainspotting, Spinal Tap, Office Space, Godzilla vs Mothra.

Television:

TV SUCKS.

Except the Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, Lost, and a few other shows. Sitcoms are retarded, have you ever noticed how most of them follow the same formula: Bag on someone, applause, lame retort, applause. Not funny. Seinfeld was funny. Somebody stop the F'n reality shows, PLEASE. Society truely is hitting bottom. Unfortunately, I find myself watching the news and the stock reports like my old man more often than I should. Cable TV generally just wastes my time. I can't help it though, that shit's harder to kick than the rock.

Books:

I'm reading about 3 books right now. "Wiseguy" is the book they based "Goodfellas" on...and it's freaking sweet!!! If you ever wonder how crime happens, read it. I've got Orwell's "1984" and Guiliani's "Leadership" lined up next. How's that for a juxtoposition of optimism?
I gave up on One Hundred Years of Solitude. Sure it's a pulitzer prize winning Oprah over-pimped novel, but couldn't the author name his characters something else besides Jose, Jose, & Jose? It's difficult to keep up, you gotta break out a geneology chart constantly. I read all the Dan Brown books and still consider "Angels & Demons" the best. Sometimes I bust out the smart stuff like Nietchze or classic poetry. Can't you tell by how I so elquently articulate my verbage? Shant I yawp a "yey" forst thou? I also like to read Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, Catcher in the Rye....yeah they're classics for a reason! The Lord of the Rings were better than the movies and that's saying a lot.

My Blog

Mexican Wrestling!!!!!!!!

During one of my many taco flavored lunch outings my coworkers suggested we attend a Mexican wrestling match that night. Shit yeah! I'm game. It's called "Lucha Libre" here and oh ma...
Posted by Finnigan on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:00:00 PST

Town of Tequila

My second day here we got up at 8am to go on a tour of the town of Tequila just an hour outside of Guadalajara. We took a bus ride through a permanent security check-point (for drug smugglers), ...
Posted by Finnigan on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:17:00 PST

Mike's in Guadalajara Mexico

I've been in Ole' Mexico over a week now and I suppose it's time to write some of my experiences down. Guadalajara is a LARGE city, about 7 million I'm told. There are no skyscrapers, in f...
Posted by Finnigan on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:38:00 PST

One Night in Bangkok....and it's over by 1am?

So you have a certain amount of expectations for anywhere you go. Bangkok, I always assumed was like an Asian Las Vegas, New Orleans, or Amsterdam. Not true at all. I took the 2 hour flight there aft...
Posted by Finnigan on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:50:00 PST

Langkawi Island - Paradise?

My fourth weekend here my buddy Marc from Cali was in town on business too. He got in Thursday night and we hit some of bars in Georgetown, although thanks to the World Cup and Thursday being a mid-we...
Posted by Finnigan on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:59:00 PST

Soaked in Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur So I took the bus to Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. The bus was cheap, about $12 US, and only took 4 hours with one stop. It was cheap to fly there, but between driving to the air...
Posted by Finnigan on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:23:00 PST

Some thoughts & memories after a few weeks in Malaysia

Week One-Two in Malaysia. So after my exciting weekend in Thailand, things have started to settle in at work. Everyone is really friendly and work is pretty similar to the states, except for the...
Posted by Finnigan on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:41:00 PST

Day 2 Thailand - It took a while to write, but hopefully worth it. You'll like the end.

So on my second day we opted for a road trip to a city in Thailand, Hat Yai, just across the Malaysian border. We had to get up at 6am to get to the border early enough to beat the traffic. ...
Posted by Finnigan on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:54:00 PST

Malaysia Introduction

So for all of you that didn't know, I'm in Malaysia. It's quite a different place. You can tell you're entering another world from the flight over alone. Singapore Air was pretty ama...
Posted by Finnigan on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:00:00 PST