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Elliot

hatcityrocker

About Me

My name's Elliot, I'm a nice guy.I'm a music nut, my first love being punk rock and the beatles, but I'm also sort of a closeted country fan. I collect gutars and have a ridiculous amount of them, and I dream of having an even more ridiculous amount. My main vices are coffee and television, both of which keep me up very late.... Right now I go to college.

My Interests

Hockey, Guitar, Drums, Pedal Steel Guitar, Live Music, Politics

Music:

the beatles, the ramones, mighty mighty bosstones, johnny cash, the failure, rex stiff and the kinky morticians, reverend horton heat, the clash, dead kennedys, uncle tupelo, wilco, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Crazy Horse, The weakerthans, The Pixies, Billy Bragg, The Buzzcocks, Jimi Hendrix, The Replacements, The Tragically Hip

Movies:

pulp fiction, fight club, high fidelity, this is spinal tap, reservoir dogs, snatch, nightmare before christmas, Kill Bill,

Television:

the simpsons, six feet under, The Sopranos, The National, The Daily Show, Jeopardy, Seinfeld, entourage

Books:

Stuart Maclean, Micheal Moore, Al Franken, John Irving, Tom Robbins, Chuck Palhaniuk

Heroes:

Joe Strummer, Quentin Tarantino, Tommy Douglas, Homer Simpson, Mick Jones, Ghandi, Wayne Gretzky.

My Blog

uke?

I bought a ukelele with some chump change this weekend.Now I need to make badass arrangements for some tunes. I'm thinking beatles or Hank Williams. Any suggestions out there?
Posted by Elliot on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:37:00 PST

Leave the coffee out of this!

So, yesterday morning I rolled my eyes and Tim Horton probably rolled a little in his grave.Why?Because those fuckers at Tim Hortons raised the price on coffee again, and I could swear that the cups t...
Posted by Elliot on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:01:00 PST

Saturday Night Coming up....

Parties where the music is too good and the liquor is too available seems to always turn out badly. Here's a little recreation of some previous events.Elliot: How's it going man?Critter: Pretty good, ...
Posted by Elliot on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:22:00 PST

my vocabulary policing comes out

If you're trying to tell me english shouldn't be a mandatory course in college, don't use the word exspecially.Well, at least such a situation has a certain entertainment value.
Posted by Elliot on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 03:08:00 PST

Stacks

On Sunday, I ripped a stack of CDs, about 160 songs. That should probably do for the summer. If anybody else has loaded The Tragically Hip, The Wu-tang Clan, Gogol Bordello, Oasis, Buck 65 and Woody G...
Posted by Elliot on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:07:00 PST

Post Holiday Observations

I got home from a 3 week trip out in Italy with my mom and dad last night.I've gotten a day's worth of sleep in the last 2, and I'm back at work at the golf course at 6AM tomorrow, so I fugure now is ...
Posted by Elliot on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:03:00 PST

Quittin' school, going to work, never going fishing

Yesterday, I was a grumpy, grumpy, inconsolable wreck.It's amazing to see what a difference a sleep and a day can do to me. All that stuff that weighed on my mind, I can now see is reversible, and uni...
Posted by Elliot on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 03:29:00 PST

ugggh.

I'm always tired these days.always grumpy.my phone calls don't get returned.my mind is always elsewhere.I'm trying to keep rack of physics formulas I don't care about.the only one to notice my haircut...
Posted by Elliot on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:55:00 PST

how to kill a nerouvs twitch... twitch

I'm going to get out of town for some days. I'm going to Ottawa until Wednesday to meet other kids, check out the scenery and bitch about politics, and it's about bloody time. I've been working too ha...
Posted by Elliot on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:53:00 PST

good days... gotta love 'em!

today was, overall, radgot a ride home from the buckle for free, no hangover.had some lunch, bought a harmonica holder thingy, got paid for reffing hockey, ran into Thomas, had another lunch, laughed ...
Posted by Elliot on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:43:00 PST