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Ayn

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About Me

HOW TO MAKE AN AYN:
2 cups smart ass, 2 cups heart, 1 1/3 cup tough girl, 3 cups sweet loving, 1/2 cup life lessons learned, 1/2 cup misdirected ambition, 1 heaping cup punk, 1 tablespoon frustrated artist, 1 tablespoon hopeful artist, 1 cup heartbreak, 2 cups loyalty, large pinch cynicism, 3 tablespoons stubborn determination, 3 parts vegetarian, 1 cup creativity, 2 1/2 cups total sap

I wrote a book called Dirty Money and wrote for punk zines (MRR, Razorcake) for more than 15 years. I've also contributed to Punk Planet, Bitch Magazine and The District Weekly. Bands I've been in: The Tramps , Killswitch .

My Interests

Punk music and music in general, writing, reading, playing guitar, riding cruiser bikes on the beach, bowling. Late night conversations. Hanging out on the steps of our apt building watching the crazy locals.

I'd like to meet:

Writers, artists, smarty-pants, people who are tons of fun, punks, real people.

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Music:

Too much to list. Here's a sample: X, 101'ers, Registrators, Gears, Bodies, Descendents, Real Kids, Johnny Cash, Stitches, Filth, Born Against, Suicidal Tendencies, Cock Sparrer, Raw Power, Cheap Trick, Hatepinks, Pagans, Humpers, Loretta Lynn, Devil Dogs, YDI, Swingin Utters, Social D, Wanda Jackson, Regulations, Sludgeworth, Roky Erickson, Screeching Weasel, Teengenerate, The Beat (Paul Collins), The Clash, The Crowd, Broken Bottles, Bad Brains, Exploding Hearts, Pegboy, Signal Lost, Detroit Cobras, Hot Snakes.

Movies:

Into the Wild, Lords of Dogtown, Barfly, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Sin City, Chasing Amy, Office Space, Basquiat, Filth and the Fury, Little Miss Sunshine, Cinderella Man, Zoolander, True Romance, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, High Fidelity, Garden State, Seven, Crash, Shawshank Redemption, The Shape of Things, Sid and Nancy, My Own Private Idaho, Fletch, Carrie, Better Off Dead, Amelie, Fahrenheit 911, Decline of the Western Civilization, Barbarella, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Big Lebowski, Birdy, Gummo, A Christmas Story.

Television:

Six Feet Under, Seinfeld, Adult Swim, Dexter, Triumph the insult dog, Forensic Files, Law and Order, skateboarding videos, Animal Planet/Jeff Corwin/Discovery channel, The old man from Everyone Loves Raymond, Jackass, Frosty the Snowman, Heat Miser.

Books:

Any Cormac McCarthy, Raymond Carver, Bukowski, Fante. Haslam's Valley, Babe in Paradise, Emperor of the Air, Wild Sheep Chase, Winesburg Ohio, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, Jesus' Son, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Pillowman, Ham on Rye, The Basketball Diaries, McSweeney's comp, Bastard Out of Carolina, The Lovely Bones, Yellow, Dubliners, Catcher in the Rye, The Scarlet Letter, Ask the Dust, Bad Behavior.

Heroes:

The bear from Harvey Birdman.

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My Blog

It means whale’s vagina...

We went out of town to San Diego on a whim and, as luck will have it, there was a skate/snowboard dealer event going on that weekend. Needless to say, our hotel overlooked an elabo...
Posted by Ayn on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:33:00 PST

NEW BLOG SPOT - Steaming Hot Slice of Life

I've moved some of my blogs to a new blogspot- please visit and add your comments there :) This space will now be mainly for personal blogging.   http://www.steaminghotsliceoflife.blogspot.c...
Posted by Ayn on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:50:00 PST

woo hoo

Won a scholarship award from the English Department at CSULB for my novel. Yea for extra money.
Posted by Ayn on Fri, 11 May 2007 03:29:00 PST

I'm going to Russia...eventually

I won a partial scholarship to a two-four week writing workshop in St. Petersburg, Russia, and they're letting me apply it to next year's tuition. It's a year from now, but I'm gonna go, and now ...
Posted by Ayn on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:15:00 PST

*Last Semester*

This is it. After a year and a half of busting my ass, I'm in my last semester of grad school. But the fat lady isn't singing yet. Four more months to go. Returning to school has been one of the most ...
Posted by Ayn on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:24:00 PST

man castrated by lobsters

Here is something I learned today. Don't put live lobsters down your pants. http://www.crazynews.net/dp/1-112.htm
Posted by Ayn on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:42:00 PST

American Hardcore movie

I thought the American Hardcore movie, released Friday, was pretty entertaining and comprehensive- if it was intended to cover American Hardcore up until about 1984. As a Bad Brains fan, I didn't...
Posted by Ayn on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:45:00 PST

Back to the salt mines :)

I'm back in my second year of grad school -  working on my thesis this semester, so I can teach a college class in the spring. Finishing a screenplay adaptation as well, along with...
Posted by Ayn on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:29:00 PST

I'm Back, though not entirely in the saddle

After a crazy first year in grad school, I'm finally back in the real world again. For two months, at least. School kept me insanely busy for the past nine months - the baby I made being thirty units ...
Posted by Ayn on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:27:00 PST

Jellyfish action

We went kayaking last weekend, in Alamitos Bay a few blocks from where I live in Long Beach. There's this place that rents em for $7 an hour. About a half a mile into the channels there's this en...
Posted by Ayn on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:34:00 PST