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Basil of Baker Street

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About Me

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My Interests

Music, movies, drinking, the usual. I also enjoy hanging and blacking out with close friends.

I'd like to meet:

Matt Skiba, Regina Spektor, and Quentin Tarantino. I already met him, but I'd be pretty cool with hanging out with MC Chris

Music:

I'm a pretty big fan of music in general, but these are my favorites. Alkaline Trio, Tegan and Sara, Another Tragic Ending, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Clancy Brothers, Coldplay, Desaperacidos, Elliott Smith, Iron and Wine, Tilly and the Wall, Death Cab for Cutie, Rancid, The Libertines, Morrissey, The Smiths, The Postal Service, NoFx, Something Corporate, The Faint, Flogging Molly, The Decemberists, Neutral Milk Hotel, Rilo Kiley, The Streets, Saosin, Regina Spektor, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, The Magnetic Fields, Okkervil River, Rogue Wave, The Long Winters, Norfolk and Western, Gregory and the Hawk, The Flaming Lips, Live, Oasis, Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer and the Mescalaroes, The Clash, The Dropkick Murphys, .

Movies:

American Beauty, Good Will Hunting, The Wild Bunch, every Quentin Tarantino movie, including True Romance and Four Rooms, but not quite Natural Born Killers, Shaun of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later, The Usual Suspects, Seven, Everything is Illuminated, Tron, The Hobbit (45 minutes of animated heaven), Lord of the Rings, Fight Club, Kids, Trainspotting, Reqeium for a Dream, Garden State, The Virgin Suicides, Swingers, Made, High Fidelity, Say Anything, Boondock Saints, GoodFellas, Casino, Raging Bull, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Intermission, Lansdown, The Man Who Would Be King, The Great Escape, Straw Dogs, Rebel Without a Cause, Some Like it Hot, Cape Fear (the original and remake), Road to Perdition, Zulu, Open Range, Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Way of the Gun, It's a Wonderful Life, Scarface (the 1932 orginal and the remake with Al Pacino), The Sting, The Life of David Gale, Mystic River, Dog Soldiers, Battle of Shaker Heights, Holes, Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, Dodgeball, Old School, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Paths of Glory, Savior, Gremlins 1 and 2, Critters 1,2, and 3 cuz 4 sucked, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Monty Python Films, Enemy at the Gates, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redmption, Black Hawk Down, The Ninth Configuration, Tombstone, The Professional, Gone with the Wind, Batteries Not Included, Spaced Invaders, Bullitt, The Getaway, Mad Max, The Hire, Fargo, Goodbye Lenin, Walk the Line, V for Vendetta, Anchorman, Wedding Crashers, Thumbsucker,the X-Men flicks, Junebug, The Chumscrubber, Running Scared Skins, This is England and a thousand others.

Television:

Family Guy, The Simpsons, Home Movies, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Cowboy BeBop, Lost, Heroes, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, MythBusters, Everything on Shark Week even though it makes me even more terrified of bodies of water, Dirty Jobs, Project Runway, FLCL, Miami Ink, Significant Others, alot of classic movie channels and alot of History Channel.

Books:

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson is the best book ever, Blankets and Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson, Blankets being the most beautiful book ever written, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 1984 by George Orwell, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, The Virgin Suicides by Jefferey Eugenides, Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, Long Way Down by Nick Hornby, most books about the Battle of Vimy Ridge, especially the book Vimy, and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction.

Heroes:

Han Solo, RoboCop, all of the Goonies, Tron, Lt. J.T. Marsh of Able Squad, and Jay Dickstien's television.

My Blog

I'm not an alcoholic. They go to meetings.

I want to get drunk sooooooooo bad. I got pretty buzzed off some vodka with Tyler the other night and I really miss drinking. I remember the old days. Parties every weekend, people very rarely seeing ...
Posted by Basil of Baker Street on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:42:00 PST

I bet my Dad could beat up a cowboy.

He's pretty badass if I do say so myself. But I digress, from what I'm not sure since I haven't really said anything of much substance yet. Three days until the Trio comes to Hartford with the sole pu...
Posted by Basil of Baker Street on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:04:00 PST

You might put me in the ground with a smile on my head.

So Alkaline Trio IS the best band ever. I'm not sure why but I've been in a very Trio mood lately, especially today/tonight. Maybe its because the show is coming up and I can't wait to go. I've been b...
Posted by Basil of Baker Street on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:01:00 PST

In gats we trust

Some one find me a pistol. Preferably one of the .45 caliber. I could settle for a 9mm, but I would muost prefer a .45
Posted by Basil of Baker Street on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:46:00 PST

The Holocaust didn't happen.

I'm going to Hell for that subject line, but I'm sure I was all ready on my way there. I'm bored and waiting to hang out and shop til I drop with Cailin/Bo, two of the neatest girls this side of the D...
Posted by Basil of Baker Street on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:14:00 PST

A post man, about my postman

I'm betting and also hoping that my mailman is some sort of secret agent and someday there will be an enormous gun fight on my front lawn. I think I'd back up Post Master Flex because he delivers my m...
Posted by Basil of Baker Street on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:03:00 PST

Some gangstas in Beantown

So yesterday I went to Boston with Casey. It was fucking awesome. Its like the coolest place ever. We procured a bottle of Smirnoff, a large bottle, and put the vodka in drinks accordingly and walked ...
Posted by Basil of Baker Street on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Oh Man!!!!!!!!!!

I am currently eating DiGiorno pizza right nowfor the first time and it is fucking delicious.
Posted by Basil of Baker Street on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Shaving

I think I'm going to stop shaving in order to grow either a Doc Holliday moustache/soul patch or a Clark Gable moustache. Man, am I awesome.
Posted by Basil of Baker Street on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST