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letters and sodas

I am here for Friends

About Me

i'm a reciprocal altruist.
i play a little music . i sometimes host this open mic . mostly, i shoot pool badly and drink beer, but only after a rousing round of "you don't mess around with jim".
i have a thing for acronyms, but i don't like wasps (either kind), or yuppies. go figure.

My Interests

finding the truth behind the hype.

my best scrabble game ever.
if you look closely, you'll notice the words 'booze', 'toked', and 'jugs'. Freudian slip? you be the judge.

I'd like to meet:

misanthropes.

Music:

Aimee Mann, Elliott Smith, the Shins, Spoon, Jon Brion, the Kinks, the Lemonheads, Michael Penn, the weakerthans, big star, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Andrew Bird, someone still loves you boris yeltsin, the Old 97's, um..the Beatles, Rhett Miller, Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell + Jaco, pj harvey, Lou Reed, 'til tuesday, the dandy warhols, Bob Dylan, the honey dogs, Damien Rice, Lennon, James Taylor, Jennifer Marks, Fiona Apple, Indigo Girls, Ben Folds, Ani Difranco, neutral milk hotel, Laura Nyro, burt bacharach, Paul Simon, Cat Stevens, steely dan, Don Henley, Neil Young, echo and the bunnymen, Bernie Taupin, the flaming lips, Carly Simon, Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits, Kaki King, Stevie Wonder, the eels, the smiths, the pixies, radiohead, shelley miller, bob gibson, steve goodman, joan baez, woody guthrie, the velvet underground, curtis mayfield, george gershwin, billie holiday, ella fitzgerald, wilco, death cab for cutie, coltrane, the pharcyde, tribe called quest, common, mos def, talib qweli, digable planets, Carole King, Jim Croce, Tracy Chapman, black sheep, radiohead, the white stripes, jonathan richmond, they might be giants, jason schwartz, don conoscenti, Sunil K. Chopra, the eagles, don mclean, rachel yamagata, viva voce, komeda, papas fritas, liz phair, all those minty fresh guys....
"I'm Just A Bill"
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School House Rock
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(Kid) "Whew! You sure gotta' climb a lotta' steps to get to this Capitol
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building here in Washinton! Well, I wonder who that sad little scrapof paper is?"
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I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I'm sittin' here on Capitol Hill
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Well it's a long, long journey to the capitol city. It's a long, long wait
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while I'm sittin' in committee - but I know I'll be a law someday, at least
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I hope and pray that I will, but today I am still just a bill.
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(Kid) "Gee, Bill, you certainly have a lot of patience and courage."
(Bill) "Well, I got this far. When I started I wasn't even a bill, I was
just an idea. Some folks back home decided they wanted a law passed,
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so they called their local congressman and he said, 'You're right,
there ought to be a law.' Then he sat down, wrote me out, and
introduced me to Congress, and I became a bill - and I'll remain a
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bill until they decide to make me a law."
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I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I got as far as Capitol Hill.
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Well now, I'm stuck in committee, and I'll sit here and wait, while a
D few key congressmen discuss and debate whether they should let me be a law.
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How I hope and pray that they will, but today I am still just a bill.
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(Kid) "Listen to those congressmen arguing! Is all that discussion and debateabout you?"
(Bill) "Yeah, I one of the lucky ones. Most bills never get this far. I
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hope they decide to report favorably, otherwise I may die."
(Kid) "Die?"
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(Bill) "Yeah, die in committee. Ooh, but it looks like I'm gonna' live.
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Now I go to the House of Represenatives and they vote on me."
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(Kid) "If they vote 'Yes,' what happens?"
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(Bill) "Then I go to the Senate and the whole thing starts all over again."
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(Kid) "Oh, no."
(Bill) "Oh, yes!"
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I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and if they vote for me on Capitol Hill,
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well, then I'm off to the White House, where I'll wait in a line with a lot
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of other bills for the President to sign, and if he signs me then I'll be a law
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How I hope and pray that he will, but today I am still just a bill.
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(Kid) "You mean, even if the whole Congress says you should be a law,
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the President can still say no?"
(Bill) "Yes. That's called a 'veto.' If the President vetoes me, I'll
have to go back to Congress and they vote on me again, and by that
time you're so old, you...
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(Kid) "By that time it's very unlikely that you'll become a law. It's not
easy to become a law, is it?"
(Bill) "No..."
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But how I hope and pray that I will, but today I am still just a bill.(Congressman) "He signed you, Bill. Now you're a law."
(Bill) "Oh yes!"

Movies:

heathers.
these are ichluge bullets.
anything scored by jon brion. e.g. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, i heart huckabees etc. some stuff written by neil labute: in the company of men, your friends and neighbors. anything written by charlie kauffman e.g. being john malkovitch, eternal sunshine (again?), human nature, adaptation.

Television:

is bad for you. i only watch law and order SVU and comedy central. oh, and the iron chef. battle eggplant is on.

Books:

anything by pablo neruda, charles bukowski, saul bellow, Carl Dennis, sharon olds, barbara deceasar, shel silverstein, kurt vonnegut jr., Sandra Cisneros, T.S. Elliot, louise Gluck, gertrude stein, anne sexton, Marcelis Wyatt, stephen dobyns, Susen James (the coolest teacher on the planet), and who could forget Sappho? Wayne robert Williams (he writes the tribune crossword puzzle. But where the fuck is my scrabble gram? motherfucker.) .........oh wait. I should plug something. The chicago poetry scene is beautiful. Go to Weeds on mondays to see Sergio, the trace on tuesdays - polyrythmic, and everyone at the green mill. Go for the slam. Send my regards.

the bard didn't write prose.
who comes up with this shit?

Heroes:

King Julien

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