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El Salvaje

When they really get to know you they will run.

About Me

I'm presently trying to think of something cool to write here so people will find me more interesting than I really am.

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My Interests

music, writing, VH1, Milwaukee Bucks, pumping iron, books, basketball, Milwaukee Brewers, beer, bloody mary, words, travel, information, gin and tonic, the library, whiskey and diet coke, Franzia box o' wine, Carlo Rossi jug o' wine, women, Scrabble, learning

I'd like to meet:

Ernest Hemingway, Jack Dempsey, Abraham Lincoln, Manute Bol, Andre the Giant, Jesus (with translator), Vincent Van Gogh (with translator), Andre the Giant, Robert Wadlo, Stephen Hawking, Lon Cheney, Christian Bale, James Dean, Sammy Davis Jr., My Grandpa and my Father when they were twenty-five, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Teddy Roosevelt

Music:

Depeche Mode, David Bowie, The Who, Weezer, The Peacocks, Beulah, Twilight Singers, The Rolling Stones, Paul Simon, Hank Williams, Elliot Smith, Afghan Whigs, The Strokes, Vic Ruggiero, The Slackers, Mike Doughty, Streetlight Manifesto, The Police, Elvis Costello, G. Love, Clap your Hands say Yeah, Mason Jennings, Superdrag, My Morning Jacket, MU330, Dan Potthast, Nada Surf, The Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Ben Folds, Bruce Springsteen, Buddy Holly, Cake, Pedro the Lion, The Gadjits, The Go! Team, Shout Out Louds, The Pietasters, The Killers, The Smiths, Morrisey, The Cure, Nada Surf, Catch-22, Say Anything, Rancid, White Stripes, Transplants.. width="425" height="350" ..

Movies:

Point Break, Speed, The Shawshank Redemption, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Back to the Future, Back to the Future part II and part III, Batman, Gung Ho, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Major League, Naked Gun, Johnny Dangerously, Weekend at Bernies, Resevoir Dogs, Total Recall, Clue, If Looks could Kill, Grandma's Boy, Rushmore, Life Aquatic, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, The Godfather parts I and II, Clue, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon One, Casablanca, The Unknown, Maximum Overdrive, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Three O'Clock High

Television:

Milwaukee Bucks, Seinfeld, Family Guy, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Reno 911, Hulk Hogan, Entourage, Curb your Enthusiasm, The Colbert Report, Mr. Show, Kids in the Hall, Saturday Night Live ~ 1988-1995,.. width="425" height="350" ..

Books:

Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allen Poe, H.G. Wells, Roald Dahl, Kurt Vonnegut, Merriem Webster's Dictionary, Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary, Lonely Planet, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, Bret Easton Ellis

My Blog

bus

so after a brief stay in puno, visiting floating reed islands in lake titicaca we moved on to bolivia.  the border is chaotic.  we walk through black smog belching, motionless traffic. ...
Posted by El Salvaje on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:00:00 PST

28 de julio

im in lima peru and today is their independence day.  i went out last night and drank beer until four a.m.  lima is a gray town this time of year.  the sun keeps it´s distance, as does ...
Posted by El Salvaje on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:07:00 PST

cuatro de julio

when you say the fourth of july in spanish, it means, "fourth of julio," which means essentially nothing, which in turn means nothing.independence day is a joyous occasion in most regards.  the h...
Posted by El Salvaje on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:10:00 PST

writing for the sake of writing

everything has felt very dead in my myspace world, as if it were something organic and a blog is sunlight and water.  my brain hasn't been moving in many interesting directions lately, just the u...
Posted by El Salvaje on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:26:00 PST

espn

    i'm in a bad mood so i shall unleash my fury on espn.  i like sports, and though espn is well on its way to becoming completely unwatchable, i still can enjoy, as long as i've ...
Posted by El Salvaje on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:36:00 PST

thursday

i just took a shower, during which i felt inspired to whistle the  Quantum Leap theme song.  At the end of it, I for some reason found myself going right into the Doogie Howser theme music.&...
Posted by El Salvaje on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:34:00 PST

carlos mencia and jeff foxworthy suck

i had a wonderful easter.  i ate turkey and deviled eggs and polish sausage.  we had butter that was shaped like a lamb.  there is this guy on comedy central named carlos mencia.  ...
Posted by El Salvaje on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:57:00 PST

ponderance

here are some innane ramblings:i saw a commercial for a fancy toothbrush today.  it had about seven different types of bristles and a big piece of rubber on each side for the gums.  it was r...
Posted by El Salvaje on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:47:00 PST

new blog of triviality

having just spend the last twenty minutes to half hour writing a blog, i am presently quite distraught, having nearly finished the blog and accidently cleared it.  but i shall not dwell on it.&nb...
Posted by El Salvaje on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:09:00 PST

greatest albums ever

it is with not a little apprehension i begun to list my favorite albums of all time.  i will attempt to judiciously tell the tale of my top five, which, if i were so savvy could be a tie in to T ...
Posted by El Salvaje on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:28:00 PST