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Ian

A Hideous Triumph of Form and Function.

About Me

Friends! I've come to free you from your complicated lives! Free you from the complicated part, I mean. Not the lives part.

My Interests

Religion; Reading; Hiking; Writing; Kayaking; Christianity; Judaism; Islam; Zoroastrianism; Cooking; Norse Legends; Spanish; Ivrit; Mythology; Poetry; Camping; Fishing; Hammocks; Machetes; Hamsters; Party Hats; Hamsters In Party Hats; Music; Agricultural Work; Construction; Cartoons; Pretzels; Patacones; Curry; Chocolate; Fanta; Books; Pirates; Reggae; True Love; Cycling;

I'd like to meet:

You people wonder why I'm still single? It's 'cause all the fine robot sisters are dating humans!

Music:

Peter Gabriel; Kate Bush; Gustavo Cerati; U2; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; Alice Cooper; The Gothic Archies; The Magnetic Fields; Nelly; Pearl Jam; Stars; Hideous Input; Dead Can Dance; The Cranberries; Led Zeppelin; Alice In Chains; Depeche Mode; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; The Cure; The Pogues; Bob Marley; VNV Nation; Front Line Assembly; Delays; Apoptygma Berzerk; Johnny Cash; Tori Amos; Mana; Pink Floyd; Seal; Cocteau Twins; Loreena McKennitt; Bonnie 'Prince' Billy; The Sisters of Mercy; The Postal Service; Death Cab For Cutie; Paul Simon; Imogen Heap; Casiotone For the Painfully Alone; David Bowie; Joy Division; Camera Obscura; Bauhaus; Nick Drake; Siouxsie and the Banshees; Bjork; Echo and the Bunnymen; The Pillows; Jethro Tull; Mary Chapin Carpenter; Parliament Funkadelic; Toad the Wet Sprocket; Tom Waits; Wolfstone; Ute Lemper; Jimi Hendrix; MC Frontalot; Oomph!; El Roockie; TISM

Movies:

Remains of the Day; The Incredibles; Stargate; The Seven Year Itch; Wings of Desire; When Harry Met Sally...; The Lord of the Rings I-III; Edward Scissorhands; The Nightmare Before Christmas; Spider Man 2; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Annie Hall; Legend; The Killer; The Lion In Winter; Star Wars IV-VI; Equilibrium; The Mothman Prophecies; Kairo; The Ring; Duck Soup; Harvey; The Emperor's New Groove; How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying; Unbreakable; Willow; Cabaret; Rabbit-Proof Fence; Blacula; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; The Elephant Man; The Transporter; Persuasion; Iron Monkey; Brazil; Philadelphia Story; Dead Presidents; The Wedding Singer; Army of Darkness; Nochnoi Dozor; The Fountain;

Television:

Futurama; Doctor Who; The Prisoner; Battlestar Galactica (new); Gargoyles; The Critic; Nova; Invader Zim; The Simpsons; My Name Is Earl; Mythbusters; Arrested Development; Lost; News Radio; The New Detectives; The Maxx; The Twilight Zone; Wolf's Rain; Neon Genesis Evangelion; Red Dwarf; Northern Exposure; Good Eats

Books:

"Ulysses" by James Joyce; "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald; "Elementary Forms of Religious Life" by Emile Durkheim; "The Great Divorce" by CS Lewis; "The Silmarillion" by JRR Tolkien; "The Golden Bough" by Sir James Frazer; "Red Prophet" by Orson Scott Card; "The Vile Village" by Lemony Snicket; "Sabriel" by Garth Nix; "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K LeGuin; anything by Neil Gaiman; anything by Terry Pratchett; anything by PG Wodehouse; anything by HP Lovecraft; anything by Claude McKay; "Paradise Lost" by John Milton; anything by Alfred Lord Tennyson; "The Golem" by Gustav Meyrink; "The War With The Newts" by Karel Copek; and so on and so forth

Heroes:

The Lord; Elijah; the Apostle Peter; Joseph Smith Jr.; Peter Gabriel; Alfred Lord Tennyson; Nikolai Tesla; Alton Brown; Edna St. Vincent-Millay; WB Yeats; Neil Gaiman; Lemony Snicket; Claude McKay; Emile Durkheim; Tim Burton; Batman; El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz; Charles Baudelaire; Vincent Price; Terry Pratchett; Bender B Rodriguez; Loreena McKennitt; Siouxsie Sioux

My Blog

Explosion in Harlem

Explosion in Harlem. Apartment a block away from us. So loud I heard it while I was in the shower. Bystanders injured by flying glass. News channels not covering it. No idea what actually happened.
Posted by Ian on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:02:00 PST

Memnon

A N S W E R - T R U T H F U L L Y1. Do you like anyone?:  Yes!2. Do they know it? I'm not sure.3. Simple or complicated? Complicated.IN - T H E - L A S T - M O N T H - H A V E - Y O U4. Had sex: ...
Posted by Ian on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:56:00 PST

"Shipwrecked" by The Gothic Archies

..> I can't think of a single thing I'd rather doThan to be cast away on an island with youNo, I can't think of anything more heavenlyThan to have you shipwrecked on an island with meShipwrecked wi...
Posted by Ian on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:42:00 PST

Everyone Hail to the Pumpkin Song

..(Performed by the Citizens of Halloween) [ Shadows ] Boys and girls of every age Wouldn't you like to see something strange? [ Siamese Shadow ] Come with us and you will see This, our town of Hallow...
Posted by Ian on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 06:30:00 PST

Aircraft Crashes Into Building In NYC

Small aircraft crashed into a building on E. 72nd and York recently. That explains all the helicopters and sirens. I can see that region from my Window. My roommate said he saw a cloud of smoke at fir...
Posted by Ian on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:20:00 PST

Transferred To Blog

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Posted by Ian on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:27:00 PST

Empty Space On My Friends' List

In Memoriam: Cristalle's Myspace and LJ pages.
Posted by Ian on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:33:00 PST

No More Mr. Nice Guy

I love Alice Cooper. I love pretty much every album he (and early on, they) put out. I love it all so much. Some people like Lou Reed. Some people like David Byrne. Some people like David Bo...
Posted by Ian on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:30:00 PST

Visual Ian

New Phone = Actual Pictures of My Face!Not the most flattering, I'll grant you, but still!
Posted by Ian on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:39:00 PST

Recent Films

I've seen a number of films over the course of the last few months. Here are a few quick reviews:"X-Men 3" -- Yech. Not worth the money I paid to see it. Some neat visual effects and the inclusion of ...
Posted by Ian on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:53:00 PST