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Gypsy Grifter

Like a stealth fighter with an inferiority complex

About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorWhat can I say? I'm a typical 30-something living in Eugene, Oregon and just living and loving life.

My Interests

Gaming of all kinds.
Snowboarding.
Physics.
Running.
My own little fractal space theory
Anime
Anthropodermic bibliopegy

I'd like to meet:

New people. Are you a good person? Great. Are you an asshole? Also great. It takes all kinds, ya know?
All credit to http://www.vgcats.com/

Music:

Toad the Wet Sprocket (now and forever).
The Beatles.
The Stones.
Tom Petty.
Tool.
BoA
Glen Phillips
Perfect Circle.
Love and Rockets.
The Cure.
Guns N' Roses.
Any one-hit-wonder band from the 80s.
Stone Temple Pilots.
Green Day.
The Pietasters.
The Toasters.
The Pillows.
The FooFighters.
Veruca Salt.
Incubus.
Greenday.
The Pixies
The Flaming Lips

Movies:

Star Wars!!!!
Serenity!!!
Star Trek!!!
2001: A Space Odysey.
Donnie Darko.
Mirror Mask (a must see)
War of the Worlds (the original, not that Cruise pile).
LotR trilogy.
Fifth Element
Evil Dead
House of 1000 Corpses
Full Metal Jacket
Monty Python's The Life of Brian
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
Blade Runner
Total Recall
Minority Report
A Scanner Darkly
Ghost in the Shell
Howl's Moving Castle

Television:

Firefly (now and always!)
Battlestar Gallactica (yes, the Sci-Fi remake)
Lost
Stargate SG-1
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Rahxephon
Roswell
The X-Files
Adultswim
Bleach
Robotech
Sopranos
FLCL
Dr. Who
Bleach
Cowboy Bebop
Star Trek (all of 'em)
Dead Like Me
Serial Experiments Lain
Texhnolyze
Drive
Heroes
The Dresden Files

Books:

Ender's Game
Wheel of Time
Dune
Pern
anything by Asimov, Clark, Bradbury and Lovecraft
William Butler Yeats
Snowcrash
American Gods
Neverwhere
Anansi Boys
Fight Club

Heroes:

My three fathers
and two mothers.

I am the luckiest man alive.

My Blog

Against unworthy praise

O Heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake. Enough if the work has seemed, So did she your strength renew, A dream that a lio...
Posted by Gypsy Grifter on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:22:00 PST

battlecry!!

What Is Your Battle Cry?Running out of the tundra, swinging a piece of chainlink fence, cometh Tagmart! And he gives a mighty roar:"For the love of beatings, I hereby void your warranty, and send you ...
Posted by Gypsy Grifter on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:38:00 PST

I love Buffy and all but...

C'mon, really, Dawn? I'm a fucking key?      ..t-->Your Score../t-->: Dawn Summers      63% amorality, 81% passion, 54% spirituality, 81% selflessness...
Posted by Gypsy Grifter on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:23:00 PST

New Year recap and crap

Ahhhhh.... Another year done and over with. I can't say that 2006 was the best year I've ever had but it was probably the most incredible. Lesse, '06 in a nutshell for me...Well, my life took a comple...
Posted by Gypsy Grifter on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:57:00 PST

Last flight of Serenity

Happy Holidays everybody!!!!Well, I'm headed over the Cascades to see the folks on Saturday and it has a bitter-sweet feeling to it. I'm probably going to be buying a new car while I'm over there whi...
Posted by Gypsy Grifter on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:31:00 PST

alpha and omega

Take your cautionary tales And take your incremental gain And all the sycophantic games And throw 'em all away. Burn your tv in your yard And gather 'round it with your friends And warm your hands up...
Posted by Gypsy Grifter on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 04:15:00 PST

ugh

The Sunday before finals week. I'm freakin' exhausted. My term project is done. Studying has me brainfried. Can't wait until Wednesday when this is all done. Wish me luck all!
Posted by Gypsy Grifter on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:07:00 PST

Crap Aaron is thankful for

Another Thanksgiving come and gone. I have so much to be thankful for this year that I just had to post a blog about. So here goes. All the crap Aaron is thankful for:1) Although it didn't end so well...
Posted by Gypsy Grifter on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:00:00 PST

Physics + Drinking = ensuing hillarity

So here it is! The semi-definitive drinking game for anyone taking a physics class. Grab a fifth of your favorite alcohol, pour it into a nifty li'l coffee mug and enjoy your day in class! Here's the ...
Posted by Gypsy Grifter on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:18:00 PST

Catch up with the tagmart

Damn, it's been a while, eh? So, for those of you that want to know what I've been up to (and really, who doesn't?), here goes...Last summer was a freakin' blast. I met some cool people I'm happy to ...
Posted by Gypsy Grifter on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:31:00 PST