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Phil

I'm just a simple man

About Me

I'm a bit of a recluse.

My Interests

poetry, writing, tattoos, baseball, basketball, vintage NBA and ABA, driving around, drinking, hitting dive bars, going to school, Spaghetti Westerns, French heist films, Samurai movies, Criterion Collection DVDs, bands that aren't pop punk or punk, Aztec Gods, Aztec Gods as tattoos, ninjas on fire, tortured sports figures that kill themselves or die in poverty

I'd like to meet:

NBA hall of famer Bob McAdoo. Indiana girls.

Music:

Klaus Nomi, Spiritualized, Joy Division, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Buzzcocks, My Morning Jacket, The Walkmen, Interpol, Queen, Nada Surf, Zykos, The Strokes, The Hives, U2, At the Drive In, Sparta, Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie, Motorhead, Blur, Girls Against Boys, A Flock of Seagulls, Citizen Bird, The Wrens, The Stills, The Shins, TV on the Radio, Pearl Jam, Sea Ray, A Certain Ratio, Simple Minds, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, The French Kicks, Gang of Four, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Iggy and the Stooges, Neil Diamond, Glenn Campbell, Television, Prince, The Decemberists, New Order, Television

Movies:

Tokyo Drifter, Yojimbo, Tron, Once Upon A Time in the West,Seven Samurai, Branded to Kill, Pistol Opera, Stray Dog, Straw Dogs, Wild Bunch, Laughing Policeman, Heat, Jackie Brown, Honky, Triplets of Belleville, Lost in Translation, Kwaiden, The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh, Fast Break, North Dallas Forty, El Topo, The Red Circle, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Old Boy, The Presdient's Last Bang, 3-Iron, Almost anything Korean made in the last five years

Television:

Stuff on ESPN Classic, PTI, Simpsons, Futurama, Around the Horn, Mission Hill, Tom Goes to the Mayor

Books:

Infinite Loop, Clever Baseballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery Ward, Phadeo, The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way, Ball Four, First Quarter, Codex Borgia, Codex Nuttal, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk the Fire, Lunch Poems, Burning in Water Drowning in Flame, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld, The Samurai Way of Baseball

Heroes:

Rawly Eastwick

My Blog

JAPAN BLOG

For the people who want to know what the second banana is up to over here... www.livejournal.com/users/tombor Same journal as before.   ...
Posted by Phil on Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:58:00 PST

Journal

For the 3 people who know me and pay attention to this myspace profile but don't read my livejournal my livejournal is http://www.livejournal.com/users/tombor That's were I write crap.
Posted by Phil on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

HEY!

Its my fucking birthday today. Leave me some love.
Posted by Phil on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Uneventful

The last couple weeks, or the last week or so has been surreal. My roommate drives me up the wall. Well one of them. He's given me speeches about messy desks and respect and such. I don't know...
Posted by Phil on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Today

I skipped school and went to a Reds game. Clint's Uncle, I think, has season tickets to the Reds and couldn't go to today's, dubbed the "Buisnessman's Special" since it was played during the day. ...
Posted by Phil on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Wing night sort of, but fun day nonetheless

Yesterday was fun for once. Saw a poetry by W.D. Snodgrass as a requirement for Poetry Workshop and had a lot of fun. I like his language and he's speaks the work brilliantly. It is his own work......
Posted by Phil on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Last couple days

Got my tattoo. Outline anyway. Stung a bit but I forgot about the pain real quick. People seem to dig it, like it more than the first is the general consensus I think. At least based on one guy. ...
Posted by Phil on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

No its not a stick on

The last couple days, going back to Thursday, have been a daze. Some bad trip. Thursday I went to Casey's 80s prom night party. I took Darrell along, sort of against his own free will, and we ...
Posted by Phil on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Wander Boy

This is one of those days where its windy and cool and the sky is a shade of blue gray that covers the sun and creates a breeze that chills you but doesn't chill you. I've been in a funk for a lo...
Posted by Phil on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Wing night

I drank a weird mix of stuff, thanks Jesse, and puked up about 30 wings. Felt a lot better. Thanks for letting me eat your omlet Jesse, and sorry Sarah for touching your butt. Maybe.
Posted by Phil on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST