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Harp Man

You would never guess where I am right now...

About Me

I am a dumbass... seriously... I'm not joking.
About women:
I have given up on women... so much so I actually find myself envious of gay men. They don't have to put up with the shit or heartache... or maybe the grass is greener on the other side. No pun intended.
I have decided to cut my penis off and display it in a jar of dill pickles on the mantle. "Oh... that's what I used to use. Back in my twenty's." This way I can save money and enjoy life without some woman fucking it up with her sexy curves... (gulp) or wonderful perfume... um... or smooth skin. (sigh) Damn it.
About Motorcycles:
I've been on two wheels since I was eight, but for some reason I always seem to find the sand in the middle of a corner, or the yuppie asshole on the phone, or the housewife with a car load of screaming kids, or... maybe I just suck. Nevertheless, like my relationships with women, I'm constantly attracted to them... as if I were suffering from alzheimer’s.
Recently I have developed a seething hatred towards yuppy Harley owners (not Harrley owners... YUPPY Harley owners), Squids, and Choppers. Riding used to be my own little universe, but now the hordes have invaded it and everyone has become a fucking expert. (sigh) Damn it again.
About music:
I love the Blues. Good mood, bad mood, really bad mood, drunk, or sober I always find myself tapping my foot to some beat and the harp echoing in my head. I've been playing the harp longer than I've known what my dick is for, but I'll never get sick of simple, soulful, twelve-bar blues. Coupled with my love of motorcycles it's almost enough to replace the desire for a relationship, but I now that understand what my dick is for... (sigh)
Son House once said: "Young people today take anything and make the blues out of it, say, 'such and such is blues.' No it's not! There ain't but one kind of blues, and that consists between male and female that's in love."
Interesting pictures of mine: [http://photos.yahoo.com/pauldfelton]

My Interests

Motorcycle racing/crashing, playing the blues harp until I hyperventilate, making really good beer... the kind that grows hair on your teeth, fishing while drinking the beer I just made, dating women with small mental defects, and arguing the difference between keen sarcasm vs. just being an asshole.

I'd like to meet:

Muddy Waters, Mike Hailwood, Paul Butterfield, Joey Dunlop, Massimo Tamburini, Albert Einstein, Little Walter Jacobs, Winston Churchill... um... why are most of my people dead?

Music:

Blues, Classic Rock, Folk/Bluegrass, Post-Bach/Pre-Copeland Classical, Italian Opera (any), and some other shit I can't think of right now.

Movies:

... are very nice. Thank you for asking.

Television:

... sucks ass. I gave mine away. However, here are some ads I wish they would show:

Books:

"Empire of the Sun" by J.G. Ballard, "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig, "The Jesus Incident" by Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom, most books by Tom Clancy, and everything ever written by Berkley Breathed.

Heroes:

Winston Chuchill (for his strength of character/liver), Berkley Breathed (for his sense of humor), B.B. King (for his expression of soul), Martin Luther King (for standing up even though he knew it would kill him), Mom (hey, I have a tatoo that says "MOM" so suck it!)

My Blog

Blood, Guts, and Glory in Afghanistan - March 12th, 2007

... as I ran through the hallway I could hear the metallic jingle of my grenades hanging from my belt. Not to give away my position I opted for the AK-47 over my more (ahem) destructive firepower. My ...
Posted by Harp Man on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:25:00 PST

Stupidity 101 - March 5th, 2007

  All of you know me. When a friend or co-worker says "Come... join us for a beer" the voices in my head start brawling and usually... usually the brain abandons responsibility and I'm grabbing m...
Posted by Harp Man on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:12:00 PST

Reality 101 - February 11th, 2007

We stood in awe as a hail of rocks and cocktails rained down on the ground in front of us. The roar from the unseen crowd just over the perimeter wall could have been in any language and would have be...
Posted by Harp Man on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:23:00 PST

Once more unto the breach. -Feburary 9th, 2007

Wow... holy shit. Life here is just totally and completely un-fucking-real by every sense of the definition.   It's taken me a day to figure out where I am and how to explain where I am. Nothin...
Posted by Harp Man on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:10:00 PST

Do not take this rant seriously... - January 24, 2007

Bored bored bored.... In one year I have managed to loose my will to be productive. I am as lethargic as a freshly laid turd. I spend my days reading engineering formulas followed by four hours of int...
Posted by Harp Man on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:35:00 PST

"I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" - December 18, 2006

Everything seems so surreal now. So much happened this past year I feel like I'm standing still. To be sitting in another fucking office, sipping my Starbucks, playing on the internet, and interacting...
Posted by Harp Man on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:51:00 PST

THE END - Tuesday, July 25, 2006

It's been a while since I last wrote everyone, but there's really nothing new to report. The desert is hot and dry with the occasional smell of ass (which I'll discuss later). With the exception of my...
Posted by Harp Man on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:17:00 PST

The REAL Kuwait - Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Hidy Ho!   I was wrong. I should have never formed an opinion about a culture based on the experiences gained from hanging out with stupid fucking people. Kuwait doesn't suck... American assholes...
Posted by Harp Man on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:16:00 PST

Gone gone away... - Wednesday, May 31, 2006

So it begins again.   For those of you that I haven't talked to in a while (sigh) I'm back in the mideast. Please forgive me if I don't seem very joyful in my tone, but I was really enjoying life...
Posted by Harp Man on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:15:00 PST

Ho hum - Sunday, February 26, 2006

Friends, Romans, Countrymen... lend me a dollar!   I have come to regard these emails as if they were a colum in a newspaper and it's my job to bring the experience to you. It's the little differ...
Posted by Harp Man on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:14:00 PST