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Willrad

I AM FILLED WITH LOATHING! And mashed potatoes. BUT MOSTLY LOATHING!

About Me

People always think I'm younger than I am. In the past year I've been carded for Rum Raisin pudding and a rated R movie, and also had a waiter ask "Shouldn't you be in school?" during lunch.

I'm married to a girl from Mississippi who has taught me how to say "y'all" and that "barbecue" is a noun. She is talented and hilarious and an unstoppable thumb-wrestler. I have never beaten her, not once.

I own a house. This surprises even me.

I live in North Carolina and I really like it here.. but I still love the Red Sox. Apart from Atlanta, nobody in the South seems to care much about professional baseball... except they all hate the Yankees. So that works out just fine.

I love sweet tea and can't comprehend why it isn't sold north of Virginia. Ha-ha! Sucks for everyone else.

Leah and I have been known to eat corn dogs and ice cream for dinner, then stay up late playing video games and reading comics and watching cartoons. So pretty much all I need is a zipline out to a tree fort and I'll have exactly the life I wanted when I was twelve.

I'm worried about my country. I think George W. Bush is easily the worst president of my lifetime, and possibly the Worst. President. Ever. Much to my surprise, though, my father (who voted for him twice) told me the exact same thing earlier this year. Maybe there's hope for us yet.

I think robots are awesome.

I'm really crappy at myspace, so if I fail to friendificate you or kudo your e-blogosphere or whatever, y'know, don't take it personal. I'm just slow and forgetful about this stuff. Just be all: "dogg, you should totally do this thing." And I will do it, eventually. Because we're pals, right? Right.


My Interests

Robots, ninjas, hobos, Tyrannosaurs in F-14s, comics, cartoons, human skulls with spider legs, prime numbers, gin, blinkenlights, computarmachiens, the interwub, Hello Kitty, dogs with bees in their mouths (so when they bark they shoot bees at you), mashed potatoes, the Defenestration of Prague, beer, bourbon, beer AND bourbon, all other fine boozes, fisticuffs, malarkey, lies stated as fact, giraffes, boobs, CHUDs, mummies, trolls, the letter F, and the letter U.

I'd like to meet:

Old friends I've lost track of, internet weirdos, rakes & roustabouts, albinos (murderous and otherwise), ne'er-do-wells, drunks, and former US Attorney General Edwin Meese.

Music:

Pixies, They Might Be Giants, Built to Spill, The Clash, The Faint, Wolf Parade, Mountain Goats, Mates of State, The Magnetic Fields, Modest Mouse, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Beck, Sufjan Stevens, Of Montreal, Aphex Twin, TV on the Radio, Interpol, Sleater-Kinney, Morphine, DJ Shadow, Drexel, Les Savy Fav, Jurassic 5, The Perceptionists, Aesop Rock, DJ Qbert, Dr. Octagon, Atom and his Package, M. Ward, James Kochalka, Granddaddy, Gorillaz, The Flaming Lips, Explosions in the Sky, The Dresden Dolls, The Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie, Cursive, Captured! By Robots, Ballboy, The Arcade Fire, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, The Weakerthans, The Unicorns, Tom Waits, Superchunk, Helium, Mary Timony, Shellac, The Shins, Reverend Horton Heat, Regina Spektor, The Postal Service, Outkast, Pavement

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hackers, Sneakers, Rear Window, The Birds, 12 Monkeys, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, Bubba Ho-Tep, Best in Show, Donnie Darko, Billy Madison, Half Baked, The Jerk, Brain Candy, Office Space, Raising Arizona, Rushmore, Strange Brew, Super Troopers, UHF, Pi, Killer Klowns from Outer Space