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the finer things

waxyfrog

About Me

chic wunderkind.
drawn to complicated people. enjoy making my friends laugh, sometimes at themselves. pleasantly unconventional. clumsy. charming. priceless. warm. full of tasty goodness. a tad obsessed with art and design. total nerd at heart. like musty velvety music and modern furniture as well as modern music and musty velvety furniture.
the musts in my life:
-my bed
-long solo road trips with great music
-monumental friends
-indie films
-import beer
-ukiyo-e
-running
-discotheques
-ginger dressing
-renegade art
-dill weed
-dancing
-dive bars
-tapas crawling
-making art for friends (or anyone paying cash)
-4am conversations
-thrift stores
-admiring hidden beauty in individuals
-bongo drums
-wah wah pedals
-existentialist literature
-anything charlie kaufman
-preparing pretty food
-my riverside service industry marauders
-general historic district shenanigans
-danish modern
-the brak show
-great loves
-people with swagger
-shiny objects
-geometric shapes
-sunday brunch
-sidewalk cocktails
-buying spontaneous plane tickets
-extended pajama sessions with a friend
-sudden-death pictionary
-cold weather & pints
-kung fu movies
-creating
-deconstructing
-swooning
-evolving
-humility
-embracing nerdiness
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My Interests


matthew barney cremaster cycle- caught his show at guggenheim nyc

I'd like to meet:

al green, alton brown, ando hiroshige, andy warhol, blaine fontana, bobby flay, bruce lee, bruce mccullough, charlie parker, chuck palahniuk, clive barker, count basie, dario argento, dave grohl, david bowie, david foley, david gilmour, david lynch, david sedaris, ernest booth (my grandfather), felix mendelssohn, frank lloyd wright, francis ford coppola, freddie mercury, george gershwin, henri toulous-lautrec, humphrey bogart, igor stravinsky, jack kerouac, james frey, jerry stiller, jimi hendrix, john waters, joseph heller, kurt vonnegut, lawrence olivier, leonardo da vinci, mahatma gandhi, mozart, odilon redon, pablo picasso, rick baker, rick rubin, robert johnson, roy lichtenstein, salvador dali, sam flores, scott thompson, siddhartha gautama, stan lee, stanley kubrick, stephen hawking, steve jobs, steven wright, truman capote, tyler florence, vincent van gogh
What Kind of Hipster Are You?
You're the Hipster Intellecticus. Call yourself what you will (beatnik, philosophy major, liberal arts student), you're still hip and you still dig Kerouac.
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Music:



birdy nam nam:

Movies:

quality films: klute, dangerous liasons, usual suspects, fight club, jackie brown, miller's crossing, house of flying daggers, rear window, wes anderson, coen brothers, michel gondry, charlie kaufman, tarantino, kubrick, the coppolas, spike jonze.
guilty pleasures: donnie darko, i heart huckabees, amelie, secretary, splendor in the grass, sunset boulevard, notting hill, evil dead, I'll sleep when I'm dead, shaun of the dead, mullholland drive, braincandy, young frankenstein, gangster flicks, campy stuff, film noir, 60s/70s horror, danny boyle, john waters, and any movie featuring ewan macgregor, tim roth, or steve mcqueen (holla).
Which Trainspotting Character Are You?

Television:

bbc (esp. graham norton), bobby flay, miami ink, anthony bourdain, drawn together, the office, project runway, good eats, top chef, adult swim, tim and eric awesome show, garth marenghi's darkplace, the brak show, x-games, random documentaries.

Books:

hunter s. thompson, david sedaris, chuck palahniuk, jerzy kosinski, augusten burroughs, jeffrey eugenides, milan kundera, kurt vonnegut, bret easton ellis, john fante, carl sagan

Heroes:



My Blog

Mutants. We’re here and we’re awesome.

Genetic mutation makes those brown eyes blue Scientists find that blue-eyed individuals have a single, common ancestor ..> ..> By Jeanna Bryner People with blue eyes have a single, common ances...
Posted by the finer things on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:31:00 PST

FIVE EASY PIECES

BOIL YOUR ESSENTIAL SELF DOWN IN FIVE SIMPLE QUESTIONS. 1) FAVORITE WEIRD THING THAT YOU THINK SMELLS GOOD: insulin...  and tarragon leaf. 3) THREE ITEMS THAT ARE ALWAYS IN YOUR FRIDGE: soymilk, ...
Posted by the finer things on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:45:00 PST

surrounded by genius

unabashed brilliance that has tumbled from my friends' mouths recently: 1) "When you played that song at your apartment in Springfield, that's when I knew I wanted to have all of your unborn babies." ...
Posted by the finer things on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:20:00 PST

STOP SMOKING TIPS courtesy of the Onion

-Avoid doing things you associate with smoking, such as drinking, eating, walking, and being awake. -Get thrown in jail, where cigarettes can only be acquired in exchange for painful sexual favors. -L...
Posted by the finer things on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:21:00 PST

Power Ballads in the Great White Shark at 4am

After returning home late from the Thursday night post-bar carnival of drunks at the Waffle House, I'm more than ready to retire to bed. It's 4am.  I stagger into my bedroom, prepare for the "rea...
Posted by the finer things on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:46:00 PST