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ChowDown

K D who?

About Me

detail oriented, reclusive, nocturnal, intense, rebellious, volatile. i tend toward extremes of whatever i take up, constantly pushing the envelope of possibility. i stay away from chumps, half-steppers, cookie-cutters, fashion plates, and negativity.

My Interests

music, bicycling, skateboarding, wilderness and desert camping

I'd like to meet:

people who love music as much as i do. bicycling partners (road or dirt). someone who can teach me tai chi. practitioners of ho'ala huna hawaiian/polynesian philosophy

Music:

http://www.ala-huna.net "the hidden path!"

Movies:

52 pickup, blade runner (director's cut), fight club, scarface, king of new york, heat, nomads, reanimator

Television:

futurama (in spanish), adrenalina, MXC, madTV, adult swim esp. robot chicken, squidbillies and ATHF

Books:

1984, fahrenheit 451, i robot, technical manuals

Heroes:

Swedish Egil- the guy oughta have a "Real" label mandated by law, he's been entertaining me for more than two decades. Anyone who operates an underground club or FM. People whose actions put the music first, where it belongs... talk is cheap.

My Blog

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Things are going very well!! no smokes or patches for several weeks now, and feeling better every day.  I am getting some of my natural energy back, along with a desire to get out and do more act...
Posted by ChowDown on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:18:00 PST

What other patches do they make??? (twitch!)

Finally!!!  I have reached the point where I have sneaked ZERO smokes for weeks, and am managing well on a quarter dose.  I will go a few more days and then it is time to kick the patch...
Posted by ChowDown on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:14:00 PST

The mini-patches just dont quite cut it.

Since I can't seem to make it through the day without sneaking a cigarette or two (or ten like the other day, at least they're "ultra-lights"), I am going back to the medium-sized patch. Yeesh. Oh, an...
Posted by ChowDown on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:31:00 PST

mixed bag- going good but i might still unintentionally decapitate you.

OK, I have been on the half patch for about a week now, it doesn't suppress all the cravings (the full dose one does), but this is still light years ahead of other attempts. I am having anywhere ...
Posted by ChowDown on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:04:00 PST

Breaking up the behavioral pattern

For those of you who have never experienced a nicotine patch, I would like to encourage you to do so. The full-strength one made me see things that weren't there and blurt out random nonsense, it was ...
Posted by ChowDown on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:54:00 PST

busted by Grandma.

the matriarch of my family caught me red handed (almost literally) smokin a cancer stick and whacked it out of my hand.... damn, now I really have to quit. "That's a filllllthy habit, it doesnt do you...
Posted by ChowDown on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:11:00 PST

mow the hidden path dammit.

Once again i find myself atwitter, the challenge is how to stay busy and stay away from cigarettes.  This is the result of (you guessed it) yet another new years' resolution.  I have been co...
Posted by ChowDown on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:07:00 PST

what a crackhead.

Full on junkie status.  If I smoked any more folks would put plank salmon in my yard.  Til new years day then it's curtains.
Posted by ChowDown on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:48:00 PST

another kick at the cat

I seriously dont even know why i yo yo like this.  Haven't had any cigs for almost two weeks now, and it's going good so far.  Cravings have been only minor but working at clubs makes things...
Posted by ChowDown on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:45:00 PST

smoking sucks.

If you havent guessed by the lack of blogging, I have temporarily quit quitting.  I feel like such a junkie, why is it I have so much trouble with this one vice? Been smoking 'lights' o...
Posted by ChowDown on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST