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About Me

I like to yell JEFF HAGUE a lot. I am preparing my move to the Philadelphia area. I must reclaim my northern roots.

My Interests

I have an awesome 10 speed suteki bicycle. Some of my favorite radio shows are This American Life, Justice Talking, Sound Print, the sound of young america, and fresh air.

I'd like to meet:

Billy Quan

Music:

.the beach boys, flaming lips, beck, ween, danielson famile (now he's just Danielson), cornershop, flaming lips, the ramones, pineapple soda, johnny cash, beatles, the eels, architecture in helsinki, beastie boys, the streets, early pink floyd, the doors, call and response, and the record--star wars and other galactic funk by meco

Movies:

Monty Python and Holy Grail, Royal Tenenbaums, The Thing, Planet of the Apes, The Empire Strikes Back, Back to the Future, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Harold and Maude, The Princess Bride, and of course the found film festival-man I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

Television:

Frontline, Judge Mathis, cops, nova, arrested development, the office (british version), Doctor Who, Pete and Pete

Books:

books by Noam Chomsky. Andy Kaufman Revealed! by Bob Zmuda. Audio books are my friends. Just learned all there is to know about Scurvy. Now I'm working on a J. Edgar Hoover biography.

Heroes:

NoÃ«l Godin "the encaker"

My Blog

the day after new years

I got to do a polar bear swim. where you jump into freezing cold water for a good cause. Man was it cold! I could only make it up to my waist. Once my gonads began to freeze I had to run out. Plus all...
Posted by A-TOWN on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:20:00 PST

mummers 2006

You know I lived outside Philadelphia all my life practically... but I never got to see the mummers parade until now. For those not from the Philly area== it's a parade of people dressed up in clowny ...
Posted by A-TOWN on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:28:00 PST

on new years eve

One of Belinda's friend got really drunk. She did what I think every girl has done at one time or another in a subway car. They pole dance. Although she added a new twist by swinging on the pole and h...
Posted by A-TOWN on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:05:00 PST

new years part 2. Me and JesseTL go to the new years run at central park

We would have stayed longer but there was this really annoying DJ who yelled the entire time and tried to get everyone pumped. I thought there would be a lot more people dressed up for this crazy race...
Posted by A-TOWN on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 06:06:00 PST

photos of new years in new york 1

I got to spend New Year's weekend with Belinda and Jesse TL. I stayed at their apartment in Astoria. The last stop on the N and W subway lines. I drank a lot of champaign that weekend. Friday night I ...
Posted by A-TOWN on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 05:54:00 PST

ready for halloween!

I'm traveling to portland for halloween. Everyone is dressing up like wrestlers from the 80's. I'm the million dollar man...Ted DiBiase! I'm going to hit all the parties and spend lots of money!
Posted by A-TOWN on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:36:00 PST

my thoughts on borat

I got to see this movie in an advance screening. Unbelievable. I was laughing so much that I wanted to create a new sound for it. Best comedy of the year. It feels like hollywood had nothing to do wit...
Posted by A-TOWN on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:03:00 PST

notso hostel news 4

I was at the hostel the other night and met Clyde an old man who works seasonally for public parks cleaning them up and supervising them. He..s got a big belly and long strands of white hair with a t...
Posted by A-TOWN on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:32:00 PST

notso hostel news 3

I had some great dinner parties at the hostel. One was a big spaghetti dinner, which was tasty. The spaghetti dinner was made by a catholic pilgrim. He..s been traveling up from Florida on foot. He..s...
Posted by A-TOWN on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:01:00 PST

old tales from portland

I finally got a disposable camera developed from when I lived in Portland and it reminded me of some good times. Like who can forget the joy of TV bowling. Me and Chris got very good at it. We would ...
Posted by A-TOWN on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:29:00 PST