John Houghton profile picture

John Houghton

moving up slowly

About Me

..

Pimp out your webpage with PimpWebPage

i'm feeling better about the direction in which my life is going. it's not so much where the wind takes me anymore, but more like circumnavigation. every day is a new experience that i learn from...

Pimp out your webpage with PimpWebPage

My Interests


Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence
You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well.
An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly.
You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view.
A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary.

You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator. What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have? smoking and swearing and writing free-verse. any one have any suggestions on small publications, drop me a message.

I'd like to meet:

YOU People I can learn from and whose company I enjoy

Music:

In No Particular Order Elliott Smith, Depeche Mode, Boards of Canada Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Blonde Redhead, Mazzy Star, Smog, Ani Difranco, Tortoise, Hayden, Massive Attack, Pink Floyd, Antarctica Ova Looven, David Bowie, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Janis Joplin, Beatles, Baxter, Salt, Nine Inch Nails, The Cure

Movies:

cube/existenz/contact/lost in translation/my big fat greek wedding/dawn of the dead (1978)/the harry potter movies/magnolia/doom generation/requiem for a dream/beetlejuice/groundhog day/the color purple/dawn of the dead (2004)/heathers
You Are an Irish Coffee
At your best, you are: wild, spontaneous, and outgoing

At your worst, you are: too extreme and reckless

You drink coffee when: you want to keep drinking booze

Your caffeine addiction level: low What Kind of Coffee Are You?

Television:

The House http://www.thehouseshow.comMagical Moments http://www.dazzlingdiane.com/magical.html

Books:

Fast Food Nation, Sirens of Titan, American Psycho, Lord of the Flies, Harry Potter, Queen of the Damned, House of Leaves, Last Exit to Brooklyn

Heroes:

people who go out and influence change - teachers, scientists, philosophers, doctors, activists and people who practice in any of the arts - i.e. painters, sculptors, actors, dancers, composers, musicians, singers, writers, poets, photographers, filmmakers. the Amercian Heritage Dictionary states that an art·ist is a "person whose work shows exceptional creative ability or skill", which in my eyes can include anyone in the above list.

My Blog

today's the day

today's the day today's the day today's the day today's the day today's the day today's the day today's the day today's the day today's the day today's the day today's the day today's the day today's ...
Posted by A Whole Bunch Of Awesome! on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:16:00 PST

hey monotheism, you suck

Agnosticism 100% Paganism 75% Satanism 75% Buddhism 67% Atheism 63% Hinduism 50% Islam 10% Christianity 10% Judaism 10%Which relig...
Posted by A Whole Bunch Of Awesome! on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:12:00 PST

Dynamite Walls

Miles away or just up aheadIt doesn't matter what,any of us is looking for We'll never find it, becauseit's not even there.     these are some of my favorite lyrics   i'm excited about ...
Posted by A Whole Bunch Of Awesome! on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:12:00 PST

new goals, new year

i'm feeling anti-social this week.  $1,995 in grant money?  wow!!!  I don't know if that's for the semester or for the whole year; reading through all of the grant information, the info...
Posted by A Whole Bunch Of Awesome! on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:27:00 PST

a myopia of me

  i felt this a little earlier but am not feeling it now.               she hails beer like a taxi like aero-planes shot directly from the sky cut his head ope...
Posted by A Whole Bunch Of Awesome! on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:16:00 PST

he puts his cigar out on your face just for kicks

I ain't gonna work on maggie's farm no more. I've spent all of this time planning ahead - instead of getting out and doing, I've been playing it safe.  I don't want to die wondering wha...
Posted by A Whole Bunch Of Awesome! on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:39:00 PST

someone dies and out come the wolves

the vultures have slim pickings but they're still buzzing aroundand screaming while grabbing rings in their beaks and wearing the clothes of the dead
Posted by A Whole Bunch Of Awesome! on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:51:00 PST

due to circumstances

i am now in philadelphia for my grandfather's funeral and will be here until the 26th helping my family organize all necessary posthumous arrangements.    
Posted by A Whole Bunch Of Awesome! on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:52:00 PST

schoolandmusicandcandyandtravalandtheneedtoshineon

SCHOOL i think that i might have got a b- on my cultural anth test.  that sucks too, because that was the class that i thought that i was doing really good in.  i must've been really neglect...
Posted by A Whole Bunch Of Awesome! on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:07:00 PST

ideogram

i've been gaining weight i have an electric scale i hear scream before i even hop on   the days are too short. so much to do, so little time like buying a can of fresh air paying for it with ...
Posted by A Whole Bunch Of Awesome! on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:55:00 PST