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Aimee

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About Me

"In the end there comes a moment of clarity when you realize that none of it ever made any sense at all." - me


My Interests

i can't work the bleedin' hut stove, goddammit...

I'd like to meet:

Christopher Walken, Stephen King, Bertrand Russell, and, my ultimate guy: Clint Eastwood during the 1960's.

Music:

in no particular order: the white stripes, sigur ros, led zeppelin, pink floyd, radiohead, the kinks, the kooks, bright eyes, ben kweller, white birds and lemons, the earlybirds, dallas green, eric clapton, dizzy gillespie, ray charles, miles davis, jimi hendrix, howlin wolf, john lee hooker, loretta lynn, otis redding, front line assembly, bettye lavette, memphis minnie, bessie smith, frankie valley and the four seasons, the doors, air, portishead, carlos santana, carl perkins, bo didley, fats domino, sleepy john estes, chuck berry, norah jones' first album, barrington levy, nine inch nails, suicide machines, falling sickness, at the drive-in, small brown bike, sublime, tool, rusted root, dispatch, sweet lee morrow, mineral, less than jake, pearl jam, guster, muddy waters, oar, johnny cash, perfect circle, travis, afro man, dave mathews, phish, fifteen, social distortion, mike ness solo, beastie boys, belle & sebastian, toots and the maytals, bob marley, ziggy marley, the weakerthans, bob dylan, texas is the reason, cypress hill, the crossroads blues band, radiohead, beck, incubus, janis joplin, patsy cline, algebra one, jawbreaker, the shins, and frederic fucking chopin...

Movies:

the good the bad and the ugly, boondock saints, citizen kane, donnie darko, the secret of roan inish, requiem for a dream, salton sea, the wash, october skies, four rooms, clerks, swingblade, reservoir dogs, homegrown, subURBIA, eternal sunshine of a spotless mind, the man with no name, dances with wolves, barfly, goonies, princess bride, labyrinth, monster, braveheart, full metal jacket, tigerland, fist full of dollars, city of god, city of lost children, the dream team, when harry met sally, chocolate, kid co., little monsters, the explorers, big, jackass, goodfellas, casino, super troopers, rules of attraction, tombstone, the breakfast club, fight club, snatch, ocean's eleven, princess bride, silence of the lambs, the new reefer madness, sixteen candles, momento, the dream team, coal miner's daughter, edward sissorhands, when harry met sally, full metal jacket, igby goes down, chasing amy, pool hall junkies, the lost boys, crybaby, bastard out of carolina, pumpkin, it, rose red, the south park movie, beatlejuice, girl interrupted, willow, young guns, sid and nancy, the matchstick men, steel magnolias, catch me if you can, rat race, good will hunting, a river runs through it, cold mountain, steel magnolias, fried green tomatoes, stir of echoes, fear and loathing in las vegas, ordinary people, kid co., the usual suspects, a beautiful mind, american beauty, killer clowns from outer space, love actually, pirates of the carribean, dream a little dream, groundhog day, very bad things, office space, jay and silent bob strike back, ernest scared stupid, half baked, cky2k, stand by me, repo man, pump up the volume, clay pigeons, return to paradise, swingers, the eye, the explorers, the breakfast club, rain man, scent of a woman, milo and otis, lock stock and two smoking barrels, trainspotting, mall rats, etc., etc...

Television:

californication!

Books:

authors: stephen king, paulo coelho, sherman alexie, bertrand russell, kurt vonnegut, tom robbins, toni morrison, etc., etc...

Heroes:

Robert Ryan Lawter and my dog, Jackpot.

My Blog

an old piece i did on stereotypes

                                    &n...
Posted by Aimee on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:42:00 PST

an aging journal entry

     Eight years ago this coming June, around 2:15 in the afternoon, I walked out of Laurel Ridge Elementary School and headed for my school bus. On every other day I waited f...
Posted by Aimee on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:37:00 PST

my Jeff Dunham review for Recoil Magazine

     At 8 o'clock on Friday, October 20th, I attended a performance by Jeff Dunham at the Gary Fields Comedy Club in Battle Creek. Dunham is a stand-up/ventriloquist comic who...
Posted by Aimee on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:28:00 PST

shh... i don’t write poetry.

A day without you Alone I meet the morning sun To continue what we two had once begun As the last of the early shadows fade I stay to the path that fate has laid My two eyes soon tire as the sun ris...
Posted by Aimee on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:17:00 PST

The Purple Envelope - Chapter 1

Chapter One   It was always the same when she waited for it to happen. She would scan the horizon, regard a tree or distant cliff, and pretend not to wait. Like water over fire, and the squat h...
Posted by Aimee on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:11:00 PST

Atheist, Agnostic... or both? - Part 1/3

    Alright, let's get one thing straight right from the start, for the most part I try to avoid talking (or writing) about religion.  Although I can't say this was always the case...
Posted by Aimee on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:49:00 PST

where's global warming when you need it?

the temperature this morning in kalamazoo, michigan (real, NOT w/ windchill) was -15 degrees.  perhaps it'll head north from here and refreeze those pesky ice caps...  if you need me, i'll b...
Posted by Aimee on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 07:58:00 PST

Tomorrow's Invite

   Someone recently asked me what exactly it is that makes me happy.  Despite whatever rambling tangent of an answer I gave at the time, I do know the answer to this question. As a matt...
Posted by Aimee on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:46:00 PST

what is split-focus?

    During a fairly routine stroll through the dream world that I inhabit more frequently than not, I found myself contemplating the act of daydreaming itself.  There I encountered...
Posted by Aimee on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:38:00 PST

the pros and cons of hitchhiking

at the record store the other day i ran across a used cd that shortly afterward became a part of my personal collection... what was it you ask? well, it's titled "the pros and cons of hitchhiking" and...
Posted by Aimee on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST