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About Me

MY LIFE IN REDUCED ECHELON FORM:
things that are currently making me happy
[1 O O O O | MY DOG.............................................]
[O 1 O O O | MY SWAN...........................................]
[O O 1 O O | REFRIGERATORS.................................]
[O O O 1 O | NOT BEING IN THE DESERT...................]
[O O O O 1 | SERIOUSLY: NOT BEING IN THE DESERT.]



PHOTO ALBUM NO.ONE
PHOTO ALBUM NO.TWO

huh... you're really batting a thousand these days, aren't you?
RICK, AUG 13, 2006

My Interests

1. alone time. 4. dialog: the way it looks on paper and the way it sounds when overhearing strangers.6. everything about my dog Bennett. 7. girls that read books/ride bikes. 8. going to airports.15. playing with kids. 16. punctuation, letters, numbers. 19. riding my bike.21. together time. 22. touring/travelling

I'd like to meet:

1. Kurt Vonnegut
2. Alton Brown
3. Dave Eggers
4. Ron Clark
Who I'd Like to Marry:
1. Pam Beesly
2. Miranda Grossinger
3. Zooey Deschanel
4. Natalie Portman
5. Tyler d. Walters
(Ir?)rational Fears:
1. Papercuts in the eye
2. Repeating history
3. Getting a papercut in the eye and then repeating history.
Pet Peeves:
1. Wet flip-flops.
2. Talking on the phone.
3. Saying "I" when one should say "Me."
4. Picky-eaters.

Music:

what an exhausting and stupid list this would turn into.

Movies:

1. The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, 2. All the Real Girls, 3. Amelie, 4. Amoros Perros, 5. Babel, 6. Buffalo 66, 7. The Cable Guy, 8. Charlie Chaplin (any), 9. City of God, 10. Crooklyn, 11. Do the Right Thing, 12. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 14. Garden State, 17. Hate (la haine), 18. Heights, 19. I Heart Huckabees, 20. In America, 21. In the Mood for Love, 22. Intermission, 23. The Institute Benjamenta, 26. Me & You & Everyone We Know, 27. The Motorcycle Diaries, 28. Moulin Rouge, 29. Oldboy, 30. The Royal Tenenbaums, 31. The Secret/Dangerous Life of Alter Boys, 32. Slacker, 33. The Squid & the Whale, 34. Suburbia, 35. Tape, 36. The Truman Show, 37. Tuvalu, 38. Twin Falls Idaho, 39. A Very Long Engagement, 40. Waking Life, 41. The Warriors

Television:

Good Eats with Alton Brown, The Office, Man vs Wild

Books:

CURRENTLY READING:
precious littleAlexie, Sherman:
The Toughest Indian in the World, and his poetry
Bellamy, Edward:
Looking Backward, though i can never finish it
Clark, Ron:
The Excellent 11
Cometbus, Aaron:
any, but i've mostly only kept up with issues in the 40s
Coupland, Douglas:
Life After God
Eggers, Dave:
You Shall Know Our Velocity!, A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius
Ellison, Michael:
"Mezeker Means to Remember"
Ferris, Joshua
And Then We Came to the End
Foer, Jonathan Safran:
Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Grahn, Judy:
The Work of a Common Woman
Grossinger, Miranda
No One Deserves to be Here More Than YouJohnson, Adam:
Parasites Like Us, Emporium
Krakauer, Jon:
Into the Wild
Kundera, Milan:
Immortality, Life is Elsewhere
Labute, Neil:
Seconds of Pleasure
Levitt, Steven & Dubner, Stephen:
Freakonomics
Martel, Yann:
Life of Pi
Martin, Steve:
The Pleasure of My Company
Meno, Joe:
Hairstyles of the Damned
Miller, JB:
My Life in Action Painting
Murakami, Haruki
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Perlman, Elliot:
Seven Types of Ambiguiety
Pirsig, Robert:
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Stringer, Lee:
Grand Central Winter
Sugrue, Thomas:
Stranger in the Earth
Vonnegut, Kurt:
almost everything, but specifically Bluebeard & Breakfast of Champions & Galapagos & Slapstick & Cat's Cradle & Timequake

Heroes:

the lorax

My Blog

haiku for my dog

HAIKU:FOR BENNETT      my dog and i sleep      on top of & underneath      piles of clean laundry. ...
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robert fisk

MYSPACE.COM/ROBERT FISK     Hear clips of Robert Fisk discussing      the role of journalism, particularly      during times of great conf...
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the commonwealth

COMMONWEALTHCLUB.ORGmy favorites|         robert fisk         peter calthorpe        david mccu...
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