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pronounced angus

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About Me

i am a husband, a father, and a friend. i work too-- but my occupation does not define who i am. i grew up in long beach, calif. my wife and i moved to walla walla, wa about 18 years ago or so. some people know me as: layne. some people know me as: herman. call me what you want... no matter, it's all pronounced "angus." .I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Orthodox Christianity, Saints, etymology as well as words in general, nag champa, dumpster diving, notes found in books, punk rock, gypsies, coffee, dragonflys, cemetaries, nomadic peoples, prisons, India, composting, fish hatcheries, freak shows, beer, cultural anthropology, treehouses, thrift stores, tea, creative people, subcultures, yurts, Russia, sustainability, bike messengers, bats, the colour green, patchouli, weather, Orthodox Icons, mix tapes, Serbia, snake handlers, toys with character, bookstores, empty buildings, yard sales, climbing trees, the ramblings of otherwise unknown street philosophers, mixed media art, the gothic American South, history, music, graffiti art, Eastern Europe, guitar feedback, abandoned vehicles, religion, digging holes, wandering around, tide pools, buffaloes, mountain bikes, longboard skateboarding, interesting conspiracy theories and the list goes on....

I'd like to meet:

Old friends and new friends. People that I have just met, people that have the same interests as me, people that dont have the same interests as me... I am pretty sure that you fit into that somewhere eh?Please note: I am on myspace to connect with friends and meet new people; so if you are just trying to see how many people you can have on your friends list please do NOT ask me to add you as a friend.If you would like me to add you as a friend, and I do not know you already; please drop me a message and introduce yourself. If you request an add but do not drop me a message and your profile is set to private, I'm sorry, but you'll automatically be denied. So please take a minute and intro yourself. Thanks!

Music:

Bad Brains, Johnny Cash, The Velvet Underground, Ravi Shankar, Abba, Asian Dub Foundation, Pennywise, Cornershop, Black Flag, DJ Shadow, Jimi Hendrix, Circle Jerks, Boz Skaggs, Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots, the (stevo era) Vandals, the Pogues, Sheila Chandra, TSOL, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Fugazi, T Rex, Madness, Kimya Dawson, the Ramones, Modest Mouse, Curtis Mayfield, Strike Anywhere, the Polyphonic Spree, Flogging Molly, Michael Knott, D.I., Camper Van Beethoven, X, Echo and the Bunnymen, Patti Smith, White Stripes, Johnny Dowd, dj Cheb i Sabbah, the Carpenters, ballydowse, Leonard Cohen, Sepultura, Danielson, Steel Pulse, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Love and Rockets, Half Pint, Nusrat Ali Khan, Bracket, Culture, Tom Waits, System of a Down, Belle and Sebastian, the Specials, Propagandhi, Norfolk and Western, Led Zepellin, Every Day Life, Tex and the Horseheads, Havalina Rail Company, the Smiths, Haircut 100, Queen, Beastie Boys, Deftones, Pantera, REM, Gun Club, Robert Nesta Marley, the Go-Go's, Rolling Stones, Blondie, Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, Arrested Development, Nirvana, Devo, Mark Lannegan, Alice in Chains, Germs, Violent Femmes, Minor Threat, Elvis Costello, Wovenhand, the Avengers, Sin34, Oingo Boingo, Toy Dolls, Nina Hagen, Sonic Youth, Soul Junk, Adolescents, Jason Webley, English Beat, Aerosmith, Cypress Hill, the Hollowpoints, b-52's, Starflyer 59, Dead Milkmen, Halo Friendlies, Squeeze, Uncle Tupelo, Ben Harper, The Decemberists, the Buzzcocks, Run DMC, Jack Johnson, Victoria Williams, the fugees, Sparklehorse, Scaterd Few, Black Crowes, Adam and the Ants, Cat Stevens, Fishbone, the Clash, Roxy Music, Nirvana, Crashdog, Cadillac Tramps, Donovan, Suicidal Tendencies, Talking Heads, Tex and the Horseheads, Shonen Knife, Jeff Buckley, Social Distortion, Neil Young, House of Pain, Azam Ali, Spandau Ballet, Gorillaz, Soulfly, Built to Spill, Siouxie and the Banshees, Big Audio Dynamite, Portishead, the Pixies, the Pretenders, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, digable planets, the Who and Iggy Pop ”Music is everywhere, you just have to have the ears to hear it.” -John Cage

Movies:

12 monkeys, X: the unheard music, pulp fiction, the razor's edge, seven, high fidelity, the decline of western civilization 1, searching for the wrong-eyed Jesus, american hardcore, lost in translation, dogtown and zboys, slc punk, spellbound, the station agent, the beach

Books:

Holy Bible, books by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, The Beach by Alex Garland, An Athonite Gerontikon, Consoler of Suffering Hearts by Archpriest Sergei Lebedev, Persepolis (1 & 2) by Marjane Satrapi, Shepherd of Souls by Archimandrite Ioanichie Balan, Salt of the Earth by St. Paul Florensky, King Dork by Frank Portman, Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert, Exodus by Leon Uris, The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar.

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, St. Herman Wonderworker of Alaska, Bl. Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose), St. Mary of Egypt, Elder Isidore, Elder Paisios, the Desert Fathers, Monk Hariton New Martyr of Kosovo, Dorothy Day, St. Stylianos the Hermit, Saints of the Northern Thebaid, Photios Kontoglou, Hieromartyr Nestor, Elder Cleopa (Ilie), Harriet Tubman, and the Tree Dwelling Saints. Oh, and that one guy who did that one thing that one time... and please note that none of my heroes wear suits on a regular basis.
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My Blog

St. Stylianos the Hermit

Recently one of our Priests made a comment to me regarding asking myself who my heroes are,  one of the first people who came to mind is St. Stylianos the Hermit.  St. Stylianos the Hermit:...
Posted by pronounced angus on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:50:00 PST

lincoln city --a trip in retropect

returned home abit after 5 this evening after spending a week in Lincoln City, OR with the fambam.my wife and i have not been in Lincoln City since we were pregnant with Tansy, age 11. the place has c...
Posted by pronounced angus on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:45:00 PST

a thot re: Christianity

"Christianity is more than a theory about the universe, more than teachings written down on paper; it is a path along which we journey -in the deepest and richest sense, the way of life."  --Bish...
Posted by pronounced angus on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:51:00 PST

http://papaherman.wordpress.com/

To anyone who is interested, I do my blogging online at:  http://papaherman.wordpress.com/ I previously blogged at http://kickmonkey.blogspot.com/ where past posts can be found. Please...
Posted by pronounced angus on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:43:00 PST