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Kurtalicious

May I fix you a drink?

About Me

I glean satisfaction from the random and inexplicable. I always have something to say. It usually adds to the conversation, but sometimes it's just, "Poop." Often when I'm on the road, and I see a sign that says "Fruit Stand", I wonder if that's a command. When I see "Jesus Saves", I wonder what he's saving for. I've lived in Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, Turkey, New York, New Jersey, British Columbia, Ontario and the UK. I am not afraid to admit that I think Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid is hot. I play competitive Scrabble. I love cheese. I fell asleep on the subway once and woke up in the Bronx. I know the meaning of life. I collect shot glasses. I've always wanted to be on Jeopardy. I play cribbage with strangers. I saw Bat Boy, the Musical about forty times. I have eight tattoos. I often get lost in my own brain. Sometimes if I'm watching TV and I get really tired, I just sleep on the couch. I'm a grammar nazi. I once peed out of a second story window. (Okay, so that happened more than once. Different buildings, though.) I'm a Gemini. The ampersand is my favorite grammatical symbol. Sometimes I'll wear the same pair of pants two days in a row. I'm amassing a collection of Kurts, whose power we will harness to do something. I'm not quite sure what yet. If you're still reading this, for the love of god, send me a message. I must interest you on some level. Check out www.improveverywhere.com

My Interests

a cappella music, the addictive games at www.coffeebreakarcade.com, alphabetization, ampersands, architecture, awards shows, Bat Boy the Musical, Berlin, Nikki Black, cacophony, Chinese food, Margaret Cho, cinema, competitive Scrabble, college basketball, condescension, cribbage, diet dr pepper, drunk dialing, experimentation, exploration, flip-flops, flying great distances for a party, frequent flyer miles, gamesbids.com, genealogy, German, getting lost, grammar, guerilla theatre, Keith Haring, idiosyncracies, making out, making up words, massages, modern art, movies, mu beta psi, music, party crashing, pop culture, puns, pushing boundaries, questioning, rain, realitynewsonline.com, responsible tourism, rum, sarcasm, schadenfreude, sexual innuendo, Sharpies, silence, sleeping in, spelling correctly, strangers, sushi, tattoos, Thai food, theatre, toe socks, Towleroad , travel, trivia, wandering, world domination

I'd like to meet:

Chances are, if you are breathing, I'll be your friend. Or at least I'll give you a whirl. Sarcasm and biting wit don't hurt. Bad spelling does. A penchant for randomness is even better. Go ahead and add me, and I'll treat you like the rest of my monkey children. I would prefer if you say hello first, but if you don't I won't be angry. I forget to sometimes. MSN Messenger: [email protected] . Squeegman (but good luck finding me on it)

"I have no interest in ruling the world itself. That's a really high-stress position that requires a lot of overtime. I simply want whoever does to respect my wishes in all things." Dave Rothgery (Thanks, Dan)

"Five days a week, my body is a temple. The other two it's an amusement park."

Music:

Rather than try to quantify my musical tastes, I'm just going to list an obnoxiously large sampling of the stuff that's found its way onto my iPod. I make no apologies. If you don't like what you see at first, keep reading. I guarantee that we'll have *something* in common. Here goes:'Til Tuesday, !!!, 2Pac, 4 Non Blondes, 50 Cent, A Change of Pace, A Chorus Line, ABBA, The Academy Is..., Aerial, Aimee Mann, Air, Alana Davis, Alanis Morissette, Alicia Keys, Alkaline Trio, The All-American Rejects, Ambulance LTD, Ani DiFranco, Annie Lennox, Aphex Twin, Apocalyptica, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Aretha Franklin, Armor for Sleep, Arrested Development, Art Brut, Athlete, Atreyu, Avenue Q, Badly Drawn Boy, Basement Jaxx, Bat Boy the Musical, The Beatles, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, The Beta Band, Better than Ezra, Bic Runga, Billie Holiday, Billy Joel, Bjork, Black Flag, Blink-182, Bloc Party, Boards of Canada, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bomb Child, Bon Jovi, Brand New, Breaking Benjamin, The Breeders, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Bush, Cabaret, Caroline's Spine, The Cars, Charles Mingus, Chemical Brothers, Chevelle, Circa Survive, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Coheed and Cambria, Coldplay, The Colour, Copeland, Count Basie, The Cranberries, The Crystal Method, Daft Punk, The Dandy Warhols, The Darkness, Daughtry, Dave Matthews Band, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Depeche Mode, Dizzy Gillespie, DJ Danger Mouse, Do Make Say Think, Doleful Lions, The Donnas, The Doors, Doves, Dropkick Murphys, The Early November, Ella Fitzgerald, Eminem, Erasure, Evanescence, Everclear, Explosions in the Sky, Fall Out Boy, Fatboy Slim, The Fiery Furnaces, Finger Eleven, Fiona Apple, Fischerspooner, The Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, From First to Last, The Fugees, The Futureheads, Garbage, Glass, The Go! Team, Green Day, Groove Armada, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Hawksley Workman, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hot Hot Heat, Idina Menzel, Idlewild, Imogen Heap, Incubus, Indigo Girls, Interpol, Iron & Wine, James, Janis Joplin, Jason Mraz, Jay-Z, Jeff Buckley, Jill Scott, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Joss Stone, Junior Senior, Jurrasic 5, Kaiser Chiefs, Kanye West, Kasabian, Keane, Kelly Clarkson, The Killers, Lauryn Hill, Led Zeppelin, Lenny Kravitz, The Libertines, Linkin Park, Live, Louis Armstrong, M.I.A., Madonna, The Mamas and the Papas, Manu Chao, Mark Rae, Maroon 5, The Mars Volta, Mary J Blige, Matisyahu, Melissa Etheridge, Miles Davis, Missy Elliott, Moby, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Morcheeba, Motion City Soundtrack, Mum, Muse, My Chemical Romance, Mylo, NERD, New York Dolls, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, No Doubt, Oasis, The Offspring, OK Go, Outkast, Panic! at the Disco, Paula Cole, Pearl Jam, Phurbu T Namgyal, Pink, Pink Floyd, Pitchshifter, The Pixies, PJ Harvey, The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower, The Police, The Polyphonic Spree, Portishead, The Postal Service, The Pretenders, Primitive Radio Gods, The Prodigy, Puddle of Mudd, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, The Ramones, The Rapture, Razorlight, Red Hot Chili Peppers, RENT, The Replacements, Reverent Horton Heat, Rise Against, Robbie Williams, Robert Downey, Jr, Robert Miles, Roisin Murphy, Rooney, The Roots, Royksopp, Rufus Wainwright, Runaway Cab, Sahara Hotnights, Saosin, Sarah McLachlan, Scissor Sisters, Secret Machines, The Shins, Side Show, Sigur Ros, Simon & Garfunkel, Six Foot Halo, Sly and the Family Stone, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, The Snake the Cross the Crown, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, St Germain, The Starlight Mints, Steely Dan, Stereophonics, Stone Temple Pilots, Story of the Year, Straylight Run, The Streets, Sublime, Sufjan Stevens, Sweatshop Union, System of a Down, Taking Back Sunday, Tar Heel Voices, Thelonius Monk, They Might Be Giants, Thievery Corporation, Thrice, Thursday, Tool, Tori Amos, The Transit War, Travis, Tricky, Trivium, TV on the Radio, U2, Underworld, UPenn Off the Beat, Urinetown, The Velvet Underground, Veruca Salt, Weezer, The White Stripes, The Who, Wil Seabrook, Wilco, Wolfmother, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yothu Yindi, Zebrahead, Zero 7

Movies:

Just a few of my favorites: Amadeus, Amélie, Amores Perros, The Anniversary Party, Apocalypse Now, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, Bad Education, Beautiful Thing, Beauty and the Beast, Being John Malkovich, Benny & Joon, Best in Show, Big Fish, The Birds, Blue Velvet, Boogie Nights, Bowling for Columbine, Boys Don't Cry, Boyz N the Hood, The Breakfast Club, Brokeback Mountain, Cabaret, Citizen Kane, Clerks, A Clockwork Orange, Clueless, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Dancer TX Pop 81, Dead Man Walking, Dead Poets Society, Do the Right Thing, Dogma, Donnie Darko, Edge of Seventeen, Edward Scissorhands, Election, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Exorcist, Far From Heaven, Fargo, Fight Club, Finding Nemo, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Fox and the Hound, Full Metal Jacket, Ghost, Ghost World, Go, Gods and Monsters, GoodFellas, The Graduate, Hairspray, Hard Eight, Harold and Maude, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, High Noon, High Plains Drifter, Hoop Dreams, The Hours, The Ice Storm, In the Bedroom, In the Company of Men, JFK, LA Confidential, Life is Beautiful, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lola Rennt, Magnolia, Mallrats, MASH, The Matrix, Memento, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Moulin Rouge!, Mulholland Drive, Napoleon Dynamite, Newsies, No Man's Land, Office Space, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Opposite of Sex, Ordinary People, Personal Velocity, Pi, The Pianist, Pleasantville, Primal Fear, The Princess Bride, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Punch Drunk Love, The Quiet Man, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Rain Man, Rear Window, Rebel Without a Cause, Requiem for a Dream, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Roger & Me, Romeo+Juliet (Luhrmann), Romeo & Juliet (Zeffirelli), Safe, Schindler's List, Se7en, Shakespeare in Love, The Shawshank Redemption, Short Circuit, Shrek, Silence of the Lambs, Six Degrees of Separation, The Sixth Sense, Sleepers, Sling Blade, The Sound of Music, South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut, The Station Agent, The Straight Story, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Sweet Hereafter, Talk to Her, The Third Man, Tootsie, Trainspotting, Trick, Two Girls and a Guy, The Usual Suspects, Waiting for Guffman, Waking Life, West Side Story, Whale Rider, When Harry Met Sally..., Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, The Wizard of Oz, Y tu Mama Tambien, Your Friends and Neighbors

Television:

The Amazing Race, Animaniacs, Big Brother, Buffy, Clone High, college basketball, The Daily Show, Family Guy, Friends, game shows, The Golden Girls, Grey's Anatomy, The It Factor, Kids in the Hall, Law & Order SVU, Lost, Match Game, The Mole, My So-Called Life, Pinky and the Brain, Project Runway, Queer as Folk, reality TV in general, Sex and the City, The Simpsons, Six Feet Under, Supermarket Sweep, Top Chef, Twin Peaks, Undergrads, Will & Grace.

Books:

Douglas Adams, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, American Psycho, Anthem, Isaac Asimov, Bob's Bible, Ray Bradbury, Bill Bryson, Calvin & Hobbes, The Chronicles of Narnia, Douglas Coupland, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Roald Dahl, TS Eliot, Everyone Poops, Everything Scrabble, The Fountainhead, For Better or for Worse, Harry Potter, The Hours, It, James and the Giant Peach, Jane Eyre, Barbara Kingsolver, Madeleine L'Engle, Lord of the Flies, Lois Lowry, Man and Boy, Michael Moore, Toni Morrison, the OWL, Edgar Allan Poe, Phillip Pullman, The Rules of Attraction, JD Salinger, David Sedaris, A Separate Peace, Shakespeare, She's Come Undone, Shel Silverstein, Stephen Sondheim, The Stand, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Their Eyes are Watching God, To Kill a Mockingbird, Vernon God Little, Kurt Vonnegut, Tennessee Williams, Wonder Boys, Word Freak, A Wrinkle in Time

Heroes:

Should we really put other people on pedestals? It hurts a lot more when you fall from such a height.
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My Blog

Sup

Happy New Year, everyone.  I know I'm a bad myspace friend.  I've been devoting a lot of my energy to livejournal recently, but don't think that I don't love you all!  I've just never b...
Posted by Kurtalicious on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 07:57:00 PST

LiveJournal

Hi all! I'm still keeping an eye here, but I'm doing all my bloggy stuff at LiveJournal now.  Feel free to visit. http://squeegman.livejournal.com Kurt...
Posted by Kurtalicious on Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:19:00 PST

Allergic

So, I think the reason I've been staying sick so long is that I'm allergic to my new pillows. I switched them out last night and totally stopped coughing. Madness, I tell you.
Posted by Kurtalicious on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Stupid customers

Favorite Call Center Interaction of the Week: Me: So where are you calling from? Customer: My house.
Posted by Kurtalicious on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Blah

No, seriously, I'm damn tired of this cold. I think it's morphed into an ear infection. Yuck. In good news, I bought a bed last week at Ikea and put it together yesterday! There was only a littl...
Posted by Kurtalicious on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hack Hack

God damn this cold! It won't go away!
Posted by Kurtalicious on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Brrr

So today's my last day in Calgary. My flight's in a couple of hours. The weather was lovely for most of my time here, but yesterday it went all cold and snowy. Back to the desert we go!
Posted by Kurtalicious on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Horizon Airlines Sucks

Well, I'm finally in Calgary. I was supposed to arrive at 5pm yesterday, but they cancelled two flights in a row, I had to pay for a hotel in Seattle, and I missed the Scrabble tournament that I was ...
Posted by Kurtalicious on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Travel McTravelson

So, things are starting to come together at the house. I still don't have any furniture, but I at least have been able to buy groceries. And I got a bike which I'll be able to ride to and from work....
Posted by Kurtalicious on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Oscar Nominations

Boy do I have some catching up to do. Of the big six categories, I've only seen Closer and Eternal Sunshine. Anyone want to see a movie?
Posted by Kurtalicious on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST