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Paper Tiger

heaven is when you order a 6 piece nugget and get 7....and a switchblade

About Me



My Interests

painting. printmaking. film. brattle theatre. jay ryan art. craig thompson and james kochalka comics. squirrels and puppies. chicago.

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adopt your own virtual pet!

I'd like to meet:

These Guys. YAY!!

Music:

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I am completely in love with the new BATTLES album, "mirrored"
THE PONYS

SPOON (girls can tell, kill the moonlight, and gimme fiction)
RATATAT (the classics)
Blonde Redhead (misery is a butterfly)
Death From Above (you're a woman, i'm a machine)
Four Tet (everything ecstatic)
My Morning Jacket (z)

Movies:

i like lots of 'em. especially foreign and indie films.

Television:

six feet under the office
arrested development
mr.show

Books:

+blankets, carnet de voyage
+ american elf, fancy froglin's sexy forest
+ the basketball diaries
+catcher in the rye , nine stories
+ham on rye
+ breakfast of champions, cats cradle & various other works by vonnegut
+pretty much anything by roald dahl
+last exit to brooklyn, song of the silent snow (short stories by hubert selby, jr.)
+fight club, survivor
+perks of being a wallflower
+sex drugs and cocoa puffs
+sexual perversity in chicago, lakeboat, house of games
+the acid house
+clockwork orange
+double indemnity
+a streetcar named desire
+making things perfectly queer: interpreting mass culture (by alexander doty)

Heroes:

Brian

These other fellows are not necessarily my heros, but they are awesome for many reasons: Sof'Boy, Craig Thompson, James Kochalka

My Blog

kickball....

....i'm so psyched that thanks to my being full-time @ work, I will now have a more regular schedule (mon-fri 9-5pm) and therefore have Saturdays off so I can play KICKBALL!!!! I will be part of the ...
Posted by Paper Tiger on Mon, 14 May 2007 06:28:00 PST

good news!!

Brian and I found a place for our wedding and are going to put our deposit down to secure the date. We both feel sooooo relieved, knowing that the biggest decision has been made, and we have the date...
Posted by Paper Tiger on Wed, 09 May 2007 10:43:00 PST

FINALLY!!!! a nintendo ds

the other day, brian got me a nintendo ds lite (black) for an early valentine's gift!! wooohoooo!!!! first off, not only am i a total nerd to be so excited about this, but he is also the best man ev...
Posted by Paper Tiger on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:25:00 PST

5th Arches Student Print Exhibition

One of my prints (an untitled piece that is 18"x24" is size, using 2 plates and a chine colle) was selected for the 5th Arches Student Print Exhibition!! This exhibition is a part of the 2007 Boston ...
Posted by Paper Tiger on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:53:00 PST

planning my wedding....

....hurts my brain.seriously. why does this have to be so complicated?? ok, first of all, we picked a date. sort of. more like I picked a date, and ran it by Brian. So I was thinking of October 1...
Posted by Paper Tiger on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:06:00 PST

it appears my laptop is a lemon

So it appears that the laptop i bought to use at work is a complete piece of shit. Fortunately for me, it didn't cost me a dime. The bill was sent to AS220 for them to pay for it, because if I ever ...
Posted by Paper Tiger on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:31:00 PST

Christmas

This Christmas was pretty great. If nothing else, I had a week off from work at AS220, and I only had to waitress two nights instead of 4. Brian and I used this time to finally paint our living room...
Posted by Paper Tiger on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:03:00 PST

bored at work

so i am at work, really bored, and i realized i have posted anything in forever. i never put up a post about getting engaged. even brian managed to do that much, and he posts even less than i do. a...
Posted by Paper Tiger on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:43:00 PST

new kitty!!!!

as of wednesday night, i became a mommy to an adorable little kitten!! he was found behind the restaurant I work at, and so I decided to keep him!! i took him to the vet thurs, found out it was a bo...
Posted by Paper Tiger on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:28:00 PST

i'm going to see the flaming lips!!!!

...that is all.  boston, september 10th, i get to see the flaming lips thanks to my friend matt!!  thanks matt!!!! also, cocktails with the mayor was weird, i didn't say a word to him other ...
Posted by Paper Tiger on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:53:00 PST