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Aaron

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About Me

I like Tab.

My Interests

The Old West, The New Deal, Mint Juleps, Train Robbing, Cat Burgling, Car Talk, Portland Trail Blazers, Scrabble, Jonathan Papelbon, Cy Twombly, The Fast Talking Guy from the Micro Machines Commercials

I'd like to meet:

Wouldn't you like to know.

Music:

The Sonics, Henry Thomas, Bruce Springsteen, Nick Drake, T. Rex, Van Morrison, Django Reinhardt, Ice Cube, Robert Wilkins, Heartless Bastards, The Cure, The Cars, Fiona Apple, Ornette Coleman, Cat Power, Misfits, Elliott Smith, Heatmiser, Ray Price, James Brown, Exploding Hearts, Desmond Dekker, My Bloody Valentine, Benny Goodman Quartet and Trio, Built to Spill, Howlin' Wolf, Doris Duke, Swamp Dogg

Movies:

The New World, Playtime, Le Samouraï, Sweet and Lowdown, Point Blank, La Notte, Red Desert, Chinatown, All the Real Girls, Duck Soup, Slacker, Tokyo Story, Hud, Easy Rider, Barry Lyndon, Paper Moon, Punch-Drunk Love, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Last Days of Disco, King of Comedy, Days of Heaven, Head-On, Stranger Than Paradise, Killer of Sheep

Television:

The Office, The X-Files, Mystery Science Theater 3000

Books:

Travels With Charlie, Life on the Mississippi, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Flashman, Catch-22, The Long Goodbye, Freddy and Mr. Camphor, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Mulliner Nights, Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book

Heroes:

Lester Bangs

My Blog

Miami Vice

Everyone who is disappointed with Miami Vice is looking at it the wrong way. Yes, it's shot like an amateur documentary. Yes, the plot is nonsensical. Yes, everyone acts like they're on sedatives. ...
Posted by Aaron on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:32:00 PST

Top 20 Favorite Albums Ever

1. Van Morrison: Astral Weeks2. The Beatles: The White Album3. Marvin Gaye: What's Going On4. Weezer: Pinkerton5. Elliott Smith: Either/Or6. Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz7. Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left8....
Posted by Aaron on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:01:00 PST

Top 5: Side 1, Track 1

5. Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen, from Born to Run 4. "Lonely Woman" by Ornette Coleman, from The Shape of Jazz to Come 3. Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A., from Straight Outta Compton ...
Posted by Aaron on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:26:00 PST

The Weather Man

Here it is: The Weather Man, the new film directed by Gore Verbinski and written by Steve Conrad, is the most relentlessly pessimistic mainstream American film that I have ever seen. I dont simply me...
Posted by Aaron on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:11:00 PST