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tevirs

I am here for Friends

About Me

I am like you.

My Interests

Architecture, Mid-century modern furniture, Danish modern furniture, Old maps, Old BMW motorcycles, I want to live in the woods with my beautiful wife and make fresh bread every day (working on that), Marushka screen prints, paint by numbers, hifi audio equipment, Cizek speakers: KA1-Classic mini-monitors! Koa wood with dovetails mmm, Thomas Moser, Sam Maloof, George Nakashima, William Morris, Gustav Stickley, Hans Wegner=furniture God, Hornsea pottery, David Weidman prints, Cafe Vita Seattle, Alterra Coffee Milwaukee - good God I miss it, Aquariusrecords.org, straw bale houses, rammed earth houses (see Rick Joy), KTM Supermotards, rat bikes, guns and knives (not sure why), vw karman ghia, old porsche speedsters, yo yo's, saucony shadows, old school vans, tivoli audio, taunton press, bosch tools, gransfors bruks axes ( check out there website, you'll want one of there axes even if you never use it! ), wood canoes, clarks desert treks, Pendelton clothing, Filson clothing ( my wife won't let me wear it, makes me look like an old dude ), Carhart clothing, Timber framing, photography, Westnofa siesta chairs. National park system, mountains, rivers, lakes. Junk sculptors. Single-speed bikes. Vedic knowledge. And even after too many years of eating it, spaghetti with red sauce.

I'd like to meet:

Somebody.

Music:

The Perishers, The Flaming Lips, Woven Hand, Cake, Shelter, Converge, White Stripes, Doom Riders, Modest Mouse, Wilco, System of a Down, Radiohead, Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys, Lungfish, Norah Jones, Interpol, Old Man Gloom, Portisehead, Arcade Fire, Chiodus, David Byrne, Boards of Canada, Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, Deftones, Decibully, Sigur Ros, The Shins, Pelican, Open Hand, Mogwai, My Bloody Valentine, Explosions in the Sky, Isis, The Killers, DJ Shadow, Orbital, Richie Hawtin, Godspeed you black emperor, Fugazi, Wolf Parade, Harvest, Chemical Brothers, The Strokes, Weezer, Coalesce, Bad Brains, Soma FM- Secret agent, Groove salad, Indie Pop Rocks, Dr. Dick's Dub Shack, Analogue Voyager, Limbik, Paxahau, Tool, Sparta, The Smiths, At the Drive In

Movies:

Documentaries. Historical stuff. Samurai movies. Westerns. Most funny movies aren't funny. Most action movies are just too much. Can't stand Science fiction.

Television:

Unfortunately.

Books:

Living with the Himalayan Masters - Swami Rama. Touched by Fire Pandit Rajmani Tigunait. One man's wilderness - Richard Proennecke. The Good Life - Helen and Scott Nearing.

Heroes:

People that don't cause pain.

My Blog

Family is growing by one...

Well, it is official, we are having a Baby! I have waited to say much about it until we were out of the first trimester. Now it is safe to say we are for sure having a Baby. Aly and I got to hear the ...
Posted by tevirs on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:45:00 PST

$10 Buffet nightmare......

This morning before leaving to work on my house I happened to see a commercial for one of those all-you-can-eat joints. My brother and I took a walk down to the lake and back ( a fairly physical task ...
Posted by tevirs on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:28:00 PST

We love you Ed...

Sad news to share. Yesterday, our dog of ten years passed on. It happened without warning. Edison was not feeling well on Monday, and the next morning we brought him in to the vet. They said he was de...
Posted by tevirs on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:27:00 PST

BMX = Super fun!!!!

So today I went and rode on a real BMX track for the first time in my life. Now, my first job was in 5th grade, 1985, at a bicycle store in Pawtucket RI. (Roby's Bikes - still there it seems ) I have ...
Posted by tevirs on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:04:00 PST

I moved.

I have moved to California to build a house in the mountains. If I did not say bye to you, then bye. Sorry. I will be posting the progress of my attempt to build a house for the first time, mostly on ...
Posted by tevirs on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:10:00 PST