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Mark

panther quick an' leather tough!

About Me

despite all accounts to the contrary, i'm pretty easy going. if there's something you want to know - all you gotta do is ask... also, Damn right, I'm Spider-man!! pffft! Your results:
You are Spider-Man Spider-Man 80% Superman 75% The Flash 75% Green Lantern 70% Supergirl 68% Robin 63% Iron Man 60% Hulk 50% Wonder Woman 43% Batman 40% Catwoman 40% You are intelligent, witty,
a bit geeky and have great
power and responsibility.
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My Interests

i like photography and my dog. and photographing my dog. and the cat sometimes. basically, i'm good with anything that'll get me out of the city for a few hours...and who can say no to kittens?

I'd like to meet:

pretty much anybody. i guess....

Music:

music is good.who would win a street fight between the stones and the who? (but like, back in the day stones, circa 1970 with mick taylor versus the who from the same era).also, sad and clishay, but i really do enjoy the Matthew Goods.also, to the first person to eliminate Geddy Lee and any trace of Rush from the fossil record and all time and memory gets..... high fives. seriously. and a pizza lunch for you and five classmates. (come on people!)Otis, Solomon Burke, Sam Cooke, and the Temptations..A+. well done. *i think jerome ackhurst and van morrison were separated at birth - if anybody has any info on that, please let me know.

Movies:

there have been a spate of really good movies recently, probably to make up for a horrendous summer - but i really enjoyed Casino Royale, and Borat and to my surpise, also enjoyed The Fountain and Happy Feet.i saw this movie once about these guys in a boat and they were supposed to kill this fish that ate their town, or some people or something. that was a good one. and that one with roger moore, when bill murray and some japanese guy call him 'loger moole'. i liked that one. also, there is a series of good movies that i like to call 'temporally challenged Family Ties'. i like them cause this crazy old guy always says 'Great Scott!' and stuff.also Groundhog Day, 'Lebowski, Jackie Brown, The Muppet Movie (1st one w/steve martin), and the Last Waltz. also Terrence Mallick, Hitchcock, early Gilliam and early Spielberg are enjoyable directors.

Television:

...sucks away your ability to think for yourself and wastes your time. that said, i like the Sopranos a great deal, and Miami Vice is the best guilty pleasure in the world. and I am now desperately addicted to LOST also. and how come Max Headroom isn't on DVD yet? Moonlighting is.... man, that was a great show.

Books:

most of the books on my shelf, the fiction anyway, are 'now the basis of a major motion picture'. bah. one of my favourite and most useful books is the Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock'n'Roll. if you enjoy the music, i recommend picking this book up. i prefer vonnegut over tom robbins, although i thoroughly enjoy robbins, i just find vonnegut's a little bitier. i like nick hornby a lot cause it's very much like listening to a friend tell a story or just talk. in a similar way i very much enjoy old stephen king because the guy tells stories like some colloquial old storyteller, and a fire at night and touches your arm when he wants to make a point. nice. i also really like steve martin's fiction because he conveys a very vulnerable sensitivity in his writing, and it's still very wryly funny. ansel adams series 'the camera', 'the negative' and 'the print' are also very interesting reads in that they are technical manuals but he writes in such a way that you feel that this master is right beside you and in your head and seeing through your eyes as well, all at the same time. also, i just read 'the prophet' a couple of weeks ago and finally understand what all the hullabaloo was/is about.

Heroes:

anybody who doesn't take shit lying down, and stands up for what they think is right. again, obvious and cliched but the oldies are oldies cause they're good and must have something right in them... (hey, look! there's me ramblin'!)also i did a speech on MLK when i was in grade six on the morning announcements.also, Ansel Adams was a brilliant and mysterious genius. he really liked the trees and mountains and whatnot.

My Blog

Stranger in a Stranger Land

So, everybody's really excited about Borat now. he's the man of the hour. the newest thing... actually, he's been around for years, you just had to know where to look... but it's great that he's final...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:04:00 PST

Fuck what's on the radio!!!

what the hell is going on with music right now?!? what happened to having a little bit of class? there is so much garbage out there right now, and i know that there is alway shit on the air, but ...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:49:00 PST

Choo Choo Choose Your Own Frigging Adventure!

so, if you know anything about me, you probably know that i am a militant yard sale junkie. i cannot get enough of other people's shit. and sometimes, sometimes, you can find some really cool stuff in...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:28:00 PST

F my top 8 - not literally. sorry to anyone there who misconstrued that....

screw Tom. screw him and his giant ego in his ivory fucking myspace castle. i tried to contact him for help. vulnerable, i put my hand out to him, only to get it slapped back by some annonymous cold m...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:57:00 PST

Meeting People is Easy

If you have been rejected many times in your life, then one more rejection isn't going to make much difference.  If you're rejected, don't automatically assume it's your fault.  The other pe...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:14:00 PST