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Tyler

How strange it is to be anything at all.

About Me

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Making my way, getting through, overcoming, enjoying, creating.http://www.myspace.com/youareheremusic
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AOL: Musikinov Yahoo: Symphonysound

Recently:

This Week's Listening Habits:

Overall:

Sure, most of my Top 8 are dead composers and fictional characters. One of them is even me. Two are my brothers. And a friend or two. What does that say about me?

My Interests

Conjugating proverbs.

I'd like to meet:

Ask me later.

My obligatory cat adoration:

Music:

Califone, Microphones, Smog, Flaming Lips, Neutral Milk Hotel, Mirah, Tortoise, classical, Stereolab, Cake, Polyphonic Spree, Queen, Wilco, Godspeed, Jim O'Rourke, Sea and Cake, Coltrane, the Notwist, Divine Comedy, Helium Vola, Grandaddy, Shalabi Effect, Joni Mitchell, Linda Perhacs, Talking Heads, Songs:Ohia, XTC, Boingo, Black Heart Procession, The Shins, postrock, Bonnie Prince Billy, Liszt, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Olivia Tremor Control, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Mum, Silver Mt. Zion
What have I been listening to? Check Audioscrobbler!
http://www.last.fm/user/Musikinov/

Movies:

MST3k. Before Sunset, Before Sunrise. This duo says so much, and I've probably haven't even scratched the surface yet. My Dinner With Andre. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The Life Aquatic. The Iron Giant. The Spanish Apartment. Amelie. Glengarry, Glenn Ross. As far as older discoveries, The Deer Hunter. Man, what a draining, intense film. Some favorites: Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Zoolander, Ghostbusters, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Somewhere in Time, Almost Famous (untitled bootleg edition!), Stop Making Sense, Chasing Amy, Crimes and Misdemeanors, so many others. Fight Club. Amadeus. Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Chevy Chase. Dolores Claiborne. Existenz. This Island Earth.

Television:

Lost, Arrested Development, Heroes 24, Six Feet Under, South Park, Gilmore Girls, The Daily Show, Colbert, Studio 60, The Office, My Name Is Earl, Ali-G (especially Borat), Adult Swim, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Bob Newhart, Taxi, South Park, The Colbert Report, oldschool Talk Soup, SNL, Almost Live, Kids in the Hall, TV Funhouse... guilty pleasure reality shows... not-so-guilty-pleasure reality shows: Wifeswap, Nanny 911, the ARTS Channel...

Books:

Tom Robbins, Stephen King (especially The Dark Tower series), Richard Brautigan (In Watermelon Sugar), Ken Kesey, Tom Wolfe, Alan Watts, philosophy, psychology, Brett Easton Ellis (American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction, Less Than Zero), Chuck P. (who doesn't?), I'm sure there's more...

Heroes:

"Because of worms, Roxanne! Worms!"

My Blog

Gregor Samsa

I think the Gregor Samsa album, 27:36, has slowly become my favorite space to live in for a little while. In the second song the words "You love me more than I will ever know" are repeated over a...
Posted by Tyler on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:25:00 PST

On the Star Wars TV series.


Posted by Tyler on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Arnold and Danny

"I have birthday, too." - Arnold
Posted by Tyler on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Lambda Lambda Lambda

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/1440226&from =rssI knew it.Nerds Make Better Lovers                     &...
Posted by Tyler on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

By request.

DEVON D is for Dashing E is for Energetic V is for Virile O is for Outrageous N is for Naive What Does Your Name Mean? It's pretty fitting.  Not that I'd call myself dashing.&nbs...
Posted by Tyler on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

worthless memes

TYLER T is for Tempting Y is for Yummy L is for Loving E is for Easy R is for Radical What Does Your Name Mean?...
Posted by Tyler on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Revenge of the Sith...err.. Nerds..

You are Gilbert! You're sweet and considerate andeveryone seems to like you. You also stand upfor yourself and never take anyone's crap.Hooray! Which "Revenge of the Nerds" Character Are You? brou...
Posted by Tyler on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My IQ according to tickle.com

IQ: 122 Your Intellectual Type is Word Warrior. This means you have exceptional verbal skills. You can easily make sense of complex issues and take an unusually creative approach to solving problem...
Posted by Tyler on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

What type of thinker?

Your brain: 80% interpersonal, 100% visual, 160% verbal, and 60% mathematical! Congratulations on being 400% smart! Actually, on my test, everyone is. The above score breaks down what kind of ...
Posted by Tyler on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

What philosophy are you?

You scored as Hedonism. Your life is guided by the principles of Hedonism: You believe that pleasure is a great, or the greatest, good; and you try to enjoy lifes pleasures as much as you can. ...
Posted by Tyler on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST