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aaron

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About Me



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My Interests

Movies, travel, beer, tattoos, Red Sox, boozin', cars, Boston, riding me bicycle, photography, the beach, comics, Ms. Pacman, gin and tonic, poker, gambling, craps, fartin' around in my apartment in my boxers and drinking PBR. I also like doing the NYT crossword puzzle, but only on Monday and Tuesday. I'm too dim for Wednesday.

I'd like to meet:

Bettie Page, Vargas models in general, Roger Corman, Larry Flynt, Lloyd Kaufman, Mr. Jim Beam, Mr. Pabst, Robert Mitchum, J.J. Gittes, Ann Marie Slaughter, Elvis, Bruce Lee, The Continental Op, Batman, that dude from Repo Man who was in all those A&W Root Beer commercials back in the 80's. And Audrey Tautou, what a gal.
And this guy:

Music:

Iron Maiden, The Clash, Megadeth, Sick of it All, Agnostic Front, Warzone, The Descendents, G.G., Slayer, Rolling Stones, bluegrass, rockabilly, western swing, Johnny Cash, Django Reinhardt, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Frank Sinatra, Dino, Stray Cats, Carl Perkins, The Ramones, Hank Williams, Hank III, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Black fuckin' Sabbath, Miles Davis, Coltrane, The Misfits, Willie Nelson, T Monk, The Buzzcocks, The Toy Dolls (remember them?), Toots and the Maytals, Robert Marley and the Wailers, Desmond Dekker, Prince Buster, Bad Brains, The Jam, Tom Waits, Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, Dvorak, Shostakovitch, Fear, Otis Redding, The Roots, Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin' to Fuck Wit, Matisyahu, Tribe Called Quest, De la Soul, Jehru the Damaja, Elviss, El Vez, The Damned, Motorhead, Billy Joel (and proud godammit), Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Al Green...

Movies:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High, anything with John Cusack or Steve McQueen, Alphaville, Farenheit 451, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Wings of Desire (which doesn't necessarily mean I pee sitting down),The Cincinatti Kid, The Hustler, Mean Streets, The Searchers, Noir pictures, Rififfi, Ghost World, de Palma, John Carpenter, Polanski, Kubrick, Sodenburg, Kieslowski, Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels is the best fucking movie ever period), Wilder, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Fucking Pekinpah, Lang, Peter Jackson, Leone, Melville, Wes Anderson, Toshiro Mifune samurai flicks, and all sorts of porn

Television:

All in the Family, Simpsons, UCB (Realease more seasons on DVD, bastards!), Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasism, Family Guy, Daily Show, Frontline, The Saint, The Prisoner, The Young Ones, Dave Chapelle, Monty Python, Avengers, Sponge Bob, News Hour w/ Jim Leher, poker shows, Turner Classic Movies.

Books:

Greene, le Carre, Hammet, Joyce, Chandler, Jim Thompson, Phillip K Dick, Dostoyevski, Kafka, Vonnegut, e.e. cummings, Roland Barthes (but only when I'm drunk), Bukowski (same), Eco (fiction), Camus can do but Sartre is smartah, Chomsky, Hemingway , Brecht, Zinn, "Life of Pi" was good, comic books, hard-boiled crime novels, NYT, The Economist, Hustler, Financial Times, Club, Foreign Affairs. I also sometimes read Card Player Magazine, to whatever good it does me. I've also been reading a copy of Death on the Installment Plan. Really upbeat.

Heroes:

Cobra Commander, Megatron, Gargamel, Skeletor, Sour Grapes. Voltron.

My Blog

You can get about anything on Amazon

Apparently, no matter how obscure or unread your publication is, it still gets sold on Amazon.com.  Something tells me I won't be getting any royalties.http://www.amazon.com/Bridging-gap-human-ri...
Posted by aaron on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:52:00 PST

Los Angeles

I've moved to LA.  Enjoy your winter.
Posted by aaron on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:37:00 PST

I just took the bar exam

    and boy does my ass hurt.  So long suckers, I'm blowing off to Thailand.  
Posted by aaron on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:37:00 PST

Test your prejudice

Project Implicit is a research project that seeks to figure out how much people's perceived biases coincide with their actual, subconcious biases.  So, if you think you're cool with black folks, ...
Posted by aaron on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:36:00 PST

Everyone must read this

Jane Mayer's bombshell in this week's New Yorker.  Read it. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060227fa_fact                 ...
Posted by aaron on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 04:32:00 PST

No More!

I've been holed up too long.  Finally going stir crazy.  Selling out is fucking hard work.  I don't think I've left campus in four months.  Tommorow's last final, but then I've abo...
Posted by aaron on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:12:00 PST

A few clarifications:

1. Emo sucks. A lot. Always has, and always will. 2. Fashion core is an oxymoron. 3. Boys shouldn't wear girl's pants. It's got something to do with hips, and the fact that it's fucking ...
Posted by aaron on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Fucking BestBuy

If you're like me and like to stop at the BestBuy at 86th and Lex on the way to a museum, let me tell you: those guys are a bunch of schmucks. Fucking waiting in line for 10-15 minutes and guess how m...
Posted by aaron on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Two things to survive Bush

All you need is lots of canned food and a shotgun.
Posted by aaron on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

And oh yeah

My paranoia was right, they are using MySpace profiles as advertising mediums. This was in the NYT business section last week, indicating that this is only the beginning: PROCTER & GAMBLE, the cou...
Posted by aaron on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST