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Ross Shifty

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About Me

I'm a boyfriend, a student, a card-carrying union member, a musician, and a wannabe-librarian

My Interests

Playing music, reading books, walking around.

I'd like to meet:

Some peace in this world.

Music:

I like everything. Groups/musicians I especially like: Rancid, The Queers, Screeching Weasel, Social Distortion, the Meteors, George Jones, Chris Isaak, Joni Mitchell, Toy Dolls, Clash, Ramones, Riverdales, Oxymoron, Dwarves, the Who, DOA, Pogues, Pete Seeger, Guthrie, Cash, Drats!!!, All-American Playboys, Burt Reynolds Overdrive, and so on and so forth.

Movies:

Repo Man, Rude Boy, Spice World, Star Wars

Television:

I don't own a TV. But I do watch Battlestar Gallactica on DVD.

Books:

I like books. I've decided to start posting blogs about what I'm reading, so you can check that out if you want.

Heroes:

Kevin Matchstick

My Blog

What I'm reading: "Technopoly" by Neil Postman

This is a really great book that I saw in the book-donation bin at the library, and which looked so interesting that I put an interlibrary loan request in to get it. The author writes with a lot of a...
Posted by Ross Shifty on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:05:00 PST

What I'm reading:

I'm currently reading "The Known World" by Edward P. Jones; it won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004. It's set pre-civil war in a county in Virginia. The book looks at slavery from lots of different angles...
Posted by Ross Shifty on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:55:00 PST

What I'm reading: The Fionavar Tapestry

I'm a sucker for epic fantasy things, and this trilogy ("The Summer Tree", "The Wandering Fire", and "The Darkest Road", by Guy Gavriel Kay) is one of the best I've read, ever. They were first publis...
Posted by Ross Shifty on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:30:00 PST

What I'm reading, 10/1/06

Right now it's "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger. It's a pretty simple premise for the book: a love story between a librarian named Henry and an artist named Clare. They both are in t...
Posted by Ross Shifty on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:11:00 PST

What I'm reading, 6/2/06

Boy, I'm sure bad at keeping up on this blog thing. Right now I'm reading "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner, published in about 1970 or so. Really good - it's written in first person, and the nar...
Posted by Ross Shifty on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:41:00 PST

What I'm reading, 4/17/06

So, this blog is going to be for me to welcome you into the exciting world of what book I'm reading. Right now it's "Seabiscuit" by Laura Hillenbrand. Really, really a great book. I haven't seen th...
Posted by Ross Shifty on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:09:00 PST