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About Me

Well...pretty much I'm awesome. I mean, seriously, I rock. Consider: I'm nice, and cool, and good-lookin', and musical, and incredibly smart, and in shape...and...oh yeah! HUMBLE!! Now, if you're reading this and thinking, "gee I wish I could be as cool as this guy"...don't worry...someday, after years of practice, it might be possible for you to become 1/10th as cool as me...which is more than most folks today could boast-not that you would because you'd also be humble like I am.

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My Interests

Interesting stuff...i.e. not boring stuff. For example, your stamp collection would not interest me...but your Ferrari, specifically me sitting in it, might.

I'd like to meet:

I'm NOT INTERESTED in being another notch on the belt of any would-be participant in the online-feaux-popularity contest. I'm not intrigued by your garden-variety form-letter-spam, nor do I want to see your sexy pics or meet your "shy friend with a crazy side." I don't look like anyone you know who has died. I'm not in need of another line of credit, or some abercrombie or a new ringtone. In short, anyone who when they say they want to "meet me" really means "BILL ME" can keep on looking. I'm easygoing and openminded-not a sucker. So go peddle your foakleys and knock-off gucci bags elsewhere.

Music:

Your Pimp Name Is...
MC Dazzle What's Your Pimp Name?
Your Daddy Is Arnold Schwarzenegger
What You Call Him: Pa

Why You Love Him: He takes you to Disneyland Who's Your Daddy?I like artists who show some artistic talent beyond music...take, for example, My Chemical Romance-the dude who sings is also a choreographer and did the Helena video, or Linkin Park-Joe and Mike are both artists-I've seen some of the paintings; they're pretty incredible. I think Joe Han did CG work for the movie Sphere (a little trivia for you!) Anyway, I think it's cool when you get to see other sides to people's creativity beyond the medium with which they are usually associated.

Movies:

Braveheart, Snatch, Fightclub, That Thing You Do, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, American Beauty, Bruce Almighty, Ghostbusters, Lucky Number Slevin, Thank You for Smoking.

Television:

I watch Lost, and The Office. The End.

Books:

I finished The Federalist a while ago... I like the historical biographies. Let's see...the list for this year is growing: The Living Lincoln, Why Men Hate Going to Church, Blue Like Jazz, Real Teens: a Census Study, Wild at Heart (barf), An Unstoppable Force, Mornings on Horseback, The Metaphysics of Practical Morals, I'm not sure what I'm going to read next...

Heroes:

Teddy Roosevelt, Abe Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Mark Driscoll, Johhny Hiland, Aaron Sorkin

My Blog

Samuel Clemens ain't got NOTHIN on ME!

So, Denzel Washington aside, I've decided I need a pen name. All the good writers have 'em. So why shouldn't I? But, I think I'll take suggestions from the few of you who read this...
Posted by Austin on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:59:00 PST

Hatin' on the Little Man

So, I've been teaching guitar lessons to inner-city girls with Gibson for a couple of weeks, and it's been interesting. Mostly, I've been surprised at how bright, cheerful, and genuinely eager t...
Posted by Austin on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:47:00 PST

The Anti-Corra

"Well, we can't do that because....[insert objection here]." For my part, I would really like it if more people responded to the above by saying..."You know, you may be right. But, if this ship ...
Posted by Austin on Tue, 16 May 2006 10:45:00 PST

French Etymology

Ok, so...I'm still sick. I was flipping through the "most popular blogs." And, I ran across this one whose headline read, "For Everyone Who Likes Sex." And, my thought was "......
Posted by Austin on Thu, 11 May 2006 11:47:00 PST

Nyquil Astronomy

Well, I'm sick. And, I've been sitting here, consuming mass quantities of vitamins and liquids, trying to force feed myself back to health. It's been three days since I fell ill with the p...
Posted by Austin on Thu, 11 May 2006 09:43:00 PST

Dead

The lie:I, test, defy!Till signs grew dark and dead, still Yet did silky strains enthrall, poised: To kill. ...
Posted by Austin on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:16:00 PST

Recording

What's up folks. I just thought I'd mention that me and Al had our first full tracking session on the project we've been anticipating last night. And, after our first se...
Posted by Austin on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 02:25:00 PST

LSAT score

Well, I checked my LSAT score a few minutes ago, not really expecting it to be posted yet, but there it was. I got a 162, which put my in the 87th percentile for those of you ...
Posted by Austin on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:19:00 PST

The Love Song of "not Maureen Dowd"

Man, those of you who know me know I'm not a gushy person. I wince at effusiveness; groan at the sappy, shicter-feminista brand of sensitivity that Maureen Dowd and her ilk ha...
Posted by Austin on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:38:00 PST

Dirty Cups.

Well, this bloggereusky's going to be a bit of a mystery to most of you....but it is helpful for me to at least get this thing off my chest. I doubt if any of you will have any acqu...
Posted by Austin on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:04:00 PST