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bob

i want the second tree from the corner.

About Me

i quit school at sixteen and spent the next nine years getting blacked out, hitchhiking and riding freight trains. at age twenty six i went to the middle east and bred with a woman i met in washington state. we had a fantastic baby girl in jerusalem. i used an axe, a swiss army knife and a candle to facilitate the delivery. we named her Aliyah after about a year we returned to the states to settle down proper and keep the aspidistra flying. four years later we were back at the breeding and had a beautiful little boy we like to call Hunter. the woman who is in part responsible for all this offspring went clear off her rocker, and so now i spend most of my time taking care of the little ones. i'm a real male martha stewart- i handmake whole wheat bread twice a week, prepare fresh marinara, hand-toss super killer super healthy pizza, make cinnamon rolls from scratch (they say only god can make something from scratch. i say it's bullshit, those bastards), arrange playdates with soccer moms for my daughter, take her to violin class, school, grandma's, change diapers, do laundry, kiss the arse of the kindergarden teacher...you get the picture. yes indeed. that's it, mostly. i quit drinking... love to read... am currently into, for some reason, lifting weights. i'm ripped, i hit harder than a horse kicks, and can sprint a mile in six minutes --less-- in the rain while keeping my cigarette lit. The CricketSoda Myspace Editor!

My Interests

my kids, the church of the subgenius, streetfighting, gardening, latin, the middle east, religion, the greeks, travel travel travel ( for travel's sake- the great affair is to move), the beat generation, reading, writing, evil, pragmatism, mountain biking, ascending city rooftops, lately buddhism (don't just do something- sit there), motorcycles ( i have an old honda 550 with a skeleton head on the gastank. it's beat to hell but it runs like a scalded dog), politics, baiting republicans, wu shu, cooking, nutrition, first editions, screaming revolution, no stopping til the sun comes up... and charlie burns.

I'd like to meet:

senator robert byrd, beelzebub, bill clinton, rob zombie, ariel sharon, the heavy metal warrior (again), len's ex in a motel 6 (er.. again), ted koppel, richard engel, moshe dayan, roger angell (eb white's stepson and writer for the new yorker), sergio mora, alfonso gomez, kerouac's daughter, the white rabbit and ray bradbury, if he lives still.

Music:

white zombie, beethoven, mr bungle, powerman 5000, concrete blonde, ccr, stardust superkill, glam, smf,

Movies:

the color of paradise, wes anderson, errol morris, the coen brothers and rob zombie.

Television:

old twilight zone, seinfeld and nightline.

Books:

celine celine celine (did i mention celine? my most treasured possession is an uncut first edition of la voyage au bout de la nuit, circa 1932), miller, singer, kerouac, white, thurber, parker, asimov, dick, heinlein, gibson, bradbury, orwell, camus, the greeks, halliburton, bukowski, fante, melville, steinbeck, hem, gogol (you can keep the rest of the russians, those hacks. except maybe solzhenitzyn.. and kafka. but kafka was a pole anyway), dahl, james (william, not henry), some sartre, the new yorker, buck, service, sandburg, eliot, zola, dos passos, hst, capote (fucking love capote), early king, wolfe (tom, not thomas), hesse, conrad, aquinas, tzu (sun, not lau), some salinger, clemens (really dig innocents abroad), vonnegut, bellow, sachs, mccullers (by far the best woman writer of all time, followed closely by parker), the freak brothers, kesey (one of my favorites, although he sank fast when he hit his forties), some uris, alger (who the hell can not love alger?), serling, kazantzakis and stendhal- "i see but one rule: to be clear. if i am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing." yaz indeed.