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Nic

i said buy when it wasn't that nice; you said bye without asking the price

About Me

they say I lost my mind in the Sea of Japan...but I know it was long before that

we can dance if we want to
we can leave your friends behind
cause your friends dont dance
and if they dont dance
well they're no friends of mine

My Interests

music (playing, writing, listening), drums, rx-7s, working on & racing cars, extraordinary people, beautiful women, art, photography, working out, pretend guitar, strange bird calls, mullets, real life magnum PI mustachios, building stuff, welding, eyes, animals, climbing trees, dancing, how things work, HEM , poetry, silver, black, bourbon, thrift stores, fashion, "the line", creating awesome videos, 80s, 70s, those big balls in the sky, a 'nice day', thunderstorms, summer rain, flying, sliding, clowns in straightjackets, salvador dali, henri matisse, abnormalities, simplicity, detail, symmetry, the metric system, what is 'normal', fighting for what i believe in, deep thoughts on sunday, exhaust, gasoline, the scream/bark/bite/rasp of a well tuned powerful engine, fire, physics, the calm of night, secrets in darkness, my feather pillow, ...,

I'd like to meet:

sweet tea.

Mostly, someone with a great sense of humor and adventure and that can also fake a good british accent on video so that when we wander past a strange cave on the side of the road, they'd insistantly agree that we should indeed have an impromptu cave safari with the gorilla costume that I've conveniently brought along.

1987, 1991 David Cagle, Danny Ashby, Daniel Duncan, Nathan Nichols, etc....

Music:

is a requirement

Ever expanding.....I have a problem....but currently in the rack:

The Smashing Pumpkins
NIN
adalusia
air
alice in chains
all time quarterback
ampline
arcade fire
arnold schoenberg
audio learning center
audioslave
autechre
the bad spellers
band of horses
beastie boys
beck
billy corgan
bjork
bloc party
blue man group
bracelets
bright eyes
built to spill
charlemagne
charles mingus
chemical brothers
chevelle
clinic
coldplay
crystal method
dashboard confessional
dave navarro
deathcab for cutie
death from above 1979
dntel
the doors
dave brubeck quartet
dandy warhols
daughter darling
deftones
dj rap
dj shadow
the doors
doves
dj tiesto
dredg
Dresden Dolls
Elliot Smith
Esthero
Figurine
filter
fisherspooner
the flaming lips
Four Tet
frou frou
Genesis
goldfrapp
Gorillaz
Grand Tourism
Groove Armada
Gustav Holst
guster
Hana no youni her space holiday
Hoobastank
hooverphonic
Hum
Humanlab
Idlewild
incubus
Interpol
inxs
Isaac Hayes
James Brown
Jane's Addiction
Jimmy Chamberlin Complex
John Digweed
Johnny Cash
Kate Sikora
killers
Knievel
The Knife
Led Zeppelin
Leftfield
Lenny Kravitz
linkin park
Live
Lostprophets
Loudermilk
Lovage
Machine Drum
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Mamimi Fouksong
Marcy Playground
Marilyn Manson
massive attack
Mellowdrone
Michael Jackson
miles davis
Mogwai
morcheeba
Morphine
Muffin
mum
Muse
my bloody valentine
nada surf
nirvana
no doubt
Norah Jones
Oakenfold
Octopus Project
Oui
our lady peace
Outkast
Ozma
paul van dyke
a perfect circle
Phay
Pink Floyd
portishead
the Postal Service
Primus
prodigy
Queens of the Stone Age
radiohead
red hot chili peppers
Roni Size
royksopp
sandra collins
Scott Weiland
Seldom
the shins
sigur ros
Sneaker Pimps
Snoop
Snow Patrol
soundgarden
South
Sparta
Spoon
Staind
Starflyer 59
Stellamaris
Stone Temple Pilots
The Streets
Swayzak
Telepopmusik
Third Eye Blind
Thom Yorke
Three Dog Night
Tiger Saw
Time Spent Driving
Toadies
Tool
Tortoise
Tricky
Turbonegro
UNKLE
Voyager One
weezer
White Stripes
Woven
zero7
zwan
...
80s pop/rock that reminds me of other times

SQUARED....

PLAYING

..

Movies:

a clockwork orange & other stanley kubrick, edward scissorhands, karate kid, back to the future, the crow, napoleon dynamite, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, requiem for a dream, the usual suspects, garden state, groundhog day, monty python, swingers, punchdrunk love, lost highway, pi, gone in 60 seconds, office space, kill bill, .....

..

Television:

Seinfeld, McGuyver, Cosby Show, Airwolf, Happy Days, King of the Hill, South Park, Chapelle's Show, comedy cent, history, discovery, tlc, speed, car shows....

Heroes:

clean air, Bog, distortion

My Blog

pump kins

My kin, pump away. as per the Smashing Pumpkins myspace page: ------------------------ SP Blog JC's 'Pearl of Wisdom' blog coming soon...straight from the heart of the studio to you. ----------------...
Posted by Nic on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:17:00 PST

Music

As most of you know I really like finding new, interesting music to listen to. If I didn't have a job I'd probably just wander around all day listening to or making music....but they say not all those...
Posted by Nic on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 04:24:00 PST

Chuck Norris

courtesy of Adam Rudolphi 1. While playing the role of a Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris used live ammunition during all shoot outs. When the director explained that he cant do that, he replied, "O...
Posted by Nic on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 03:57:00 PST

let's dance

Let's dance Let's dance Let's dance, put on your red shoes and dance the blues Let's dance, to the song they're playin' on the radio Let's sway, while colour lights up your face Let's sway, s...
Posted by Nic on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

mullets?

The night started off low key with food at Ruby Tuesdays. Everyone had ladies in town so we were all drinking lightly to avoid any possible encounters with Maj. Whisk E. Dick. It was Matt & a girl ...
Posted by Nic on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

drunk tales

I became progressively more and more bored here in AL so I started trying to convince friends to do some of the things I tend to think up on a somewhat regular basis. Funding is usually an issue, but...
Posted by Nic on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST