Six Nautical Miles South of Reason

About Me

Ian Spik. 20. West Covina.
I'm an audiophile, I'm obsessed with information and I write. I'm like Woody Allen with an addiction to Winamp, Wikipedia and the New York Times, except if I were Woody Allen all of his movies would suck. Annie Hall would've been a silent film about two gophers discussing the cultural significance of the Perestroika while a French man recited bad Spongebob Squarepants fan fiction. Of course, neither the Perestroika nor Spongebob existed in 1977, but maybe Star Wars would've won Best Picture at the Oscars that year*.
I listen to all kinds of music. I won't bother you with a list. If you really want to know, just try to spark up a conversation about the first band that comes to you. Chances are I can probably offer you some discussion material. Right now I'm digging Andrew Bird, Cibelle, Feist, Charles Mingus, John Williams, Panda Bear, Brian Wilson and Dinosaur Jr.
I write, I suppose. That's what I'm going to school for, at least. I used to want to be an engineer. Then I discovered higher-level mathematics and realized I like telling silly stories and ranting. The University of California at Irvine apparently thinks I'd be good at telling silly stories, too. They say that if I keep paying them a few thousand dollars every 3 months I'll be the best writer in the world. I decided that that was bullshit. Now I want to write about music. It's kind of the same, but different. I'm at Mt. San Antonio College and transferring to whoever will ask me to pay them a few thousand dollars so that I can be the best music writer in the world. They have pretty cool before and after pictures. Seriously.
If you want to visualize me, imagine the discussion that would arise between a cynical chain smoking 50-something bastard arguing awkwardly (think Curb Your Enthusiasm) with a young idealistic 9-year-old about pop culture. Now tack on a playlist operated by a person with ADHD running in the background**.
My AIM is Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
*This is not to say that Annie Hall and Woody Allen are awful--quite the contrary.
**This probably only makes sense to me.

My Interests

..anime, movies, indie films, indie music, ska, aggressive lounge, techno, jazz, electroclash, ddr, reading, writing, drawing, playing music, deviantart, jrock, foreign film, hayao miyazaki, hideaki anno, peter sellers, stanley kubrick, video games, final fantasy, rpgs, computers, cooking, chatrooms, science fiction, star wars, comic books, comic book conventions, anime conventions, manga, dancing, daydreaming, brainstorming, cramming for tests at the last minute, wandering aimlessly in my own thoughts, guitar, trumpet, books, journalism, animation, howard zinn, noam chomsky, ken akamatsu, mitch hedburg, denis leary, george carlin, stephen lynch, conan o'brien, pete townshend, etc...

I'd like to meet:

Trafalmadorians, Corellian smugglers, Musicians, People who can't sleep at night because of stupid pointless idiosyncrasies they hold but can't seem to get rid of despite the fact that they actively try to change them.

People that are like me, I suppose.

Movies:

..reservoir dogs, pulp fiction, kill bill vol 1 and 2, this is spinal tap, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, 2001: a space oddyssey, apocalypse now, end of evangelion, spirited away, castle in the sky, my neighbor totoro, whiskey-romeo-zulu, dr. strangelove, 8 1/2, jay and silent bob strike back, clerks, citizen kane, a beautiful mind, the hours, star wars, the empire strikes back, return of the jedi, ferris bueller's day off, indiana jones (all), el juego de arcibel, fahrenheit 9/11, garden state, batman begins, final fantasy: advent children, tommy, falling down, the motorcycle diaries..

Television:

..scrubs, house, boston legal, fullmetal alchemist, cowboy bebop, trigun, love hina, law and order, the simpsons, family guy, azumanga daioh, naruto, arrested development, most anything that comes on pbs, soccer..

Books:

..1984, brave new world, the martian chronicles, catcher in the rye, america by jon stewart, breakfast of champions, waiting for godot, hamlet, much ado about nothing, most any manga I like counts and that makes up the bulk of my books.....

Heroes:

..Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Stanley Shantar, Stanley Kubrick, Brian Wilson, Pete Townshend, Thurston Moore, Larry David, Bill Hicks..

My Blog

Free verse for the imprisoned mind

Currently Untitled===================== Time is punctual. A single point defines us all In a whirlwind. A point with no length, beginning or end No distance at all... Merely a speck, A singularity th...
Posted by Six Nautical Miles South of Reason on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:38:00 PST

A Dose of an Aesthetic

A Dose of an Aesthetic By Ian Spik You, good sir, are a filthy fusion, a portmanteau contraption made to fit into the deepest annals of the universe, a travesty of the wildest creations of man, a crea...
Posted by Six Nautical Miles South of Reason on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:07:00 PST

How much would could a woodchuck chuck if Nicaragua's poverty index increases at a rate of 2%?

Time to do a quick update. I'm in Computer Science right now, half-listening to something about dice and something or other. I've been 17 for a week now...nothing's really changed, heh. Got some cool ...
Posted by Six Nautical Miles South of Reason on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Fux Yeah

:: how nintendo are you? :: :: how jedi are you? ::...
Posted by Six Nautical Miles South of Reason on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Mannnn

Ok, super huge, increiblemente grande issue here: WHAT WAS OUR CHEM HW BESIDES STUDYING FOR THE TEST :LKFJ:ELWKJ:DLKM OMFG I NEED TO KNOW OR I WILL DIE. If anyone can tell me, I'll....well, if the onl...
Posted by Six Nautical Miles South of Reason on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Let's chat...

This week has been hectic. Lots of prep for science fair and new stuff going around. Good news is, I made 40 bucks by selling off my A+ book to Enrique. Smooth mooooove, wee. Anywho, band's starting t...
Posted by Six Nautical Miles South of Reason on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

tribulations of a bored mind

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday.... Today was a total bore. I woke up late, as usual, and went to Costco to buy a laptop to replace the one that had been stolen in November when some punks broke into ...
Posted by Six Nautical Miles South of Reason on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

And the results are in...

I'm....PREGNANT! No, really now. We know that's biologically impossible. I'm talking about my final exam results, children! So I did pretty kickass in all of my stuff. Final Grades: Pre-Calc: ...
Posted by Six Nautical Miles South of Reason on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Huzzah! A blog entry!

Ow it hurts. It all hurts. Every single inch of my body. Not playing soccer for 3 months and starting up again without even warming up is painful. This weekend's been alright. I ended up going wit...
Posted by Six Nautical Miles South of Reason on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Cough Hack Wheeze Hurl...

Ugh..... Let me get you people posted on what's happened since the start of the week. My "genius" of an Honors English teacher decided to give us 2 projects that have to be turned in by next week, app...
Posted by Six Nautical Miles South of Reason on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST