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Gustav

Life's Rich Pageant

About Me



Chest hair is the new six pack, and it looks like I've been working out

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My Interests

Imbiber, Listener, Biker, Talker, Joker, Thinker, Law Interpreter, Climber, Reader, Hiker, Traveler, Distractor, Spender, Loner, Taker, Brother, Befriender, Writer, Driver, Sleeper, Racontuer, Anti Goal Setter, Reporter, Deliverer, Grantor, Swimmer, Educator, Giver, Lover, Trend Setter, Searcher, Late Night Dancer, Speculator, Fruitless Investor, Time Waster, Completer, Taker, Leader, Receiver, Diver, Consumer, and all around a desirous Believer

I made this MySpace Music Player at MyFlashFetish .com.

I'd like to meet:

David Byrne, Luke Wilson, Audrey Tatou, Crista Flanagan, Gustav Mahler, Amy Sedaris, Luca Pacioli, William Blake, Clive Owen, Judah Friedlander, Mario Lopez & Lisa Loeb

Some of my favorite William Blake quotes: “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough”“Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”“Every harlot was a virgin once”“Great things are done when men and mountains meet”“He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence”“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend”“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night”“To generalize is to be an idiot”

Music:

David Byrne, The Magnetic Fields, R.E.M., Ween, Morphine, Cake, The Presidents of the United States of America, The White Stripes, Beck, Phish, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Leo Kottke, The Album Leaf, Matisyahu, Feist, Charlie Hunter, Bob Marley, The Grateful Dead, Jorma Kaukonen, Teddybears, Ben Harper, Buddy Holly, Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, Aimee Man, Stereolab, The 69 Boyz, Josh Rouse, The Blue Nile, R.L. Burnside, Nick Drake, The Dead Milkmen, NPR, Violent Femmes, Cat Stevens, The Dandy Warhols, Tom Waits, Dave Brubeck, The Blue Dogs, Fusion Fable, Depeche Mode, Arcade Fire, The Decemberist, BNL, Warren Zevon, Beta Band, Elton John, The Dire Straits, Link Wray, Frank Sinatra, G. Love, Franz Ferdinand, Louis Armstrong, Belle & Sebastian, Beastie Boys, The Disco Biscuits, Prince, Hot Tuna, The Springbok Nude Girls, Scofield, Modest Mouse, Gorillaz, The Pixies, Serge Gainsbourg, The Connels, Radiohead, Del Mcoury, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, The Black Keys, Umphrey's McGee, NIN, Chris Isaak, Two Gallants, Ivan Neville's Dumpstafunk, Rod Torfulson's Armada featuring Herman Menderchuc, 2Pac, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Daybreakdown, Wild Sweet Orange and much more such as the Great Gustav Mahler & Ennio Morricone, just ask and I will tell you.

Movies:

Amelie, as a matter of fact anything with Audrey Tautou, The Great Gatsby, The Royal Tenenbaums, Pulp Fiction, Raising Arizona, Bottle Rocket, Outside Providence, DIG!, The Big Lebowski, Star Wars (all), Casablanca, The Castle (Aussie Flick), Amadeus, The Godfather I & II, Indiana Jones triology, Dead Man, The Graduate, Rushmore, Braveheart, SLC Punk!, American Psycho, Dead Poets Society, Croupier, Fletch, The House of Yes, St Elmo's Fire, The Man Without a Name Triology by Sergio Leonne, Mommie Dearest, All Will Ferrell movies, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Lord of the Rings, Hot Fuzz, Pootie Tang, Waiting for Guffman, He Died With a Felafel in His Hand, The Station Agent, Shawn of the Dead, Sin City, 300, The two Grindhouse flicks, Big Night, All James Bond Films, This is Spinal Tap, Vincent Casell films, Children of Men, Little Children, Citizen Kane, your average random French cinema and my favorite tear jerker Regarding Henry

Television:

Kids in the Hall, Anything on the History Channel, Lost, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Entourage, Deadwood, Adult Swim, Headline News (not too deep for simpletons), Jeeves & Wooster, Scrubs, The Riche's, Nip Tuck, Weeds, Dexter, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, SNL pre 2004, Californication, Miami Vice and the Price is Right.

Books:

A Prayer for Owen Meany and anything else by John Irving, ANYTHING by David Sedaris, The Sleep Book by Theodor Geisel, The Code of the Woosters: Jeeves to the Rescue by P.G. Wodehouse, Outside Providence by Peter Farrelly, Any Thesaurus, The Boy Scout Handbook, Intermediate Accounting II, Einsteins Dreams, My Utmost for His Highest, Recipes From My Life: The Pat Conroy Cookbook, Hamburgers & Fries by John T. Edge, Remarks: The Story of R.E.M. (not the remade edition). & of course The Good Book.

Heroes:

Big Walt, Old Walt, Peggo, Stonewall Jackson, John Pound & Scuba Steve

My Blog

Bitter

The following are the lyrics to the incredible song Bitter, by Meshell Ndegeocello. They can fit many situations, and I appreciated them most after I broke up with someone I had been wi...
Posted by Gustav on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:49:00 PST

Y'all, for the yanks

Y'all, a contraction, sometimes incorrectly spelled "Ya'll", "Yawl", or "Yaw", and archaically spelled "You-all", is a fused grammaticalization of the phrase "you all". It is used as a plural second-p...
Posted by Gustav on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:19:00 PST

Greatest Imbiber Ever

This is an article I ran across on the Modern Drunkard Magazine Online's website, by Richard English. I just thought everyone should take a minute in awe of this mans ability out of the ring. Some am...
Posted by Gustav on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:21:00 PST

All About Africa

One of my all time top five favorite songs is Africa by Toto. It is of those few songs in the world that just makes you smile and want to do something. If you have hung out with me in the last fi...
Posted by Gustav on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:24:00 PST

Faith

I do not know what it is in our society that breeds fear of the one thing that we desire the most, but if I did I would give everything I could to stop it so that you could find peace and happiness. &...
Posted by Gustav on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:40:00 PST

The Quiz Needed to Move and an Update

..> TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey Name: Weird Walt Birthday: November 22 Birthplace: St Vincent's Current Location: Late 20's Eye Color: Hazely Brown Hair Color: Brown Height: 6'1" Ri...
Posted by Gustav on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:55:00 PST

Where'd tha Cheese go?

Don't know if you know the story behind this song but its pretty funny, and these kids did an alright job of making a home video to it. The story goes lika dis: Pizza Hut hired Ween to write and perfo...
Posted by Gustav on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:16:00 PST

Love is Like a Bottle of Gin

I love Gin, and if you have ever embibed in it and been in love, you can appreciate: It makes you blind, it does you inIt makes you think you're pretty toughIt makes you prone to crime and sinIt makes...
Posted by Gustav on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:30:00 PST

What if You had My music Collection?

I was sitting here trying to do anything but work and started thinking about my music collection. From my tapes, LP's, CD's and now expansive MP3 collection, it has gotten to be pretty ridiculous. It ...
Posted by Gustav on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 04:54:00 PST