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Scottrade

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About Me

I used to have a lot of other stuff here. There was a exuberant description of a nerdy, self-depricating, well-read man, with humorous perspectives on the dubious condition of society. And then I realized everyone writes basically the same thing in this place. So I removed it. And now I don't have anything, but I think I should have something, so I have a super-kidney. Don't hate...

My Interests

good food::good cinema::good times::the good life

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with something to say, an opinion worth respecting, and an interesting personality.

Music:

To ask me this question is like asking a parent which child they love most. I love music... plain and simple. On heavy rotation is Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips, Nirvana, Radiohead, The Mae Shi, Beck, Broken Social Scene, Sublime, Push Start, M.I.A, Deathcab, GNR, Joy Division, Abe Vigoda, Built to Spill, Classic Rock, 80's, electro. I in fact love Van Halen. But my guilty pleasures are Peter Gabriel and Journey probably, but lets just keep that between you and me.

Movies:

Braveheart, Labyrinth, Memento, Young Frankenstein, Boondock Saints, Donnie Darko, Borat, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Cool Hand Luke, Followed, Sin City,PulpFiction, Swingers, Anchorman:the Legend of Ron Burgandy,Neverending Story, a lot of Tim Burton, Coen brothers and Steven Speilberg films, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Star Wars, Kill Bill, the Goonies, Fight Club, Theres Something about Mary, Team America, Lord of the Rings, the Shawshank Redemption,Pirates of the Carribean,, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the list goes on forever.

Television:

LOST, Family Guy, Simpsons, Rescue Me, Arrested Development, Daily Show, Dirty Jobs

Books:

I pretty much just read everything I can get my hands on - I like Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, the Purpose-Driven Life, books by Vonnegut, Fitzgerald, Hemmingway, Salinger, Palahniuk, Gabo Marquez, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Chabon, Dan Brown, non-fiction, philosophy, And sometimes in the bathroom I read the back of shampoo bottles and boxes of q-tips

Heroes:

James Joyce's novel Ulysses makes the case that we are all heroes for making it through one more day. But style points go out to Chuck Norris, Samuel L. Jackson, and Makato Nagano.

My Blog

Legitimately unnecessary

Some random observations on the best and the worst aspects on the biggest Sunday in sports. - The best thing about the Super Bowl was that the Patriots lost. It is because of the Pats loss, I can sti...
Posted by Scottrade on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:53:00 PST

Sr. Pantalones del Chapoteo

Who is Mr. Splashy Pants? It's a humpback whale that got a new name, thanks to a Greenpeace campaign. In its efforts to get some needed support for its Great Whale Trail Expedition, a particular hum...
Posted by Scottrade on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:20:00 PST

Something cool that Xerox is doing

If you go to this web site, http://www.letssaythanks.com/ you can pick out a thankyou card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can't persona...
Posted by Scottrade on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:05:00 PST

Public service announcement

If you are one or more of the following:old, behind-the-times, slow, prone to nitpicking, a one-armed broodmare, challenged, carry nothing but change, write two-party out-of-state bad checks, blind, c...
Posted by Scottrade on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:20:00 PST

*****PLEASE READ TO HELP RAISE AWARENESS******

Throughout the night sobs can be heard from tents in Gulu, Uganda. These sobs are rendered from the mouths of thousands of children that are gathered in a government military camp. Every night, these ...
Posted by Scottrade on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:58:00 PST

who have you inspired lately?

hey check this out and be inspired..I still remember the joy I got out of drawing, painting and building a world of my own when I was a child. I was free. I try to recapture that feeling I had making ...
Posted by Scottrade on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 04:42:00 PST

cursed miss opportunities

as coldplay says: "confusion never stops. closing walls and ticking clocks are gonna come back and take you home. i could not stop that you know now. come out upon my seas. cursed missed opportun...
Posted by Scottrade on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:28:00 PST

Moving On...

When Time, who steals our years away, Shall steal our pleasures, too, The memory of the past will stay, And half of our joys renew. -Thomas Moore, Song
Posted by Scottrade on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:02:00 PST

its like mad libs

DO THIS I KNOW YOU WANT TO 01] I _____ scott 02] scott is _____. 03] If I were alone in a room with scott I would _____. 04] I think scott should _____. 05] scott needs _____. 06] I want to...
Posted by Scottrade on Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:23:00 PST