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azor

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About Me

I am verbose. I hate irony.

My Interests

Converting newspapers to lettuce

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who spells their name Geoph

Music:

Alice in Chains, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Army of Anyone, Audioslave, Beck, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Built to Spill, Cake, Jerry Cantrell, Dandy Warhols, Morphine, Filter, Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, Garbage, Green Day, Interpol, Kings of Leon, Louis XIV, Nick Cave, Nirvana, Oasis, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Queens of the Stone Age, Raconteurs, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Razorlight, Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Stabbing Westward, Stone Temple Pilots, Strokes, Supergrass, U2, Vines, Von Bondies, Wallflowers, Weezer, White Stripes, Wilco, Wolf Parade, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, CCR, Flying Burrito Brothers, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Townes Van Zandt, Korn, System of a Down, Reverend Gary Davis, Son House, Sleepy John Estes, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Charlie Patton, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Allman Brothers, Animals, Captain Beefheart, Cream, Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Doors, Zeppelin, Stones, Van Morrison, Who, Yardbirds, Undertones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Hank Williams, Black Keys, Libertines, Keith Green, Barry McGuire, Elvis, Lost and Found, Everly Brothers, Woody Guthrie, Louvin Brothers, Skynard, Roy Orbison, Bowie, Velvet Underground, Waterboys, Donovan, Buffalo Springfield, Byrds, CSNY, Karen Dalton, Grateful Dead, Leadbelly, Mamas and Papas, Moby Grape, Pete Seeger, Sufjan, 13th Floor Elevators, Electric Prunes, Kingsmen, Love, MC5, Music Machine, Paul Revere & Raiders, ? & the Mysterians, Sonics, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Amboy Dukes, Jefferson Airplane, Stooges, Detroit Cobras, Hives, Jet, Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, New York Dolls, Staple Singers, Local H, Derek and the Dominoes, Kinks, Status Quo, Pink Floyd, Wolfmother, Zappa, Raveonettes, New Pornographers, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Death Cab for Cutie, Decemberists, Modest Mouse, Buddy Holly, Talking Heads, Godsmack, Offspring, Clash, Sex Pistols, Badfinger, Soft Machine, Association, Band, Syd Barrett, Beach Boys, Bee Gees (pre-Disco), Black Sabbath, Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Ringo, Tommy James, Jethro Tull, Lemon Pipers, Monkees, Plastic People of the Universe, Small Faces, Steppenwolf, Troggs, Patti Smith, Ramones, Alicia Keys, Bob Marley, Herman’s Hermits, Megadeth, Tom Waits, Traveling Wilburys, Sam Cooke, Foundations, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Tom Petty, Warren Zevon, Simon and Garfunkel, Ronettes, Turtles, Grass Roots, Left Banke, Hanson, Velvet Revolver, Neil Diamond, Lions in the Street, Carolina Chocolate Drops, and above all, the Beatles, and above all all-Bob Dylan

Movies:

All Superman films, Batman Begins, X-Men trilogy, Fantastic Four films, Hulk, Daredevil, Masked and Anonymous, and above all the Spider-Man trilogy

Television:

Batman: TAS, Justice League animated, selected episdoes of Smallville, X-Files, Millenium season 2, A-Team

Books:

1984, Animal Farm, and Homage to Catalonia by Orwell, Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, Catcher in the Rye by Salinger, Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, East of Eden by Steinbeck, Sound and the Fury by Faulkner, Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Stranger and Plague by Camus, To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee, Brave New World by Huxley, Catch-22 by Heller, David Copperfield by Dickens, For Whom the Bell Tolls and Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, Metamorphosis and Trial by Kafka, Odyssey by Homer, Autobiography of Malcolm X, In Cold Blood by Capote, Republic and Apology of Socrates by Plato, Confessions by Augustine, Plays of Moliere, Plays of O'Neill, Plays of Beckett, Moll Flanders by Defoe, Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Carroll, Madame Bovary by Flaubert, Moby Dick, Bartleby, and Billy Budd by Melville, Huck Finn by Twain, Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, War and Peace by Tolstoy, Essays by Emerson, Walden and essays by Thoreau, Paradise Lost by Milton, poems of Blake, poems of Wordsworth, poems and essays of Coleridge, poems of Eliot, Clockwork Orange by Burgess, Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, Mere Christianity by Lewis, On the Road by Kerouac, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Sherlock Holmes stories by Doyle, poems by Williams, Once and Future King by White, poems and short stories of Poe, Kenilworth by Scott, Death of a Salesman by Miller, Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde, poems of Keats, poems and essays of Percy Shelley, poems of Ginsberg, poems of Haryette Mullen, Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, plays of Sophocles, Darwin on Trial by Phillip Johnson, Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey, Chronicles by Dylan, Sackett westerns of Louis L'Amour, selected Choose Your Own Adventure books, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman, essays of Matthew Arnold, essays of Carlyle, Five Yard Fuller and the Unlikely Knights by Robert W. Wells, Spider-Man and other superhero comic books, especially by J.M. DeMatteis, Peter David, Roger Stern and the writers of Superman's triangle era, Kurt Busiek, Geoff Johns, Brian Michael Bendis (especially on Ultimate), Tom DeFalco, Robert Kirkman, and Dan Slott. Above all the complete works of Shakespeare. Above all all The Bible.

Heroes:

Can't say I ever saw the TV show, but I love the David Bowie song.

My Blog

Take Me to Your Leader

Time for another post dealing with my theory that we are in the Archival Era. Another sign that we are in such an era is the mere existence of the Voyager Golden Record. Indeed, the concept of the "t...
Posted by azor on Mon, 19 May 2008 10:49:00 PST

Influence and Imitation

"The idea that a guy can blatantly cheat and be allowed to get away with it because of who he is disgusts me. What are we teaching the kids about sportsmanship?"The above quote is from former New York...
Posted by azor on Wed, 14 May 2008 10:18:00 PST

The Life Clubhouse Store

I had an enjoyable trip to Miller Park this weekend to watch the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Florida Marlins (the only game of the series that they won, alas). It was my first trip to the ballpark in o...
Posted by azor on Thu, 01 May 2008 11:01:00 PST

Ipods on Shuffle

Once upon a time, musicians and record producers agonized over running order for albums. You obviously wanted to put a strong track at the beginning and at the end of an album, but in the vinyl-era, i...
Posted by azor on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:58:00 PST

The Evils of Bracketology

Since I wrote last week's post arguing for an NCAA Reunion Tournament, I've thought of another reason such an event would serve the public interest. It would be even harder to fill out a bracket for t...
Posted by azor on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:19:00 PST

Get Ready for July Madness

"Can’t repeat the past? Of course you can!"- Jay GatsbyOne can’t help watch this year’s Final Four and its great teams with great traditions, without thinking about the past. Actual...
Posted by azor on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:00:00 PST

How Retailers Have Outsmarted Themselves

I just got back from a bowling alley bar, where much to my satisfaction, I placed 48th in the nation in the NTN Buzztime Sports Trivia Challenge. Although I would be happy to just play sports trivia w...
Posted by azor on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:26:00 PST

From Encyclopedia to E!

What if Donald J. Sobol had been born in 1824 instead of 1924? He quite possibly would have become a children’s author. He possibly would have even written detective stories for children, as Poe...
Posted by azor on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:01:00 PST

Welcome to the Archival Era

It’s a paradox of history that only in posterity does a clear picture emerge of what it meant to be alive at a given time. For example, Da Vinci had no idea that he was a Renaissance Man. Words...
Posted by azor on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:44:00 PST

When the Music Really Died

Although Don McLean has been famously reticent about discussing his song "American Pie," it's quite obviously a historical exploration of rock music starting from the 1957 death of Buddy Holly, Ritchi...
Posted by azor on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:53:00 PST