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Monster

He's little...and he's drunk!

About Me

According to Target's No-Tool line of do-it-yourself furniture, I'm stronger than 2 to 3 men.

My Interests

Details; Music - writing, recording, performing, listening, discussing at length; Cooking; Design; Reading; the English Language; God and Theology - specifically Deism/Unitarianism, and Eastern philosophy; Architechture; Art History is trying to kill me; Rain; Pop History (especially music...especially southern soul and classic ska); Chasing Cats and/or Marsupials; Root Beer; Nighttime & Early Morning; being a sleaze; compilations; front porches; my Megan.

I'd like to meet:

Mark Twain, Lars Fredriksen, Tom Waits, Ernest Hemingway, Uncle Remus, Bill Clinton, Alton Brown, and Pat Robertson - so that I can beat his fucking face in. I'll do it, too. Watch.

Music:

Sun Kil Moon, Jeffrey Foucault, Smashing Pumpkins, Portishead, Explosions in the Sky, Led Zeppelin, Sam Cooke, Kathleen Edwards, Glossary The Black Dahlia Murder, August Burns Red, Brain Drill, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Al Green, Josh Ritter, the Rolling Stones, My Morning Jacket, Mastodon, Dropkick Murphys, Cave In, Jimmy Cliff, Rancid, Band of Horses, Unearth, the Frames, Travis, My Vitriol, Skinless, Origin, Jose Gonzalez, Throwdown, Rosa Passos, High on Fire, Every Time I Die, REM, All that Remains, the Love Scene, Calexico, Friends of Dean Martinez, Jump Little Children, Grant Lee Buffalo, Robert Plant, Beck, the National, Red House Painters, Frou Frou, Killswitch Engage, Pain, The Melodians, Paul Curerri, Califone, Mojave 3, Low, Sparklehorse, Flaming Lips, Dillinger Escape Plan, Morcheeba, Job for a Cowboy, Between the Buried and Me, Jesu, Zero 7, American Music Club, Baroness, Rival Schools, Swervedriver, As I Lay Dying, Paul Duncan, Parkway Drive, Deadstring Brothers, Neaera, Sworn Enemy, Opeth.

And on occasion, me.

Movies:

Shaun of the Dead, The Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction, Amelie, Fight Club, The Private Eyes, Almost Famous, Disney's Robin Hood (the one with the fox and the bear and stuff), Ghostbusters, This is Spinal Tap, Pirates of the Caribbean, Reservoir Dogs, Die Hard, High Fidelity, Psycho, Cape Fear (both versions), The Shining (both versions), Big Lebowski, Fargo, Garden State, Die Harder, The Shape of Things, Taxi Driver, Night of the Living Dead, Inside Man, Elizabethtown, Okonokos, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Little Miss Sunshine, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind, Hot Fuzz, the Evil Dead Trilogy, Fay Grim

Television:

Television rots your brain.

Books:

Angels & Demons, Boy's Life, Salem's Lot, Swan Song, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Farewell to Arms, Cape Fear, To Kill a Mockingbird, Anguished English, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Spenser Series

Heroes:

TUJ

My Blog

The Best

So many wells run dryIn the corners of your eyesAnd a golden light that never shinesNever fades awayLit like a beggar's kissCrawling through backdrops you might've missedToo many promises to make a li...
Posted by Monster on Thu, 22 May 2008 08:08:00 PST

We make no excuse for our genius.

Two things: First, I feel supremely powerful. Secondly, I still can't get over the fact that so many people experience such extreme disparity when it comes to choosing between "your" and "you're".&nbs...
Posted by Monster on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:01:00 PST

Fanfare

When the hills take the sun awayWhen the cold sky is kissing another yesterdayWhen the city smiles just like broken glassAt all the summer days and nights as they passWhen they keep me drunk and dazed...
Posted by Monster on Mon, 05 May 2008 01:28:00 PST

Dying for a Daydream

There's no soaring lightShining in your streets tonightJust some leftovers and empty cupsWaiting to be homeAnd everybody hereIs dying for a daydreamA nicer hell was never seenReflected in the eyes So ...
Posted by Monster on Mon, 05 May 2008 01:22:00 PST

You can’t got taking the blame - it’s already been taken.

So, it would appear that I'm back to playing at ye olde Moose bar here in town every week.  'Cept this time it's Wednesdays after my radio show on 92j.  I'll be having busy Wednesdays from n...
Posted by Monster on Mon, 05 May 2008 01:15:00 PST

Evil in a closet.

Recently, Megan and I put together one of those seven-feet-tall, $30 bookcases from Target.  Almost as fun as Legos. The little sticker on the side said "Extra Heavy Team Lift: three or more...
Posted by Monster on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:42:00 PST

Never felt so cold or so goddamn wrong as I did in there

I never feel that there's much to say in a blog anymore, but to place some kind of connection between that and a supposed degree of inactivity in my life would be inaccurate. So, I'll give a painful s...
Posted by Monster on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:58:00 PST

What a horrible night to have a curse.

It's about goddamn time I had a reason to smile.Thank you, Megan. You're all blessing.So I'm a busy beaver these days.  I've taken up a second job with Cosmic Debris in Anniston, supplying the ma...
Posted by Monster on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:50:00 PST

Nothing to do, either.

Pick a band, and then use their song titles only to answer the questions below.Band: Killswitch Engage Are you female or male: To The Sons of ManDescribe yourself: Self RevolutionHow do some people fe...
Posted by Monster on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:41:00 PST

We’re locked and loaded.

I feel like poo. I love looking up at the sky and knowing that you're 100 miles away, and when I most need you and feel like an assface, you're still 100 miles away.  I can't wait for all&nb...
Posted by Monster on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:46:00 PST