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the_self

I am here for Friends and Networking

My Interests

Music:

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The Kinks,The Clash, The Jam, The Ramones, Husker Du, Minutemen, Devo, YYY,The Smiths, Skinny Robert Smith, ESG,Tom-tom club, Stereolab(duh!),The Pixies, Sugar, The Breeders,The Amps, The Animals, Johnny Thunders, Rolling Stones (especially Brian Jones),The Who, Sonic Youth, Pavement,Sliver Joos,the Fall,Velvet Underground and Lou Reed,Early Pretenders, Kathleen Hanna, Fugazi, Dinosaur Jr, Brian Wilson, Bad Brains, SST,Blur, Jon Richmand and the Modern Lovers,Buffalo Daughter,Talking Heads, selecter, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Erase Erratta, Echo and the Bunnymen, Jesus and Mary Chain, Black Flag, the Seeds, the Animals, the Yardbirds, Voidoids, Buzzcocks, the Furs, Avengers,further, the mormons, the Launderettes, Midlake, Stop The Virgins, SqueakE.Clean, Grandpa Wood,Noise Addict, Metal Chicks, Watt, [guitar gods:Mascis+Young+Santiago+JOnes(mick not steve)+Malkimus+Boone+Moore],Blood Brothers, Rilo Kiley, Neil YOung, Madonnabees,Chicks on Speed, Ladytron, Moving Units, Mars Volta, Keyboard Money MArk, and all of my friends' bands and that RAP MUSIC-without it I'd be nothing! Long live the crews! ISP,Allies,Scratch Perverts.Some of us are still down, some of us aren't, but we had the greatest time together; didn't we?

Movies:

Bottle Rocket, mI vIDA Loca, Grapes Of Wrath, Mallrats, Decline of Western Civilization I, Stoked, Dogtown, Orange County(because my poster is on J.Black's wall), Donnie Darko, Over the Edge, Up the Academy, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Video Days, Lost in Translation, Three Kings, Krush Groove, Suburbia(the original), Dazed and Confused, Roadside Prophets,Planet of the APes, A Young Poisoner's Handbook, Richard Pryor movies, WAVETWISTERS, NYC 1980, BLank Generation, The Clash DVD, SLow Century, 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE, Stand By ME, Drugstore COwboy,Royal Tennenbaums, Party Monster, My Bodygaurd,TRON, oh yeah and...MAPS TO THE SKATERS, HOLMES!

Television:

I like to shoot local dudes. #FFCC99

Books:

Shakey-the biography of Neil Young, The Dangerous Lives of Alter boys, The Invisible Man, The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets, We Got The Nuetron Bomb, Cat's Cradle, Land of Spotted Eagles, Bill Graham Presents, Please Kill Me, Where The Wild Things Are, The Giving Tree, Disposable, Agents of Change...

Heroes:

Click here: Christian Hosoi, Lance Mountain, Lance Bangs, Kevin Smith, Thurston,Watt,Mascis, Stephen Malkimus, Robert Downey Sr, Q, Yauch, Horovitz, Skate(CBS), Cesar Chavez, Warhol, Lou Reed, Neil, Mark Gonzales, Neil Blender,Hoffman, McCoy, The Schroeder brothers (for bringing parks back!!), Brian Wilson, Phil Specter,Bikini Kill, the Pee chees, J, my mom and dad, my brother for thinking up *********** which allowed me the chance to exist in the profession of my choice, and the other adults that helped mold me into a fairly versitile young businessman. "I'm going straight-edge!"

My Blog

The Buzzcocks

Last night was awesome; my ears are still ringing, I mean, really ringing! I picked up the lady from Melrose and headed East. My friend Lance was waiting for us when we arrived at my house, so after h...
Posted by the_self on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:08:00 PST

Time

Sometimes, when you want to write, or even need to write, you just can't. As much as I wish I could say that I'm an early-bird, I'm not. I've slept through most of the mornings of my life. I've had st...
Posted by the_self on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:37:00 PST

Gettin' it back

Skated today, kinda sucked, but it's coming back. Got some back-fives in, no smiths. Going to be riding everyday until it comes back, and more again. Today was the third time since the concussion. Ska...
Posted by the_self on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:01:00 PST

The Grind

It must have been greed; it could have been a mistake, but I don't think it was. It just turned lame. Last night, I revisited the sweaty, pulsating, pit of bodies with eyes rolled back and jaws clench...
Posted by the_self on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:59:00 PST

Bring the skillz back, um...sketch!

I haven't written for a while, but I decided I should make sure my brain still works. I hit my head really hard yesterday, so hard, that I almost puked. I got whiplash and chipped my front tooth. I wa...
Posted by the_self on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:01:00 PST

Pooliosis

Get your pool on, son; I'm getting mine! Meelo and I are opening up a pool in Hollywood, fool! Nobody knows about it except the dudes that are draining it today. It's gonna be open for a while, and I'...
Posted by the_self on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:41:00 PST

Me and Greco and my dog spot!

Actually, his name is Vanya. He's wearing Jim's glasses and we're driving through Noho in the fly blue rental....
Posted by the_self on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:41:00 PST

You can get wif dis, or...

Not much, so much, inspired, bored, busy, lazy, whatever. Belvedere's open, gnarls, gnarls. I've too much writing to do, but after Wednesday I can relax. I think I am going to take it easy this s...
Posted by the_self on Fri, 25 May 2007 12:52:00 PST

what gets heard...

Well, I've been so busy that I've not written on this thing for a while, like major while. I think this may be the first blog of the year for me, whatever. I've been hurting lately, I think it's tendo...
Posted by the_self on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:24:00 PST

Wrenching..

Almost over it...in the words of the immortal Mr. Watt, "Hope I don't fuck it up, Gibby!"
Posted by the_self on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:21:00 PST