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Simon

.....Finally I felt enthusiastic....

About Me


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I tread to stay above the waterline.
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I swerve for squirrels. Sorry Dad.
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"I'm in for a round of overexposure."
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I have a cat. Her name is Tulsi. She's in charge of The Farm's grounds.
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I have the best "total lifetime elapsed time to distance covered in or on a motorized vehicle" ratio of anyone I know. I'm without question the best driver I have ever met in person.
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I, like others who know, take the Skyway.
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"In a cast that's taking places, I'm unsure of where I want to be...."
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I am Jack's overflowing ashtray.
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Yes, I am interested in you too.
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When I am in public I like to participate in other people's conversations. Generally with single word interjections as I pass. But only sometimes out loud.
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"I'm calmer 'n you are."
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"There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand..."
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"I dream of michelangelo when Im lying in my bed
little angels hang above my head
and read me like an open book
and suck my blood, break my nerve,
offer me their arms..."
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I speed. (See my book "How To Place Your Entire World on The Brink of Total Destruction Four Points at a Time, For Dummies") I have to go a whole year without a ticket. I've done a whole month, but man....it was hard. The Dragonfly redlines at 14,000. That's like having to drive an F1 car as your daily transportation. Yeah right.
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I am missing people right now.
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I found my Kon Tiki. She was a gift. And I am grateful. I am once again behind the wheel of one of my favorite cars, a 1988 Honda CRX. On my way to being a real person again.
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I am not very good at life, but I usually try hard, and I seem to be charmed (wink) you know, green lights and shit.....
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When it comes to relationships, I try to be "the pillow (the cool side)" but I usually just snore.
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I am foolish. Repeatedly.
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I don't care how hot you are, it doesn't change the fact that you could be so much more. Focus on that.
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My name is Sgt. Borgsted and I am ready to crush fresh powder at any moment. That lift goes up where we belong.
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"I've thrown you a line, and I'm holding it."
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I am grateful to have come from a bloodline full of unique wonderful people from whom I have inherited the perspective and personality I hold dear.
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I represent C-Relly in all matters legal and have complete Power of Attorney when it comes to all buisness matters pertaining to Area 57.
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I don't want to look away.
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I am doing the best I can.
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I am.
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, shouting GERONIMO!"
"...Fantastic Expectations Amazing Revelations ...."

My Interests



Seeking Adventure.

I also like motorcades, pets that ride motorcycles, pyrotechnics committees, working with wood, metal, and art chemicals, oval windows, guys who carve stuff into logs with chainsaws, dragonfly metaphors, JCP&L, machinery, extraction teams, Cosby sweaters, satellite imagery, the Nikkei, items, new teethbreeth, seltzer water, dawn, smoothly and accurately modulating rear-to-front weight transfer, watching trees in a strong wind, carrier pigeons, Topanga Canyon, backlit maps (preferably tabletop style), houses that have worn wood everywhere, rocketpacks, Fiskars scissors, evenings with Jersey Corn stuck in my teeth and sand between my toes, cemeteries, briefs, briefings, de-breifings, and dossiers, AA batteries, eye-wash stations, uneven-length exhaust header equipped vehicles' exhaust notes, lamps as opposed to overhead lighting, two-way mirrors, speeding, 1970's sailing art, Black Towncars, old places, large porches, counter-steering, over-the-ear headphones in crowded places, grills with ample Squinches (Squeet/12) for feeding large groups of sarcastic fucks, my cat's eyes across the field reflecting my headlight beam when I get home, "we'll take it from here" , shooting knowing glances, toggle switches, dojos, sacred geometry, bodies of water in general, dirigibles, girls who smile and hold their own, windmills, conversations where both people are looking at the ceiling, riding a bicycle with a girl on the handlebars (preferably west on 80th st to the empty lot on Bay terrace, around 8:45 pm), briefcases handcuffed to wrists, coffee milkshakes, large birds, John's Pizza on Bleecker, hang gliders and flying apparatus in general, functional hood scoops, believing, hearing you laugh, and raisin toast with butter.
I don't, however, particularly care for, deliberately under-posted roads, insurance companies, smoking bans, lines, Honda Odysseys, nuts in brownies or cookies, buisness jerks, inattentive drivers, oh and: "Hey! Nobody gives a fuck about your purse! It's like this: If you have a blue gel filled dolphin hanging from the mirror of your two-door area-college-parking-permit-emblazoned-tinted-out import, STOP FUCKING TEXTING, the light's been green for like 6 seconds....nice fucking KTU sticker by the way.....I fucking hate you....."
(I don't really hate you....Just fucking go already!) "I scorn you, scurvy companion. What, you poor, base, rascally, cheating, lack-linen mate! Away, you moldy rogue, away!"
If that doesn't apply to you, then what's on your mind?

Experimental Minds

I found it. Aston Martin db5 shooting brake. Holy shit.

I'd like to meet:

Ferris Wheel Junkies.

“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.” Anton Chekhov

"...what I wouldn't give to meet a kindred....."
People with something to say. Write a fucking blog already. It's not a television, you can participate. I am almost certain that you have opinions, let's hear em', lazy.
People who are working on it.
People who spend time thinking about a better version of themselves, and consciously move towards it.
People who can hold a conversation.
Anybody real I don't care what you are into as long as you mean it.
People who appreciate art (or make it).....huh...make it....
My next teacher.

And......

You.

The Cabinet
I have 100 friends.

Bry

Kitty

Ry

SGI

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Music:

"I may hear a sound
A whisper, sacred & profound
But turn my head
Indifferent..."

Here's some new music for you to listen to. Unless you're Bry.
Pop Girls Etc.
The Radio Dept.
The Knife
Some by Sea
Pete Yorn
George Is Jones
Roddy Woomble

...4 Strings, A Tribe Called Quest, Acid House Kings, Afterlife, The Aggrolites, Aim, Air, AK1200, Alieke Wijnveldt, Alpha, Amethystium, An April March, Andrew Bird, Ani Difranco, Antenne, Aqualung, Armin Van Buuren, Astronaut Wife, ATB, Au Revoir Borealis, Aurora UK, Autumns Grey Solace, Ayria, Azure Ray, Band of Horses, Barely Broken, Beatles, Beautys Confusion, Beck, Bel Canto, Bela Fleck, Belle and Sebastian, Benjamin Gate, Ben Folds, Bent, Beres Hammond, Bitstream Dream, Black Box Recorder, Black Tape For A Blue Girl, Bob Marley, Bobo In White Wooden Houses, Bowery Electric, Brazilian Girls, Broadcast, BT, Cardigans, Cat Power, Cat Scientists, Chicane, Cibo Matto, Cinnamon, Claire Voyant, Cocteau Twins, Collide, Combustible Edison, Commercial Breakup, Computorgirl, Conjure One, Copeland, Counting Crows, Cranberries, Cranes, Cream, Curve, Dashboard, David Berkeley, David Sancious, De La Soul, Deep Dish, Delerium, Dismemberment Plan, Dreamfield, Dreaming, Dredg, Dubstar, Dusted, Echostream, Elliot Smith, Elysian Fields, Enigma, Etro Anime, Everything But The Girl, Faithless, Falling You, Feist, Fiel Garvie, From Good Homes, Frou Frou, George Is Jones, Gnarles Barkley, God's Bow, Grateful Dead, Gregory Isaacs, Groove Armada, Guru, Guster, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Heavyweight Dub Champion, Holcombe Waller , Inara George, Innocence Mission, Ivy, James, James Brown, Jeff Buckley, Jellyfish, Jill Scott, Jose Gonzalez, Jump Little Children, Jute, Kalai, Karate, Karine Polwart, Kaskade, Keane, Kiwi The Child, Ladytron, Lamb, Leaves Eyes, Luciano, Maceo Parker, Machine In The Garden, Madlib, Mae, Mandalay, Massive Attack, Matt Pond PA, Mazzy Star, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Mike Doughty, Minus the Bear, Mono, Morcheeba, Mos Def, Nada Surf, Nellie Mckay, Olive, One Dove, Otis Redding, Orange, Palo Alto, Park Avenue Music, Pendulum, Peter Gabriel, Pharcyde, Plumb, Portishead, The Radio Dept., Railroad Earth, Raination, Regina Spektor, Reindeer Section, R.E.M., Roddy Woomble, Roots Manuva, Royksopp, Rufus Wainwright, Ryan Adams, Saint Etienne, Sam & Dave, Sam Cooke, Sense Field, Seu Jorge, Sia, Si*Se, Smoke City, Sneaker Pimps, Snow Patrol, Snowblind, Solar Twins, Some By Sea, Soulstice, Stars, Steel Train, Stereolab, Stevie Wonder (especially the "Darling, answer my prayer" part from 3:10 on...maybe it's Jim Gilstrap I dunno..so good though), Stretch Princess, Submarine, Sufjan Stevens, Sundays, Telepopmusik, The Coasters, The Five Stairsteps, The Like, The Miracles, The Notwist, The Shins, The Shore, Theater Of Tragedy, Trance Atlantic Air Waves, Tina Dico, Traffic, Trespassers William, Underwater, Venus Hum, Way Out West, Weekend Players, Weezer, Whiskeytown, Wilco, Wu Tang & Zero 7

And *beats*.

"A little Hope and a little Regret"

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Movies:

.....White Oleander, Lost in Translation, Cinema Paradiso, Coffee and Cigarettes "a bag'a items fo you Bill Murray", Faster, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas "It's gonna blow my weekend, naturally I'll have to go with you.", Thirteen, High Life, Life is Beautiful, Long Way Round, Lost and Delirious, Spy Game "Why would I ask someone else to kill a horse that belonged to me?", Raising Victor Vargas " Down to my chacletas, these beat down shorts and shit...Why? Cuz that's me...", A Cool Dry Place, Rushmore "I saved Latin. What did you ever do?", Waking Life, What The Bleep,

Television:

"I hope they never get off that damn island!" - Me.
Family Guy / "It's after 6...what am I, a farmer? / Aqua Teen Hunger Force / Rockers TV ch.12 you know it! with Earl Chin! He's the man / Scrubs "YO!.... Girl's name!...Come!"

Books:

"...The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light, And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels: Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye, The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry, I must up-fill this osier cage of ours With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers. The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb; What is her burying grave that is her womb, And from her womb children of divers kind We sucking on her natural bosom find, Many for many virtues excellent, None but for some and yet all different. O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give, Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified. Within the infant rind of this small flower Poison hath residence and medicine power: For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. Two such opposed kings encamp them still In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will; And where the worser is predominant, Full soon the canker death eats up that plant...."- Frair Lawrence
Also: Leanings and Leanings 2 by Peter Egan, The Perfect Vehicle by Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Dhammapada, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (not because I am obsessed with motorcycling but because it's really good), Rand Mcnally Road Atlas, The Dictionary, prally more......

Heroes:

Bry: "I need a bigger hammer for this screw!" -and- "Dude, I know you're not into books, but try to picture a movie about this story..."

as well as....
“Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.” – Stirling Moss,
Anyone who has ever raced the Isle of Mann TT,
Ben Folds,
Galileo,
And Steve's ok.

My Blog

Scosche Pics

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Posted by Simon on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:29:00 PST

Fairmount Avenue Failures.

    This cigarette tastes almost as good as the last. And as the crusty snow slowly melts outside my window, I'm stuck in that moment on Fairmount Avenue when I hear the train approachi...
Posted by Simon on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:05:00 PST

Dan's house.

   As I walk toward the garage, I can picture her inside the cool dark room. Heaping my leather and headphones onto my tailgate, a slide the key into the brass lock and it leaps open. Unbuck...
Posted by Simon on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:20:00 PST

Fides Alcedonia pt. II

  I long to sleep, to venture within, to find it again. I am lost in this darkened wood. Awake in my bed, reaching to remember fragments of dreams&&of an overgrown forest path.    &...
Posted by Simon on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:18:00 PST

Trying to "right" a country song.. -or- Cingular Perpetuation

   So I feel like writing a country song. I haven't many lyrics yet, but among other more heart-wrenching topics, the tune will certainly touch upon the explosion of my pickup truck. If I'm ...
Posted by Simon on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:06:00 PST

English Fog and The Creepy Sheep.

I need a pedal steel / lap steel for reasons clearly demonstrated in American Car.    English Fog and The Creepy Sheep. I had finished Dad's birthday dinner with my family and was headin...
Posted by Simon on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:34:00 PST

Slain by the words I lack.....

Looking closely on that which I've relied, I see nothing in the darkness fireside. One hundred and eighty sets of windows and not a view I recognize. I've been through all the places where I'd found, ...
Posted by Simon on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:36:00 PST

Things fall apart.

   As he spoke into the phone in the next room about his grandfather, her beloved husband, She looked out the window, at the view outside maybe, but it seemed more like she was watching th...
Posted by Simon on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:58:00 PST

Magilla Gorilla

So, "some lady" broke my dragonfly. I shouldn't really call her that, she's super nice, but she did run over my favorite thing in the world. It was just minding it's own buisness, leaning on its sides...
Posted by Simon on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:40:00 PST

I'm so sorry.

Last night I went for a ride with a my good friend Dan. We also rode with some new friends. We had a great time.  As Dan and I rode back we reached the point where I was going to break off and he...
Posted by Simon on Mon, 29 May 2006 09:14:00 PST