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yo chi

I'm indoors, why can't I feel my toes?

About Me


I like a good laugh and the occasional well-timed shrug.

Also, the next time you take a shower cover your ears and put your head under the water. It sounds pretty neat, no?

My Interests

First and foremost, food:

1.udon noodles
2.green onion pancakes
3.any grain + a tomato-based sauce

Other Interests:

reading, music, climbing, museums, concerts, bad horror and kung-fu flicks, board games, dominoes, embarrassing myself, itch-free scarves, embracing my inner asian tourist, misadventure, good conversation, leafy trees, human rights, road trips, comics, traffic free late-night driving, 2 am diners, craft projects, swings, argyle socks, British lawn games, midnight picnics

I'd like to meet:


Agreeable folks, I think.

(an incomplete listing of friends & acquaintances)

Benjamin

Coooooray

Former Fat Boys

John

Scott

Ron

Rhiannon

Jenn

Danielle

Lauren

Mary Ann

Melanie

Dan

The Gentleman

Kev-bo

Ben Grigg

Hank McHandsome

Andrew

Tristan

Kara

Louis

Lenny

Seth

Phil

Inspector Owl

The Felix Culpa

The Honeybear Wild

Kid, You'll Move Mountains

Cari

Ben H.

todos mis amigos
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Music:

the velvet teen , troubled hubble , pretty girls make graves, pulp, metric, the faint, refused, cursive, muse, stars, elliott, the sounds, the new trust , minus the bear, the cars, the stills, the felix culpa , the postal service, scanners, the anniversary, ben folds, garbage, weezer, inspector owl , sea ray, hey mercedes, mt. st. helens, the futureheads, braid, the juliana theory, blondie, the distillers, the get up kids, the smoking popes, sparta, modest mouse, moving units, nada surf, pedro the lion, belle & sebastian, alkaline trio, ted leo, the aquabats, big d & the kids table, colossal, mando diao, beck, slapstick, rilo kiley, mike park, tsunami bomb, NIN, no knife, eastern youth, the evening episode, scouts honor, tracy + the plastics, abandoned pools, tuesday, WJKA?, the faux, denison witmer, limbeck, anathallo, the gunshy, the forecast, ms. john soda

Movies:

Kung-Fu: anything Bruce Lee, House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Legend of Drunken Master, Iron Monkey, Fist of Legend, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Once Upon a Time in China
Horror: Dead-Alive, Dawn of the Dead ('78), Night of the Living Dead, Theatre of Blood, the Abominable Dr. Phibes, 28 Days Later, May, Re-Animator, Bio-Zombie, the Evil Dead series
Drama / Comedy: True Romance, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the Royal Tenenbaums, SLC Punk, About a Boy, Heathers, Igby Goes Down, Chasing Amy, Pump Up the Volume, Mallrats, Clerks, Amelie, the Pianist, Batman Begins, the Big Lebowski, High Fidelity, Rushmore, Real Genius, Glory, Kill Bill, Donnie Darko, Weird Science, TMNT, Edward Scissorhands, the Crow, Schindler's List, Eat Drink Man Woman
Sci-Fi: all things Star Wars and Star Trek, Alien I-III, Dark City, Scanners, Blade Runner, Gattaca
Animated: Akira, anything Studio Ghibli or Pixar, the early 90s Disney films
Documentary: Control Room, the Corporation, Fallujah: the Hidden Massacre, Blowin' in the Wind, Brainman, Stop Making Sense

Television:

Kids in the Hall, Upright Citizens Brigade, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the Food Network, the Discovery Channel, South Park, the X-Files (seasons 1 - 4), Star Trek:TNG, Battlestar Galactica

Books:

Non-Fiction: Armed Madhouse, Lies My Teacher Told Me, the Demon in the Freezer, Mad Cowboy, Into Thin Air, the Corporation, Japan At War: An Oral History, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Disposable People

Fiction: Ender's Game, Insomnia

Comics: V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Y: The Last Man, Planetary, Supreme Power, Astonishing X-Men, The Walking Dead, Ex Machina

Heroes:

the people of Cochabamba

My Blog

weeeird.

As some of you may know (from me randomly griping about it), I have been climbing less frequently as of late.  I've been trying to nurse my left hand back to health, as tendons in both my middle ...
Posted by yo chi on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:15:00 PST

:)

Dearest Blog, Today was pretty awesome. Sincerely,Me PS - Dekalb needs a Jamba Juice.
Posted by yo chi on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:37:00 PST

vague...decidedly so.

Is happiness really just a car-ride away? Doubt: an unwelcome quid-nunc along for the ride, tucked backseat between Curiosity and General Uncertainty. Sorry guys, I've only got so much cerebrum to pas...
Posted by yo chi on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:56:00 PST

Who needs a thriller when this stuff is so much scarier?

Regardless of your personal politics, I think that it's fairly safe to say that we all agree that poverty is a bad thing. I mean, no one is championing making people poor. I also think that we could a...
Posted by yo chi on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:44:00 PST

today...was an odd day.

Here's how my day went. woke-up: ok went to class: alright got back from class: pretty good went to the rec: fairly decent sat around the apartment before going to the show: great went to the show:.....
Posted by yo chi on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:55:00 PST

Fín!

I finally finished a project for someone that's been taking me forever, and it feels pretty good. Now, I only hope that she likes it...*making a sorta scrunchy thinking face*
Posted by yo chi on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:53:00 PST

1) will make sense to very few of you

ok. new years resolutions. 1) to be able to onsight v6/7, and to redpoint up to 5.12b on lead. 2) to cut back on eating meat. maybe not completely vegetarian, but yeah, less meat. 3) to watch more ku...
Posted by yo chi on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:10:00 PST

aaaaargh.

i just shaved, and now my face burns. a lot. sadly, i have nothing better to do in the interim period until my face stops burning than to write about it. yeah. still burns. on an unrelated note, i nee...
Posted by yo chi on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:32:00 PST

i feel grrreat! *cough*

i got back from something like a 4 mile run about an hour ago, and since then i've done nothing but sit huddled in front of my computer feeling like death. apparently, my brain didn't see fit to give ...
Posted by yo chi on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:28:00 PST

crappy facial hair.

i'm deliberately not shaving for a week to see what manner of scruffy, moustachioed being i turn into. this may not seem like all that long for many folks, but i grow perhaps the patchiest, most sorry...
Posted by yo chi on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST