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[ gone fishin'.... ]

in a stolen boat we'll float away....

About Me


we hope that you c h o k e.
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A lot of the houses out here are bright red, straight out of the paint tube. The fences around their gardens aren't right. But over there, to the east, everything is realistic and local and as it should be, except on fire.
[ from slowlydownward.com ]
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[i rock a mic like a vandal]

My Interests

ann gale, audrey hepburn, bottlecaps, christopher walken, coffee, college radio, david lynch, diamanda galas, dorothy parker, driving, edward gorey, epistemology, equality, farscape, floccinaucinihilipilification, frida kahlo, gene krupa, hair dye, hats, henry rollins, hondas, iggy pop, incense & peppermints, j.d. salinger, journals, johnny the homicidal maniac, john singer sargent, julie taymor, kevin spacey, knitting, linguistics, london, lou reed, lucian freud, matthew lesko, mike mignola, mixtapes, oceans, painting, parliaments, pearls, peter jennings, PIRATES, pulling legs off spiders, road trips, rosie the riveter, sic transit gloria mundi, solipsism, spelling things correctly, stanley william hayter, steve buscemi, sunsets, sweaters, t.s. eliot, tarnation, thai food, theda bara, typewriters, unrequited love, verlaine, victorians, vintage dresses, vorpal swords, wayne thiebaud, wes anderson, world travel, writing.

I'd like to meet:



Music:

led zeppelin, modest mouse, son house, jolie holland, the beatles, wilco, fugazi, crooks & nannies, patti smith, godspeed you black emperor!, the shins, bad company, eliott brood, blonde redhead, black keys, kaizer's orchestra, all girl summer fun band, björk, simon & garfunkel, radiohead, pinback, neil young, the white stripes, the candy bars, neko case, morrissey, talking heads, the rapture, rilo kiley, the pixies, yeah yeah yeahs, regina spektor, the theatre fire, pj harvey, the innocence mission, .....and you will know us by the trail of dead, the replacements, tom waits, vue, johnny cash, beck, the rolling stones, calexico, x, desaparecidos, ac/dc, something that rhymes with 'shmetallica'

Movies:

lost in translation, coffee & cigarettes, the royal tenenbaums, donnie darko, the cabinet of dr. caligari, amélie, ghost world, almost famous, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, léon [the professional], a prairie home companion, grosse pointe blank, meeting people is easy, harold and maude, it's a wonderful life, memento, spinal tap, rushmore, say anything, better off dead, bbc's pride and prejudice

Television:

LOST.....also mythbusters, iron chef, jeopardy, farscape [r.i.p.], and anything featuring alton brown. god, i'm a big dork.

Books:

a moveable feast [hemingway], pilgrim at tinker creek [dillard], all other annie dillard books, middlesex [eugenides], all works of dorothy parker, all works of pablo neruda & rainer maria rilke, white noise [delillo], the girl's guide to hunting and fishing [bank], the god of small things [arundhati roy], the great gatsby [fitzgerald], the melancholy of anatomy [shelley jackson], a heartbreaking work of staggering genius [eggers], lullaby [palahniuk], survivor [palahniuk], all harry potter books, lies and the lying liars who tell them [franken], if on a winter's night a traveler [calvino], all works of e.e. cummings, one hundred years of solitude [gabriel garcia marquez], the air-conditioned nightmare [henry miller], the grapes of wrath [steinbeck], travels with charley [steinbeck], house of leaves [danielewski]

Heroes:

leonard bernstein, leonid brezhnev, lenny bruce and lester bangs.
also
adam savage & jamie hyneman.

My Blog

gone fishin'........

......at least in a manner of speaking. i'll be exploring the great pacific northwest like lewis and clark, yo! like straight up oregon trail [hopefully we will not run out of oxen or die of the typho...
Posted by [ gone fishin'.... ] on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:07:00 PST

welcome to the matrix......

spending money gives me a hangover.not absolutely literally, but in some sense there is a period of 'oh my god, what did i do??' accompanied by some nausea and an undeniable headache that follows larg...
Posted by [ gone fishin'.... ] on Tue, 29 May 2007 08:51:00 PST

everything was beautiful and nothing hurt......

kurt vonnegut, november 11, 1922  april 11, 2007 so it goes.......
Posted by [ gone fishin'.... ] on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:24:00 PST

halloween 2006: antique victorian robot, little red riding hood, and yes, hellboy!!!!!

this is what getting ready to become a lovely steampunk antique victorian automaton lady robot looks like. first you get into your corset. it hurts, and you realize you won't be taking a deep breath ...
Posted by [ gone fishin'.... ] on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:13:00 PST

somewhere, a banjo is surely playing......

......last weekend i traveled into the woods outside of payson, arizona with my two best guys and caya the wonder-dog for some classic rock singing, campfire, beer, weinies, puppy-chasing, hiking, wa...
Posted by [ gone fishin'.... ] on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 08:12:00 PST

my favorite holiday of all approaches........

......tomorrow is going to be a good day! ;) [ currently pre-buckling my swash in anticipation ]...
Posted by [ gone fishin'.... ] on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:26:00 PST

....standin' on a corner in winslow, arizona, 8.27.06:

[ aka more from the mom/daughter road trip ]because everyone needs to do it, just once, to say they've done it....and because if you live in arizona, it's pretty much unavoidable....and since we were ...
Posted by [ gone fishin'.... ] on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:54:00 PST

'nobody knows who they were, or what they were doing, but their legacy remains....'

'....hewn into the living rock...of......--fridgehenge??' okay, it's not stonehenge. it's fridgehenge! it's in santa fe, new mexico! and last saturday i was there! pictures? but of course!   ...
Posted by [ gone fishin'.... ] on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 07:08:00 PST

status report from the field:

current location: my desk. at home. clutching a nice, warm mug of the strongest coffee in the world, the coffee that i make. bare feet curled under me. happy. and do you know whyyyyyyy.........???beca...
Posted by [ gone fishin'.... ] on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:28:00 PST

i'm so excited, i just made water in my pantaloons! ;)

aaaargh! 'h-o-t-t' has a new definition....and it is the amazing screw on head pilot episode [courtesy of scifi.com]. mignola fetish in full effect. ;) [ paul giamatti! molly shannon! david hyde...
Posted by [ gone fishin'.... ] on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:24:00 PST