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haniel

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface,

About Me

I wake in the morning to the smell of anhydrous ammonia and organic fair trade coffee. A full moon hangs above the chocolate mountains as my dog laps from her ceramic bowl. The house remains quiet during the daylight hours. At dusk, I watch Venus become visible, then Sirius, then the others, and, while pouring another a glass of red wine from a box, watch as that spark Venus slips behind the jagged horizon.

My Interests


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I'd like to meet:

If not Sarma Melngailis, perhaps my next apartment.

Music:

Badly Drawn Boy, The Beatles, Beck, The Be Good Tanyas, Frank Black, Blanche, Blonde Redhead, Built to Spill, Buzzcocks, Camper Van Beethoven, Cat Power, The Clash, The Clean, Coldplay, Cracker, The Dead Milkmen, Death Cab for Cutie, Dinosaur Jr, The Dirtbombs, Bob Dylan, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Flaming Lips, The Frames, The Glands, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Guided by Voices, Heartless Bastards, Helium, Iron and Wine, The Jam, June of 44, Joy Division, Karate, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Nellie McKay, Modest Mouse, Mozart, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, Nirvana, The Notwist, Will Oldham, Beth Orton, Pavement, Pinback, Pixies, Pogues, Radiohead, Red House Painters, REM, The Rutles, Silver Jews, Sleater-Kinney, Smart Went Crazy, Spoon, Stereolab, 10,000 Maniacs, This Mortal Coil, 311, Mary Timony, The Velvet Underground, The Walkmen, Gillian Welch, The White Stripes, Dar Williams, Yo La Tengo, Neil Young, plus most 80s new wave, goth, and some early 90s grunge.

Movies:

Akira Kurosawa (Ran, Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Kagemushi); Science Fiction (Silent Running, Logan's Run, Blade Runner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Pi, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Soylent Green, Dune, Spaceballs, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes); GeoThemes (Volcano, Dante's Peak, The Core, The Day After Tomorrow, Deep Impact, Superman); Some Favorites (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Momento, Snow Falling on Cedars, Whale Rider, Karaoke Fever, Spellbound)

Books:

Non-fiction and (auto)biographies: The Stars (H.A. Rey); Cadillac Desert (Marc Reisner); The Encyclopedia of World Geography; The Biography of Anne Sexton; Volcanoes of Northern Arizona; Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley; Natural Food Restaurants; Hidden Southwest; Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds; Table for Two (Joanne Stepaniak); Becoming Vegetarian (Brenda Davis, et al.); Canine Oregon; Climbing Mt Shasta; Subduction Zone Magmatism; Sleeping with Cats (an autobiography by Marge Piercy); The Geology of Earthquakes; Windows on the World Complete Wine Course; Joshua Tree National Park Geology; Memories, Dreams, Reflections (C.G.Jung); The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fiction and Poetry: Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eye, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake); William Shakespeare (Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing); Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern); W. Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage, The Razor's Edge); Thomas More (Utopia); Jane Austin (Pride and Prejudice); Barbara Pym (Jane and Prudence); Anne Sexton; Pablo Neruda; Mary Oliver (American Primitive, House of Light); Sylvia Plath (Ariel, The Bell Jar); Leslie Marmon Silko (Ceremony, Storyteller); N. Scott Nomaday (House Made of Dawn, The Way to Rainy Mountain); J.M. Coetzee (Life and Times of Michael K, Waiting for the Barbarians); Kurt Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater); Don DeLillo (End Zone, White Noise); Douglas Coupland (Generation X, Microserfs); Kate Chopin (The Awakening); Henrik Ibsen (A Doll's House); Mary Shelley (Frankenstein); Lorine Niedecker (The Granite Pail); Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights); William Stafford; Richard Hugo; F.Scott Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway; Margaret Atwood (Surfacing, Wilderness Tips, The Handmaid's Tale)

Heroes:

Tulip's Heroes

My Blog

This is my favourite email of all time. . .

Sorry Sir, no pets at all.Thanks.Kokopelli Inn.----- Original Message ----- From: To: [email protected]>Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 9:59 PMSubject: Kokopelli Inn Online Reservations> Below is the...
Posted by haniel on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:13:00 PST

'tussin

I am reading jPod by Douglas Coupland and one of the characters gets high on Robitussin  before having a sexcapade with multiple strangers. Coupland calls this act of getting high "'tussin"....
Posted by haniel on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:37:00 PST

Miso soup is the new cous cous for 2007

I recently rediscovered a new instant classic that I just can't get enough of thesedays: white miso soup. It's even easier to prepare than cous cous, but the idea is the same: Boil some water, open th...
Posted by haniel on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:26:00 PST

Wowie Zowie! Backpacking in Wyoming's Wind River Range

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Posted by haniel on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 07:28:00 PST

Look! A slideshow of our New Mexico roadtrip

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Posted by haniel on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:29:00 PST

For me, this kick ass Neruda poem

    SONETO LXIII =======================================  No sólo por las tierras desiertas donde la piedra salina  es como la única rosa, la flor por el mar enterrada, &nb...
Posted by haniel on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:05:00 PST

Bunk's mid-year culinary tip for 2006

So here's a tip I know you will all find timely and useful. I am certain that you all, my friends, love cous cous as much as I do. Not only is cous cous extraordinarily yummy,...
Posted by haniel on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:58:00 PST

Human and pup Santa Fe roadtrip

Next week Tulip and I head out on the highway looking for adventure in New Mexico. Maybe we'll see the real painting below at one of the galleries in Santa Fe. We will also be spending tim...
Posted by haniel on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:39:00 PST

I think more songs need hand claps and cowbells

Music has been taking me on funny spins lately. As a general rule, I don't particularly care for the likes of the cowbell or hand clap. But no one can deny the cow bell, no matter how hard y...
Posted by haniel on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:50:00 PST

still feeling the effects of yosemite

So I went down to Mexico today with my only Blythean friend, a co-worker named Chris. We parked his car in a parking lot near Yuma, Arizona, and walked a few hundred feet into the town of Los Algadone...
Posted by haniel on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:05:00 PST