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Le Magic Garcon

I am here for Friends

About Me

Well son of a bitch. There's a lot about me I suppose. I am a local photographer working for a Harley Dealership taking pictures of the coolest things on the planet. I pretty much live my life behind the lens. I'm always looking for new people that are creative. I don't care in what way. All I care about is a person with the drive to create something to share with the world.

My Interests

Music, Writing, Photography, Cycling, Skate Boarding, Blogs, Street Fighter II, Disc Golf (I am quickly becoming the Tiger Woods of this would be sport, which, yes it is. If real golf can be concidered one, then this really deserves the title. We don't get caddies and we work harder and cuss more to make a shot.), random yelling out of zen thoughts, and making wise cracks when it is really really not appropriate.

I'd like to meet:


Jack Kerouac. I lived a period of my life obsessed with this man. I was even trying to mimic his lifestyle. Fortunately I learned my own path before I followed him down his own. Either way, Mr. Kerouac is the one man in the world that seems the most interesting at the moment. I would love to sit down and just be able to talk, figure out his creative methods and see if there is any way I could apply that to my own. I don't know. There are a ton of other people as well. I would love to meet Bob Dylan just to shake his hand. Ghandi would be another good one to meet just so I could make him eat a sandwhich. All in all I am really looking to meet anyone crazy enough to sit down with me. Pass a flask of whisky back and forth and simply talk. I don't care what about, just simply be good company and know that you are most likely teaching someone a little something and hopefully know you are learning as well.

Music:

Acceptance, AFI, Alice In Chains, Alkaline Trio, Allman Brothers, Anti-Flag, Arctic Monkeys, Arrested Developement, Ataris, Audio Slave, Bad Religion, Beck, Beethoven, Bella Fleck, Belle Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, Ben Harper, Beta Band, Better Than Ezra, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Bled, Bleed the Dream, Blind Melon, Blink 182, Blue Oyster Cult, Blues Traveler, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bonnie Somerville, Brandi Carlile, Boxcar Racer, Breaking Benjamin, Bruce Lee Band, Built to Spill, Cake, Candlebox, Cary Brothers, Chevelle, Chix Diggit, Chris Cornell, Citizen Kane, Clarence Carter, Climber, Coheed and Cambria, Cold Play, Colin Hay, Collective Soul, Counting Crows, Crash Test Dummies, Cream, Crystal Method, Daniel Lanois, Dave Matthews Band, David Bowie, David Gray, Dead Kennedys, David Wilcox, Death Cab for Cutie, Def Lepard, Deftones, Decemberists, Depeche Mode, Devo, Dexter Freebish, Dido, Dimes, Dishwalla, Dixie Chicks, Drop Kick Murphy's, Duran Duran, Early November, Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, Eels, Electrasy, Elliot Smith, Elvis Costello, Ende, Epoxies, Everclear, Exit, Face to Face, Fallout Boy, Finch, Fiona Apple, Flaming Lips, Fleetwood Mac, Frou Frou, Fuel, Further Seems Forever, Gang of Four, Get Up Kids, Gin Blossoms, Gnarles Barkley, Godsmack, Goldfinger, Googoo Dolls, Good Charlotte, Gorillaz, Green Day, Gutter Mouth, Home Grown, Iggy and the Stooges, Incubus, Information Society, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Jack Johnson, James Brown, Janes Addiction, Jayhawks, Jerry Garcia, Jimmy Eat World, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Joe Satriani, John Mayer, Johnny Cash, Jurrassic Five, Kasabian, Kenny Rogers, Killer, King Missile, Kooks, Led Zepplin, Lenny Kravitz, Les Claypool, Less Than Jake, Limbeck, Linkin Park, Live, Lovemongers, Marcy Playground, Mark Mothersbaugh, Matisyahu, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Metallica, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Modest Mouse, Mother Love Bone, Movie Life, Mr. Lif, Muddy Waters, Mudhoney, My Chemical Romance, Nada Surf, Neutral Milk Hotel, Newfound Glory, Nick Drake, Nickelback, Nina Simone, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, No Doubt, NOFX, Norah Jones, Oleander, One Second 2 Late, Operation Ivy, Orgy, Paco De Lucia, Paul Westerberg, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Pete Yorn, Pinehurst Kids, Pink Floyd, Pink Martini, Porno for Pyros, Postal Service, Presidents of the United States of America, Primus, Prince, Puddle of Mud, Queen, Raconteurs, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Ramones, Rancid, Ray Charles, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Reel Big Fish, Relient K, Remembering Never, Remy Zero, Rise Against, Robert Johnson, Rufio, Save Ferris, Saves the Day, School House Rocks, Scott Walker, Screaming Trees, Seether, Seu Jorge, Seven Mary Three, Seven Year Bitch, Shindig, Shins, Sia, Silverchair, Simon and Garfunkel, Ska King Crab, Smashing Pumpkins, Smile Empty Soul, Snow Patrol, Social Burn, Soggy Bottom Boys, Something Corporate, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Staind, Starting Line, Steven Lynch, Stone Sour, Stone Temple Pilots, Story of the Year, Straylight Run, Sublime, Sugar Ray, Sven Libaek, Syx, Taking Back Sunday, Talking Heads, Temple of the Dog, Tenacious D, The Clash, The Goodwill, The Kinnison, The Melvins,The Paragons, The Prize Fight, The Specials, The Used, Thievery Corporation, Third Eye Blind, Three Doors Down, Thrice, Thursday, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Tom Petty, Tool, U2, Van Halen, Vendetta Red, Village Green, Vivaldi, We Are Scientists, Ween, Weezer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yngwei Melmstein, Yellow Card, Zero 7, Ziggy Marley, Zombies, ZZ Top.

Movies:

Unbearable Lightness of Being, Children of a Lesser God, Razors Edge, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Raising Arizona, Hudsucker Proxy, Big Lebowski, Garden State, Dude Where's My Car?, Three Amigos, The Jerk, Ghost Busters 1&2, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Dazed and Confused, City of Lost Children, La Derniere Combat, Bill and Ted (all of them, they are my gods.), Cross Roads, Stand by Me, Fight Club, Twelve Monkies, 7, E.T., Schindler's List, Munich, Star Wars (all 6, fuck you nerds who don't like the new ones), Lord of the Rings, Trainspotting, Requiem to a Dream, The Fisher King, Scrooged, Canadian Bacon, Uncle Buck, Home Alone, Blade 1 2&3, Lethal Weapon (I have them all, and I wish I was cool enough to be in them...even though I would probably end up being cast as a villain and get my ass kicked all over the place), Karate Kid 1&2, Jaws, Attack of the Killer Tomatos, Old Godzilla Movies, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Legend, Tremors, Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, Old Bruce Lee flicks, anything with Jet Li, American Werewolf in London (and Paris, Julie Delpi is a goddess), Twins, Gladiator, Brave Heart (I love you. Always have.), Baseketball, Lost in Translation, Bad Boys, MIB, Spanglish, Good Will Hunting, Mallrats, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl, Borne Identity, Scream (just the first one, you have to admit you loved it too), Three to Tango...wow, now I know why I said before that this list could go on for ever. I don't have time to finish this list, maybe later.

Television:

Mythbusters, Lost, How I Met Your Mother, Tour De France, Survivorman

Books:

Anything by Terry Goodkind right now, David Eddings, Hemmingway, Vonnegut, Sarah Douglas, Jack Kerouac, Dean Koontz, Dan Brown, David Sedaris, C.S. Lewis, Hunter S. Thompson, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Augustan Burroughs, Ken Kesey (a local hero), William Burroughs (even though what I read of his work made my skin crawl, bile come to the back of my throat, tears come to my eyes and in general made me super uncomfortable and actually almost fear reading any further...but hell, how often do you find someone that can make you feel all of that in just one book?)...wow, again, this list could simply go on for ever. In short, I read a lot, primarily fiction, but some non-fiction when I am feeling daring.

Heroes:

Christina Carlsen (She's pretty fucking amazing.), John Hall, Eddi Merckx, Lance Armstrong, Jon Carlsen.

My Blog

Chris

The bliss smile,Secret weapon,Twinned with innocence eyes,Knee buckling.I've forgotten&Lost the ability,Can't make my noodle do it,Think of "I" only "We".Woke the other morning,Arms laid wide,Neck twi...
Posted by Le Magic Garcon on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:59:00 PST

The scene.

Quirky NE Portland possibilities,Heaven sighted hipsters meandering hinkty pinkty,Always creative,Always passionate,Permanently concerned expressions sketched upon unpainted brows.Stumptown's finest b...
Posted by Le Magic Garcon on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:50:00 PST

Scary new times.

Listen all you wandering madmen,Wayfarers of the outer limits,Denizens of my utmost fantasies,My bold blitzers of the rainy solitudes.The New Years,Nouveau Commencement,A modern tradition usually lost...
Posted by Le Magic Garcon on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:41:00 PST

A letter to everyone

To everyone, I wonder how many of you will actually read this? I've received some notes from some of you wondering why I haven' been posting. I do have to say that I was pretty fucking amazed with the...
Posted by Le Magic Garcon on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:04:00 PST

Run Ashley, run.

Don't look back,Don't stop running,Don't stop ticking,The horizon is the goal,Have you been able to tack it down yet?You came to me a gentle eyed creature,Demure,Friendly,We sat in the shadow of a gre...
Posted by Le Magic Garcon on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:13:00 PST

At long last...

Je veux une vie équilibrée.Happy gin blossoms of the gutter,Glad hearted hellos from strangers,Folks never known but emboldened enough to greet you like long lost kin, beloved.I crave gratitude from t...
Posted by Le Magic Garcon on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 02:06:00 PST

Sit down.

Come sit down with me knees touching,Infinite, forever going smiles splitting us to the soul,Voices animated with glee, rapture,Connected to the very core of things.Bottle of Bushmills passing back an...
Posted by Le Magic Garcon on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:12:00 PST

About this girl.

West Coast pioneer,Middle California, land of the wrath filled grapes, raised,Great Northwest, Oregon, death place of Paul Bunyin, destined.Doesnt matter where you are with that beautifying everything...
Posted by Le Magic Garcon on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:52:00 PST

Guess I'm gonna have to get out there again.

Where have all the beauty eyed,Far gone minded,Peaceful hearted,Hungry mouthed saints of the world gone?Where are you travelers of the road,Rampaging darlings of change,Preachers of the word,All holy ...
Posted by Le Magic Garcon on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:18:00 PST

Near the end of summer.

Basking in the downhill side of summer,My favorite time of each 365 days,Yearly happy hearted adventures completed,Romances had, parties partied, road trips traveled.Am I ready for the upcoming cold f...
Posted by Le Magic Garcon on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:17:00 PST