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it is brave to feel, it is brave to be alive

i used to think my dad was elvis, but i haven't told him that yet. i haven't told my dad either.

About Me

I don't like talking and I'm a bit of a recluse, but I get along with just about everyone I know, and people seem to love me. Cross me, though, and I'll turn on you like THAT! WAAAAAHHHHH!

I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V3.6 !

The cat I can't have. I would name her Beatrice, and we would be best friends.

My Interests

I don't even know anymore.

I'd like to meet:

I think it's obvious .. .... Bittersweet :(

Music:

Van Halen; Queen; U2; Green Day; Smashing Pumpkins; Oasis; Weezer; Foo Fighters; Spacehog; Nine Inch Nails; Marilyn Manson; the Who; Rage Against the Machine; Radiohead; Bob Dylan; the Band; Jimi Hendrix; Elvis Costello; Simon and Garfunkel; CCR; Elton John; Billy Joel; the Beatles; Led Zepplin; Pink Floyd; the Smiths; Belle and Sebastian; Dead Kennedys; Alkaline Trio; the Pixies; Coheed and Cambria; Rainer Maria; Dismemberment Plan; Ted Leo; Hot Hot Heat; Yeah Yeah Yeah's; Alicia Keys; Mates of State; +/-; Kanye West; Neutral Milk Hotel; X-Ecutioners; IMA Robot; Placebo; Arcade Fire; the Stooges; Snow Patrol; Pizzicato 5; Stars; Amy Millan; Big Black; Kasabian; Supergrass; Spoon; !!!; Sufjan Stevens; New York Dolls; Wolf Parade; Sigur Ros; Sleater-Kinney; Clap Your Hands Say Yeah; Feist; Bright Eyes; the Go! Team; Merle Haggard; Gnarls Barkley; Television; Violent Femmes; the Rolling Stones (yes it took me this long to buy a freaking Stones record); Elliott Smith; At The Drive-In; Wilco; My Morning Jacket; the Decemberists; the Fiery Furnaces; Yo La Tengo; Doug Cheatwood and the Bastards of Fate; Gang Of Four; Tom Waits; the Jam; Dosh

Movies:

(semi-alphabetical order)---25th Hour (because numbers come first dumbasses!) 28 Days Later; American Splendor; Adaptation; Almost Famous; An American Werewolf In London; Annie Hall; Bananas; The Big Lebowski; Blazing Saddles; Bullets Over Broadway; Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Bomb; Dawn of the Dead (Romero style); Dead Alive; Die-Hard (1 and 3; 2 is dead to me); Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask; Evil Dead; Fight Club; Ghostbusters; Godfather 1 and 2; the Game; Hero (starring Jet Li, not Dustin Hoffman); The Hunt For Red October; High Fidelity; The Hills Have Eyes (why is this being remade???); House of 1000 Corpses; Identity; The Incredibles; LA Confidential; Jaws; Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels; Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; Mallrats; Monsters, Inc.; Mulholland Drive; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Napoleon Dynamite; Once Upon A Time In the West; Platoon; The Producers (Gene Wilder/Zero Mostel style); Pulp Fiction; Reservoir Dogs; A Bridge Too Far; Serenity; Seven Samurai; Shaolin Soccer; Shaun of the Dead; The Silence of the Lambs; Sin City; Slap Shot; Snatch; The Sting; The Thing; Three Kings; Transformers; The Usual Suspects; Waiting For Guffman; The Warriors; Zoolander

Television:

X-Play; Simpsons; Futurama; Aqua Teen; Birdman; Around the Horn; Pardon the Interruption; Subterranean (if it's even on MTV2 anymore; last I saw they moved it to like 3am; what a bunch of fuckers!); Wonder Showzen

Books:

Catch-22; Absalom! Absalom!; Mrs. Dalloway; The Stand; It; The Things They Carried; Brave New World; BNW Revisited; Animal Farm; Homage To Catalonia; The Myth of Sisyphus; Battle Royale; Please Kill Me; Sin City; anything Ionesco

Heroes:

Grover, and this guy .. width="425" height="350" ....

My Blog

Blog game, 10 kinds of things

So this is a blog game where you post ten random facts about yourself and then you "tag" ten other people and make them post ten facts about themselves. I got tagged, and here goes with my ten. 1) Ye...
Posted by it is brave to feel, it is brave to be alive on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:16:00 PST

It's perfect. It's all for them.

Waiting around in the coffee shop. I didn't mean to be doing this for so long, but I wanted my paycheck in hand and deposited by the time I left for the coast. Things won't be tight. There is plenty o...
Posted by it is brave to feel, it is brave to be alive on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:47:00 PST

28 days later

It's my birthday. WOO-HOO! 25 on the 28th. Yeah.-So there was a period of time where I hated my birthday. In sixth grade I was playing tackle football at a friend's house the day before, and I still h...
Posted by it is brave to feel, it is brave to be alive on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:08:00 PST

some upkeeping has occurred

You'll notice the changes if you visit the page. They've been overdue and are nothing major.So everything is awesome with night managing at Starkey. All has gone through and I am now full-fledged, 10-...
Posted by it is brave to feel, it is brave to be alive on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:09:00 PST

mental note: stop doing anything

So being overdrawn in your bank account really sucks. Maybe if Wachovia had told me at some point that I was overdrawn I would have stopped buying things and avoided all the overdraft fees. As it was,...
Posted by it is brave to feel, it is brave to be alive on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:39:00 PST

The Rundown of Sleater-Kinney, and hopefully I'll shut up about it now

The first half of this story is recounted in my previous blog. Information regarding Tuesday night's cancellation and the rescheduling for Thursday night are all in there, along with me doing cartwhee...
Posted by it is brave to feel, it is brave to be alive on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:08:00 PST

The 9:30 Club is no rock and roll fun (with a brief, awesome postscript)

After one false start and a short drive through tiring heat, rendezvous with an awesome friend and an epic journey the likes of which James and I have never seen, one would think that right now my day...
Posted by it is brave to feel, it is brave to be alive on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:52:00 PST

the great T-Rex of Roanoke is out to get us!

Okay, not so much a Tyrannosaurus as it is a record store, and it's not so much out to get us as it is out to employ me. I start Monday night at the Record Exchange, and I'm so incredibly pumped about...
Posted by it is brave to feel, it is brave to be alive on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:17:00 PST

My Sleater-Kinney Mix

Everything I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone Wilderness Start Together One More Hour All Hands On The Bad One How To Play Dead Jumpers The Drama You've Been Craving Hot Rock Light Rail Coyote Burn Don't Fre...
Posted by it is brave to feel, it is brave to be alive on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 05:09:00 PST

Sleater-Kinney...The End...?...!

Thanks to Katie for sending me the CNN article. Please don't feel as though you need to send condolenses, because it's not like anyone is dead, but if you really want to I will accept them with much t...
Posted by it is brave to feel, it is brave to be alive on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:26:00 PST