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quirk

never let me slip cause if i slip then i'm slippin'

About Me

I'm a thief and a shit kicker, and I'd like to be famous. Part hipster, part dork, living with the fringe folks on the south side...
Current obsessions:
1. chocolate covered cashews
2. the band
3. hating on american apparel
4. camilo villegas
5. struggling with captchas
i write about the pop music here:
Unrescuable Schizo
i post photos here:
My photobucket
i post better photos here:
My rarely-used Flickr

OK, I made a meez:

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

eccentrics. people who go to concerts. people who takes lots of pictures.
I can't get into the idea of "ranking my friends"... so my top 8 is pretty much the same as it's always been.

Music:


MGMT, Girl Talk, New Pornographers, Ghostland Observatory, Okkervil River, The Hold Steady, Tokyo Police Club, Dresden Dolls, Bright Eyes, Mickey Avalon, Architecture in Helsinki, AFI, CSS, Sigur Ros, Sophie B Hawkins, Junior Senior, Radiohead, Chromeo, Gogol Bordello, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Fiery Furnaces, TV On the Radio. I also love '80s bubblegum pop, and I have a bizarre obsession with Air Supply.

Movies:

anything by John Waters, Heima, Shortbus, Brick, V is for Vendetta, Party Monster, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Thumbsucker, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Village, Bowling for Columbine, Almost Famous...

Television:

Mythbusters, Man vs. Wild, The Colbert Report, The Suze Orman Show, Match Game reruns, Charlie's Angels reruns on demand...

Books:

Recent reading: Into the Wild (Joe Krakauer), A Decade of Curious People (Chuck Klosterman), Love is a Mix Tape (Rob Sheffield), Exquisite Corpse (Poppy Z. Brite), Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser), Prozac nation (Elizabeth Wurtzel), Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky), Live from Death Row (Mumia Abu-Jamal), The Brian Epstein Story (Debbie Geller), I'll be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews (Kenneth Goldsmith)

Heroes:


I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said no, but I want a regular banana later, so, yeah.
Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over to his house and made sure he did not start to load shit into a truck.
One time a guy handed me a picture and said, 'Here's a picture of me when I was younger.' Every picture is of you when you were younger.
You know when you go to a concert, like punk rock, and people get on stage and they jump into the crowd. People think that’s dangerous, but not me. Because humans are made out of 95% water. So the audience is 5% away from a pool.
My sister wanted to be an actress. She never made it, but she does live in a trailer. She got half way. It's like she's an actress, but she's never called to the set.
I bought a $7 pen, cause I always lose pens, and I got sick of not caring.
I think pickles are cucumbers that sold out. They sold their soul to the devil. And the devil was dill.
I was walking down the street with my friend, and he said, 'I hear music.' As though there's any other way to take it in. You're not special. That's how I receive it too.

My Blog

im related to howard stern now

I'm pretty sure, anyway. When I heard years ago that he was dating a girl named Beth Ostrosky, I thought, how weird, that's the same name as my aunts and uncles on my grandfather's side. When I found ...
Posted by quirk on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:41:00 PST

im going to be interviewing a hanson

Next week I'll be interviewing a to-be-determined Hanson brother for my music blog. This is simultaneously very cool and really hilarious. I was actually a big fan of them in the late 90s and thought ...
Posted by quirk on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:49:00 PST

Im totally in the Dresden Dolls inner circle

Tonight I witnessed the World/Inferno Friendship Society show at Belvedere's. It was a great show, though the sound at that venue left something to be desired, and the tiny stage isn't conducive to th...
Posted by quirk on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:37:00 PST

should i move to the north side?

Today I looked at an apartment... it's right near the hospital, in a fairly quiet part of the north side. I'm wondering whether I should take it.After years of Lawrenceville & the South Side, it will ...
Posted by quirk on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:21:00 PST

ive been jogging all week in shorts with a giant hole in the ass

Funny that no one said anything... then again, I guess that wouldn't be an easy conversation to start.i'm jogging 3 times a week now. for someone who is so athletic, i'm not in very good shape. this w...
Posted by quirk on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:13:00 PST

biden

I wrote this back in June and never posted it& I'm thrilled that it's come true, and after watching the speeches today, I'm more excited than ever...Dear Barack, please choose Joe Biden as your runnin...
Posted by quirk on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:57:00 PST

potato patch fries arent even that good

They're all mushy and soggy... what's the appeal of these? You've all been duped! Stop eating these just because it's some sort of childhood tradition! They suck!
Posted by quirk on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:09:00 PST

the good life is almost over

My lease ends in two months and the landlords informed us they are moving back in, so I will have to find a new place. I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I feel like I just moved in here. ...
Posted by quirk on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:24:00 PST

personal steeler backlash

Over the past few years my interest in sports has declined sharply, which I take as a good thing. I'm still a Penguins fanatic, but otherwise I'm losing interest. I haven't watched more than 5 minutes...
Posted by quirk on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:34:00 PST

my adidas make me sentimental

I'm not nearly as bad as I used to be, but sometimes I have a hard time letting go of stupid shit. I've been wanting to replace my adidas samba for a while now, since the cushioning is totally gone. W...
Posted by quirk on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:41:00 PST