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Lucien Provencher

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About Me

Restless!

My Interests

Industrial design, sketching, writing, humor, brainstorming, impersonations, vocal mimicry, sound, singing, bass guitar, chapman stick, scrabble, tales, live music (for a few years i have been particularly fond of metal shows, but i would attend any performance that intrigued me).

I'd like to meet:

Dangerous people.

Music:

This and that. Rock, pop, and metal mostly, 70's through to present. Currently enjoying:
Budgie. Rush. Voivod. Metallica. King Diamond. Watchtower. Mercyful Fate. Emperor. Kylesa. Dream Theater. Iron Maiden. Blind Guardian. Raven. Death. Atheist. Megadeth. Psyopus. Ahleuchatistas. Magellan. Atrocious Abnormality. Apotheosys. Wehrwolfe. Behold... the Arctopus. Direwolf. Venom. Accept. AC/DC. Phoenix Down. Between the Buried and Me. Pivot. Slugnut. 35007. Iced Earth. Led Zeppelin. Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Spastic Ink. King Crimson. Journey. Boston.
Thomas Dolby. Yes. Marillion. The Police. Pink Floyd. Kraftwerk. Jon Anderson. Vangelis. Art of Noise. The Orb. Billy Joel. Elton John. The Beatles. Soft Cell. Depeche Mode. Pet Shop Boys. Sigur Ros. Subscape Annex. The Cure. Squeeze. Portishead. Tangerine Dream. Tears For Fears. Leonard Cohen.
Modern Jazz Quartet. World Saxophone Quartet. John Coltrane. Ornette Coleman. Return to Forever. Gil Evans. Toru Arima. Esquivel. Scott Joplin. Shuki Levy.
Tim Buckley. Paul Pena. Chirgilchin. Ustaad Ghulam Ali.
Stravinsky. Debussy. Bach.

Movies:

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The Baxter. The Crimson Permanent Assurance. Fantastic Planet. No Country For Old Men. Michael Clayton. The King of Kong. Superbad. Sicko! Paris Je T'aime. Knocked Up. Hot Fuzz. The Host. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Notes on a Scandal. Babel. Children of Men. The Big Lebowski. Ghostbusters! Borat! The Science of Sleep. A Scanner Darkly. The Illusionist. Barry Lyndon. Liquid Sky. Fire and Ice. Light Years. Hi/Lo. Punch Drunk Love. Pride and Prejudice. Love and Death. Annie Hall. The Conversation. Ordet. Il Gattopardo. The Jerk. Miyazaki, Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, Ridley Scott, Stanley Kubrick, and Coen Brothers films

Television:

Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping up Appearances, As Time Goes By, Turner Classic Movies, YouTube(?!), The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Thundercats, Belle and Sebastian, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Good Job, Sealab 2021, Harvey Birdman, Inuyasha, Shin-chan, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Futurama, South Park, Family Guy, MST3K.

Books:

Does Wikipedia count? No? Damn. It should! The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Tristram Shandy. Conan. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Don Quijote. Cerebus. Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road. Alan Davis comics. Douglas Adams books. P.G. Wodehouse books. William Gibson books. Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth. L'Etranger. Understanding Comics. Chris Crawford on Game Design. Calvin and Hobbes. The Far Side. Great Expectations. Crito, Phaedo, and Apology by Plato.

Heroes:

Dad, Mad Max, Han Solo, Cerebus the Aardvark, Soundwave, Alan Davis, Mendoza, Paul Pena, Peter Sallis

My Blog

How to beat me at Scrabble, part 1 of >1

I've decided to copy/paste a note (and then slightly edit) I just sent a friend a few minutes ago... enjoy :) ... "OK... the extent of my Scrabble (or Scrabulous, for you Facebook users) prowess...
Posted by Lucien Provencher on Thu, 15 May 2008 08:50:00 PST

A New Way to Pee

Got my Budgie comin’ out the hard drive. I highly recommend this prolific, veteran Welsh rock group of the 70s, if you have never heard them.  Much of them can be found on MySpac...
Posted by Lucien Provencher on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:08:00 PST

In Like a Lion

Hey Y’all! What’s up? Life is going fairly OK, hope it is with you. Let’s see, what all has been going on. A few weeks ago I finally decided what career I want to pursue. In fact, a...
Posted by Lucien Provencher on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:17:00 PST

Fuel

Given an evening, I could name 100 books I’d like to read. Given another, 100 films, and another, 20 TV series on DVD. Film and TV are the most fun with a group, but slightly depressing when co...
Posted by Lucien Provencher on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:52:00 PST

The Dating Persona Test

.. using in-line styles for the paste into blog stuff --> The Slow Dancer Deliberate Gentle Love Dreamer (DGLD) ..t-->Steady, reliable, and cradling her tenderly. Take a deep breath, and let it ...
Posted by Lucien Provencher on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:50:00 PST

Winter

What a weird winter. School goes slowly along.  I lurk to and fro in the halls, essentially aimless.  My amorphous projects overwhelming me with their fuzzy vagueness.  My abi...
Posted by Lucien Provencher on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:14:00 PST

my fall thus far

hi everyone! i hope you are all enjoying your annual-gift-man season as much as i.  just tuesday, i had the final meeting of the semester with bryan laffitte, my professor, who is the department ...
Posted by Lucien Provencher on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:57:00 PST

the lucien handbook

TEN things you wish you could say to TEN different people right now:1. wish i'd known you were that shallow six months ago.2. don't be pissed, we tried, we failed... nobody fucked up3. i felt a littl...
Posted by Lucien Provencher on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:03:00 PST

scumbag... L0Lz0r

..t-->Your Score../t-->: Scumbag- ENFP53% Extraversion, 86% Intuition, 26% Thinking, 33% JudgingI have a feeling you're not going to like this much. Do I care? No. How do I know? It's because you hate...
Posted by Lucien Provencher on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:08:00 PST

holy shit i found a 500 question survey... here it is

Ok you'll never want or need to know anything more..because this is all there is. 1.What time is it? 12:30 AM Personal 2.Do you want to answer these? uh, yeah, heheheh uh sorta 3.Name? Lucien4.Name s...
Posted by Lucien Provencher on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:57:00 PST