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the stray

Life sucks, that's your lesson, go enjoy it.

About Me

I'm just some guy. You'll either love me, or hate me... or some other 3rd feeling, or maybe you'll be indifferent to me. I don't know. I'm really cool on the internet; all full of wit and charm, but in real life I'm a fucking loser. A very funny likable loser though.

I like to do this kind of stuff on my spare time:



I make music on my computer, I have a myspace for that, click on the picture below, you know, if you care...

My Interests

To be honest; mostly I like boobs, they're my favorite. Some other things I also really love are animation, humor, art, creating, philosophy, words, comics, sleeping, eating, cheese, meat.

Oh, I almost forgot, I also like my family and friends.

I'd like to meet:

People who I wont hate.

Music:

The Color Turning is my favorite band, check them out:

No, I'm completely serious, check them out. You will love it, and if you don't... oh well, just die or something.

STRAY'S AWESOME MUSIC PLAYER THINGAMAJIGGY

This Weeks Playlist:

the most serene republic - proposition 61
asa chang - hana
kiss my aesthetic - see ya later, respirator
son, ambulance - maria in motion
elliott yamin - moody's mood for love
hanne hukkelberg - cast anchor
the color turning - slow as passing cars
asphalt thieves - believing in knives
menomena! - e. is stable
apostle of hustle - baby you're in luck

Some stuff I listen to off the top of my head.. In alphabetical order of course.

[a] Ad Astra Per Aspera, Aesop Rock, Aiden Hawken, THE ALBUM LEAF, AL GREEN, The Album Leaf, All-time Quarterback, Amina, Anathallo, Ani DiFranco, Animal Collective, The Anniversary, Antibalas, Anticon, Antonelli, A Perfect Circle, Apostle of Hustle, Aqualung, Arcade Fire, Art Class Model, The Asphalt Thieves, Atmosphere, AT THE DRIVE-IN, Azure Ray

[b] Be Your Own Pet, Beastie Boys, Beck, Bedhead, Ben Gibbard, Ben Lee, Bill Withers, Bjork, Blackstar, Blindside, BLONDE REDHEAD, THE BLOOD BROTHERS, Boards of Canada, Bob Marley, Brandtson, Breakbeat Era, Broken Social Scene, The Bronx, Bullet Train To Vegas

[c] Can, Caribou, Cary Brothers, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Cass McCombs, Cat Power, Celebration, The Chap, Chico Buarque, Chk Chk Chk (!!!), The Cinema Eye, cLOUDDEAD, Coco Rosie, Coheed and Cambria, Colleen, Counterfit, Coldplay, THE COLOR TURNING, Copeland, Crime in Choir, Copeland, Culver, CURSIVE, Cut Copy

[d] Damien Rice, Dangermouse, Datarock, Dayone Symphony, De Facto, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979, Deftones, Del Ray, Department of Eagles, Devandra Banhart, Die Princess Die, Die Radio Die, DNtel, Donny Hathaway

[e] Eagles of Death Metal, The Eels, Efterklang, Eisley, Electric President, Elliott Yamin, Eniac, Ennio Morricone, Eskobar, Explosions in the Sky

[f] Face to Face, THE FAINT, Fall Of Troy, Fania All-Stars, Fela Kuti, Femme Fatale, Figurine, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS, Fourtet, Free Moral Agents, The French Kicks, Frou Frou, Fugazi

[g] The Get Up Kids, The Gingerbread Patriots, Girl Talk, Glassjaw, God Speed You Black Emperor, Gorillaz, THE GOSSIP, Grandaddy, Grizzly Bear, Gusgus, Guster

[h] Handsome Boy Modeling School, Hanne Hukkelberg, Har Mar Superstar, Head Automatica, Head Wound City, The Headphones, Heatwave, Hella, Hello Astronaut Goodbye Television, Hot Chip, Hot Hot Heat, Howlin' Wolf, Hum

[i] Imogen Heap, Inside Out, Incubus, Islands, Ithaca

[j] Jackson 5, Jaga Jazzist, JAMES BROWN, Jamie Lidell, Japanther, Jeff Buckley, Jessica Bailiff, The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Eat World, Joggers, John Mayer, Johnny Greenwood, Joss Stone, Junior Boys, Justin Timberlake

[k] Kaki King, Keepsake, Kill Radio, Kind Of Like Spitting, the Knife

[l] Ladies and Gentlemen, Lady Sovereign, Lali Puna, Lauryn Hill, LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin, Leningrad, Les Savy Fav, Le Tigre, Lightning Bolt, Little Brother, The Locust, Longwave, Loscil, The Love of Everything

[m] M83, Madlib, Maritime, Mark Kozelek, THE MARS VOLTA, May Pole, MELLOWDRONE, Menomena!, Mew, MF Doom, Mice Parade, Michael Jackson, Mirah, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Morrissey, MOS DEF, MOST SERENE REPUBLIC, Mstrkrft, Mum, My Morning Jacket

[n] The National, Neon Blonde, N.e.r.d, Noise Ratchet, NORAH JONES, Norma Jean, The Notwist, Nujabes, Null and Cross Bones

[o] The Octopus Project, O' Death My Child, Once Lost Pictures, One Line Drawing, Open:Hand, Oppressed by the Line, Orchestra Harlow, The Orchid, ORIS, Otis Redding, Out Hud, Outkast, Ozma

[p] Parliament Funkadelic, Paul Michel, Pavement, Pedro The Lion, Phoenix, Piano Magic, Pinback, Pivot, Pixies, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Plus/Minus, Polvo, Port-Royal, THE POSTAL SERVICE, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Prince, Professor Murder, The Promise Ring

[q] Q AND NOT U

[r] Radio 4, RADIOHEAD, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, Rahim, Rainer Maria, THE RAPTURE, Ratatat, The Redlight Sting, Red Stars Theory, REFUSED, Reggie and the Full Effect, Regina Spektor, RIVAL SCHOOLS, RJD2, Robin Thicke, The Robot Ate Me, Robots in Disguise, The Roots, Roulette

[s] Sade, Saves the Day, Saxon Shore, Serena Maneesh, Set Fire to Flames, Shellac, Shelma, The Shins, SIGUR ROS, A Silver Mt. Zion, Slagerij Van Kampen, Snake vs. Wizard, Sneaker Pimps, Snowden, Soft Machine, SO MANY DYNAMOS, SON AMBULANCE, Sondre Lerch, Son House, The Spinto Band, Spoon, Squarepusher, The Staircase Diaries, Stevie Wonder, Straylight Run, Styrofoam, Subtitle, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon, SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE, Swords

[t] Talib Kweli, Tapes N' Tapes, Team Sleep, Test Icicles, Thavius Beck, The Boy Least Likely Toy, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Thelonius Monk, Thom Yorke, Thousandaire, Thursday, Tool, Trans Am, Tujiko Noriko, Tycho

[u] Ulrich Scnhauss, Unbelievable Truth, old The Used, Utada Hikaru

[v] Vanity Kissed Vanity, Van Morrison, The Velvet Teen, Venetian Snares, VHS or BETA, Viva Voce, Voxtrot

[w] The Weakerthans, Weezer, White Light Riot, The White Stripes, Why?, Wilco

[x] Xiu Xiu (despite their sometimes graphic homoerotic lyrics)

[y] Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Year Future, Yo La Tengo

[z] ZACK DE LA ROCHA

Movies:

Little Miss Sunshine

The Golden Child

A Night at the Roxbury

Short Circuit

Big Trouble in Little China

Maverick

any old Jackie Chan movie

Cowboy Bebop The Movie

Teen Wolf

The Howling

Silver Bullet

The Lost Boys

Friday

Being John Malkovich

Of Mice and Men

Dancer in the Dark

Memento

Spider-Man 2

Adaptation

Lost In Translation

Forrest Gump

Raising Arizona

Raising Victor Vargas

Requiem for a Dream

28 Days Later

Hearts and Minds

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Eternal Sunshine, and most Jim Carey movies

The Animatrix

Ferris Buellers Day Off

Bill & Ted movies

The Princess Bride

The Incredibles

Crash (saw this recently, it was amazing)

The list is long, I love movies

Television:

A lot of people go around saying tv makes you stupid and all that yuppie b/s, but you know what? FUCK YOU, I love TV! For example:

Home Movies(favorite show EVER)

Late Night w/Conan O' Brien(other favorite show EVER)

Arrested Development (other other favorite show EVER)

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (other other other favorite show EVER)

Mr. Show

Dog Bites Man

Aquateen Hunger Force

King of the Hill

Monk

Scare Tactics

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Chappelle's Show

Da Ali G Show

Cowboy Bebop

Tom Goes to Mayor

The Venture Brothers

Avatar the Last Airbender

Samurai Champloo

Paranoia Agent

Jerry Springer

...y mas...

Books:

I love reading, a lot. A lot of the times I rather stay home and read a good book then go party, honestly...

-Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and all other books in that saga.

-Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky, and other stuff by him. I like books about politics in general.

-The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb. It's a book about western philosophy, I've only read halfway through it, but what I've read so far I like.

-The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie.

-The Wings of a Falcon by Cynthia Voigt.

-Unaccompanied Sonata by Orson Scott Card.

-Maps in a Mirror by Orson Scott Card.

Also really love comics and graphic novels, they're not just for kids ya know:

Spider-Man titles (my fave), Wolverine, most Marvel titles, The Watchmen (possibly the greatest book about costumed heroes, EVER), Shutterbug Follies, Fraction, Maus (great effing story), Ghost World, Kingdom Come, Transmetropolitan (Warren Ellis is a fucking amazing writer), Planetary (Warren Ellis again), lots of others but they're not coming to mind right now.

Go to your local library kids. Just once in a while. Once you read a good book you'll be hooked, I swear. There's nothing nerdy about reading. SO READ!!! GO READ DAMMITT!!!

p.s. don't JUST read the mainstream writers like; Chuck Palahniuk, Anne Rice, Edgar Allan Poe, Kurt Vonnegut, John Toole, Ralph Waldo Emmerson, George Orwell, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, etc etc. Not that there's anything wrong with them, but there are a lot of good writers out there who work really hard and write really really good stories that deserve not to be passed over. There's other things out there besides vampire novels and Harry Potter books.

Heroes:

Spider-Man, TCT, Brendon Small (both the character and the real guy), Cedric Bixler and Omar Rodriguez, Socrates, Noam Chomsky, Zack De La Rocha, Frank Dorrel (local activist), Satoshi Kon, Stan Lee, Miyazaki, John Romita Jr, Katsuhiro Otomo, Robert FUCKING DeNiro, Will Ferrell, Dane Cook, Spike Speigel, Dominique Purdy, many others...

My Blog

Breakin young girl's hearts since 1984

So I was sitting on the bus across from 3 teenage girls this afternoon. Unfortunately I look like a teenager myself I guess, so girls my own age rarely hit on me. This isn't verbatim but pretty close ...
Posted by the stray on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:59:00 PST

What I Listened To In 2006

The year is coming to an end, and you know what that means, time for people to make "year in review" blogs about whatever they were listening to or watching. I'm going to do that. What I listened to, ...
Posted by the stray on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:37:00 PST

"tolerable"

So today's question of the day in class was "What quality do you think the perfect girlfriend/boyfriend should have?" (our teacher asks us a question of the day when he takes the role, it's kind of co...
Posted by the stray on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:27:00 PST

Art: People Person

So I had to do a movie poster for a class. first I did a bunch of thumbnails for a poster based on a story I'm writing. I decided on this as my composition:the things coming from his head are supposse...
Posted by the stray on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:12:00 PST

art-blog: contrast finished

ContrastI could take these further, but I'm done with them for now, going to move on to some other stuff.heavy/lightopaque/transparentbig/smallrest/motionYeah- stray...
Posted by the stray on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:21:00 PST

art-blog: contrast

Here's stuff I'm working on for class. We have to do a series of pieces in photoshop illustrating 4 different types of contrast. Our choices are heavy/light, rest/motion, stable/unstable, big/small, o...
Posted by the stray on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:52:00 PST

I'm tired of this muthafuckin hype on this muthafuckin movie!

I laughed like everyone else when I found out months and months ago that there was a movie in the works called "Snakes On A Plane". I laughed even more when I heard Samuel L Jackson was going to star ...
Posted by the stray on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:47:00 PST

not so nice

Ya know... for the most part I try my best to be a nice person, but some fucking people... AARRGH! You'd think they're trying to get themselves punched in the throat or something. I try get along wit...
Posted by the stray on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:20:00 PST

The great thing about Me is...

that I suck, and nobody knows it. Even when I tell them, they don't believe me. They just say I'm too hard on myself or something. I'm never hard on myself, I'm just realistic. Others just can't see i...
Posted by the stray on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:20:00 PST

Why...

do people do such random pointless stupid things? And why the hell does it bother me so much? It bugs the hell out of me when people intentionally do things incorrectly, and then you ask them why they...
Posted by the stray on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:13:00 PST