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andi

and it was quite beautiful and it was far away 'cause everything beautiful is far away.

About Me

a valiant attempt to stay relevant.

My Interests

- communication
- human absurdity
- typewriters
- pitchfork_media
- blasphemy
- ironic detachment
- restraining orders
- sub_pop_records
- scotch-whiskey
- human empathy
- religious imagery
- sympathy_for_the
record_industry
- double / corner-cut vinyl
- ryan_russell_dot_net
- self-hatred
- southern literature
- the_bottletree
- beat poetry
- shock value
- the_onion
- antique calculators
- emotivity
- chemiKal_underground
records
- sigmund freud vs. c.s. lewis
- carl gustav jung vs. sigmund freud
- wrecords_by_monkey
- naptime
- rufus fancypants
- brooklyn, new york
- absolutely_kosher_
records
- conspiracy theories
- irony
- matador_records
- mental_floss
- chunklet_magazine
- beguiling syntax
- progression

I'd like to meet:

i miss my pookie.

Music:

an abbreviated list:

- melvins
- t.rex
- patrick wolf
- velvet underground
- wolf parade
- thin lizzy
- clap your hands say yeah
- television
- ween
- little jimmy scott
- coco rosie
- peter gabriel
- antony & the johnsons
- king crimson
- fiona apple
- edie sedgwick
- the cure
- black mountain
- siouxsie & the banshees
- david bowie
- iron maiden
- holly golightly
- wilco
- talking heads
- grandaddy
- today is the day
- frog eyes
- pj harvey
- half-handed cloud
- gogogo airheart
- mr. bungle
- sondre lerche
- deerhoof
- rush
- blondie
- peach
- the zombies
- destroyer
- pink floyd
- failure
- joni mitchell
- okkervil river
- simon & garfunkel
- dinosaur jr.
- buddy guy
- aaron copland
- goblin cock
- the sleepy jackson
- leonard cohen
- sleater-kinney
- queen
- opeth
- etta james
- steely dan
- the clash
- radiohead
- portishead
- mirah
- nancy sinatra
- isis
- aereogramme
- sonic youth
- delgados
- band of horses
- l'altra
- nouvelle vague
- travis
- porcupine tree
- the music
- edith piaf
- sigur ros
- mudhoney
- pavement
- spoon

Movies:

- the corporation
- manufacturing consent
- how to draw a bunny
- power & terror
- mayor of sunset strip
- control room
- pie in the sky
- the question of god
- case for conspiracy
- what happened to kerouac?
- the elegant universe
- i am trying to break your heart

Television:

- arrested development
- the colbert report
- extras
- mr_show
- southpark
- the office
- curb your enthusiasm
- the daily show

Books:

- anatole broyard
- flannery o'connor
- jack kerouac
- harper lee
- john barth
- william faulkner
- john kennedy toole
- carl gustav jung
- kurt vonnegut
- lawrence ferlinghetti
- tennessee williams
- walker percy
- charles bukowski

Heroes:

- bill_hicks
- noam_chomsky
- howard_zinn

My Blog

the god delusion.

We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common we call them 'religious'; otherwise, they are likely to be called '...
Posted by andi on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:26:00 PST

poorly written discourse!

    Another night of tears, overwhelming fears, tossing in bed, restless in the thought of you. Getting out of bed, I look in the mirror, mind fuzzed by too much hot rum (to try to slee...
Posted by andi on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:00:00 PST

in golden gate park that day.

In Golden Gate Park that day a man and his wife were coming along thru the enourmous meadow which was the meadow of the worldHe was wearing green susp...
Posted by andi on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:40:00 PST

the shit list.

coming soon!
Posted by andi on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:58:00 PST

wake up, america.

Howard Zinn:In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved and seemingly happy?I am totally ...
Posted by andi on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:09:00 PST

aesthetic.

simple, thoughtful, aurally inviting.this is probably my favorite music video.grandaddy- jed's other poem (beautiful ground) ...
Posted by andi on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:42:00 PST

indecisive of your political stance?

NOT ANYMORE! ...
Posted by andi on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:51:00 PST

no, really, shut the fuck up.

it's inclusive- the reasoning behind my quarter-life crisis is finally free of ambiguity. sequential to my pursuit, i have come to the conclusion that it's because of the puerility of most of the "twe...
Posted by andi on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:05:00 PST

amusing ourselves to death.

... you may get a sense of what is meant by context-free information by asking yourself the following question: How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or...
Posted by andi on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:07:00 PST

a man without a country.

I am one America's great lakes people, her freshwater people, not an OCEANIC, but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup. Like me, many Am...
Posted by andi on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:30:00 PST