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markwood

if ignorance is bliss, then that must make me a genius

About Me


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My Interests

the hardcore rock and roll, sketchbooks comicbooks zinebooks non-fictionbooks fictionbooks artbooks, writing stuff down, skateboardplay, mixtapes, d.i.y, rickenbackers and gibsons, bicycles, videogames, football (= soccer, not american football), arsenal f.c., people watching, used record stores, (the futility/novelty of) skirt-chasing, arguing politics, zombies

I'd like to meet:

nerds.
sharkfuckers.
people i can learn from.
punks with grey hairs.
football hooligans.
the musically critical.
seattle people offended by the label "metronatural".
a woman with her shit together interested in being my girl.

Music:

aesop rock, at the drive-in, at the gates, battles, ben folds, bonobo, the bronx, by the grace of god, cap'n jazz, converge, deadguy, descendents, don caballero, elliott smith, engine down, envy, farside, the fire theft, frail, from ashes rise, the fucking champs, fugazi, gorilla biscuits, the haunted, husker du, idlewild, ink & dagger, iron & wine, isis, jawbreaker, kerosene 454, kid dynamite, lifetime, minor threat, mogwai, pelican, peter gabriel, q and not u, quicksand, ratatat, refused, rival schools, shotmaker, slayer, sugar, sunny day real estate, ted leo & the pharmacists, with honor
lately: armalite, the appleseed cast, clouds, drunken boat, four tet, himsa, oxes, play pretty for baby, rocky votolato, there were wires, zozobra

Movies:

pretty much anything with john cusack, audrey hepburn, godzilla, subtitles, or "-of the dead" in the title.
the goonies, repo man, mallrats, buckaroo banzai, fugazi's instrument, trust, henry fool, the seven samurai, better off dead, high fidelity, grosse point blank, x-men 1+2, spider-man 1+2, the gate 1+2, lone wolf mcquade, chungking express, the limey, lock stock & two smoking barrels, lord of the rings trilogy, godzilla: final wars, old boy, 2046, akira, some kind of wonderful, amelie, delicatessen, the last dragon, all the real girls, fallen angels, uhf.
lately: children of men, 300, pump up the volume, the prestige, primer.

Television:

night court.

Books:

book books: the diamond age, neuromancer, cryptonomicon, snow crash, me talk pretty one day, our band could be your life, please kill me, about a boy, high fidelity, neverwhere, ender's game, wicked, monkey, disposable: a history of skateboard art, dungeons & dragons player's handbook v3.5, assorted crappy sci-fi paperbacks.
lately: fahrenheit 451, pattern recognition, quicksilver (…still).
comic books: v for vendetta, appleseed, akira, dark knight returns, powers, kabuki, popbot, channel zero, battle angel alita, watchmen, hard boiled, hellboy, grendel, blue monday, jimmy corrigan, ex machina, astonishing x-men, daredevil, queen and country, black and white, shaolin cowboy, the walking dead, 100%, the invisibles, sharknife, scott pilgrim, x-factor.
lately: desolation jones, the boys, the pirates of coney island.

Heroes:

me mum and da'. dudek. godzilla. fugazi. geof darrow. david mack. sam flores. paul pope.

My Blog

aesop rock at the capitol hill block party 07

interestingly, my first day in seattle last year was also the capitol hill block party, where they close off a few blocks on the hill and have a big stage for music and a bunch of booths for local bus...
Posted by markwood on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:31:00 PST

What I Did On My Summer Vacation. 2007 Edition.

What I Did On My Summer Vacation              by mark lazar wood PROLOGUE so seth got into crazy free engineering school in norway, which you...
Posted by markwood on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:52:00 PST

standard blog update.

i have once again achieved fame for my work in the games industry: the other day i got a myspace message from "duvainwen" saying, "Hi you came up in a search for Lord of the Rings online... are you be...
Posted by markwood on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:44:00 PST

four shorts (foreshortening).

bus story number one (file:BS#01)a slightly overweight kid roughly my age sits down next to me as i am coming home from greenwood, where i'd just met up with levi to give him my house keys so he can f...
Posted by markwood on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:03:00 PST

converge, a decade later.

so i just saw converge play for the first time in almost precisely ten years, and it was really odd on a lot of levels. it's been ten years since i fell out with most of my old m.v.h.c. friends, and m...
Posted by markwood on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:15:00 PST

THE(B)2K6: act I

TRANSCONTINENTAL HANGOUT EXPLOSION (BATTLE) 2006of the many things i don't like about my job, the fact that i only really have time to take one proper vacation a year is definitely on the list. high p...
Posted by markwood on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:00:00 PST

THE(B)2K6: act II

 TRANSCONTINENTAL HANGOUT EXPLOSION (BATTLE) 2006ACT TWO : LOS ANGELESwed. 5.10.06 - CHICAGO TO LAkristie drops me off at el' on her way to work and i thank her for the hospitality and shit like ...
Posted by markwood on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:00:00 PST

THE(B)2K6: act III

TRANSCONTINENTAL HANGOUT EXPLOSION (BATTLE) 2006ACT THREE : SAN FRANCISCOsat. 5.13.06 - SFthenna and i are up fairly early (this is partly due to the huge bank of windows behind the couch, letting in ...
Posted by markwood on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 10:59:00 PST

THE(B)2K6: act IV

TRANSCONTINENTAL HANGOUT EXPLOSION (BATTLE) 2006ACT FOUR : SEATTLEwed. 5.17.06 - SEATTLEthings i didn't notice at night coming in: scott's condo is right next door to a middle school. i wake up around...
Posted by markwood on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 10:59:00 PST

valentine's day, for the rest of us.

i feel kind of obligated to write something every valentine's day, as i am, for many of you, your most bitter single friend, and also the most verbose. but let me clarify that a little bit: i am bitte...
Posted by markwood on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:45:00 PST