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Staralfur

sugar is the gateway drug

About Me

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My Interests

reading, writing, DVD's, shows, give me shows to watch and i'm good. nesting. making art.

I'd like to meet:

NO!

Music:

Sigur Ros, Jeff Buckley, Tori Amos, Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Bjork, Fairport Convention, The Waterboys, Richard Thompson, Billy Bragg, Arrogant Worms, TMBG, Jump Little Children, Orbital, Paul van Dyk, Rasputina, Hill Valley Preservation Society, Ray Lamontange, Robyn Hitchcock, Sun Kil Moon, Van Morrison, Architecture in Helsinki, Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Sarah McLaughlin, Air, Aquabats, King Missle, A Perfect Circle, Donovan, Colin Hay, Hooverphonic, The Dresden Dolls, Psychedelic Furs, Goldfrapp, The Serotonins, Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, Bob Marley, The Postal Service, Jeff Black, Infected Mushroom, Deadsy, The Killers, The Sundays, Van Morrison, Remy Zero, Thievery Corporation, Chemical Brothers, Juliana Hatfield, Beth Hart, The Moldy Peaches, Andrew Bird, Electric Six, The Chieftans, Incredible String Band, Loreena McKennit, Travis, The Darkness, VNV Nation, The Changelings, Medieval Baebes, Ween, Oysterhead, Grateful Dead, The Beatles, The Byrds, Cream, Blindfaith, The Kinks, The Who, The Cranberries, etc, etc. i doubt a complete list will ever exist.

Movies:

Star Wars, LOTR, Team America, Legend, Master and Commander, Lagaan, Boondock Saints, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Amelie, Harvey, Chungking Express, Shoalin Soccer, Kung-Fu Hustle, Shaun of the Dead, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Princess Bride, High Fidelity, School of Rock, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Ran, Seven Samurai, Legend, Braveheart, Gladiator, Napoleon Dynamite, George Lucas in Love, The Life Aquatic, Swingers, Lost in Translation, Finding Nemo, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Strangelove, The Lion in Winter, anything with muppets, Kundun, Titus, Indiana Jones, Serenity, The Fountain, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, that movie from the internet with your mom in it. and god knows how many more are to come and how many i left off by mistake.

Television:

weeds, bbc america, DR. WHO!!!!, we have the soccer package now!, never seen lost and don't want to, intervention :(, other horribly invasive reality tv, VH1 soul, adult swim, the growing collection of awesome shows on dvd (firefly, arrested development, flight of the conchords, creature comforts, etc) etc.

Books:

i like them. i have a good amount of them. i don't feel like telling you about them. come over and have a look for yourself.

Heroes:

real people who kick ass at life. peter o'toole. peter gabriel.

My Blog

stuff in my ears

two bands. alike in dignity. the newish one: silversun pickups. they make me feel 10 years younger. into them so much right now, i'm probably making myself sick of them. the older one: spiritualized. ...
Posted by Staralfur on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:03:00 PST

Why Ive stopped drinking in Belgrade

hmm...well.BELGRADE, Serbia (Reuters) -- A 23-year old Serb was found dead and half-eaten in the bear cage of Belgrade Zoo at the weekend during the annual beer festival. The man was found naked, wit...
Posted by Staralfur on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:50:00 PST

More great songs

Woozy With CiderJames Yorkstonfrom the album "The Year of The Leopard"I couldn't find any sites that gave you lyrics without some advertisement attatched, so here's the music video. John sent me this ...
Posted by Staralfur on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:54:00 PST

What I'm listening to today

new institution on my blog. it acts as filler, i suppose, but i never really post anything. maybe that'll all change. here's the first song. Tropical Hot Dog NightCaptain Beefheart and The Magic Bandf...
Posted by Staralfur on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:49:00 PST

giving it a rest

this is my new thing. not making myself completely bat-shit insane with a plate that is way too full of bullshit i sign up to do out of some deeply rooted psychological feeling that i have to or no on...
Posted by Staralfur on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:13:00 PST

psychotropic drugs in amsterdam

http://www.wpr.org/book/060416a.html   click the little real player icon thingy. this interview is great. ...
Posted by Staralfur on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:08:00 PST

know what i hate?

desperate guys with their balls crammed into the bottom of their lazy gf's purses. that's what i hate. and alan thicke.   but otherwise, i'm super excited. we signed the lease this morning, and ...
Posted by Staralfur on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:38:00 PST

i've been getting this a lot lately....

please do not submit my car to "pimp my ride." they will destroy it. they will airbrush someone's idea of "art" on the side of it. they will put an LCD screen on the hood where the grill should b...
Posted by Staralfur on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:51:00 PST

my new acquisition

i picked it up yesterday. it's a 75, three years older than i originally posted (and thought.) it doesn't have the original round lights, so the front looks like a 78. but i love it. and it's glorious...
Posted by Staralfur on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:14:00 PST

my new car

well...it looks like this one. 1979 Volvo 245 DL station wagon. 178,000 miles, 4-speedand i love it.
Posted by Staralfur on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:55:00 PST