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Is Your Name 'Michael Diamond?' No, Mine's Clarence...

About Me


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    • My Interests

    Coffee. Cartoons. Cigars. Kungfu Cinema

    I'd like to meet:

    some animals

    Music:

    Blues: Robert Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, John Hammond, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Mississippi John Hurt, R.L. Burnside, Kings of Leon check out my pandora Jazz : Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Marian McPartland piano jazz, Getz & Gilberto, Paco De Lucia, John McLaughlin, Jaco Pastorius Experimental: Tom Waits, My friend Loren , Seu Jorge, Carlos Malta, O Brother Where Art Thou, Johnny Cash, Alan Lomax Field Recordings, Electronic: Unkle, DJ James Lavelle, Beastie Boys, Chemical Brothers, Sneaker Pimps, Crystal Method, Plump DJ's, Hyper, BLIM, Deep Dish, Dub Pistols

    Movies:

    Seven Samurai Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou O Brother Where Art Thou? Brazil 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea The Good The Bad & The Ugly The Prodigal Son

    Television:

    The MARKToon Network! Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Popeye The Sailor, Droopy Dog, Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Ren & Stimpy, Wallace & Grommit, Hong Kong Phooey, The Emperor's New Groove, Cars, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, Toy Story, Alice In Wonderland, Robin Hood, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab2021, Harvey Birdman, The Brak Show, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Cowboy Bebop

    Books:

    Hemingway short stories, blues history, animation and illustration, tobacco history, general philosophy and some other stuff. I read the Scrabble dictionary in order to sharpen my playing skills.

    My Blog

    1hr radiolab: Memory & Forgetting

    Andrei Codrescu is awesome. Here he contributes a wonderful essay to this Radio Lab podcast. The program itself investigates how memories are formed, recreated, and how they can be destroyed. The show...
    Posted by mark on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:22:00 PST

    Mr Roger’s plays Donkey Kong

        Here is youtube of your favorite cardigan, mister rogers, playing donkey kong in the back of some shady pizza palace. its all fun and games until the video game technician...
    Posted by mark on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:33:00 PST

    NPR age

    The host of the NPR show Fresh Air today interviewed Dave Grohl of Nirvana/Foofighters. I have heard that when Terry Gross interviews you it shows that you have reached a place of respectable nat...
    Posted by mark on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:50:00 PST

    Vintage Cartoon Tuesday: Fox & Crow

    Here's an oldy, It's  "Punchy de Leon" where Fox and Crow are rivals who also assist each other with their exploration for the Fountain of Youth. This cartoon is worth watching just to see them r...
    Posted by mark on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:36:00 PST

    Seam Carving: gradient path image resizing

    seam carving article explains the technology and has some links.here is a demo of how it works:http://swieskowski.net/carve/tried shrinking this picture, no success yet......
    Posted by mark on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:45:00 PST

    whats been happening? Cartoon Friday!

    They might be giants puts out an animated music video that rules: "I'm Impressed" features Roman Robots, paper crafted stop-motion animation, gladiator death sequences, the UNYIELDING machines of WAR,...
    Posted by mark on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:24:00 PST

    Cartoon Thursday: Mama Don’t Like

    Mama Don't Allow No Guitar Playin In HereMama Don't Allow No Guitar Playin In Here,I Don't Care What Mama Don't Allow Gonna Play My Guitar Anyhow...Here it is, a crazy new cartoon from Ecuadorian Anim...
    Posted by mark on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:19:00 PST

    You Just Cant Beat A Dead Horse Story

    Recently i visited my family. my dad told me a funny story, it is a brief story about when he passed his neighbor's field on Friday and saw their horse was dead. He belabored the point a little bit an...
    Posted by mark on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:46:00 PST

    The Downside of the Onset

    There is a downside to the onset of a wicked sore throat, that is simply the aggravation having to gargle salt water. The upside is the white tea and ramen. And the other upside is this burlesque musi...
    Posted by mark on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:32:00 PST

    Dub Pistols

    Dub Pistols got something good on their newest album "speakers & tweeters"back in the day i had their cd "Point Blank" and a vinyll of the "Y4K Presents Dub Pistols"Everybody that loves the movies...
    Posted by mark on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:51:00 PST