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Boyd

same tired face, same uninspired place.

About Me

i love what i do for a living. i just hate who i do it for.

i think sushi should be an everyday meal. as a matter of fact, i think i'm going to go get some spicy salmon rolls now.

three knee surgeries is enough, thank you.

My Interests

saying what i mean and meaning what i say. taking naps. fishing. summertime. boddington's pub ale. c & c drums. fender american standard telecaster guitars. fender american standard jazz basses. lucky brand jeans. stupid t-shirts. solid color t-shirts. not seeing new movies. hockey fights. electricity. adidas shoes. doc marten casuals. books. sea fox 210 boats with 150 hp mercury motors. being sardonic/sarcastic. being cantankerous. expecting the worst. pleasant suprises. seafood. shitty detroit bars. shitty chicago neighborhood pubs. south street in philadelphia. mission beach in san diego. driving from tucson to phoenix and back. good food in unexpected places. good company. flirting that you don't catch until later on. being clueless. brain farts. girls in overalls. NHD's. (only josh will get this or maybe emike if he remembers). being in a band and not wanting to be a rockstar. the way you feel after you just kicked the shit out of your drumset after a good show. petting monkey (my cat you pervy's). not putting in 60 hour workweeks. not having knee surgeries. getting a good night of sleep. having a "stupid" sense of humor. calling you out. ending everything i type with cheers. cheers.

I'd like to meet:

Animal Chin

Music:

smashing pumpkins, dinosaur jr, fugazi, mudhoney, afghan whigs, the who, led zeppelin, vanhalen (not vanhagar), descendents, sloan, quicksand, bloc party, jimmy eat world, the get up kids, grade, the weakerthans, death cab for cutie, the postal service, the cult, nirvana, soundgarden, sonic youth, sunny day real estate, slayer, anthrax, death angel, old metallica, john coltrane, buffalo tom, the pixies, screaming trees, monster magnet, jimi hendrix, sugar, the posies, sonic youth, dead kennedy's, black flag, hoodoo gurus, tribe called quest, nwa, ride, my bloody valentine, 80's electronica.

Movies:

star wars: a new hope, star wars: the empire strikes back, star wars: return of the jedi, goodfellas, anything with godzilla, the dark crystal, the royal tenenbaums, lost in translation, decline of western civilization: the punk years, band of brothers and the porn with your mom in it.

Television:

the history channel, the discovery channel, hockey night in canada, the simpsons, seinfeld, all in the family, what's happenin', the a-team, bj and the bear, dukes of hazzard, battlestar galactica, buck rogers in the 25th century, the weather channel. have you seen the national geographic channel in 1080p high definition? wow.

Books:

coupland, palahniuk, king, barker, kafka, the lord of the rings, delmar's standard textbook of electricity, anything star wars, 1984, there's a nightmare in my closet by mercer mayer, where the wild things are or any sendak, slaughterhouse five by vonnegut, the feast of love by charles baxter, frankenstein by mary shelley, the catcher in the rye and finally, cornholing for dummies.

Heroes:

this is the u.s.s. ancon on june 6, 1944 off the beach at normandy. my grandfather was on this boat.

My Blog

hey bub, can you help a fellow american down on his luck?

as a matter of fact, i can. i just heard through the grapevine last night that united states steel is going to be hiring like crazy in the next few months. it starts around 16 something an hour, but y...
Posted by Boyd on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:47:00 PST

what comes around, goes around

in the past few weeks i have made an obsevation. this new "emo", this crap they play on the radio, is nothing short of hair metal ballads. is this the record companies hoodwinking us into believing th...
Posted by Boyd on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:54:00 PST

maybe im slightly retarded

but the national weather service says the high is going to be 37° F and the low is going to be 41°F. can someone help me with this?come to my band's show wednesday or i'll sic a rabid groundhog on you...
Posted by Boyd on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:50:00 PST

badly grown beards are the new black

so, on saturday, i recieved a check from mclouth steel. if you know anything about this area, mclouth steel was a major employer that closed it's doors in 1996. i got the check because of some class a...
Posted by Boyd on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:59:00 PST

a new year, a new beginning

tonight will be my last night on zug island. i'm having very mixed feelings about it. it's dirty, it smells, the management there sucks, but the people i work with are good people. it's where i've lea...
Posted by Boyd on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:59:00 PST

news flash!

it's fucking cold outside. ok, back to work.
Posted by Boyd on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:16:00 PST

something i learned today

when you wake up at 3pm after a midnight shift and you're hungry, it's ok to have a banana as a snack. what's not ok, is to wash that banana down with the lo carb monster energy drink. it tastes worse...
Posted by Boyd on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:51:00 PST

im writing my dream down so i dont forget

my dreams of late have been very vivid and somewhat bizarre. the first part of my dream last night:imagine an older neighborhood. when you turn off a main road, the house is about half way down the st...
Posted by Boyd on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:52:00 PST

somebody call an electrician!

i decided to join the ymca. this is my mid-life crisis. i'll be 35 in two effing weeks and i don't want to go out at 42 like my grandfather did. so, this morning after i got out of work, i went to the...
Posted by Boyd on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:19:00 PST

if the moon was made of spare ribs, would you eat it?

i got to watch the entire lunar eclipse last night. that's the only bonus i've ever had to working a midnight shift. yep.
Posted by Boyd on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:29:00 PST