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About Me

What I lack in hygiene I make up in abrasiveness

My Interests

movies, books, music, spelunking, krav maga, crochet, shiny objects, funny hats, dancing monkeys

Music:

Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, 13th Floor Elevators, The Dirtbombs, Sam Cooke, Radiohead, Rolling Stones, The Who, Dan Sartain, Miles Davis, The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Talking Heads, David Bowie

Movies:

Brazil, Once Upon a Time in the West, Pulp Fiction, The Girl on the Bridge, Glengarry Glen Ross, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, Amelie, Annie Hall, Evil Dead 2, Suspiria, The Big Lebowski, Wonder Boys, The Princess Bride, The Professional, Before Sunrise, The Third Man, Touch of Evil, Dawn of the Dead, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Chungking Express, Hail the Conquering Hero, Nashville, Donnie Darko, Rio Bravo, Assault on Precinct 13, Aliens, True Romance, Rushmore, Fight Club, Brick, Serenity, Sin City, Vertigo, Die Hard

Television:

Lost, Arrested Development, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars, Life on Mars, Deadwood, 24, Sports Night, Homicide: Life on the Street, Twin Peaks, Heroes, Spaced, Cowboy Bebop, The Shield, The State, The Mighty Boosh, The Venture Bros., Scrubs, Wonderfalls, Ed, Doctor Who, The Prisoner, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Office, Pushing Daisies, Dexter, Chuck

Books:

Michael Chabon, Harlan Ellison, James Joyce, Stephen King, Lawrence Block, Gerald Kersh, Alan Moore, Elmore Leonard, John McPhee, Richard Russo. I'm currently reading "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling and "A Walk Among the Tombstones" by Lawrence Block.

Heroes:

Batman, Bruce Campbell, Jeff Goldblum, James Woods

My Blog

favorite movie moments

A website I read has proclaimed today (or yesterday, now) to be the Hey Internet, Stop Being Such a Cynical Fucking Douchebag Day, in which one writes about things about movies that they love. So...
Posted by Carey on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:38:00 PST

fourth of july

Day 31--Rapid City, Mt. Rushmore, Minneapolis--7426 miles Woke up and went down to Mt. Rushmore. There are a lot of amusing little tourist traps between Rapid City and Mt. Rushmore--mini golf, water p...
Posted by Carey on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:53:00 PST

thin blue line

Day 30--Greybull, WY to Rapid City, SD--6793 miles Luckily, the cabin was too uncomfortable to sleep well, so I got an early start. I tried to take this little country road to save some time, but this...
Posted by Carey on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:58:00 PST

geysers are stinky

Day 29--Bozeman, Yellowstone, Greybull, WY--6450 miles driven It's good I didn't try to get to Yellowstone yesterday, because I spent nine hours there. The park itself is bigger than Delaware. I drove...
Posted by Carey on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:07:00 PST

gods country

Day 28--Missoula to Bozeman--6107 miles driven Time had a way of slowing down and speeding up at the same time on my trip. On this day, for example, it sure seemed like longer than 10 days since I'd b...
Posted by Carey on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:15:00 PST

going to the sun

Day 27--Spokane, Glacier National Park, Missoula, MT--5897 miles driven I got on the road, headed for Glacier National Park in northwest Montana. I had to drive through the neck of Idaho to get there....
Posted by Carey on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:49:00 PST

high tide

Day 26--Seattle to Spokane--5418 miles driven I was halfway through with my trip. The seafood restaurant the night before, on the west bank of the Puget Sound, was the furthest away from home I was go...
Posted by Carey on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:35:00 PST

raindrops keep falling on my head

Day 25--Seattle Kevin showed me around a bit of Seattle today. First, we drove down to Seattle's City Center, which is a big complex that has the Space Needle, Key Arena, an amusement park for kids, a...
Posted by Carey on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:01:00 PST

dutch treat

Day 24--Portland to Seattle--5070 miles I got up and checked out of the motel, then drove downtown. Portland is a great town, with a nice public transportation system, but its freeways suck. It was su...
Posted by Carey on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:16:00 PST

the snow was outrageous

Day 23--Bandon, Crater Lake, Portland--4874 miles driven I woke up early today, thanks to Aunt Maxine. She made me a nice breakfast--eggs, bacon, even hot chocolate. I finished packing, and we said ou...
Posted by Carey on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:05:00 PST