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ras aaron

aaronmarkburtch

About Me

sleep is for the weak.

My Interests

first and foremost i like to talk to and spend time with heaven. we help each other out with a lot of stuff...after that, i like painting and arting of different sorts, fishing for bass and letting them go, skateboarding, gardening, working, not working, the hrv, the mountains, the sea, the air, the trees, gardening, landscaping, collecting every tool known to man (and using them), chainsawing, and my danner workboots.

Music:

HOME. bad brains, virgil shaw and deiselhed, elliott smith, neil young, merle haggard, led zeppelin, rush, fruit bats, t.s.o.o.l., dios malos, built like alaska, journey, suicidal tendencies (just that first record...soooo good), paul simon, black uhuru, komeda, the band, waylon jennings, howe gelb and giant sand, lefty frizzel, black flag, leels, ween, the SFA, beck, jimmy winchell, neko case (sigh), iron maiden, ELO, 100% storms ensemble, pink floyd, stevie wonder, moe bandy, bright eyes, built like alaska, bob marley and them wailers, woodie guthrie, ray price, slayer, eric satie, talk talk, neil finn, kris, wilco, hank williams, the cars, thelonius monk, robert johnson, slim whitman, earlimart, bjork, goldcard, fIREHOSE, america, loretta lynn, trans am, buck owens, barry manilow, howlin' wolf, dwight yoakam, radar brothers, bee gees, willie, ludwig v.b., thin lizzy, glen campbell, black sabbath, old, old motley crue, sparklehorse, public enemy, little wings, bowie, the elvises (presley and costello), old van halen, pavement, roy orbison, bob dylan, bobby bare, fu manchu, george jones, lots of other stuff. you know, party tunes.

Movies:

THE UNFORGIVEN is probably my favorite...but i like spike jonze, paul thomas anderson, wes anderson, all 6 rockys, fast times at ridgemont high, anything with rodney dangerfield or will ferrel, in the realms of the unreal, coen brothers, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, american graffitti, vanilla sky, groundhog day, close encounters, errol morris, how to draw a bunny, the cable guy, ghost dog, dead man, all the BIG BROTHER videos, treasure of the sierra madre, big wednesday, dogtown and z-boys, the dc video, yeah right (the last girl video), hud, the last picture show, cool hand luke, the godfather 1 & 2, the outsiders, the king of comedy.........i haven't seen very many newer movies unfortunately.

Television:

project runway is my favorite television show. also on the list is: ultimate fighting, top chef, the funny animals show, south park, daily show and colbert report....

Books:

my favorite books are by john steinbeck and larry mcmurtry... i also dig john irving, BIG BROTHER MAGAZINE (not exactly a book, but when you pile a lot of them on top of each other, it's sort of book-like. and the writing was really good), the painted bird, my name is asher lev, alive, jon krakauer, geek love, jack london, farenheit 451, ishi, vonnegut.......

Heroes:

the HRV. also known as heaven.

My Blog

one last crash

except for the lone ranger, evel was my hero growing up in the '70s...an amalgamation of muhammed ali, clint eastwood and superman....a total package. he was an unapologetic asshole yet he was complet...
Posted by ras aaron on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:15:00 PST

those holes wont dig themselves, boy

so. it had been a long time since i had read a book. embarrassingly long. guess i'm making up for it right now...i've been reading every chance i get, pretty much. 5 1/2 books in 2 weeks...i'm wadin...
Posted by ras aaron on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:14:00 PST

how i spent my summer vacation

so here's some of the construction stuff i've had to do in order to keep our house from falling down. it's not done yet, but it's getting there. feel like i've been working on it forever. ...
Posted by ras aaron on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:47:00 PST

thanks. thanks alot.

i had a great time at the harmony gallery show. i don't really like art openings, especially if it's mine, and i did what i usually do. drink beer on the sidewalk in front and forget why i'm there. bu...
Posted by ras aaron on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:20:00 PST

what does LBC stand for?

chronological order show #1show #2...
Posted by ras aaron on Wed, 30 May 2007 01:24:00 PST

good luck on the cinco de mayo

the freeway's melted, but there's still ways to get to the city. especially if you are drunken and creative. try it this saturday....
Posted by ras aaron on Wed, 02 May 2007 12:50:00 PST

bugs

so i've been real busy. lots of work got done in the past few weeks. but i've been not keeping up with my emails very well. it bugs me when i have a lot of unreplied-to emails in my inbox. i feel like...
Posted by ras aaron on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:45:00 PST

line dancing is stupid

so we played at the oakdale rodeo dance last weekend. it ruled and i only want to play rodeo dances forever. saturday we're at the cow track with some other guys who have banjos in their bands. cha...
Posted by ras aaron on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:23:00 PST

(f)art show

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Posted by ras aaron on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:20:00 PST

i messed with texas a li'l bit

so not only did the shaws and the penns respectively have baby boys recently, but my good buddy and ex-grandaddy sound engineer neal and his wife clair had a big ol' boy too. his name's alfie. i kn...
Posted by ras aaron on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:03:00 PST