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About Me

uum, i read and write (relapsed english major). recovering vegatarian. Dirtfag. i cut my own hair. i'm finally done with school. i'm also a manager at The Parkway Theater in Oakland. i'm realistic to a fault; which is difficult. things are ok right now, and i intend to keep them that way for as long as i can.

My Interests

Winona Ryder; mix tapes; writing; bicycles; movies; gin; my parrot Hastings; metering lights; solitude; the "postmodern condition"; books on tape; handjobs; meeting new people; good live music; road trips; burritos; gender fuckers; karaoke; people watching; vista points....

I'd like to meet:

You don't necessarily have to know what you want, but at least have some idea as to who you are.....Other dirtfags who know how to drink, pound and play air hockey (though not necessarily in that order)..... folks with life experience under their belts but who aren't total burnouts, I'm fucking sick of burnouts...... doer's and thinkers alike.....people with library cards.....people who can recognize their own flaws and grow to love and learn from them.....

Music:

Patti Smith; Yo La Tengo; Belle and Sebastian; Xiu Xiu; The Pixies; PJ Harvey; Heart; Little Wings; The Talking Heads; Journey; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; Liz Phair; Tom Waits; The New Pornographers; The Knife; M. Ward; Sleater-Kinney; Antony and the Johnsons; Nina Simone; The Microphones; Pulp; Lucinda Williams; M.I.A.; Elastica; Arcade Fire; Hole; Cat Power; Tracy + the Plastics; Prince; Wolfparade; The Velvet Underground; The Go! Team; The Concretes; Rufus Wainwright; The Magnetic Fields; The Cure.....

Movies:

Kurt & Courtney; BRICK; Shortbus; Three Dancing Slaves; Hard Candy; The Dying Gaul; High Art; Children of Paradise; The English Patient; disturbing french movies that blur the lines between violence and sex (usually involving Isabelle Huppert); The Chumscrubber; My Own Private Idaho; Happy Together; In the Mood for Love; 2046; Fallen Angels; ZOMBIE MOVIES!!!; P.T. Anderson; My Beautiful Launderette; Happy Endings; Prick up your Ears; Francois Ozon; Mid-90's romantic comedies; Peter Greenaway; Beyond the Valley of the Dolls; anything Almodovar; Demonlover; movies based on plays; Reality Bites; Tarnation.....oh, and porn.

Television:

PRIME SUPECT 1 through 7; Six Feet Under; The L Word; Strangers with Candy; Ab Fab; Big Love; Sex and the City; Kids in the Hall; Dave Chapelle; Reno 911!; WEEDS!!; Grey's Anatomy; Nip/Tuck; Dexter.

Books:

My Mother; Summer Blonde; I Like You, Hospitality Under The Infulence; The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Less than Zero; Rules of Attraction; Crash; The Sluts; Frisk (Dennis Cooper is one crazy queen); The Virgin Suicides; The Known World; Still Life with Woodpecker; The Sirens of Titan; White Teeth; The Autograph Man; On Beauty; Dirty Weekend, a novel of revenge; The Book of Joe; Truman Capote; Women in Love; Dry; Magical Thinking; The Buddha of Surburbia; Barrell Fever; The Laramie Project (the play); Edith's Diary; Orlando....I like to read when I have the chance....

Heroes:

I wish I could have slept with Fassbinder. Patti Smith, Marge Piercy (the poet), I'm really getting into Patricia Highsmith; Nick Cave, Amy Sedaris (i know she's cliche).........my (good) friends.

My Blog

What i learned in 2005

What i learned in 2005....... No matter where you live, aspects of it are going to suck and aspects of it are going to be great. There is no such thing as the "perfect" job, living situation or rela...
Posted by ian on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:25:00 PST

the gayest thing i've done in a while.....no, not that.

You should have seen me yesterday afternoon. it was intense. i wasn't sure what i was getting myself into when i went to Bed Bath and Beyond, but it was more than i bargained for. i know what your th...
Posted by ian on Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:38:00 PST

insomnia and the ensueing irritability

so, i'm getting tired of this shit. it's been 5 weeks since my ankle got mangled, and i still have 4 days until the cast comes off....and i can't sleep. this form of insomnia isn't induced from partyi...
Posted by ian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

so, uum. i'm back

yeah, that's about it. i'm not sure how i feel about it yet (being a resident of california again), but i'm sure it will turn out fine. i already miss portland, and those incredible folks that i met w...
Posted by ian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST