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About Me

I love music.
I hope to one day write the great American novel.
I sucked my thumb until I was 12.
I love to make people laugh.
You would probably bore me.
If you jumped off a bridge, I would not join you.

My Interests

Music, Writing, Grammar, Sunshine, Live Music, Jameson Irish Whiskey, Caffiene, Painting, Reading, Biking, Museums, Sleeping, Air Conditioning, Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, Clever satire, Mascots, The New Yorker, and Driving w/the windows down. In that order.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who doesn't suck.
Anyone who has a mind of their own.

Music:

Kid Dakota
Atmosphere
P.O.S.
Pixies
The Hold Steady
Rage Against The Machine
Andrew Bird
MF DOOM
Lifter Puller
Radiohead
WU TANG
The Soviettes
Sage Francis
ATCQ
Morcheeba
The Roots
El-P
The Clash
Brother Ali
Sonic Youth
KRS-ONE
Haley Bonar
etc.

Movies:

South Park: Bigger, Longer,and Uncut
Se7en
Bamboozled
Kill Bill Vol 2
The Battle of Algiers
Natural Born Killers
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Children of Men
Vivre Sa Vie
Bullworth
City of God
American History X
Network
etc.

Television:

Arrested Development (RIP)
The Simpsons
Family Guy
House Hunters
Mythbusters
The Daily Show
South Park
Twin Peaks
How I Met Your Mother
The Colbert Report
Project Runway
etc.

Books:

Currently:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
All-Time:
Killing Yourself to Live
Freakonomics
On the Road
Bomb the Suburbs
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Fight Club
A People's History Of The United States
The Da Vinci Code
Dude, Where's My Country?
Never Drank The Kool-Aid
etc.

Heroes:

Having heroes really isn't my style.

My Blog

Woke Up This Morning

I. beep, Beep, BEEP& I wake this morning as I usually do, with a feeling of doom. Usually, this 'doom' is something trivial like my r...
Posted by Nick on Thu, 31 May 2007 06:43:00 PST

Food For Thought In Re: Virginia Tech Tragedy

As I am sure most of you have heard, a college student in Virginia carried out a terrible rampage yesterday. I would like to send my condolences to anyone personally affected by this tragedy. I find t...
Posted by Nick on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:50:00 PST

Replaced by a Chimp&

Anheuser-Busch (the company behind everyone's favorite beer, Bud Light) has launched its own website: www.bud.tv. This website, the New York Times reports: &n...
Posted by Nick on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:35:00 PST

Highhorseapalooza

This was my entry for this week's 'I'm From Rolling Stone' contest. They wanted three hundred words on what your ultimate music festival would be. I kind of flipped it a little... &nbs...
Posted by Nick on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:28:00 PST

Pitchfork, you lost me

This is a capsule review of a new album by the band Deerhunter: "This Atlanta five-piece's shimmering Kranky debut is alternately murky and ethereal, drawsing equal influence from classic shoegaze, ea...
Posted by Nick on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:08:00 PST

Wandering Through The Amazon

Yesterday, I was on Amazon.com trying to find an apparently rare Radiohead DVD that I had been looking for. I could not find this DVD anywhere in the Minneapolis metro area (ok, I looked in three diff...
Posted by Nick on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:41:00 PST

Year in Music (Updated)

Well...another year gone. And how quickly it went. It is in these first few days of January that all of the year end best of lists are coming out and I do not want to be left out.Top 5 albums:1. The H...
Posted by Nick on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:27:00 PST

A Hackneyed Miscarriage of a Word

You know what word in the English language makes me laugh every time I see it no matter the context. Masturbatory. This word, above all others is comic gold. It is one of those adjectives that can rea...
Posted by Nick on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:53:00 PST

Outfarting The Gorilla

I preface this by saying that I don't know if the word 'farting (fartting)' has one 't' or two. I was on myspace this morning and I saw this ad on the top of the page that was asking me to 'outfart th...
Posted by Nick on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:58:00 PST

Open Letter to Lunchie McSteals A Lot

I know what you did this afternoon. It was 11:30 and your stomach was rumbling. You had lunch plans, but they werent until 1:30. You think to yourself, Ill just have a little something to get me throu...
Posted by Nick on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 01:20:00 PST