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Horsie

Too weird to live, too rare to die...

About Me

I think over again
My small adventures,
My fears
Those small ones that seemed so big,
For all the vital things
I had to get and to reach.
And yet there is only one great thing,
The only thing,
To live to see the great day that dawns
And the light that fills the world.
My family:
"Tyrell really did a job on Rachel. Right down to a snapshot of a mother she never had...a daughter she never was. Replicants weren't supposed to have feelings...neither were Blade Runners. What the hell was happening to me? Leon's pictures had to be as phoney as Rachel's. I didn't know why a Replicant would collect photos. Maybe they were like Rachel...they needed memories" - hahaha from Bladerunner.
Below is sister Rachel 2006, under that mother in same dress 1974, below that father 1972. Below that is my brother caught on film during a rare moment of total excitement. We are family. Can this be real, or is it merely the synthetic memory of a replicant?

My Interests

Good friends, my friends' music, healthy food, coffee, beer, short and long film, black and white, Road/Track/XC-MTB and cyclocross cycling, mechanical artistry, photography, architecture, music, creation/innovation, mechanical engineering, The Minutemen, animals... especially dogs. For the future: Grad school at Colorado State - MSME with focus on "progressive efficiency" energy conversion equipment (my term), MORE cycling, overland/backcountry MTB and foot trekking, mountaineering, living on a sailboat, skiing, sustainable/self-sufficient housing/existance, hobby and art fabrication/sculpting, Biodiesel, getting back into keyboard and horn. MyGen Profile Generator

I'd like to meet:

and also cyclists and bike maniacs, sculptors, musicians, welders, musicians, pilots, engineers, chefs, mechanics self-sufficientists, inventors, paleontologists, vegans, omnivors, hikers, experimenters, survivalists, and any other happy people.

Music:

My friends' groups and Milwaukeeans from recent past: Leo Minor , Jason Todd , Leval Blessing , Lunaversol , MasterZasterBlaster , Masonry / Muziwaki Gozimuzen , Frankie Martin , Codebreaker , Def Harmonic , Bamm Bamm , Competitorr , Seven Days of Samsara , The Horn Band , DJ Straka Khan , The Kind of Jazz Music That Kills , Mistreaters , Call Me Lightning , The Paragraphs , Science , Wrecker , Wooden Robot , PROCA few other bands too: 7 Year Bitch , A Flock of Seagulls , A Tribe Called Quest , Aavikko , Adolescents , Alice Cooper , Angry Samoans , Arethra Franklin , B-52s , Bad Brains , Bauhaus , Beastie Boys , Benny Bennasi , Berlin , Big Black , Bjork , Black Flag , Black Sabbath , Blondie , Blur , Boards of Canada , Bob Log , Brian Eno , Butthole Surfers , Cars , Charles Mingus , Circle Jerks , Claude Debussy , Cramps , Cure , Daft Punk , David Bowie , Dead Kennedys , Devo , Dicks , Dio , Don Caballero , Doors , Drive Like Jehu , Duke Ellington , Duran Duran , Dwarves , ELP , Emporer , EPMD , Erik B. & Rakim , Erykah Badu , Flipper , Frank Zappa , Fugazi , Fumio Hayasaka , Gang of Four , Gary Numan , George Gershwin , GISM , Godspeed You Black Emporer , Guitar Wolf , HarMarSuperstar , Helmet , Herbie Hancock , Herc , Hot Snakes , Husker Du , Iggy Pop & the Stooges , Iron Maiden , Irving Berlin , Jesus Lizard , Joan Jett , John Coltrane , Johnny Cash , Joy Division , Kanye West , Kavinsky , KeelHaul , Kraftwerk , KRS-One , L7 , Lady Sovereign , Ladytron , Louis Armstrong , Ludacris , Madonna , Man or Astroman? , Mark Isham , Mastodon , MDC , Meat Puppets , Meatjack , Meatmen , Mekons , Melt-Banana , Melvins , Minutemen , Misfits , Missy Elliot , Mission of Burma , Monks , Morphine , Mos Def , Motorhead , Mr. Bungle , Nation of Ulysses , New Bomb Turks , New Order , New York Dolls , Nina Hagen , Nirvana (yeah, I still like them) , NoMeansNo , Norah Jones , Oingo Boingo , Olivier Messiaen , Outkast , Oxes , Patty Smith , Peaches , Pelican , Pere Ubu , Peter Brotzmann , Pink Floyd , Pixies , Plasmatics , Police , Portishead , PROC , Public Enemy , Quintron , Ramones , Replacements , Residents , Revolting Cocks , Robert Moog , Run-DMC , Sade , Saul Williams , Scott Joplin , Shaggs , Shellac , Siouxsie and the Banshees , The Smiths , Social Distortion , Specials , Stereolab , Sun Ra , Talib Kweli , Talking Heads , The Knife , The Streets , Thelonious Monk , Timbaland , Trans-Am , Trin-Tran , Tschaichovsky , TV on the Radio , Van Halen , Vangelis , Velvet Underground , Wesley Willis , Wire , Zeni Geva , Zolar X

Movies:

"Akira Kurosawa! Toshiro Mifune!!!!!! - No Regrets For Our Youth, Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, Roshomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, The Lower Depths, The Bad Sleep Well, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Musashi Miyamoto, Due at Ichijoji Temple, Duel at Ganryu Island, Samurai Rebellion, High and Low, Red Beard, Dersu Uzala, Kagemusha, Ran, Dreams and a few others…2001 Space Odyssey, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 8-1/2, Abyss, Alien(s), Amelie, Animal House, Apocalypse Now, Army of Darkness, Ben-Hur, Bike race videos - Monster Track (etc…), Breaking Away, Bride of Chucky, Bridge on the River Kwai, Buffalo 66, Cannibal the Musical, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, City of Lost Children, Clerks, Clockwork Orange, Donny Darko, Dr. Strangelove, Dragnet, Dust 2 Glory, Eraserhead, Fletch, Ghostbusters, Happiness, High Plains Drifter, Ichi the Killer, Jaws, Kung-Fu Hustle, Lawrence of Arabia, Life Aquatic, Lost Boys, Mallrats, Man Bites Dog, Midnight Cowboy, My brother's movie - Mullet Wars, Never Cry Wolf, On the Waterfront, Orson Welles' movies, Purple Rain, Raging Bull, Rocky, Scarface, Schindler's List, Shaolin Soccer, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Tetsuou's Ironman, The 7th Seal, The abominable Dr. Phibes, The African Queen, The Godfather, The Grapes of Wrath, The Loved Ones, The Right Stuff, The Third Man, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Toxic Avenger, Tromeo and Juliet,

Television:

Red Dwarf, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, Alf, Small Wonder, Different Strokes, SMURFS, Slim Goodbody, Charles in Charge, World At War, Home Shopping Network, Cooking with Julia Childs, Adult Swim, Frontline, Nova, Battlefield.

Books:

,Orwell, Edward Abbey, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kundera, Gibson, Zinn, Tolkien, Chomsky, Silverstein, Greg Palast, David Foster Wallace, Thompson, Seymour Hersh, Shakespear, love/hate relationship with Hitchens - and as George W Bush says - "The Internets" (plural.... apparently)

Heroes:

Toshiro Mifune, Rudolph Diesel, underwater welders, pirates, Indurain, Anquetil, Merckx, Laika the dog, daddy, Kamikazi pilots, other bikers and shit...

My Blog

Cheney's got all the brains in the family

WRONG! Dick Cheney is a ZOMBIE!!! .. ..   Hell yeah, I'm tellin ya. A bunch of zombies racing around Phil Collins on Friday the 13th. Sweet. I went as our lovable, fuzzy, warm...
Posted by Horsie on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:52:00 PST

The incredible connectivity of Phil Collins Colorado.

I'm pretty solidly in the Born-Again Atheist category - maybe a bit in the Metaphysically Agnostic campground... but recently a whole lot of strange connections have been discovered that seem to be ph...
Posted by Horsie on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:01:00 PST

4th of July 90 mile off-road joy/hellride

Yesterday I had the pleasure of doing a 90-mile-of-singletrack deathride which started at 4am in Salida. This was the most fun I've ever had on mountain bike. It's a ride that's been done for about 15...
Posted by Horsie on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:29:00 PST