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About Me


I like to jump off cliffs. When near the ocean I sometimes spend the better part of a day looking for the perfect rock. If it's not high enough I get dissappointed. If it's too high (or worse: if it's perfect but the water a tiny bit too shallow) I spend a long time staring down, thinking about how it would feel. After climbing back down I can't relax and can't stop talking about it until my friends get annoyed. It's strange, but true. And there's nothing I can do about it.
(Oh, one more thing: I got kicked out of a Christian Rock Band after one rehearsal when I was 16.)
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Quote of the month:
Steve Buscemi in Rolling Stone, "The Big Lebowski" story, September 08
"I'll pass three guys on the street, and they may just give me a nod. They don't even have to say a line from the movie. I know what movie they're thinking about."
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MAKING MY LIFE BETTER in September/October 2008
1 Radiohead - "Rhinestone Cowboy"
2 Miami Vice, Season 5
3 Not updating this list for weeks
4 Grace Jones - Hurricane
5 Corsaire - Reserve du President, 2007
6 Finally getting to see "Knocked Up"
7 The Big Lebowski Special in Rolling Stone
8 Indian Summer in Germany"
9 Burn After Reading
10 TV On The Radio - Dear Science
..

My Interests

People, Music, BMX, Film, Travelling, Words, Fashion, Zen and a little DJing.

I'd like to meet:

Your mom.

And maybe Jack Kilian. I grew up with "Midnight Caller" and it was the reason I was putting my tongue into my cheek a lot when I was 17 (literally, not figuratively - Gary Cole always did that on this show). It was also the reason I applied for a job at my local radio station. They gave me an internship and that's how the whole thing with journalism started.

(The endings were much better than the beginnings, but there's hardly anything on YouTube, I'm glad I found this)

Music:

Bright Eyes, CSS, CCR, Interpol, Bjork, Public Enemy, M. Ward, The Beatles, Justice, Acid Mothers Temple, Hot Chip, Nada Surf, M.I.A., Kris Kristofferson, Tele, Kid Koala, LCD Soundsystem, Gram Parsons, Rufus Wainwright, The Rapture, Boys Noize, TV On The Radio, Georgia Anne Muldrow, MGMT, Devendra Banhart, Daft Punk, Ice Cube, Low, Ryan Adams, Yo La Tengo, Lyle Lovett, Hercules And Love Affair, Common, Franz Ferdinand, Joanna Newsom, Evan Dando, Frank Zappa, Animal Collective, The Mendoza Line, The Wombats, Bruce Springsteen, Vietnam, Leonard Cohen, Busy P, Of Montreal, Die Türen, Neva Dinova, Okkervil River, The Staple Singers, Yeasayer, Band Of Horses, Charles Mingus, Clem Snide, Ringsgwandl, Jay-Z, Teitur, Element of Crime, Benjamin Biolay, Midlake, Pharoahe Monch, Bon Iver, Bad Religion, Carla Bruni, King Tubby, Arthur and Yu, Radiohead, Against Me!, Calvin Harris, The Mae Shi, Metallica, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Eels, Simian Mobile Disco, Hot Hot Heat, Elliott Smith, Death Cab For Cutie, Nas, The Beach Boys, Broken Social Scene, Donald Byrd, Pink Floyd, Aretha Franklin, My Morning Jacket, The Faint, Tegan and Sara, The Opus, Pedro The Lion, Mos Def, D'Angelo, Fleet Foxes, Oasis, Giant Drag, Joan As Police Woman, The Mamas and The Papas, John Coltrane, Elton John, Adam Green, Mia., Coralie Clement, Sly and Robbie, DJ Krush, Grandaddy, Rogue Wave, Barbra Streisand, Mates Of State, Carole King, Kanye West, Booker T. and The MGs, Rage Against The Machine, The Elected, Terence Blanchard, Sera Cahoone, Spoon, Deerhoof, Mitsuko Uchida, Portugal. The Man, The Shins, Camaron de la Isla, Ben Kweller, Tori Amos, Born Ruffians, Babyshambles, Bonaparte, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Counting Crows, Otis Redding, Seeed, Mos Def, Howe Gelb, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Ike and Tina Turner, Frank Sinatra, Tomte, Rise Against, Loretta Lynn, SebastiAn, Moneybrother, Adriano Celentano, Duke Ellington, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Weezer, k.d. lang, The Game, Alela Diane, Curtis Mayfield, The Rakes, Der Tante Renate, Morrissey, Willie Nelson, Al Green, Erykah Badu, Tom Waits, Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash, Third Eye Foundation, Missy Elliott, Sarah McLachlan, Bloc Party, The Thermals, The White Stripes, The Ronettes, Georges Moustaki, The Strokes, Elvis Presley, X-tina, The Roots, The Notwist, J-Rocc, Jimi Hendrix, George Jones, Jean Grae, The Libertines, AFI, Mary J. Blige, The Long Winters, The Eagles, The Dandy Warhols, Bob Dylan, The 5.6.7.8's, Arcade Fire, Joy Denalane, Tapes 'n Tapes, Bob Marley, Beastie Boys, Talking Heads, The Spinto Band, Natalie Merchant, Lupe Fiasco, System Of A Down, Stan Getz, Motorhead, Chet Baker, MSTRKRFT, We Are Scientists, Amy Winehouse, Sonic Youth, Simon and Garfunkel, Ghostface Killah, Roxy Music, Calexico, Foo Fighters, Rilo Kiley, Pixies, Todd Snider, Pennywise, Patsy Cline, Notorious B.I.G., The Flaming Lips

Movies:

"Yentown", Shunji Iwai, 1996
"Modern Times", Charles Chaplin, 1936
"The Circus", Charles Chaplin, 1928
"Magnolia", Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999
"Almost Famous", Cameron Crowe, 2000
"Manhattan", Woody Allen, 1979
"The Big Lebowski", Ethan and Joel Coen, 1998
"Zatoichi", Takeshi Kitano, 2003
"Zodiac", David Fincher, 2007
"Napoleon Dynamite", Jared Hess, 2004
"Kill Bill", Quentin Tarantino, 2003

Television:

Hardly ever. Sometimes DVDs of
"24" (Season 1, 4, 5)
"Seinfeld"
"The Simpsons"
"Family Guy"
"Ally McBeal" (Season 3)
"Gilmore Girls"
"Dr. Katz"
"Miami Vice"
"Grisu"
"Babar"

Books:

"Duluth", Gore Vidal
"Franny and Zooey", J.D. Salinger
"The Unconsoled", Kazuo Ishiguro
"Ash Wednesday", Ethan Hawke
"Pnin", Vladimir Nabokov

Heroes: