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About Me

I'm a luddite-wannabe taking a web design class.

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My Interests

Funny Times magazine, Flea markets, ART, Fine and Funky Crafts, twang, Wim Wenders, Live music at Ashland Coffee and Tea when the train is going by. Being outside. Jade plants, hiking & camping. Walking in the dark. swimming in lakes, old tin cans...

I'd like to meet:

friendly nonrepublicans

Music:

Yes! Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits, HANK, Beck, Violent Femmes, Lyle Lovett, Mazzy Starr, Donovan, Wilco, Jonathon Richman, BB King, Elvis (sun sessions), CASH, Chris Smither, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Joni Mitchell, Kasey Chambers, Ali Farka Torre, people who play the hand saw or the stand up bass, Buzzcocks, Slaid Cleeves, Mary Gauthier, B-52s, Stan Getz, Buddy Guy, Joan Armatrading, Ani Defranco, Paul Birch, Cowboy Junkies, Clem Snide, Townes Van Zandt, Greg Brown, Buddy and Julie Miller, Stacey Earle, Gillian Welch, Loretta Lynne XM+WRIR...

Movies:

ME, YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW. Jim Jarmusch: DEAD MAN. Wim Wenders: PARIS TEXAS+WINGS OF DESIRE. John Sayles: PASSION FISH+SUNSHINE STATE+LONE STAR. Mike Leigh: SECRETS AND LIES+HIGH HOPES. Krzysztof Kieslowski: BLUE+WHITE+RED+DECALOGUE. Terry Zwigoff: CRUMB+GHOSTWORLD. Michael Gondrey: ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND. Preston Sturges, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin. Mostly the kind that don't usually make it to Richmond on the big screen.

Television:

Yup, I know TV is the devil, but I still watch it. SIX FEET UNDER, FREAKS & GEEKS, TRACEY ULMAN, DR. KATZ, LOST (if everybody didn't have TV looks), PEEWEE'S PLAYHOUSE...

Books:

KICK ME, POSTCARDS, 100 DEMONS, Photoshop For Dummies...

Heroes:

Lynda Barry, Ira Glass

My Blog

through the cracks

Well well well. Turns out the map show is going to be for big installations, and my little work would just slip through the cracks. It was nice to be thought of...i guess. Gotta get my act...
Posted by K. Yoons on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:02:00 PST

opportunity knocks twice

Well well well. I just returned from a great trip to Kitty Hawk. I did a balmy outdoor art show in Manteo Wednesday and Thursday and then stayed on at my friend's house until tod...
Posted by K. Yoons on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:54:00 PST

motivation?

I guess I finished the commission that I've been losing sleep over. I like the outside. It is just when you open the doors that it falls short. This was one of those where the custom...
Posted by K. Yoons on Tue, 23 May 2006 08:39:00 PST

technology wastes time

So. Here it is 2am. I should be sleeping or working. Anything but messing around on the computer. I just deleted 92 pieces of spyware with the help of an american man named Olu...
Posted by K. Yoons on Tue, 02 May 2006 11:12:00 PST

Drinking with the family my father married me into...

Well, I usually avoid my step family like the plague, but I made an exception this weekend for my Father's 75th birthday. It's the mother that's the issue. The step-siblings are actually q...
Posted by K. Yoons on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:21:00 PST

Road Trip to Baltimore

A perfect trip. The Visionary Museum was worth the wait. So many things to take in. Mere(sp) words couldn't convey the detail of one exhibit. The room was full of 9" ...
Posted by K. Yoons on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:23:00 PST

older people?

I heard All Things Considered tonight. It was about security and teenagers on MySpace. So then I listened to a February broadcast of Talk of the Nation. Seems the teens a...
Posted by K. Yoons on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:18:00 PST

that and this

Saturday morning I took some blueberries out ot the freezer. My mom and I had picked them this summer. It was cold enough to cook, so I fried 'em up in pancakes. Finished...
Posted by K. Yoons on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:41:00 PST

not much

I forced myself to get in the pool today. Every single lap felt like it took hours. I only managed a weak quarter mile and a hot shower. The sunlight was wiggling on t...
Posted by K. Yoons on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 05:26:00 PST

Safety Pays

I made something to hang on the wall today. The materials included rusty ceiling tile cut in a heart shape, vintage barbed wire, a crushed juice can AND the words "SAFETY PAYS" across the front....
Posted by K. Yoons on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:53:00 PST