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T.H.E. Ellisman

...a superstar, the zen physicist...

About Me

Let me start by saying that I'm not a superhero, but if I was, my super power would be my invulnerability to peer pressure. I'm a fiercely independent thinker and proud of it. For the most part, I'm a pretty easy-going guy...but I can be passionate about certain things. My ultimate goal in life is to lie on my death bed and look back with the satisfaction of knowing that I did it the way I wanted to. What more can one ask for?

My Interests

I'm interested in just about anything that stimulates my mind...music, movies, books, discussion/debate...

I'd like to meet:

Someone who's not going to play games with me...unless it's Trivial Pursuit: The Grunge Years.Oh yeah...she's gotta be female, too.

Music:

The Beatles (without whom none of this would have been possible,) Pink Floyd, Silversun Pickups, TOOL, Mike Patton, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Peeping Tom, The Verve Pipe, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Bush, Nirvana, Green Day, Rush, Soundgarden, Catherine Wheel, Kiss, Stone Temple Pilots, REM (before Bill Berry left,) Springsteen, Meat Loaf, Hendrix, Living Colour, Duran Duran, Men At Work, Billy Idol and many more I can't think of right now.

Movies:

The Star Wars Saga, George A. Romero's "Dead" saga (all others are just pale imitations,) Memento, Vanilla Sky, Videodrome, High Fidelity, Rock And Rule, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Fly (remake), Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Shaun Of The Dead, Fido, The Butterfly Effect, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill (volumes 1 and 2), Grindhouse, Entropy, Pink Floyd The Wall, 12 Monkeys, The Jacket, Halloween (John Carpenters original version more so than Rob Zombie's re-imagining,)...more to come as they occur to me.

Television:

Typically, I don't watch much television (I'm too busy watching movies and concerts on video.) However, Frasier and Family Guy are two of the most intelligently written, consistently amusing shows in the history of television. I'm also hugely big on House MD and Californication (I AM Hank Moody.)Law and Order: CI is very good, too...most of the time.One of the GREATEST cartoons EVER:

Books:

Anthem, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged; all by Ayn Rand.Breakfast Of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Bluebeard, Timequake, Slaughterhouse Five, Deadeye Dick; all by Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.)Generation X, Life Without God; both by Douglas Coupland.Where The Sidewalk Ends, A Light In The Attic, Falling Up, The Giving Tree; all by Shel Silverstein.High Fidelity by Nick Hornby.Pretty much anything Stephen King wrote prior to Gerald's Game. (After that, he kind of started getting a little silly, IMO.)

Heroes:

My kids.

My Blog

In Rememberance Of George...

Thanks for the suggestion, Senor Tomas.The following is a transcript of George Carlin's famous "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television" routine. I think a few of the words might be acceptable now...
Posted by T.H.E. Ellisman on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:08:00 PST

All I Ever Wanted...

The sun doesn't exactly "beat down" on a person at six in the morning...but you can certainly see it beginning to light up the sky. I'm seeing this as I stand in the parking lot behind my apartme...
Posted by T.H.E. Ellisman on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:25:00 PST

Ah...blessed equality??

So, it's a karaoke night and I'm out in the midst of it. This is nothing unusual...I do this pretty often, in fact. I'm hanging with my friends, drinking, talking, laughing, singing...having a great t...
Posted by T.H.E. Ellisman on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:03:00 PST

And People Ask Me Why I’m So Embittered...

These were posted as a bulletin by a friend on my list who normally posts some profound, meaningful stuff...however, everbody gets one chance to screw up royally...this is hers, lol. The following is ...
Posted by T.H.E. Ellisman on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:03:00 PST

Damn...J Mascis took off the top of my head...

I know that people like to give other people hell for posting song lyrics in their blog...but sometimes, song lyrics sum up where you're at in your life better than another boring recount of non-exist...
Posted by T.H.E. Ellisman on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:50:00 PST

Animals...thanks, Jen:)

I've never been easy to categorize. People have tried, but any attempt to put me in "a box" is met with the fact that whatever box it is, it ain't quite big enough to really do the job. The simplest,...
Posted by T.H.E. Ellisman on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:51:00 PST

Tonight...ooh oooh (obscure Kool & The Gang reference...)

*1950's terrible sci-fi movie music fanfare*Tonight should not have been anything special...momentous...or any kind of significant save for one thing:My friend Hank and I missed hanging out with each ...
Posted by T.H.E. Ellisman on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:01:00 PST

Air Break...

..> ..> Q109.7 Rocks, T.H.E. Ellisman hanging in with you here on the afternoon drive. Hope everyone's had a pleasant lunchbreak...hey, just another Star Wars movie to go until quitting time. We'v...
Posted by T.H.E. Ellisman on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:22:00 PST

In The Interest Of Better Understanding Between The Sexes...

So I'm surfing the net...I do that sometimes...and I come across this article on msn. It's broken into two parts by two different writers. "Ten Things You Should Never Say To A Woman" and "Ten Things ...
Posted by T.H.E. Ellisman on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:55:00 PST

Nothing Can Survive In A Vacuum...

But what about a membraneous bubble? I ask only because I've become convinced that I live in one. Tonight was a unique experience for me...I spent the longest amount of time in a bar while remaining s...
Posted by T.H.E. Ellisman on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:33:00 PST