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About Me

Truth is, I could give a rat's ass about MySpace.


My Interests

travel, making my own music compilations, reading everything, soccer, food, wine, NASCAR, politics, history, geography

I'd like to meet:

People I already know.

Music:

Beastie Boys, Willie Nelson, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Steely Dan, Cypress Hill, Dwight Yoakam, Party Ben, Talib Kweli, Mana, Snoop, Roy Hargrove Jr., G 'N R (orig), Schubert, Chris Isaak, Public Enemy, Evanesence

Movies:

Giant, Natural Born Killers, The Parent Trap (1961), SuperTroopers, Vertigo, Shaun of the Dead, The Ring, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Young Frankenstein

Television:

Don't get me wrong, I watch plenty of it. But there's almost always something better to do with your time. Go do it.

Books:

In no particular order:
_The Trial_ by F. Kafka
_Siddhartha_ & _Steppenwolf_ by H. Hesse
_Jane Eyre_ by C. Bronte
_The Life of Pi_ by Y. Martel
_The Tortilla Curtain_ & _Riven Rock_ by T.C. Boyle
_1421_ by G. Menzies
_Theodore Rex_ by E. Morris
_Guns, Germs & Steel_ by J. Diamond
_The Great Brain_ series by J. Fitzgerald
_Tess of the D'Urbervilles_ and _The Mayor of Casterbridge_ by Thomas Hardy
_A Tale of Two Cities_ by Dickens
_Sexual Personae_ by Camille Paglia

Heroes:

People who do good things when they don't have to.
People who have to do good things when they don't want to.
People who consider the ramifications of their actions.

My Blog

Now that's what I'm fricken talkin about!

Surgeons Do 1st Near-Weightless SurgeryIn case you haven't heard, that's the latest headline that just popped into my news ticker. It's about time, is all I have to say. Where are the flying cars??We ...
Posted by S-Pad on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:57:00 PST

I'm not in Germany anymore

I don't really have anything new to share. I'm just tired of the "I'm in Germany" heading that's been up for 2 months.But now that I have your attention I feel obligated to say something. So, regardin...
Posted by S-Pad on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:57:00 PST

I'm in Germany

Read about it here http://www.travelpod.org/members/steve_n_tracy/ I'll be back at the end of June.
Posted by S-Pad on Mon, 29 May 2006 01:56:00 PST