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fortunate one

my anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hon

About Me

i once hit my left elbow so hard that i passed out

My Interests

humans, other mammals and humorous things

I'd like to meet:

Kim Jong Il - no one else in the world drinks more Hennessey than he does

Music:

house, dub, reggae, hippie rock, hip hop, acid jazz, soul, funk

Movies:

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Constant Gardener, Capote, Oldboy, Waiting, Bubba Hotep, Dirty Pretty Things, Training Day, Assault on Precinct 13, Amelie, The Fifth Element, original Star Wars trilogy, Matrix, Big Lebowski, Lethal Weapon series, Die Hard Trilogy, Cowboy Bebop the Movie, Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive, Koyaanisqatsi, Shawshank Redemption, Glory, Baraka, X, Brother, Ong Bak, The Mystery of Chessboxing, Enter the Dragon, Airplane, Spaceballs, Fire in the Sky, Falling Down, Run Ronnie Run, Top Gun, Tombstone, The Doors, Shawn of the Dead, Bloodsport, Breakin, Big Trouble in Little China, Mad Max, Braveheart, Gladiator, Terminator 2, Predator 1 & 2, Conan Series, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, Fight Club, American History X, Menace to Society, Boyz in da Hood, Friday, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, House Party, Jaws, Seven, American Beauty, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Grosse Point Blank, Seven Samurai, The Good, the Bad and The Ugly, Outlaw Josey Wales, Guns of Navarone & Force 10 From Navarone, Indiana Jones (all of them), Speed, Bad Boys, Batman

Television:

Rescue Me, House, Hell's Kitchen, Food Network, Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, ESPNs plural, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy, Simpsons, Futurama, Reno 911, Chappelle Show, Chris Rock specials, Arrested Development, South Park, Rome

Books:

favorite authors in no particular order: Sun Tzu, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Carl Sagan, Dalai Lama, Lama Mipham, Yogi Ramacharaka, Aldous Huxley, Magus Incognito, Fritjof Capra, Mike Davis, Albert Einstein, Kurt Vonnegut, Marcus Aurelius, Pliny the Elder, Seneca, Xenophon, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Plotinus, Euripedes, Virgil, Homer, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin, Hua Ching Ni, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, the Great Guru Padma-Sambhava, Herman Hesse, Frank Miller, Carl Jung, Don Juan, Bill Russell, Chuck Palahniuk, Kareem Abdul Jabbar (yes, the basketball player), Christopher Moore, Scott Adams, don Miguel Ruiz, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Albert Koestler

Heroes:

never seen it but i hear it's a good show

My Blog

almost twenty seven

so it's almost my birthday so it's about time for an introspective blog. overall my life is pretty good. my relationship with April is fantastic. my career is in pretty good shape. my living situation...
Posted by fortunate one on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:17:00 PST

halftime

finals are here. as of next week the first semester is over. my original goal at the start of the year was to "survive" the first semester. looking back, i see that i not only survived, i also thrive...
Posted by fortunate one on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 05:20:00 PST

i likes my ride

well for those not in the know, the 'Lude is dead. the cause of death was a severe engine problem and i was pretty pissed about it for a couple hours - until enterprise hooked me up with a b...
Posted by fortunate one on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:42:00 PST

more true classroom stories

the other day we were talking about the origin of different foods and a heated debate began in regards to the noble waffle. the waffle was first produced in Belgium and while this is true, one studen...
Posted by fortunate one on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:33:00 PST

fatigue, lefties & freecell

well it's that special time of year again - drama production time. i want to tell all my friends who haven't received proof of life from me in weeks that i'm sorry. the good news is that it's almost o...
Posted by fortunate one on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:58:00 PST

what a fool i was

i'm sure we've all done and said things that we wish we could have avoided or taken back. these things remind us just how foolish and blind we can be at times and this is why i hate these things. ...
Posted by fortunate one on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:19:00 PST

bespectacled again

my new glasses are money. i gotta say that Lens Crafters hooked me up. i've spared no expense and i'm pleased to report that they've been worth every penny so far. i used to wear glasses in high scho...
Posted by fortunate one on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:01:00 PST

freshmen will be the death of me

so for those tuning into my blog for the first time i'm a high school humanities teacher. right now i'm teaching summer school for some extra bread, a decision which i now regret but you know what th...
Posted by fortunate one on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:43:00 PST

numerical perspective

Recently I saw an episode of Dateline in which Myspace reps claimed that their network was 77 million people strong. That was about three or four weeks ago. Now I see that the number has risen to almo...
Posted by fortunate one on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:19:00 PST

I left my heart in the mid '90s

I just miss them. The music. The innocence. The fact that we had a player in the White House. They very well could have been the apex of modern humanity just as the Matrix movies suggested. ...
Posted by fortunate one on Sun, 28 May 2006 12:47:00 PST