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andrew

Freedom is what you think it is, but there ain't no train to Stockholm...

About Me

Pruritic. Erythematous.

My Interests

Rave parties. 'Medical' 'oddities': Body Integrity Identity Disorder & Pro-Ana. Poutine, pseudoephedrine. Land Shark-ing & tandem-ing. FRISBEE!

I'd like to meet:

Tissues.

Music:

Townes Van Zandt, The Red House Painters, Sylvers, Bjorn Torske, Neko Case, Tim Buckley, Daniel Wang, Nina Nastasia, The Mole, Broken Social Scene, Midnite, Company Flow, Neil Young, Karen Dalton, Faze Action Prodigy, Kalabrese, J Dilla, The Sea & Cake, Criminal Damage, The Grateful Dead, Eric Bachmann, Theo Parrish, Jana Hunter, UGK, Hauschka, Karizma

Movies:

Passio, Heartworn Highways, Night On Earth, Be Here To Love Me, Strange Brew, The Big Lebowski, The Libertine

Television:

Baseball, Spic N' Spanish, CBC News

Books:

Fatelessness (Imre Kertesz), Panic Diaries (Jackie Orr), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers), Hunger (Knut Hamsen), Pnin (Vladimir Nabokov)

My Blog

The Past Is A Grotesque Animal, by Of Montreal

The past is a grotesque animalAnd in its eyes you seeHow completely wrong you can beThe sun is out, it melts the snow that fell yesterdayMakes you wonder why it botheredI fell in love with the first c...
Posted by andrew on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:08:00 PST

The end of an era.

Today was my last day of work after 22 months. It was surprisingly and eerily anticlimactic.Now I have three days to help Stacy pack shit up before I head out to the west coast for a road trip: SF --...
Posted by andrew on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:38:00 PST

Montreal, by the Wedding Present

You know I can't stop dreaming about youI could never imagine life being without youI count off the minutes just waiting for you to appearBut what's funny is this was day that I chose toAsk you to liv...
Posted by andrew on Fri, 11 May 2007 09:06:00 PST

The only bit of good news in a good long while.

This has been a good week.On Wednesday I received a call from UC San Diego, saying I've been accepted to the PhD program in sociology/science studies.On Friday [today], I received a call from McGill, ...
Posted by andrew on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:33:00 PST

I got guts in my nuts.

I thought I had dick cancer but turns out it's (just?) a hernia.The doctor says no heavy lifting, take warm baths, don't sleep on the bozack.Follow-up in two weeks. I hope I don't need to get it oper...
Posted by andrew on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:06:00 PST

Panic Attack, by Atmosphere

See they could try to trick you couldn't theyHere's something for ya make you really feel goodlittle momma got a little pill to swallowA little water to follow it down the tunnelGotta lotta walls but ...
Posted by andrew on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:01:00 PST

Tomorrow is the GRE.

When I fucked it up to the nth power last year I vowed never to take it again.Nine months later I reneged and enrolled in Kaplan.After what will hopefully amount to being far more prepared than I was ...
Posted by andrew on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:17:00 PST

Hey Man/Things'll Never Be The Same Again, by Spacemen 3

Feelin' funny in my mind, LordFeelin' funny in my mind, LordFeelin' funny in my mind, LordI need it, Lord Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, AmenThere's a black smoke risin', LordThere's a black smoke risin', L...
Posted by andrew on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:11:00 PST

Has Politics Contaminated the Food Supply? (NYT Op-Ed)

December 11, 2006Op-Ed ContributorHas Politics Contaminated the Food Supply? By ERIC SCHLOSSERTHIS fall has brought plenty of bad news about food poisoning. More than 200 people in 26 states were sick...
Posted by andrew on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:25:00 PST

To Live is to Fly, by Townes Van Zandt

Won't say I love you, babe,won't say I need you, babe,but I'm gonna get you babeand I will not do you wrong.Living's mostly wasting timeand I'll waste my share of minebut it never feels too good,so le...
Posted by andrew on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:31:00 PST