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the2scoops

you'll never see the end of the road while you're traveling with me

About Me

All the old stories are well and good, but let's make some new ones.

I'm funny, curious, loyal - crap. I just realized I share most of the traits of a pet dog, except with much better hygiene and opposable thumbs.

Well, I am curious and funny. My friends keep me around because I am good for laughs, a good listener, open-minded and oddly charming. I tend to live by the code "even the worst day can make for a good story", and I can't understand anybody who can't laugh at themselves.

Life's too finite and breakable to fill it with the petty, pretentious and selfish. I fight to be positive, and sometimes it's a hard fight.

I need music in my life, and every home should have a stocked bookshelf. I own and have been know to operate the following implements: clothes iron, broom, BBQ, camera, blender, corkscrew, cookbooks, squash racquet, iPod.

Vices Indulgences include: gin & tonic, Guinness, red wine, coffee, peanut M&Ms, Chinese food at 3 in the morning.

My Interests

I've started writing again and I'm blogging on the2scoops.blogspot.com . I can't live without: music or books, live concerts, movies, wine women and song, exploring the city, cooking, magazines and comics. I hope to learn a musical instrument sooner rather than later and I need to get a new bike this summer. I'm good for a card game, shooting pool and other things that would never be classified as a "sport".

I'd like to meet:

Everyone except for the fratboys, close-minded people, haters, and mail-order brides.

Music:

Beck, Solomon Burke, Johnny Cash, Wilco, PJ Harvey, The Go! Team, Wolf Parade, Broken Social Scene, Aimee Mann, Modest Mouse, Tom Waits, Spoon, The Roots, Ben Folds, Lamb, Shuggie Otis, Radiohead, Neko Case, Bloc Party, The Pixies, Elliott Smith, Interpol, Beastie Boys, Mos Def, Jill Scott, Controller.Controller, Wolf Parade, Franz Ferdinand, Gorillaz, Underworld, David Bowie, Alejandro Escovedo, Old 97s, LCD Soundsystem, Ramones, The Clash and many many more the2scoops last.fm Music ProfileMy Most Recently Played Tracks: My Weekly Top Artists: My Weekly Top Tracks:

Movies:

- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Singles
- Groundhog Day
- Rushmore
- Grosse Pointe Blank
- High Fidelity
- Heat
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Chasing Amy
- The Great Escape
- Unforgiven
- Roman Holiday
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Annie Hall
- Seven Samurai
- Indiana Jones trilogy
- Duck Soup
- 24 Hour Party People
- Wings of Desire
- Office Space
- Empire Strikes Back
- Serenity
- LA Confidential
- As Good As It Gets
- Garden State
- 40 Year Old Virgin
- Bringing Up Baby

Television:

I keep up on everything but I make time for: - Lost
- Scrubs
- Rescue Me
- Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- Austin City Limits
- Daily Show
- The Office
- Doctor Who
- Colbert Report
- How I Met Your Mother
- My Name Is Earl

And I‘m happy I can get DVD’s of:

- Arrested Development
- Firefly
- Angel
- Buffy
- Homicide: Life on the Street
- Freaks and Geeks
- Six Feet Under
- Undeclared
- Sports Night
- Boomtown
- Fastlane

Books:

Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

Hotel New Hampshire and Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler

Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

And generally anything by the above writers and also:

Roddy Doyle, Elmore Leonard, Chuck Klosterman, Carol Shields, Warren Ellis, Ann Marie McDonald, Gail Simone, Kurt Vonnegut