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My Interests

Sewing by hand, flocks of birds, taking pictures, my Hasselblad, the scent of wet leaves in Autumn, the gypsum factory, the ghost cans, broken train bridges,DIY, brewing booze, drinking the booze i brewed, riding freight trains, running from rail cops, hitting real cops, dance party max, short shorts, back alleys, battle axes, anything epic, sifting through dumpsters, especially beer dumpsters, getting naughty in small confined spaces.

I'd like to meet:

people to join me in my motorbike gang through Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos. October 2008. start saving NOW.

Music:

TchKunG!, Damad, Iron Maiden, The Devil Makes Three, Kylesa,New Order, Johnny X and the Groadies, Life At These Speeds, R.A.M.B.O, Evil Robot Us', This Is My Fist, Finntroll,Conflict,Witch Hunt, Limpwrist, Crucial Unit, Nine Shocks Terror, At The Gates, Kimya Dawson, Mirah, Red Devil,Firing Squad,1905,Gravy Train, The Thermals, The Unicorns, Ladytron, Adult., Postal Service, tem eyos ki, bright calm blue, to dream of autumn,Uranus,blackheart procession,Fighting Dogs, Memento Mori, Anti product, Madeline, Green Day, The Awakening, orchid,Soophie Nun Squad,leonard cohen,Weezer, Euromotion, Erik Peterson, Ryan Harvey and the rest of Riot Folk,Woody Guthrie,Johnny Cash,Yann Tiersen, Depeche Mode, Bon Jovi,Hank William's Sr, Manu Chao, Nick Cave Murder Ballads, Old Timey train songs, accordians, washboards, saws, fiddles,and anything I can shake my ass to. oh and FANTASY METAL.

Movies:

Amelie,the triplets of Belleville, City of God, City of Lost Children,Lord Of The Rings,Panama Deception,Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Seventh Seal,Delicatessen, Breaking Away, Anchorman, The Prestige, Wet Hot American Summer, Girl On A Bridge, Xmen Trilogy, Jurassic ParkGregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow

Television:

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Books:

The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, I Cried, You Didn't Listen, Life of Milarepa, Pluto, Assata, Journey to Lhasa, Black Beauty, Accordian Crimes, the complete Calvin and Hobbes.

Heroes:

jeff goldblum

My Blog

Rediscovering Ohio: Poster tour

Rediscovering Ohio: Poster tourIt was about six months ago that I was sitting in the living room of Random House when i inadvertently got suckered into filling in on poster tour for my friend Ben Stra...
Posted by boxcar ämelia on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:09:00 PST

Thessaloniki

Today I am in Thessaloniki, Greece.  It's been nearly two months of adventure with 11 countries and several more to go.  It's sunny and hot but I'm glad to be away from old people.  Bul...
Posted by boxcar ämelia on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:50:00 PST

Year of the Dying Rockstar

Taking the Chinatown Bus to  New York on Chinese New Year is probably the worst idea ever.  Confetti bombs kept exploding over my head and the parade had apparently just come to an end. ...
Posted by boxcar ämelia on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:43:00 PST

Wing Walker

It's Christmas Eve and it's raining. It's been raining all day.  I woke up grinning at the prospect of a long hike on the property, hanging out in the chill morning air, amongst the Evergreens af...
Posted by boxcar ämelia on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 09:14:00 PST

The End Is Just the Beginning.

Hitching through Wisconsin is almost too painful to even talk about, but after two Christians praying to Jesus for us, Lei and I scored ourselves an old timer trucker who spotted our CHICAGO sign at a...
Posted by boxcar ämelia on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 11:57:00 PST

Montana Blues

I apologize for the delay of this piece of writing.  I dont have internet access as often as I used to.As it turns out, Lucas and Lei didnt get arrested at all but they did get pulled off the tra...
Posted by boxcar ämelia on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:54:00 PST

Adventures with Tate

Tacoma Washington: Part Two, two years later. Tacoma is never boring. There are always the usual crackheads and meth heads to keep it interesting at all times. I noted that the usual suspects were n...
Posted by boxcar ämelia on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:50:00 PST

The wrong train through the sound. A journey homebound.

Part One: I've never been much a fan of Seattle.  I find the overwhelming atmosphere of industrialization and civilization to be stifeling, not to mention it being the Starbucks headquarters.&nb...
Posted by boxcar ämelia on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:50:00 PST

Some things never change and then some things do.

I woke up a little over a week ago at hellarity to hannah doing a lice check on the front upstairs porch.  "its your turn next!" she exclaimed. I decided then that it was a good day to leave and...
Posted by boxcar ämelia on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:20:00 PST

Shhh! It's light out! they'll hear you!...We're in God's country now

Our attempt to split into two and two was foiled by our first ride alowing all four of us to jump into the back of the pick-up truck to the Tuba City turnoff.  With no real possible way to split ...
Posted by boxcar ämelia on Tue, 30 May 2006 01:51:00 PST