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sorry, not a winner

shanksh.

About Me

i like taking pictures.

My Interests

I LIKE MAKING SHIRTS. HERE ARE SOME (more at loneshoegraphics.com):I LIKE TO TAKE PICTURES. HERE ARE SOME. i also like to make up band names like "glacial drumlin state trail" and "super bad sideache," make t-shirts that threadless doesn't like, write down really great words that no one uses anymore, like "bequeath" and "abcess."

Music:

a very general overview: VERVE - FLAMING LIPS - band of horses - jenny lewis and the watson twins - neko case - the perishers - clap your hands - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - ARCADE FIRE - MENOMENA - belle & sebastian - dandies - doves - josh rouse - new pornographers - spoon - spiritualized - ben gibbard/eef worship - VERVE - starsailor - radiohead - beta band - the shins - sigur ros - grandaddy - interpol - brian jonestown massacre -nada surf - stars - wilco - mercury rev - VERVE - the streets - just saw LOS STRAITJACKETS: FRIGGIN AWESOME

Movies:

THE FOUNTAIN, YOU CAN DO IT DUFFY MOON, bladerunner, city of the lost children, anything kubrickian - that is - of or pertaining to kubrick, pee wee's big adventure, house of yes, party girl, network, big lebowski, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, fight club, spinal tap, anything on svengoolie

Books:

schlosser, vonnegut, kafka, old withdrawn library books - preferably children's, photo books: soth, friedlander, shore, eggleston, parr

Heroes:

kermit the frog, shoulder pads, peter francis geraci, svengoolie

My Blog

what advertising does to women

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Posted by sorry, not a winner on Tue, 15 May 2007 10:49:00 PST

sut jhally: advertising and the end of the world

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Posted by sorry, not a winner on Tue, 15 May 2007 10:16:00 PST

from photographer chris jordan:

my bro read this to me last night. it sums up my current thoughts (after working in adverstising and living in america) in a nutshell:"This illustrates for me the complexity of the issue. Talking to A...
Posted by sorry, not a winner on Fri, 04 May 2007 08:28:00 PST

i updated my web site

well, actually chuck did. i don't know how to do that code stuff! anyway, check out more designs of mine that didn't get used. loneshoegraphics.comthe clients hated all of them. hopefully you willl li...
Posted by sorry, not a winner on Thu, 03 May 2007 08:54:00 PST

please read ...

... a vonnegut novel if you haven't yet in your life.
Posted by sorry, not a winner on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:33:00 PST

i got my eyes sliced

and i can see now.
Posted by sorry, not a winner on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:31:00 PST

my vacation of doing nothing has been ruined

so, for some idiotic reason, i decided to go shopping for jeans today. i figured, hell, i have been off all week. i am feeling a little more relaxed than usual today. i haven't bought jeans in about t...
Posted by sorry, not a winner on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:19:00 PST

MOTOROLA

SUCKS. don't buy it unless you want to treat it like a hollowed out egg. i have had the phone for only two months and it is already dying before the end of the day. today i took it in and they told me...
Posted by sorry, not a winner on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:25:00 PST

flipping through morning tv on my day off...

... and i saw these three together. this could be my very own version of hell....
Posted by sorry, not a winner on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:57:00 PST

jim gaffigan at the pabst

some of the funniest laugh-til-you-cry-and-can't-breathe-almost-fall-into-a-seizu re stuff i have ever heard.
Posted by sorry, not a winner on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:51:00 PST