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Peanut

Sleep knows no love. R.H.Khan

About Me

I bake the best chicken you will ever have, I love cake with frosting, and I think puppies with sweaters are just the greatest .

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My Interests

Travel!, people watching, gardening, political talk radio, walking in the city, long distance running, writing my first book (or attempting to anyways), indie movies, indie music, indie thinkers and doers, good cooking, reading the OP ED page in the newspaper, being inspired by what I read whether it be fiction or non-fiction, fashion, music, the outdoors, baseball games, concerts, camping, hiking, picnics, stars, the ocean, and the smell of rain.

I'd like to meet:

Alice from Alice in Wonderland, I would like to have tea with her.

Music:

Pixies, Tegan & Sara, REM (pre 1988), Pearl Jam, Van Halen (w/ David Lee Roth), Red Hot Chili Peppers, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Death Cab for Cutie, XTC, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Malajube, Kings of Leon, Magnetic Fields, Depeche Mode, Blackalicious, Jay-Z, Curtis Mayfield, Kanye West, Stevie Wonder, Secret Machines, Mew, Flaming Lips, Tom Petty, Boston, The Temptations, Buddy Holly, Snow Patrol, TV on the Radio, Talking Heads, Smokey Robinson, Smashing Pumpkins, Queens of the Stone Age, Matt Pond pa, Mute Math, Office, Bloc Party, Madonna, the Who, the Shins, the Cars, Singapore Sling, the Police, Nine Inch Nails, My Morning Jacket, the Raconteurs, Morning Wood, Mariam Makeba, the Supremes, Ms. Kelly Clarkson, the Go Gos, OkGo, MiniPop, Foo Fighters, Dire Straits, Elvis Costello, A Tribe Called Quest, the Roots, The Cure, Dixie Chicks, the Clash, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Cardigans, Cat Power, Beck, and AFI.

Movies:

The Last Picture Show, Good Night and Good Luck, Citizen Kane, Vertigo, Deer Hunter, GodfatherI &II, Life is Beautiful, Mean Girls, Rushmore, Life Aquatic, Kansas City, Some Like it Hot, Bird, The Shining, Nashville, North by Northwest, Rope, Lion King, The Excorsist, BeatleJuice, Napoleon Dynamite, March of the Penguins, Syriana.

Television:

netflix, and the occasional sporting event, oh and Dead Like Me is my new favorite show.

Books:

My book (untitled), Heart of Darkness, Mash, Things Fall Apart, Small Town Odds, anything by Herman Hesse, I also love books on politics and current events.

Heroes:

Rosa Parks, W.E.B. DuBois, Goldie Hawn, Bono, Jane Fonda.

My Blog

Part VII & some news.

more of my story is up on my blog.  also i think i'm going to enter a creative non-fiction story contest the theme is "city smells" and I have to submit something by june 15th, I'm brainstorming ...
Posted by Peanut on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:16:00 PST

Part VI Revision.

A did a slight revision (with more to come) on part VI.  Here it is.
Posted by Peanut on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:05:00 PST

Part IV is up.

Part IV.
Posted by Peanut on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:52:00 PST

Politics

I havn't ranted about anything political in quite awhile, maybe because I was more focused on fiction (my story) or maybe there was nothing out there that caught my eye.  Well today I was reading...
Posted by Peanut on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:18:00 PST

New stuff.

There is some new editons to my story here.  I can't really call it a revision anymore because it is much further along in the story than I have written before.  The new stuff will probably ...
Posted by Peanut on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:46:00 PST

Revision Part IV is up.

Part IVis up, read it.  
Posted by Peanut on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:40:00 PST

Revision--Part III

Here is more of the revision.  I wrote it too quick and I am very sick right now so don't worry too much about spelling/punctuation.  Also, the more I think about it, I already want to revis...
Posted by Peanut on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:46:00 PST

Revision I

I have started to revise my story.  It is basically the same, but also very different.  Let me know what you think.
Posted by Peanut on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:25:00 PST

What's up for spring?

Baseball is so close I can smell it?  Who wants to go to a game?The Arcade Fire!  (Jes?  are you still down?  we should get tickets)I'm slowly but surely writing a story, who knows...
Posted by Peanut on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:26:00 PST

Part VIII

Here is Part VIII.  I think I am going to post a revised version of parts I-VIII soon and I might be leaning towards 1st person instead of 3rd person.  Let me know what you think....
Posted by Peanut on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:19:00 PST