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whitebrice

My humour returns.

About Me

cgo go back to the pit from which you have escaped . . .

My Interests

the perfect mix-tape

I'd like to meet:

I swear I once got Tom to change that to "Whom I'd Like to Meet:"

Music:

My Favorite Songs: The Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane"; Arcade Fire's "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)"; Beat Happening's "Godsend"; Bob Dylan's "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again"; Brian Eno's "The Big Ship" and "Here Come the Warm Jets"; The Clash's "Lost in the Supermarket"; Husker Du's "You Can Live at Home"; Liars' "The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack"; Lou Reed's "Street Hassle"; Ride's "Vapour Trail"; The New Pornographers' "Sing Me Spanish Techno"; Wolf Parade's "Grounds for Divorce"; Sunset Rubdown' "Shut Up I Am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings"; Pelican "Angel Tears (JK Broadrick Remix)"; The Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'"

Movies:

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; Stanley Kubrick; Labyrinth; the Truman Show; [more later]

Television:

I love that band.

Books:

Sylvia Plath; Six Characters in Search of an Author; Catch-22; the Picture of Dorian Gray; Something Happened; I'm madly in love with Carson McCullers; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; plays by Edward Albee; books by Lewis Carroll; Marat/Sade; (I guess it's cliche but) plays and sonnets by Shakespeare; A Confederacy of Dunces (no, his other book isn't as good); Catcher in the Rye; Heart of Darkness; Things Fall Apart; the Great Gatsby; Crime and Punishment; Revolutionary Road; the Metamorphosis; The Brothers Karamazov; Prep

Heroes:

Richey James

My Blog

Nintendo DS

yeah, so I got a Nintendo DS.  I've got Animal Crossing and Metroid Prime: Hunters, so if you visit my town or shoot at me, message me and I'll send you my friend codes. edit:  I now have Co...
Posted by whitebrice on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:59:00 PST

the only band that matters

So I saw Death Cab at the Greek Theater and they rocked harder than they had any right to.  I mean Ben Gibbard acted like a rock star -- long hair and dancing and everything -- but somehow it tot...
Posted by whitebrice on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:02:00 PST

Smiley Smile

An assignment in my psych class was to smile for a whole day and then type a page about it, so here's what I wrote.  I've been reading a lot of Lester Bangs lately, btw, and I don't apologize. ...
Posted by whitebrice on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:38:00 PST

finally!

The original Star Wars trilogy is gonna come out on dvd.
Posted by whitebrice on Sun, 07 May 2006 07:17:00 PST

Did you know...

Radiohead was originally going to name their information age masterpiece not OK Computer, but Overdrawn at the Memory Bank....
Posted by whitebrice on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 05:42:00 PST

an important question

Do the people at Neighborhoodies and the people at American Apparel get along, or do they hate each other's guts?
Posted by whitebrice on Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:13:00 PST

Same as it ever was

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-08/26.shtml Go buy the Talking Heads album "Remain in Light" or else you will be cursed to be uglier than Cindy Sheehan (see left) for one whole year....
Posted by whitebrice on Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:04:00 PST

How I spent my summer vacation...

So what's with this myth about America's great middle class anyway?  If one really existed wouldn't the distribution of wealth look a bit more like a normal curve (the shape of that Asian kid's s...
Posted by whitebrice on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Karl Rove

There are two bands from this period about whom you'll have to know in fifty years if you want to be cool. White Stripes and Outkast 
Posted by whitebrice on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Herman Göring on war

Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? ...
Posted by whitebrice on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST