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kevin

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

About Me

i don't believe in beatles, i just believe in me.

My Interests

a continuum of music, witty banter, urbanity, sarcasm, large words, correct punctuation, time travel, nostalgia, introversion, maintaining decorum, strong cocktails, the obscure, advocating the violent overthrow of popular trash culture, baseball, random thoughts/conversations, premiership soccer, beer, coffee, british culture, girls, pandas, girls who like pandas, magnum p.i. reruns, mustaches (both novelty and genuine), conspiracy theories, eschatology, antiziganism, enturbulation, punctilio, quantum physics, the universe, the end of the world, the quest for encyclopedic knowledge, the queen's english, sketch comedy

I'd like to meet:

polymaths, writers, neurotics, artists, introverts, reclusive geniuses, child prodigies, eccentric billionaires, people lacking pretense.

Oh, and these dudes.

Music:

"talking about music is like dancing about architecture." - steve martin

pop! indiepop, bitpop, britpop, swedepop, power pop, dreampop, chamber pop, classic alternative, classic soul and funk, non-shitty electro, idm, mashups, new wave, shoegaze, garage, disco (italo and otherwise)

elvis costello, kleenex girl wonder, graham smith, the smiths, morrissey, the replacements, matthew herbert, husker du/sugar/bob mould, ben folds five, the clash, squeeze, the cure, destroyer, the psychedelic furs, xtc, jens lekman, justice, vitalic, mylo, air, devo, depeche mode, broken social scene, the lucy show, le concorde, kings of convenience, erlend oye, ariel pink, the clientele, the national, long winters, new order, gang of four, wire, the ramones, cocteau twins, siouxsie and the banshees, roxy music, the fixx, rjd2, the go! team, oingo boingo, echo and the bunnymen, prefab sprout, chameleons, russian futurists, eno, talking heads, lloyd cole, scritti politti, the sundays, the futureheads, belle and sebastian, the jam, jim o'rourke, abc, the ocean blue, islands, the new pornographers, the fucking champs, gary numan, daft punk, basement jaxx, phoenix, cassius, annie, aztec camera, peter gabriel, ratatat, cut copy, klaxons, mstrkrft, alan braxe & fred falke, girl talk, jacques lu cont, someone still loves you boris yeltsin, sally shapiro

Movies:

stanley kubrick, pt anderson, wes anderson, martin scorsese, the coen brothers, mel brooks, john landis, robert altman, werner herzog, john hughes, kevin smith, bill murray, harold ramis, will ferrell, steve carell, peter sellers, burt reynolds

anchorman: the legend of ron burgundy, the big lebowski, blazing saddles, caddyshack, casino, there will be blood, fargo, fletch, ghostbusters, the back to the future trilogy, kill bill vol. 1 and 2, a clockwork orange, 2001: a space odyssey, fitzcarraldo, koyaanisqatsi, big trouble in little china, see you next wednesday

Television:

lost, the office, 30 rock, magnum p.i., curb your enthusiasm, intervention

britcoms, half of the programming on the discovery and history channels, specifically mythbusters, man vs. wild, the universe and shows about hitler.

Books:

vonnegut, salinger, kafka, bret easton ellis, steve martin, oscar wilde

compendiums of random knowledge, history books, theoretical nonfiction (nonfiction about theoretical events and scenarios, that is), true crime

Heroes:

steve martin, harold ramis, david letterman

My Blog

BIZNESS PLAN 2008

i'm going to start a business that scours the dance floors of every hipster bar and club in town and collect thousands of dollars worth of lost cell phones, car keys and loose money.  not a weeke...
Posted by kevin on Tue, 13 May 2008 09:39:00 PST

a short list of things i could use right now.

things i could go for, in no particular order:- warm slippers (will accept someone sitting on top of my feet)- food (specifically a burrito the size of my head...and some chips too)- more time to devo...
Posted by kevin on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:51:00 PST

new york city!

have you heard? i went to new york city (new amsterdam if you're a time traveler from the early-18th century--welcome, kind sir or madam). here are some pictures to prove to you that i am not a liar.t...
Posted by kevin on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:22:00 PST

thank you, come again!

i have been to the most awesome convenience store in the world after today's visit to my local kwik-e-mart.oh, there will be loitering done today, friends.just as any good convenience store should be,...
Posted by kevin on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:04:00 PST

new sitcom to be based on geico cavemen

really?!  yes, really.  this, from today's daily variety:"Cavemen" will revolve around three pre-historic men who must battle prejudice as they attempt to live as normal thirtysomethings in ...
Posted by kevin on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:06:00 PST

new job!

i finally got a full-time gig at the library after, oh, almost 8 years of working there.  well, i'm sure i could've gotten another position before this point, but now that i'm done with school it...
Posted by kevin on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:00:00 PST

i survived nba all star weekend in las vegas...

...and all i got was this lousy gunshot wound.seriously - arrests, shootings and violence were all the rage this past weekend.  thanks, all star weekend!  you've really done wonders for the ...
Posted by kevin on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:47:00 PST

4 8 15 16 23 42

if you don't know the significance of the above numbers, allow me to try and explain. they are a plot point of the television show "lost". why am i writing about a tv show? that's harder to explain...
Posted by kevin on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 04:17:00 PST

fear is the new black.

Airline plot involved liquid explosives LONDON - British authorities said Thursday they thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up several aircraft heading to the United States using explosiv...
Posted by kevin on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:57:00 PST

ve-BOO-se

the (partial but probably fairly complete) vegoose lineup was announced today. behold the suck!: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Widespread Panic, the Killers, the Mars Volta, the Keller Williams I...
Posted by kevin on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:18:00 PST