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Calamity Nate

Putting the "fun" back in functional-alcoholism

About Me

Trouble just got a steady......
ENTP - "Inventor". Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative. 3.2% of the total population. Take Free Myers-Briggs Personality Test
personality tests by similarminds.com I think "Inventor" is the psychiatric term for "Asshole". And Helen is dead wrong. I am not a SOCIOPATH . I just believe in cowboys more than most people. Take the quiz: "What Lazy Town Charicter are You?"

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You Are Stephanie!

My Interests

I am a fucking National Treasure, get on board.

I'd like to meet:

Rise up gather 'round...Now that the holidays are behind us it's time to get serious about your New Years plans. Don't get stuck singing Eagles and Steely Dan karaoke covers with your parents again this year. That's silly. Dudes, bring your hot ladies and ladies bring your hot younger sisters to this years ridiculously shit-hot year end extravaganza, Bang In The New Year 2007 . Tickets are going fast! Get more BANG for your buck... tickets are only $15! Click here to get your advance tickets!The details:Bang In The New Year 2007 December 31, 2006 The Middle East Downstairs 480 Massachusetts Avenue Central Square, Cambridge, MA $15/18+ Doors at 8PMFeaturing:Bang Camaro myspace.com/bangcamaro www.bangcamaro.comHooray for Earth myspace.com/hooray4earth hoorayforearth.netThe SnowLeopards myspace.com/thesnowleopards and Special Guests...DJ RNDM & ROBOTKID will kick off the night with Live Video and Music Remixing www.djrndm.com

Music:

Shudder to Think, Rival Schools, Snapcase, Afghan Whigs, Silkworm, Richard Buckner, Pilot to Gunner, Dirtbombs, The Model Sons, Guided By Voices, Husker Du, Janet Jackson, Ludacris, Prince, The Information, The Good North,Spoon,D.F.A.1979, Blood Brothers,Say Anything, Elton John, Bowie, Jawbox, Uncle Tupelo, Say Anything, Damone, Daft Punk, Hall & Oates, Al Green, Smokey Robinson, Sean Paul Tragedy, Treehorn, Puddle, Outkast, Scarface, Andrew Bird, Red House Painters, Ben Folds, Tim Lauben, My Own Sweet, Appamattox, Soul Coughing, M. Doughty, Obie Trice, Buffalo Tom, Eric B and Rakim, Gangstarr, Desaparecidos, Halo Benders, Chavez, Swervedriver, Stevie Wonder, Big Drill Car, New Sweet Breath, Ray Charles, Earth, Wind, and Fire., Donna Summer, Lou Graham, The Hollies, The Zombies, Jellyfish, Evan Dando, Springsteen, Thin Lizzy, Elvis Costello, Squeeze, Split Endz, Depeche Mode, Trash Can Sinatras, The Acrobrats, Sufjan Stevens, Stevie Nicks, Sarah MacLaughlin, Robert Johnson, Rick Springfield, Queen, ELO, Knapsack, Bivouac, Craig David, Kanye, Missy Elliot, Kelly Clarkson, Hot Hot Heat, Har Mar Superstar, Jesus Christ Superstar, Liz Phair, Annie Soundtrack, The Bronx.

Movies:

Glengarry Glen Ross, The Shining, JAWS, L.A. Story, Magnolia, Barbershop, In the Heat of the Night, Breaker Morant, Papillon, Traffic, The Fugitive, Blowout, Serendipity, The Exorcist, The Goodbye-Girl, Deconstructing Harry, Beat Street, 3 Days of the Condor, My Bodyguard, My Girl, Beautiful Girls

Television:

Frontline, Arrested Development, FOOD NETWORK (non-stop), Lost, BG, Adult Swim, New Detectives, AM-Chop, Adam Carolla Proj., This Old House

Books:

The Wisdom of Crowds, Moneyball, Fast-Food Nation,Demon of the Waters,or any non-fiction where intelligent people come to reasonable conclusions.

Heroes:

Walt Whitman, P.T. Anderson, Barry Sanders, R.W. Emerson, Steve McQueen, Countee Cullen, Edward Norton, Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, Houdini. Yeats, Goethe, Freddie Mercury, Ted Leo

My Blog

The word AINT" and Coq au Vin

Ok so, in the late 50’s there was a US senator from the new state of Hawaii named S.I. Hayakawa. In addition to being a Japanese-American in a time when it wasn’t really hip he was also on...
Posted by Calamity Nate on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:15:00 PST

Dirt-Road Fireballs

Don't you crush like you used to crush?When did the crashing start replacing the blush?Lately, I put things where they belongThere's a place that is right and a place that is wrongI remember when thin...
Posted by Calamity Nate on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:38:00 PST

The Promise of Time-Machines

The Promise of Time-MachinesSomewhere, someone has decided for methat despite all my thrashingand heart-felt pleas:The past might sit nestled, in the bottoms of drawersnear flashlights and oversightsw...
Posted by Calamity Nate on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:10:00 PST

Wholesale Theft

The word's been handed down, from a prodigal place.to make up alibis...or at least, make haste. Every signal we pick-up, still hates to agreeThat cases go coldand we lose-track of thieves. But larceny...
Posted by Calamity Nate on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:18:00 PST

The Surrender Drill

Here you goWith the: "already know"and the phone-line stretched from the dancer to the ghost Things creep in threesand shake down treesto peek in every windowand mutter just to breatheWhere they plan ...
Posted by Calamity Nate on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:06:00 PST

A poem for my friend's new son

He doesn't have a profile, so If he wants to read this he's going to haveto get one Henry The First Henry's got a jump on uswith brand new months to fight and fuss So raise a glass to restless sleep! ...
Posted by Calamity Nate on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:56:00 PST

Tornado Love

If you fell in love with a tornado, people would be surprised:"I suppose they're just like you or me, but die around 4:00 or 5:00" At least you'd never need explainSome brand-new broken days.When...
Posted by Calamity Nate on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 03:44:00 PST

New Idea, in wee hours

Reason's got a new stretch between Tuesday and Friday and the wake-ups are poised for something slight And there's a comical inset, on proportional kindness for something decent, or something...
Posted by Calamity Nate on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST