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shawn

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I think in abstractions. I wish I could write the great American novel, but I would settle for a well constructed paragraph.

My Interests

Post-modern philosophy, shoes, family, nephews, nieces, cousins, useless wooden toys, SQL Databases, query language,BBQ, red wine, Seahawks football, worthless trivia, pretty things, Laker hating and fire watching.

I'd like to meet:

People who are thoughtful. la raison pour être

Music:

Atmosphere, Z-Trip, Taleb, Shape Shifters, Freestyle Fellowship, Busdriver, The Grouch, Too $hort, Eric B and Rakim, David Bowie, The Who, Ramones, Modest Mouse, Magic Magicians, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Lou Reed

Movies:

Caddyshack, Naked Lunch, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Television:

The Simpsons, Most Extreme Challenge Show, Red Sox vs. Yankees

Books:

Le Mur, Ham on Rye, Junkie, On the Road, Post Office, Death on the Installment Plan, As I Lay Dying, Hunger, Kingdom of Fear, The Things I Carried, Crisis of the European Sciences, The Birth of Tragedy, Teacher Man

Heroes:

There are a lot of people in my life that I pull from, but no one else I would rather be. My hero is the guy that I want to be, that I am not yet, and I may never become. But I will never stop trying to be that guy.