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About Me

I (used to) spend quality time singing and playing guitar with the (now defunct) power-pop band
scotty brooks campaign.
I play bass and sing with the weirdo-punk band
man without plan.
I occasionally play guitar with my old-school hardcore punk band
uppercut.
I am also currently playing bass with the hardcore band
killing time.
Additionally, I record/produce/mix music for other bands, such as
the anabolics.
I just finished producing a record by the indomitable
scream and scream again . Soon you will be able to hear it, and you will cower in its rock presence.

In grade school, I played 1rst Marquess General Charles Cornwallis in a Revolutionary War play; I had to surrender to the Continental Army at Yorktown and hand over my (plastic) sword to George Washington. It bummed me out a little.

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My Interests

poverty, Gibson guitars, Scrabble, being mint, Latin, existentialism, Krispy Kreme Donuts, coffee, amateur numismatics, basketball, prescriptive grammar, misanthropy, classicism, classism

I'd like to meet:

robots, gnomes, the old-fashioned

Music:

I have evolved past music.

Movies:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder), This is Spinal Tap, Waiting For Guffman, Fletch, My Blue Heaven, Zoolander, Royal Tenenbaums, The Warriors, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Team America World Police

Television:

Mystery Science Theater 3000
Freaks and Geeks, MYTHBUSTERS, The Colbert Report, Curb Your Enthusiasism, The Office, History Channel, PBS, The Sarah Silverman Program, I'm Alan Partridge

Books:

Anything by David Foster Wallace, David Sedaris, Don DeLillo, Charles Bukowski, T.C. Boyle, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, David Berman, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Chuck Klosterman, Sarah Vowell, Chuck Palahniuk, David Eggers, Jean Paul Sartre; Bibles: Get in the Van, Book of the Sub-Genius, The Onion (issues and collections), Garner's Modern American Usage; numerous history texts, biographies.

Just finished The Fall of Berlin 1945 *Spoiler Alert!: The Germans lose.

Heroes:

The Bubonic Plague, circa 1349

My Blog

EYMINT

I realized today how completely fucking idiotic it is for someone to have personalized license plates that only he/she can understand. Putting aside the fact that even decipherable vanity plates are s...
Posted by el lobo del mar on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:18:00 PST

He's a Magic Man

It has to be kind of weird to learnvia CNNthat your brother had been robbed at gunpoint while visiting South Africa. But that's just what happened to a friend of mine, just the other day. NYHC...
Posted by el lobo del mar on Thu, 17 May 2007 11:43:00 PST

(figuratively) Strange (literal) Signs

I drove past a sign today that read: "No Littering--$500 fine." So I quickly threw a paper coffee cup out the window. I just don't have that kind of cash to blow. Seems like they should fine you for ...
Posted by el lobo del mar on Wed, 16 May 2007 08:04:00 PST

Nostalgia 1.0 (part 1.0)

Much has been written on the concept of near-instant nostalgia. I guess it's a strange and interesting phenomena, the idea of feeling nostalgic about the recent past. And I guess the implication is th...
Posted by el lobo del mar on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:57:00 PST

School Still Unbelievably Safe!

I like how the shootings at Virginia Tech have been described as "the worst school shootings in American history." (I've seen that more than once, and I haven't exactly been seeking that story out.) I...
Posted by el lobo del mar on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:15:00 PST

Tonight, on a very special episode of my blog

I don't watch much TV these days (I only have channels 2-23 and this grouping includes three Spanish-language channels, two Japanese-language channels, and one which randomly changes its programming ...
Posted by el lobo del mar on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:40:00 PST

U.S. Postal Service Forever!

I threw in "U.S." in the subject so you wouldn't think this was an exclamation of support for the band Postal Service. Or maybe it's The Postal Service. I'm not sure. I never really heard their music....
Posted by el lobo del mar on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:14:00 PST

Boulevard of Retards

I think people who are struck by cars are fucking idiots. Let me amend that: I think people who are stuck by cars while walking in the road are fucking idiots. It's one thing if you are strolling alon...
Posted by el lobo del mar on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:43:00 PST

A man of many talents

Since my last name is kind of ethnic and unusual, I was curious about how many other "me"s I could find if I Goggled my full name. To my surprise, there were quite a few Chris Skowronskis out there, ...
Posted by el lobo del mar on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:10:00 PST

I like to write blogs about blogs...

I can understand why MySpace blogs allow you to note what music you might be listening to while writing, or even what movie you might be (half) watching. But what's with the choices "Reading (Books)" ...
Posted by el lobo del mar on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:45:00 PST