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Ankarlo

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I left PA for the West Coast and life has been absolutely fabulous since, now my job is to trek around the country and savor the gorgeous sites from LA to NYC and it's a blast. Things are beyond great and I find something new to appreciate everyday. When you find yourself saying the word "amazing" everyday eventually your life itself becomes amazing.People are always asking me what my job entails so I've taken it upon my self to start a running documentary into my every day life...It's probably a bit cheesy but at least all my friends out there can take part in my ongoing adventures. I'll try and update the videos below as often as possible, but internet gets a bit spotty on the road.


My Interests

Aside from starring in my one man Journey cover band???Nothing. I have devoted my life to spreading the gospel of Steve Perry.Although when I'm not in a trancelike state trying to meditate on the aforementioned Mr. Perry I do find time for other things: I eat, drink and sleep politics it's intriguing and important, and now, driving around the country for a living I get to see the issues in action, which makes it all the more interesting. I love the outdoors, hiking, biking, camping feeding wild grizzly bears, which is nice b/c a major facet of my job involves pretty much every major national park. When the snows come I'm back on the mountains with a different mode of transport...skiis. Roadtrips are my job, I still can't believe I get paid to roadtrip professionally, if I told myself ten years ago what I'm doing now that boy woulda been proud. It's not a career, but it's a fabulous life with new surprises every day. I played county league baseball...missing that a bit.(Duck Dynasty) Penn State and Philly sports are a staple of my daily diet. And overall just trying to find new ways to have a good time.

I'd like to meet:

People who don't suck!


Kids and Geysers
Grand Canyon North Rim
Bryce Canyon
Ole Faithful
Yosimite Falls

Music:

Need you ask??...but really: Pearl Jam, Flaming Lips, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Goldfinger, Jawbreaker, Social D, Coldplay... a lot of stuff from all over the place from punk, to indie to deliberately mainstream. I'd say I probably spend 90% of my time everyday listening to music, you have to when you're on the road 5-6 hours a day. My new game is associating artists with hometowns and digging up songs about cities, it makes the trip much more fun. What did one indie kid say to the other? ...YOU DONT KNOW!!!

Movies:

My movies--and I don't mean that in a gabe pardo freaky way either.Aside from the movies that I make: The Big Labowski, Major League, Office Space, The Usual Suspects, Star Wars, V for Vendetta, Garden State, Ferris Bueller's Day Off,

Television:

Tops on the list--Arrested Development and the Office. I don't get to watch TV too much, so I'm pretty reliant on YouTube and other webcasts to keep up. But in all honesty I havn't watched more than an hour of TV at once since like Feb. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy TV--but it just doesn't fit into the schedule.

Books:

I try to read a book a week, it does the mind well. Just finished Washington D.C. by Gore Vidal and Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. Next on the docket...something about the French and Indian War (Wow, do I ever sound like a loser!)

Heroes:

Wolverine, Aaron Burr, Paul Wellstone, Eddie Vedder, Oscar the Grouch and Michael Scott...

My Blog

Yet Another Airport Saga

Airports, hospitals and hell are places universally hated by the human species (with the exception of a few misanthropic Satan-worshipping doctors turned pilots). Oddly enough I used to enjoy a trip t...
Posted by Ankarlo on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:18:00 PST

God Save the Queen

On August 23, 1973 Jan Erik Olsson walked into a Stockholm Kreditbanken firing his machine gun into the air proclaiming, "The party has only started". Indeed that was only the beginning of a weeklong ...
Posted by Ankarlo on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:18:00 PST

Judge Judy Castaways

It seems that every time I flip on my Anaheim hotel room TV Judge Judy is on. How absolutely LA. And it always strikes me as simultaneously comforting and disturbing. Comforting, because in my state o...
Posted by Ankarlo on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:00:00 PST

Lets Get Serious

I've certainly been less than dedicated in maintaining this writing outlet, and quite frankly the entire MySpace medium. I grew bored with it, and I still am. But I need a reason to put something on ...
Posted by Ankarlo on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:14:00 PST

I Just Want Some F@$ing Coffee

The elevator doors slid open, and as the old angry scowling face was slowly revealed by retreating steel doors it was obvious the man had a grievance. Within five steps he was squared up against the f...
Posted by Ankarlo on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:08:00 PST

Threat down Bakersfield

Driving through California's Central Valley is a scenic jaunt, complete with sprawling citrus groves and vineyards with jagged mountains setting the scene depth. With this area not being exceptionally...
Posted by Ankarlo on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:41:00 PST

Valley of the Sun

Whoever coined the term "but it's a dry heat" is a jackass, and deserves to be shoved intoa 350 degree oven of "dry heat". Just standing outside a rest stop in Gila Bend, AZ today it felt as though ev...
Posted by Ankarlo on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:41:00 PST

SNAFU

Just another clever military anacronym: Situation Normal All F'ed Up.I must say, after my last tour, I have an entirely new respect for the SNAFU. I won't belabor the point with the details of everyt...
Posted by Ankarlo on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:22:00 PST

Breathe easy, you're in...

So I've changed my qoute from the obligitory Journey reference, an act that may come as a shock to many out there. But it was precipitated by a roadside sign I saw in Maine: "Breathe easy you're in Ma...
Posted by Ankarlo on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:24:00 PST

Yellowstone the Beautiful

True beauty removes from your mind doubt, pain and confusion. It comandeers the senses and sends the mind to such heights incomprehensible to those who have yet to experience the majesty, the drug of ...
Posted by Ankarlo on Tue, 22 May 2007 09:52:00 PST