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About Me

Drunken Pontification 1st prize: $1000.00 2nd prize: nothing 3rd prize: punch in the face

My Interests

writing, playing bass, live music is the best therapy ever, something cynical, another cynical something, love, love, love

I'd like to meet:

i like to meet people who are smarter than me. And some monkeys and robots. Mostly the monkeys, though.

Music:

Sleep, Neurosis, Outkast, Melvins, Isis, Miles Davis, Yob, Wormwood, Sabbath, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Acid King, T. Rex, Canopy, Outkast, Boredoms, Torture Garden, Bjork, Ruins, Sunn((0)), Brujeria, Ween, Brainoil, Electric Wizard, Pixies, Otis Redding, Earth, Melt Banana, PJ Harvey, Unwound, Face Down in Shit, Wake Up On Fire, Graves at Sea, Crucifucks, EyeHateGod, Shellac, The Locust, Free Verse, Boris, Acid King, Mastodon, Dying Fetus, Coalesce, Sonic Youth, 13, Skarp, every band that is started in my bedroom at 3 in the morning and is broken up by 5, The Liquified, Alice Coltrane, DMBQ, The Perceptionists, Master Musicians of Bukakke, Ludicra, Lightning Bolt,Cibo Mato, Cult of Luna, Pelican, Rwake, , Damad, Sugar Skulls, Tinklepotty, Remains of the Day, i could go on for days and days

Movies:

Gummo, Fargo, Requim for a Dream, Donnie Darko, Waking Life, Kill Bill, Being John Malkovitch, Night of the Living Dead, actually just about all of the movies with "Dead" in the title

Television:

"Make me." "I don't make monkeys, i just train them."

Books:

Tropic of Cancer/Capricorn, Junky, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Choke, anything by R. Brautigan except Trout Fishing in America, Ham on Rye, stuff by Phillip K. Dick, Raymond Carver, Neil Stephenson

Heroes:

i once had a goat that hated me and would rear up on her hind legs and kick my ass with her head

My Blog

i stole the wrong ELO

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (pet & current car)Eightball Tercel 2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)Chocolate Snickerdoodle3. YOUR "FLY Guy/Girl" NAME: (first initial of first name...
Posted by shannon on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:44:00 PST

violence of the lambs

soul food night shall be a feast of all the senses. i wonder, i have heard possum stew is a fine hillbilly food, does that count? it's southern, after all. i ask because i know where to catch some. i ...
Posted by shannon on Fri, 11 May 2007 10:02:00 PST

happy new years

i can't sleep. i know 54 years ago hank williams died. i know i have lived long enough that i should not be sad about this, i've had enough time to digest this. when i was a kid, though, i thought he ...
Posted by shannon on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 04:22:00 PST

codiene+whiskey=X

i just stood outside, the wind reminded me that nature is stronger than will or turpitude, strength or action. two point five weeks with broken ribs; still when i laugh the joy is greater than the pai...
Posted by shannon on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:32:00 PST

Dueteronomy 32.35

life is so good, i can't even begin to describe how blessed i am. yet one thing nags at me constantly, one thing i can't BEAR is ever in the back of my thoughts. it's making me paranoid as golem...
Posted by shannon on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:32:00 PST

R.I.P.

you have been gone a while, but i thought as everyone else did that you would show up and bull your way into attention, that you would show up to piss me off at least one more time. today i laid ...
Posted by shannon on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:02:00 PST

homespun fireworks

the better life gets the more i feel the bullet that will end me cutting through time and space, getting closer and closer until my head flies forward from the impact. i feel this happen to ...
Posted by shannon on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:12:00 PST

the game

The game:The first player of this game starts with 6 wierd things/habits/stories aboutthemself, and people who get tagged need to write a blog of thier 6 weird things,as well as state this rule clearl...
Posted by shannon on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 01:44:00 PST

the game

hob

the anticipation is where it's at, the long delay before you take the first sip, the moment of clarity in which the future is apparent, clear as the present, foggy as the past. we are who we are becau...
Posted by shannon on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 04:55:00 PST