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About Me

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I heart Flight of the Conchords
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My Interests

The Socratic Method.

I'd like to meet:

Evangeline Lilly.Hubba hubba.

Music:

Fiona Apple; The Arcade Fire; Art Brut; A Tribe Called Quest; Badly Drawn Boy; Beastie Boys; The Beatles; The Beta Band; Bloc Party; Blur; Billy Bragg; British Sea Power; Buck 65; Built to Spill; Buzzcocks; Camper Van Beethoven; Can; Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds; !!!; Clap Your Hands Say Yeah; Clinic; The Cocteau Twins; Coldplay; The Coral Sea; Elvis Costello; The Cribs; The Cure; Dead Kennedys; The Dead Milkmen; The Dears; The Decemberists; Delays; The Departure; Doves; Bob Dylan; Echo & The Bunnymen; Editors; Elbow; Brian Eno; Explosions in the Sky; The Fall; Flaming Lips; Franz Ferdinand; Fugazi; Funkadelic; The Futureheads; Gang of Four; The Go-Betweens; The Go! Team; Goldie Looking Chain; Grandaddy; Guided by Voices; Hard-Fi; The Hold Steady; Hope of the States; HÃ¼sker DÃ¼; Ice Cube; Idlewild; Interpol; JJ72; Joy Division; Kasabian; Keane; The Killers; Kings of Leon; The La's; The Libertines; The Longcut; Longwave; Luna; Manic Street Preachers; Tom McRae; Mercury Rev; Midnight Oil; Mogwai; Morrissey; Muse; My Bloody Valentine; New Order; The New Pornographers; The Open; The Ordinary Boys; The Others; Pavement; Pixies; The Pogues; The Ponys; Iggy Pop; Poster Children; Primal Scream; Public Enemy; Pulp; Radiohead; Rainer Maria; The Rakes; Razorlight; Red Hot Chili Peppers; R.E.M.; The Replacements; Ride; Xavier Rudd; the Secret Machines; The Shins; Shout Out Louds; Sigur Ros; Siouxsie & The Banshees; Elliott Smith; The Smiths; Snow Patrol; Sonic Youth; Sons and Daughters; Regina Spektor; Spiritualized; Starsailor; Stellastarr*; The Stills; The Stone Roses; The Streets; The Strokes; Suede; Super Furry Animals; Supergrass; Talking Heads; Tapes 'n Tapes; Teenage Fanclub; TV on the Radio; TZU; U2; The Verve; Tom Waits; The Walkmen; The White Stripes; Wilco; The Zutons. Just, you know, to name a few.

Movies:

Raiders of the Lost Ark; Manhattan; Almost Famous; Broadcast News; The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Pulp Fiction; Rear Window; The Graduate; The Shawshank Redemption; High Fidelity; Dr. Strangelove; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Requiem for a Dream; Seven; Rushmore; The Conversation; This Is Spinal Tap; Out of Sight; JFK; Fargo; Heat; Garden State; Before Sunrise; Magnolia; All the Real Girls; Do the Right Thing; A Midnight Clear; The Wild Bunch; The Empire Strikes Back; AmÃ©lie; Caddyshack; Aliens; In the Name of the Father; A Fish Called Wanda; Ed Wood; Trainspotting; Wings of Desire; Carlito's Way; Beautiful Girls; Taxi Driver; The Constant Gardener; Crash; V for Vendetta; Grizzly Man; Match Point; Shopgirl; Good Night, and Good Luck; Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang; The Descent; Little Miss Sunshine

Television:

Favorites that I watch semi-regularly on DVD: Kids in the Hall; Monty Python's Flying Circus; Mystery Science Theater 3000; Arrested Development; Seinfeld; The Simpsons; The Office (UK); The Office (US); Lost; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Little Britain; Mr. Show; Freaks and Geeks

Books:

How about authors? T.C. Boyle, Irvine Welsh, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Norman Mailer, Dave Eggers, Michael Chabon, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, Saul Bellow, Douglas Coupland, Hunter S. Thompson, James Ellroy, Tom Wolfe, Chuck Palahniuk, Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Douglas Adams, Russell Banks, Paul Auster, J.D. Salinger, Roddy Doyle, Tom Robbins, Nick Hornby, David Sedaris.

Heroes:

Kevin Federline, I salute you!

My Blog

on emo, both musically and personally

Sometimes it doesn't take much to make me laugh. Exhibit A:Q: What's better than fifty emo kids nailed to a tree?A: One emo kid nailed to fifty trees.Exhibit B:Q: How many emo kids does it take to pa...
Posted by Monty on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:59:00 PST

on feline love

It's hard to believe I ever worried that these two wouldn't get along....
Posted by Monty on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:04:00 PST

on Michael Richards

So, okay ... Michael Richards. Where to start? Let's try this:When an ethnographer observes behavior he doesn't agree with or understand, his job isn't to pass judgment on the behavior. Rather, an ...
Posted by Monty on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:50:00 PST

on Robert Altman and the 1st Amendment

First of all, take at least a moment to mourn the passing of Robert Altman. The world of cinema lost one of its few true geniuses. I'm happy that I had totally coincidentally planned to show excerpt...
Posted by Monty on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:47:00 PST

on music and passion

As I get older, my musical tastes become more bewildering and contradictory. Right now I'm listening to The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis: Bold as Love. In the last three days I've downloaded 39 al...
Posted by Monty on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:08:00 PST

on "Casino Royale"

I'll go ahead and say it: Casino Royale is one of the best movies of the year and Daniel Craig is -- whisper it -- at least the equal of Sean Connery. Force me to choose, and Craig wins it, hands dow...
Posted by Monty on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:50:00 PST

on an overdue backlash

After a week of political grousing, finally something to get excited about: The rising backlash against Dane Cook. Seeing as I think the funniest thing he could do is get run over by his own tour bus...
Posted by Monty on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:43:00 PST

on the midterm elections

Okay, so yes: I'm obviously pleased with the outcome of the midterm elections. I think it's worth getting excited about that the Democrats took both the House and the Senate, and I just hope they don...
Posted by Monty on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:32:00 PST

on shin splints, elections, and educational communities

Shin spints are lame. It's frustrating to try and do something that's healthy, only to have it rejected by the body you're trying to help. I mean, it's not like I'm sitting at home going, "Gee, I'd ...
Posted by Monty on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:19:00 PST

on my life right now, this second

I'm still alive.Grad school is challenging, but exciting.I have a second cat.Her name is Maggie (see also: Tristram Shandy; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof). She likes bags.And yogurt.And Nigel.I've been runni...
Posted by Monty on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:03:00 PST