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Shag

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Music:

The Twilight Singers, U2, The Clash, Kings of Leon, The Police, Tom Waits, Eels, ...And You Will Know Us by The Trail of Dead, Mark Knopfler, Beck, The Futureheads, Wilco, Radiohead, Johnny Cash, David Byrne, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Seu Jorge, Blur, Iron Maiden, The Afghan Whigs, Graham Coxon, early Van Halen, Bob Marley, Bjork, Chris Isaak, Curtis Mayfield, Swimmy, Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye, The Flaming Lips, Cake, Peter Gabriel, Huey Lewis & the News, Ben Folds Five, The Libertines, Sade, The Exploding Hearts, Randy Newman, Prince, Guided By Voices, Ass Ponys, Tupac, Fiona Apple, 70s-80s Scorpions, Neil Diamond, Louis Armstrong, The Shins, My Morning Jacket, Queen, Nina Simone, The Who, The Kinks, Hall & Oates, Rush. . . and so forth.

Movies:

LOTR, The Princess Bride, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire Strikes Back, Kill Bill, The Big Lebowski, American Psycho, True Romance, Leon (The Professional), Almost Famous, Westway to the World, Zoolander, Team America, Amelie, CQ, Fight Club, Ghostbusters, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Captain Ron, Beautiful Girls, Waiting for Guffman, About a Boy, Royal Tennenbaums, Lock/Stock, Unbreakable, The Fog of War, Can't Buy Me Love, Shaun of the Dead, Grosse Point Blank . . . too many..

Television:

Rescue Me, The West Wing, Firefly, Ali G, Arrested Dev., Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nip/Tuck, Curb, Battlestar Galactica, House, Deadwood, The Office (UK), Seinfeld, Lost, Chappelle, Entourage, Magnum PI, The Young Ones, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Sledge Hammer!

Books:

Lord of the Rings, Shogun, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Screwtape Letters, Autobiography of a Yogi, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountainhead, Good Omens, H. S. Thompson, Salman Rushdie, T. Friedman, Tintin, Asterix, Harry Potter, America: The Book, Bill Flanagan, Bill Carter, The Princess Bride.

My Blog

nightmare . . .

I had a horrifying dream last night in which I went bald literally overnight. I went directly from having hair to waking up to find a glaring lagoon of scalp atop my noggin. What made the dream even m...
Posted by Shag on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:50:00 PST

Apocalypse Maybe . . .

Israel vs. Hezbollah +North Korea vs. Everybody+ The War in Iraq+A Nuclear Iran+ The Mumbai Train Bombings+ More Abductions in Colombia+ A Backsliding Russia+ Wildfires in California+ Two More Ye...
Posted by Shag on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:30:00 PST

My first earthquake

Hailing from the midwest, and Indiana in particular, I'd never really experienced what it was like to actually feel an earthquake, complete with shaking furniture, wailing birds and the confusion of w...
Posted by Shag on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:12:00 PST

Do the Despoliation

A few months ago, staying dry from a cold February rain, I sat on my sofa, feet propped up on the coffee table, strumming my Fender Jaguar absentmindedly whilst watching television. I think it was a D...
Posted by Shag on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:18:00 PST

Constitution Day

Today (May 3) was "Constitution Day" here in Japan. It commemorates that oh-so-glorious day in 1947 that Japan's current constitution was put into effect. That's right, the constituion they "came up w...
Posted by Shag on Wed, 03 May 2006 08:02:00 PST

Baby's First Blog.

Shit . . . My first blog on myspace. After years of writing columns for newspapers, ads for magazines, brochures about technological doodads, and bios for other people's bands, this is my first fora...
Posted by Shag on Mon, 01 May 2006 04:30:00 PST