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Fuji

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My Interests

Music:

Gomez. The Black keys. Tool. Nirvana. Alice in Chains. Radiohead. The Postal Service. The Flaming Lips. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals. The Word. Stereolab. Blackalicious. Lyrics Born. Taj Mahal. Ry Cooder. Ween. Thievery Corporation. RJD2. Common. Kanye West. My Morning Jacket. Gregory Isaacs. Dead Prez. Damien "Jr. Gong" Marley. Burning Spear. The Abyssinians. The Arcade Fire. Beck. Wilco. Finley Quaye. Corey Harris. Cat Power. The Coup. Nelly Furtado. Norah Jones. Cymande. Del tha Funkee Homosapien. Femi Kuti. Fela Kuti. Gift of Gab. John Coltrane. John Butler Trio. Miles Davis. Charlie Hunter. Medeski Martin and Wood. Mason Jennings. The Beatles. Mike Doughty. Soul Coughing. Nick Drake. Morphine. Muddy Waters. Poi Dog Pondering. Albert King. Stevie Ray Vaughan. The Shins. Gov't Mule. Sublime. this bike is a pipe bomb. Weezer. Led Zeppelin. The White Stripes. Antonin Dvorak. Dubious Moniker. Pearl Jam. Manu Chao. Digable Planets. Fiona Apple. The Benevento Russo Duo. Gnarls Barkley. Robert Palmer & Little Feat. The Mars Volta. Electrelane. Heartless Bastards. The Antipop Consortium. Arrested Development. Beirut. Black Mountain. JJ Cale. 10 Foot Ganja Plant. John Brown's Body. The Philadelphia Experiment. Rodrigo y Gabriela. The Velvet Teen. The Cold War Kids. TV On the Radio.

Movies:

Captains Courageous, Quentin Tarantino's films are pretty fantastic, particularly True Romance. I really enjoyed The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The Collective. The Postman Always Rings Twice. Supertroopers (A+) and Club Dread (B, very B). Election. The Endless Summer (1 and 2). Riding Giants. Robin Hood Men In Tights. Spaceballs (I knew it. I'm surrounded by assholes!). Blazing Saddles (Hey bois! Lookie he-ah!). The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. The Big Lebowski. Sin City. Superbad.

Television:

I sold the last TV I owned for ten dollars. The one before that I blew up with a .20 guage shotgun in the middle of the forest with my friends (Don't worry, we cleaned up the mess.). However, I know how addictive television can be and I therefore watch it sparingly. The Family Guy is a favorite program, as is the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Oh and I like Bill Maher's new show alright. Now I use it to play video games.

Books:

Conrad: Heart of Darkness Robbins: Jitterbug Perfume Vonnegut: A Man Without A Country NY TIMES Cup of Crosswords

Heroes:

Me. The mechanics at BendEuroMoto. My Parents. Homies in Portland.

My Blog

My work.

People often ask me what I do, as in, you know, my job. well, here are a couple of experiments to help y'all understand better: First:1. Position yourself approximately 8 inches from a brick wall. (Th...
Posted by Fuji on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:40:00 PST

Who Killed The Electric Car?

Yes. While this movie debuted early 2006, it is quite provocative. For much of the movie I felt myself with this uplifting feeling of, what's that we call it? Hope! That's right. Further into the movi...
Posted by Fuji on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:43:00 PST

Sustainable Development

So, last night I spoke at length with Brandt Gassman, a high school (and still) friend. He was involved in a very interesting project with PBS this summer. Anyone who has an interest in sustainable de...
Posted by Fuji on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:58:00 PST

Ed Abbey and the meaning of Life

  'There are several ways of looking at Delicate Arch. Depending on your preconceptions you may see the eroded remnant of a sandstone fin, a giant engagement ring cemented in rock, a bow-legged p...
Posted by Fuji on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:25:00 PST

Paid to SNOWBOARD

As if my time up here couldn't be even MORE well spent, I was just hired mostly full-time by the P.R. firm on Schweitzer (the mountain and resort; working for the man was never such a sweet gig) to ma...
Posted by Fuji on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 08:37:00 PST

Ski Bum and Life

It appears as though life is coming together here in Sandpoint. Today I interviewed at a coffee shop and was hired almost immediately, due in large part I believe to the bicycle trip I just completed....
Posted by Fuji on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:38:00 PST

Skating in Florblues.

At Florblues* this evening I needed to buy a few sundries for the trip. The first thing on my list was cheap sunglasses for I am attending Bonnaroo festival this weekend; ZZ Top succinctly explain thi...
Posted by Fuji on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:37:00 PST

Two interviews, two wheels, two weeks!

Thursday is coming! Thursday is coming! And no, I don't mean Bonnaroo Thursday. This Thursday I have two very exciting things happening. First I am observing and possibly interviewing at a school on...
Posted by Fuji on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:11:00 PST

balding from boredom

I shift from one lane to the next and look at my hair in the rear view mirror the sun from above shines through makes the blonde hair look as thin as it is behind the dark glasses my...
Posted by Fuji on Mon, 29 May 2006 11:44:00 PST

Epigraph & Chapter 1

People keep telling me they want to read this piece of shit, so here it is. The formatting gets all effed up when I copy-paste it into the blog entry so punctuation is a bit off. Questions, comments, ...
Posted by Fuji on Thu, 25 May 2006 06:01:00 PST