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Aaron "The Shanghai Slider"

good grief

About Me

For the last 27 years i've been trying to catch up on all the things i've been meaning to do for 27 years... hopefully i'll have it all done in the next week or two. ***Update*** (got most of that stuff done... but still have a few more things to work on) If you see this and haven't talked to me in a while then say hi... I probably miss you.

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My Interests

Music, Politics, School, Film, Baseball (and other sports), Traveling, photography, art, gardening/plant science, Geography (my major), hiking, nature, Disc Golf!, betsy (my dog(she lives with my mom and her other doggy friends now in livermore... and we miss each other dearly)), playing baseball, friends, most things baseball, food/eating/cooking... and much much more...

I'd like to meet:

You... well maybe. I guess it depends on who you are...

Music:

Mice Parade, Do Make Say Think, Kim Hiorthoy, Fourtet, Nels Cline, The Beatles, Squarepusher, MUM, Beck, Bjork, Jaga Jazzist, Sparkelhorse, Radiohead, Death Cab, Modest Mouse, Postal Service, Papa M, Outkast, Wu-Tang, Fog, Pearl Jam, Del, Exhaust, Godspeedyoublackemperor!, Primus, Bouncing Souls, Boards of Canada, the Advantage, Hella, Cypress Hill, Tortoise, Ravi Shankar, Kid Koala, Igloo, CCR, Nirvana, Robert Johnson, Led Zeppelin, Fiona Apple, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Cracker, Fly Pan Am, Hepcat, Sonic Youth, Miles Davis, Ben Folds, Wagon Christ, Ray Charles, Skalpel, the doors, the flaming lips, Jimi Hendrix, Weezer, Buffalo Daughter, Cinematic orchestra, Deerhoof, Eric Sermon, Mix Master Mike, Scott Amendola, Johnny Cash, Leo Kottke, Nostalgic Stasis, Architecture In Helsinki, Animal Collective, Swimming, Hot Chip, the Z's, David Bowie, the Ian Fays, Dntel, Psapp, Ethiopiques, Boom Bip...

Movies:

***(update GO SEE both No Country For Old Men, and There Will Be Blood!... do it before the Oscars clouds your judgement!)*** the big lebowski, Down by law, office space, the good the bad and the ugly, dead man, Mall Rats, Grosse Pointe Blank, Groundhogs day, royal tenenbaums, Garden State, American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, punch drunk love, lost in translation, Alice in Wonderland, Return of the Jedi, pulp fiction, Yojimbo, anything Kubrick, kirosawa, hitchcock, coen brothers, david lynch, Jim Jarmusch, Harmony Korine, Wes Anderson, P.T. anderson, todd solondz.

Television:

The X-files, Arrested Development, Flight of the Conchords, Heroes, Gerhardt Reinke's Wanderlust, UEFA Cup, Amercican Dad, Family Guy, Conan O'brien, The X-files, the Simpsons, 6 Feet Under, Deadwood, Reno911, The Office, Bill Mahr, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Oakland A's, Warriors, or Raiders games, NBA Playoffs, Southpark, The Daily Show, Sportscenter

Books:

Don't get me wrong... I don't read nearly enough... maybe now that I'm done with college I'll have time for pleasure reading. The Catcher in the Rye, Jurrasic Park, The Tao of Pooh, do adbusters and text books count? Is there something you think I should be reading?

Heroes:

Bill Mahr, Nels Cline, Bill Murray, Van gogh, Noam Chomsky, Adam Pierce, and the one armed man i met in venice who's job is to travel the world and take pictures for travel agencies.

My Blog

China Blog 13 - Rebkong

this is another recap blog... well i guess since i won't have time to catch up to the present they will all be recap blogs from here on out... in fact the last few will have to be written from the sta...
Posted by Aaron on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:59:00 PST

China Blog 12 - recap - Jykendo to Xining

So here goes another recap blog. The last blog left off with meeting the Yogi just outside of Nangchen. Off the top of my head I would say that we arrived in Jykendo on July 10th. So honestly i guess ...
Posted by Aaron on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:39:00 PST

china blog 11 - recap - Tashi's School and the Yogi

So again this is a recap of past events from my school trip. the last blog left off when we were leaving nangchen for the Tashi Tang Non-Profit School for Nomadic Children. So the Tashi's school is lo...
Posted by Aaron on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:16:00 PST

China Blog .10 - Recap - Chamba Lin Monastery to Nangchen

Again this is a recap of past events, picking up from Blog #9 where I left off in Riwoche. I don't know the date of these events off of the top of my head, but I think it was around July 7th... The ne...
Posted by Aaron on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:48:00 PST

China Blog .9 - Recap... Riwoche

Ok... so at last I have finally taken the time to do some more blogging... this blog will be a recap of the end of the school trip. My second to last blog left off in Chamdo in the TAR (tibetan autono...
Posted by Aaron on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:49:00 PST

China Blog 8 - Research Trip is over... time for vacation!

Free at last! It has been an amazing summer with the 2006 Field Research Trip, but now I'm ready to relax and let the vacation portion of this trip begin. I'd like to thank my fellow program participa...
Posted by Aaron on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:24:00 PST

China Blog 7... finally

so here I am sitting in jykundo wearing my new monk robes... just kidding, i changed out before i went out on the street. but as you can see from my picture i got some nice new threads... i guess all ...
Posted by Aaron on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:59:00 PST

China Blog 6.0 yading is amazing

Oh my buddha!!! Yading Nature Reserve in Yunnan province near Daocheng (or Dap Ba in tibetan) makes Yosemite look like childs play, and I'm a major Yosemite enthusiast.  You should all go&nb...
Posted by Aaron on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:42:00 PST

China Blog 5.0... this is a long one, not for the faint of heart or stomach

Oh man... its been a few days now since my last blog... its a little hard to remember through the diareah, altitude sickness, dehydration, homesickness, swollen feet, idle hands depression (from not h...
Posted by Aaron on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:28:00 PST

china blog 4.0....4.1 to come later

So i haven't been able to blog since i have been so busy as of late. We left beijing by train and headed to xian where we were having our Alexander Von Humboldt and Zheng He Conference on Travel Writi...
Posted by Aaron on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:31:00 PST