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adam

I will have my coup d'etat!

About Me

I've lived a few places. Boston was my favorite. Lancaster is where most of my friends and family are. Delaware is where my job happens to be. Philadelphia is where I spend many a weekend. For the first time I have a job that I actually enjoy and things are going well enough. My goals for life include playing with cheetah cubs, owning a 1973 Trans Am and being able to wear slippers and sweatpants to work. Kittens are my one soft spot. I like wine and whiskey just a little too much. I believe that jokes aren't funny unless someone gets offended. Politics make me angry, but I still love them. TiVo, online gambling and the snooze button have shaped my life in various ways. I'm still in love with my girlfriend after six years. I believe that grilling is superior to all other methods of cooking. I look forward to the Red Sox opening day more than I do my birthday. I am a music snob with what would generally be considered a shitty taste in music. There's a good chance I'm the only person you'll ever meet with both Slayer and Roberta Flack in my record collection. It's my opinion that the only way to eat peanut butter is with scrambled eggs, and lox may be the greatest food ever, or maybe sushi, or left-over Chinese food. I'm overly opinionated, but have given up apologizing for it. My girl, my cats and my bed make me happier than anything else in life, except maybe Zoloft. I love books. I am a registered independent, but consider myself a Libertarian at heart. Snakes and Rick Santorum scare the shit out of me. Atlantic City is just about seedy enough to make me feel at home, and I'll take a dive bar over a nice club any day of the week. I hate poetry, but I love Swedish, Communist hardcore lyrics. I could go on and on, but if you're actually reading this, you probably already know it all anyway...This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5

My Interests

music. poker. newspapers. TiVo. books. writing. a good Irish whiskey or three on occasion. cigarettes. Atlantic City. Dropkick Murphy shows. hijinks. horseplay. good times in general.

Music:

ummm...Jazz vinyl, a fair bit of hardcore, post hardcore, metal that breaks convention, some out there stuff (McClusky, Ween, Flaming Lips), early punk, street punk, oi, Refused, Boy Sets Fire, Century, Exodus, (The International Noise) Conspiracy, Avail, Social Distortion, Cave In and as always the only two bands that matter...The Clash and Dropkick Murphys. What I'm listening to generally rotates by the month, week, day, hour, etc...Variety is, after all, the spice of life.

Movies:

thanks to Netflix I've been revisiting some of the exploitation, Italian cannibalism and Japanese horror flicks I hadn't seen in years. Also, anything by Jim Sheridan. old horror movies. dumb comedy. zombie flicks. Gangs of New York. Smokey and the Bandit. Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny.

Television:

baseball (soon football). cartoons. My Name is Earl. The Office (US and UK). 30 Rock. The Daily Show. The Shield. Weeds. I really miss UCB and The State. Sarah and I have also been taking in an absurd amount of Law & Order SVU lately, as well. Anything on Discovery HD, especially programs about big cats.

Books:

Chuck Palahniuk. Hunter S. Thompson. Sam Harris. Bret Easton Ellis. Irvine Welsh. Carl Hiaasen. Kurt Vonnegut. Tom Robbins. Charles Bukowski. Patrick McCabe. political science and history. Local word smith Eric Enck's work.currently: "120 Days of Sodom" by Marquis de Sade

Heroes:

Hunter S. Thompson. my cats. Sam Harris. Keith Olbermann. anyone with a righteous anger that has the balls to scream about it.

My Blog

I'm worth more dead...

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Posted by adam on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 05:56:00 PST

My letter of concession

Dear Pat,Enough already.Much like the first track on Rush's "2112," this has gone too long.Admittedly, many of the genres I mentioned crossover, as do many of favorite bands. Although, Ive got to beli...
Posted by adam on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:06:00 PST

Buffalo Soldier (Dub Version)

I'd like to point out that many of the albums I listed are anything but punk (I'm even hesitant to put much of the Clash's body of work into that catergory). Included on the list was metal, hardcore, ...
Posted by adam on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:39:00 PST

Free Speech: Revealed!

Once again a response blog. This time to Jared's Playboy's Dana Kelly : Revealed! Allow me to weigh in on this one. Talk show hosts - no matter what side of the fence - are generally extremists with g...
Posted by adam on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:49:00 PST

Why Pat Varine is a silly hippie...

In taking exception to Pat Varine's latest blog "100on-Definitive List of the Best Albums Ever," I decided to throw in a few of the glaring omissions. This will be spotty, in no particular o...
Posted by adam on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 09:29:00 PST