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the Brass Monkey

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About Me

Island hopping from southern to northern hemispheres. Making something out of 25 layers and big old yellow houses.

My Interests

Micro brews, 1% milk, snow drift espionage

I'd like to meet:

Katie Loesel, MOOSE, the Alchemist

Music:

Animal Collective, NPR

Movies:

The Constant Gardner, Kung Fu, Sofia Coppola

Books:

Harry Potter, J.D. Salinger, D.H. Lawrence, Murakami, Camus, my brother especially.

My Blog

He must have been Hungarian

He must have been Hungarian Jennings was an ordinary man. Ordinary not only in stature, but also in that no color found on his body stood out from any other. The tone of his skin seemed to blend i...
Posted by the Brass Monkey on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:38:00 PST

tropic of capricorn

I don't think this place has enough action for Henry Miller.Although, today we did spy on an old fashioned wedding .. but we weren't very covert about it. We can't really be covert .. we're taller th...
Posted by the Brass Monkey on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:18:00 PST

September 23rd

This morning for about 2 seconds I thought that Americans we're renting the bungalow below us. Then I realized that it was just the introduction from Fear & Loathing that presents Tom Jones singing "...
Posted by the Brass Monkey on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:57:00 PST

"La paix n'est pas un mot, mais un comportement"

"Peace is not a word but a behavior" -Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Posted by the Brass Monkey on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:59:00 PST

Le Sang des autres

Le sang des autresPar Simone de Beauvoir Hélène se retrouvera dans la rue. Elle regarda la bicyclette avec dégoût : juste là où elle l'avait laissée, comme un chien patient et importun. Elle s'él...
Posted by the Brass Monkey on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:11:00 PST

in a field of violets

"Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to ...
Posted by the Brass Monkey on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:56:00 PST