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Mark

Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking i

About Me

I'm an average-looking, moderately-voting, middle-class American who graduated with an obsolete business and communications degree from a corporate-supported state university. I work from nine to five on weekdays and sometimes weekends at a business-related job that i have trouble defining to others. I make enough money to pay the mortgage on a new home in a large, quickly expanding suburban subdivision. I own a safe car. I work out three times a week at a local gym, read magazines at home and suspense novels at the beach, and listen to compilations of popular contemporary music in the car. I eat out more often than I cook. I go to church on Christmas and Easter and when I feel uncertain or afraid. I have trouble remembering the names of characters in films but not the actors who play them. I don't believe that American culture is too focused on violence or portrays women in a negative way. I believe that racism and sexism are dead, that God, while he may not be the entity my parents' religion says he is, is a unifying spiritual force which watches over everything, and that capitalism is the freedom of a human being to make his or her own choices.
Just kidding.
Jon Braman and Lisette Braman and I just finished this music video for his new song "Guru." Here it is:
you can see it at YouTube (and share it...)@: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F34WIf3t0QI

My Interests

everything for at least a few seconds.

I'd like to meet:

the kids I'm going to have some day. also aliens from another planet.

Music:

Elliott Smith, Coldplay, Songs:Ohia, Fiona Apple, Vetiver, Joanna Newsom, Gorillaz, Neil Young, do I need to say the Beatles? Okay, the Beatles. Badly Drawn Boy, BECK! Oh, Beck. Ben Folds, BEN FOLDS yes, Built to Spill, Jon Braman, Cat Power, Counting Crows, the Cranberries, David Bowie, Death Vessel... and so on.

Movies:

Lars Von Trier's American trilogy. Whoa.

Television:

West Wing, Animaniacs, I used to really love Wishbone and Kratts' Creatures when they used to be on back to back after school. And of course The Simpsons.

Books:

at the moment "The Moviegoer" by Walker Percy. He's thinkin what I'm sayin!!

Heroes:

my parents, my sisters, my aunts and uncles and cousins and my grandparents, and the black teenagers who sat in soda shops where black people weren't allowed during the civil rights movement.