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lucas

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

friends

Music:

abba, beck, chopin, debussy, emf, faith no more, gogol bordello, hive, inxs, jamiroquai, king missle, l7, massive attack, ned's atomic dustbin, oingo boingo, prince, queensryche, red elvises, soul coughing, tin hat trio, ugly kid joe, violent femmes, the world/inferno friendship society, xtc, "weird al" yankovic, zappa

Movies:

any movie that has an exclamation point in the title.

Television:

i usually catch a minute here and there of all the retarded shit my housemates watch as i'm passing through the living room, from dog the bounty hunter to hours upon hours of law and order. so much law and order.

Books:

listing authors is easier than listing titles:
paul auster, albert camus, umberto eco, ralph ellison, john gardner, hermann hesse, tatsuya ishida, james joyce, franz kafka, immanuel kant, stephen king, gabriel garcia marquez, friedrich nietzsche, thomas pynchon, tom robbins, salman rushdie, jean-paul sartre, kurt vonnegut, bill watterson, irvine welsh

Heroes:

people who don't suck

My Blog

you cannot leave the subject line blank, you cannot

    Or dangerous machinery, ripping the past off of a misfortunate soul, one he claims to be misspelt but we all know to be highly accurate. Accurate.  That n- it wants to slip in ...
Posted by lucas on Mon, 12 May 2008 01:28:00 PST

the garage sale analogy doesn’t really hold it down up here

everyone around me seems to be overwhelmed.  myself included.  i have discovered myself to be a sponge-like organism, absorbing the pain, despair, frustration, mistakes, desperation, et cete...
Posted by lucas on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:14:00 PST

these things exist in the world we live in

lately, ive been spending quite a bit of time trying to figure whether or not it's me who is completely insane or the entirety of the world we live in.  i think i have found evidence supporting t...
Posted by lucas on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:04:00 PST

tard

so what do you fuckers do when people reenter your life after a prolonged absence?me, being lucas bantner, being the final say in all things tardish, being that poor chap you shake your head at when h...
Posted by lucas on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:48:00 PST

fuck productivity

i'm really supposed to be, i don't know, doing something.  instead i'm sitting here, introspective, pondering this web interface that i have neglected for so long.  some of you have taken of...
Posted by lucas on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:56:00 PST

this blog sucks. i'm out of practice.

any of you weirdos heard of the alexander technique?i attended a lecture on this last night.  or should i say i was forced to by my piano instructor.  i'm skeptical.  at first glance, i...
Posted by lucas on Thu, 17 May 2007 03:10:00 PST

against:

-sitting on 2 goal leads-looking tired.  bored.  lazy.  over it.-todd bertuzzi -"even strength" power plays -patrick marleau-matt carle-being out-hit, out skated, and out shot by a bunc...
Posted by lucas on Tue, 08 May 2007 10:41:00 PST

I ja kljanus obostzav dva paltza schto muzika poshla ot Zvukov Mu!

potentially sarcastic or completely serious hoorays are in order.  i'll let you determine which is which.  get them all right and win a really cool thing!  i'm not really sure what, yet...
Posted by lucas on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:41:00 PST

it's about fucking god damn finally

yeah, that doesn't make any sense but it does give you an idea of the exasperation i've felt about this stupid winter quarter.  i'd been stretched a little thin; thinner than calista flockhart, t...
Posted by lucas on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:53:00 PST

slipping, slipping, down we go whee splat!

scene:  joe versus that fucking volcano.  he, bitch in hand, jumps in just as the eruption takes place, the steam pressure magically reversing his downward direction, flinging him back out, ...
Posted by lucas on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:49:00 PST