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Loren(!)

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

That Guy Who Does the Closing Announcements in Green, Saul Williams, Garrison Keillor, Charlie Kaufman, Dave Eggers, Jesus.

Music:

ZZ Top, The Ying Yang Twins, The Who, Vocal Music Workshop, The Violent Femmes, The Velvet Underground, Van Morisson, The Unicorns, Tom Petty, The TestosterTones, Tenacious D, Talking Heads, The Sweet, Sublime, Stillwater, Steppenwolf, Steely Dan, Simon & Garfunkle, The Shins, The Scorpions, Saul Williams, Santana, Ry Cooder, Royksopp, Robert Johnson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Ramones, Radiohead, R.E.M., Queen, The Presidents of the United States of America, The Police, The Pixies, Pink Floyd, Phish, Peter Outerbridge, Peter Frampton, Peanut Butter Wolf, Peaches, Pavement, Paul Simon, NWA, Neutral Milk Hotel, Necro, Mr. Scruff, The Moldy Peaches, Miles Davis, Moby, Mac Dre, Lyrics Born, The Lovin' Spoonful, Louis Armstrong, Led Zeppelin, Latryx, Ladysmith Black Mombazo, The Kings of Convenience, Joe Walsh, Jimi Hendrix, Jethro Tull, Jane's Addiction, James Taylor, James Brown, Jackson Browne, Jack Johnson, Herbie Hancock, Harry Nilsson, Gwar, The Guess Who, Gorillaz, The Gift of Gab, George Harrison, The Fugs, Frou Frou, Frank Zappa, Frank Sinatra, The Flaming Lips, Fat Boy Slim, Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Camera Obscura, Elton John, Easy-E, Dr. Hook, The Doors, The Doobie Brothers, Don McLean, Dire Straits, Devendra Banhart, Del the Funky Homosapien, The Decemberists, David Bowie, Cream, The Clash, Ciara, The Chemical Brothers, Chanticleer, Cat Stevens, The Cars, Canned Heat, Cake, The Butthole Surfers, Burt Bacharach, Bubba Sparxx, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Blood Sweat & Tears, The Blue Oyster Cult, Blackalicious, Bill Withers, Big Tymers, Big Pun, Belle & Sebastian, Beck, The Beatles, The Beastie Boys, The Beach Boys, Basement Jaxx, Barry White, B.B. King, The Avalanches, The Ataris, Antonio Vivaldi, The Animals, The Allman Brothers Band, The Alley Cats, Alexi Murdoch, Air, and AC/DC.

Movies:

Cube, The Aristocrats,

Television:

Family Guy, Seinfeld, Futurama, Arrested Devlopment, SNL, Da Ali G Show... I dunno, Maury.

Books:

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, Giraffes? Giraffes!, Your Disgusting Head, Once A Runner, The Phantom Tollbooth, Breakfast of Champions, Ender's Game, On the Nature of Things, A Clockwork Orange, , said the shotgun to the head, Vice, McSwy's Quarterly, The Believer.

Heroes:

Gabe Jennings, Bill Clinton

My Blog

Angry Fish

Where my italics at?Loren NewmanMarch 24, 2007Angry FishI shall unhinge thy gills, defile thy mother. Attend me, look at my scales  they are shiny, oh yes. Glorious blood lust, O red haze in mine eye...
Posted by Loren(!) on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:07:00 PST

Harry Potter Prediction

Loren NewmanBy Merlin's Beard: The Deathly Hallows ForetoldOn July 21st, 2007, the world will hold its breath. At midnight, bookstore shelves will be collectively barren, parents will grudgingly revok...
Posted by Loren(!) on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:48:00 PST

O I THINK they HYPHY

I actually got to write about E-40 for a class (The Rhetoric of Cool). People had no idea wht the fuck I was talking about, they know nothing of the Yay and its people! I consider it my obligation to ...
Posted by Loren(!) on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:58:00 PST

Chuck Norris!

So I really got to interview The Chuck Norris: It was on a conference call and so I only got to ask a few questions. Thank You to everyone who gave me questions, here is the interview in its abbreviat...
Posted by Loren(!) on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:11:00 PST

new favorite word

brobdingnagian - adj. big.Like the giant in Gullivers Travels!!!Ex. That is one brobdingnagian afro, my man!Sorry meandering and bildungsroman, you are now 2 and 3 respectively....
Posted by Loren(!) on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 04:42:00 PST

Out of Context Harry Potter Orgy?

Don't ask me why i wrote this, its a long story...  "Hermione, what--?" "In here!"  Hermione seized Harry's arm and dragged him across the hall to the door of a broom closet; she opened it, pus...
Posted by Loren(!) on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:36:00 PST

McSweeneys, how i love thee...

  THIRTY-NINEQUESTIONS FORCHARLIE DANIELSUPON HEARING"The Devil WentDown to Georgia"for the First Timein 25 Years. BY JOHN MOE - - - - 1. The Devil won that fiddling contest, right? 2. Because...
Posted by Loren(!) on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:53:00 PST

Graduation Speech

  I was selected to speak at Graduation and luckily enough it went pretty well. Here is my speech in its entirety: So, this is it, we are all sitting, waiting&waiting to get on with this ceremony...
Posted by Loren(!) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

BTW mates...

BTW, for those of you who didnt know, i now have a live journal that is moderately to extremely kick ass (!) Check it out at: http://www.livejournal.com/users/capt_hipshot/ Pics like this may be...
Posted by Loren(!) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Finally the Final Draft

Say Cheese& The decay of American society has been a hot topic for writers for the past century or so. There have been many causes implicated and many fingers pointed but no consensus reached. It is ...
Posted by Loren(!) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST