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About Me

i get up at 5:00 in the morning. then i go build things out of wood. then i drink a thermos of coffee at breaktime. i work with my hands, and i'm proud of it. i like to play my fiddle on my porch. i don't really ever get bored. i bake good bread. i'm a patient man, i'm good with dogs, and i can fix just about anything if i can see inside it. i prefer used over new, wool over polyester, and leather over plastic. imitations bother me. i save little scraps of wood and metal, sometimes for years, until i find some use for them. you would probably find me extremely boring. almost all my clothes are brown or blue. i have a lot of plaid shirts.

my more interesting musical alter-ego is Taking Out the Wane

My Interests

plaid shirts, canada, sawmills, painting, bikes, fixies, track bikes, kimchi, long cold walks, polaroids, tea, stone walls in the country, fairy tales, printer's ink, linseed oil, typewriters, animal bones, playing my electric guitar with a violin bow, tin cups, jacknives, homemade plywood furniture, chippewa boots, breakfast sandwiches

I'd like to meet:

people who realize that people are more important than stuff. folks who know the words and are willing to sing along, banjo players, quakers, cowboys, sailors. if your idea of a good time is a small-town minor league baseball game, chopping wood, exploring abandoned houses, driving around in vermont, building a campfire beside a lake, or shooting cans with a bb gun, i'm your man.

Music:

iron and wine, godspeedyou!blackemperor, songs:ohia, low, hood, reeltime travelers, old crow medicine show, idaho, hank williams, barzin, pinetop seven, gillian welch, cursive, sufjan stevens, johnny cash, victory at sea, pinback, tristeza, whiskeytown, wilco, bill monroe

Movies:

la jete, cocteau's orpheus, la strada

Books:

close range, the shipping news (anything by annie proulx, really) rilke's book of hours, invisible cities (le cittÃ invisibile), cruddy, beowulf, the perks of being a wallflower, waiting for the barbarians, the fountainhead, rumi's poetry, recently getting into hafiz as well.

Heroes:

major taylor. 1899 one-mile world championship winner.