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Chikowski

never know who you'll bump into

About Me

i'm the guy with his hood on, and earphones around his neck, leaning on a pillar in the dark smoky bar staring past the rock band playing on stage on one of those days where a life altering event is just waiting to happen...

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My Interests

- kayaking - reading - writing - music - languages - history - political science

I'd like to meet:

Friends slash People in General

Music:

Oh where to begin...- Archer Prewitt - Beck - Coldplay - Death Cab for Cutie - Eels - Fiona Apple - Franz Ferdinand - Hot Hot Heat - Karen Ann - Modest Mouse - Nirvana - Our Lady Peace - Pavement - Pedro the Lion - Radiohead - Ramones - Sam Roberts - Sarah Slean - Silverchair - Sonic Youth - Spoon - The Arcade Fire - The Beatles - The White Stripes - The Strokes - The Hives - The Killers - The Rolling Stones - The Smashing Pumpkins - Village Warsaw Band - Wilco

Movies:

- Cidade de Deus - Spirited Away - Fight Club - Amelie - 50 First Dates - The Wedding Singer - Happy Gilmore - Wayne's World

Television:

- The Simpsons - The Family Guy - That 70's Show - Desperate Housewives

Books:

- "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel - "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card - "Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card - "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien - "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse - "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier - "The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll

Heroes:

My Father, Gandhi, NYC Firefighters, WWII Vets

My Blog

hail comrades

so my name is Chikowski because my ancestors might be from Prussia. never heard of it? it's roundabouts where Poland and Germany are. Just take a left and travel back in time and it shouldn't be hard ...
Posted by Chikowski on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:22:00 PST

oh ... my ... god

wilco is coming to london.   these 'Smiley's do little to show just how excited i am about the idea of watching a live version of 'jesus etc' or 'ashes of american flags' (or ANYTHING wilco) ... ...
Posted by Chikowski on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 05:17:00 PST

stolen from ashley

Q. Elaborate on your default photo:A. actually, i don't like this photo ... but i have no access to my other pics from this computer so, yeah. anyways, it was taken at the train station when me and my...
Posted by Chikowski on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:29:00 PST

we stole the lights from the sky

maybe if i flip myself upside down and look up, i can pretend the lights i see are stars in the sky. the 10th floor makes it easy to see how that could be done. though i'd have to be drunk to do somet...
Posted by Chikowski on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:05:00 PST

there aint no second chance against the thing with forty eyes

so i saw this sign advertising these three-story apartment buildings over on huron. and it was so sad, because they were offering a free i-pod for anyone who signs a lease. haha, no thankyou. their at...
Posted by Chikowski on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 10:48:00 PST

through trickled leaves it scatters

so i've been sick for over a week now. i'm so sick of being ... sick. i think it's finally over though. i'm sick of this apartment too. nothing's getting fixed. it's not the landlord's fault exa...
Posted by Chikowski on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:38:00 PST

attack of the rice krispy treats!!!

I swear, Ashley is the most beautiful person in the entire world. :) Which makes me the luckiest guy. Because she's also the coolest person too. I just wanted to make that clear. And also to announce...
Posted by Chikowski on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 02:29:00 PST

i guess i'm a movie whore and then some

Put an X by the movies you've seen.If you get more than 70, you're a movie whore.COPY and REPOST !(x) Pirates of the Caribbean(x) Boondock Saints( ) The Mexican(x) Fight Club( ) Starsky and Hutch(x) N...
Posted by Chikowski on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:40:00 PST

those eyes, they were too much, i can't remember them

i don't know why i'm even sharing this. i hate to think about it. i hate it enough to barely speak of it. it's a memory of a night much like this one. everything was dark except the computer screen. a...
Posted by Chikowski on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:50:00 PST

i have but one paddle

somehow, i imagined things happening differently. life is, if anything, unpredictable, isn't it? like being out on the ocean, pushed by unseen currents and wind streams, without much power to steer yo...
Posted by Chikowski on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:18:00 PST