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Twitch

My ass may be dumb, but I ain't no dumb ass.

About Me

hi-fi thought

lo-fi action

wi-fi attention span

JUST ANOTHER MONKEY
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My Interests


storytelling, photography, comic books, ska, singing (badly, for now :P) pinball , the way things work.
Those are the important ones.
Oh yeah, and

I'd like to meet:

People who think like this:

Booking shows and kicking ass since August '05. Check us out .


It was time to retire that whole "before you click 'add to friends'" thing. Yes. Because, believe it or not, I like people. Especially people to go with to hockey games and concerts and the bar, because it's Tuesday, damn it. What more reason do you need?

Music:

I owe allegiance to no one tribe.



What I listened to last week:


I'm a little obsessed with music. Yes.

SKA, punk, reggae, jazz, soul, blues, a little hip-hop and so on.
the laundry list!
The Aggrolites, Air, Joe Beard , James Brown, RL Burnside, Johnny Cash, the Clash, Sam Cooke, the Cramps, Desmond Dekker, (McColgan-era) Dropkick Murphys, the Emersons , The Evens, The Flaming Tsunamis , Flour City Knuckleheads , Fugazi, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Green, PJ Harvey, John Lee Hooker, Kodo, Lightning Bolt, Los Straitjackets, Madness, Mastodon, (pre-Black Album) Metallica, Charles Mingus, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Mofos , My Bloody Valentine, the Pietasters , Pixies, Dan Potthast, Public Access , the Roots, Ruins, Screeching Weasel Sigur Ros, the Slackers, Sleater-Kinney, the Skatalites, the Stay Lows , the Sundresses , Tom Foolery & The Shannanighans Toots & the Maytals, Dar Williams, Link Wray

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, Big Trouble in Little China, Brazil, Brokeback Mountain, Gods And Monsters, Hero (Jet Li), Hitchcock, Jackie Brown, Lost In Translation, the Marx Brothers, A Shot in the Dark, Singin' In The Rain

Television:

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Oz, The Sandbaggers, Sports Night (wouldn't have a TV if it weren't for DVDs)

Books:

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl, David Mamet's nonfiction, Taiyo Matsumoto, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Carla Speed-McNeil, Rumiko Takahashi, Hunter S. Thompson

Heroes:


Carla Speed McNeil

Ian MacKaye

Dar Williams

Muhammad Ali

Rest in Peace:

RL Burnside 1926-2005

Hunter S. Thompson 1937-2005

Johnny Cash 1932-2003

Charles Mingus 1922-1979

Alfred Hitchcock 1899-1980

My Blog

don’t wanna be famous

There are those who chase the love of millions of strangers, and then there are those who work to earn the respect and trust of dozens of friends.Count me among the latter.
Posted by Twitch on Thu, 15 May 2008 07:56:00 PST

I always hoped

that if I meant no harm, I could do no harmbut all it is,is wishful thinking.
Posted by Twitch on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:26:00 PST

doomed, I tell you

I liked The Little Mermaid (I once knew the lyrics to Les Poissons by heart) but I felt that Ariel and Eric's relationship was hopeless.  Flighty little girl (couldn't be more than fifteen, by hu...
Posted by Twitch on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:40:00 PST

we can make him better, faster, stronger

so the cast is gone, expect a couple weeks of physical therapy before I get full use of the hand back...
Posted by Twitch on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:47:00 PST

good news!

"A Rochester woman who was seriously injured last month when she ran in front of a vehicle on Interstate 490 has been discharged from Strong Memorial Hospital."I'm glad she survived, and I wish her a ...
Posted by Twitch on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:21:00 PST

slowed down but still kicking

I was in a car accident late Tuesday/early Wednesday.  Couple bones broken in my right hand, a little shaken up, otherwise fine.I will be around the Krown and the Jar, a little less than recently...
Posted by Twitch on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:35:00 PST

why I book all-ages shows

Ian MacKaye:the United States is certainly an alcoholic country. The alcohol industry is very dominant here. If you're a musician, it becomes very clear. Because our work, my work, things that I do, m...
Posted by Twitch on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:53:00 PST

stupid tag game

10 weird, random things, facts or habits about yourself.I'm supposed to tag ten people or something, but I don't feel like it.  Respond if you like, it doesn't really matter to me.1  I am a ...
Posted by Twitch on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:39:00 PST

shame

The best job I ever had was at a Wal-Mart.No, really.But I didn't have to wear those stupid vests or deal with idiot customers.Started 1999 with a job at Blockbuster and a long-distance girlfriend. I ...
Posted by Twitch on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:56:00 PST

Once upon a time

There was a big Not Young grump who put a fat slab of text on his myspace to scare people away.  Then he decided that people aren't so bad for laughing, crying, dancing, drinking and fucking with...
Posted by Twitch on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:16:00 PST