Beau profile picture

Beau

Rub some Gatorade on it.

About Me

first concert

My Interests

i possess general interests!

I'd like to meet:

the spirit of jazz

Music:

i love music!

Movies:

i love movies!

Television:

i love television!

Books:


nation of rebels: why counterculture became consumer culture, the open society and its enemies, the world according to garp, lost girls, salt: a history, the kite runner, temporary autonomous zone, QED: the strange theory of light and matter, the elegant universe, blonde like me: the roots of the blonde myth in our culture, in cold blood, wigfield, a prayer for owen meaney, why i am not a christian, the great movies, the great movies 2, high fidelity, middlesex, coldheart canyon, the hellbound heart, i know this much is true, snow crash, the thief of always, escape from film school, the devil in the white city, youth in revolt, fates worse than death, a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again, a season on the brink, where i'm calling from, barrel fever, naked, me talk pretty one day, drugs and human behavior, a confederacy of dunces, the things they carried, rum punch, lucky, night, bitch: in defense of difficult women, abarat, real money: sane investing in an insane world, idoru, the most dangerous game, the adventures of kavalier and clay, tales of ordinary madness, rip it up and start again: postpunk 1978-1984, the lovely bones, can't stop won't stop, the amateur marriage, desperation, hollywood babylon, the kid stays in the picture, last night a dj saved my life, in the realm of the senses, mona lisa overdrive, midnight in the garden of good and evil, made in detroit: a south of 8 mile memoir, the road, geek love: a novel, amphigorey, thunderstruck, what's so great about america?, the blind side: evolution of a game, atonement, dry: a memoir, cocaine, thomas jefferson, prisoner of trebekistan, pattern recognition, future shock, the other boleyn girl, the collectors, the conquest of cool: business culture, counterculture and the rise of hip consumerism, efficient society: why canada is as close to utopia as it gets, the god delusion, forty stories, storming the reality studio: a casebook of cyberpunk & post modern science fiction, her smoke rose up forever, on the bright side i'm now the girlfriend of a sex god: further confessions of georgia nicolson, nova express, the shockwave rider, islands in the net, synners, frontera, blood music, dangerous angels: the weetzie bay books, city of golden shadow, automated alice, transmetropolitan, altered carbon, the autobiography of abbie hoffman, murmurs of earth: the voyager interstellar record, the stone fields: an epitaph for the living, your disgusting head, the perks of being a wallflower, john adams, the works: anatomy of a city, white noise, open secrets, servants of the map, tipping the velvet, the rules of attraction, blood meridian, perdido street station, the wasp factory, gates of eden, nobrow, please kill me, a new kind of science, do androids dream of electric sheep? no logo, our band could be your life, i like you: hospitality under the influence, the audacity of hope
(currently reading)

Heroes:

mark rothko
gerhart richter
richard dawkins
thurston moore
barack obama

My Blog

oh no. i got tagged.

i got tagged by Lindsay. ten random facts coming in 3.. 2..technically speaking, i was once listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. in the spring of 2001 i participated in what was then "The Wor...
Posted by Beau on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:38:00 PST

say it one time for the broken hearted

yesterday at work i began reading ’Say it One Time for the Broken Hearted’ by Barney Hoskyns. Hoskyns posits that the black Motown soul acts of the 1960’s were drawing from the same ...
Posted by Beau on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:49:00 PST

mayweather hatton

Begrudging as it is to admit, if for nothing else, the fabric of our reality remains unscathed.Ricky Hatton wasn't allowed to win last night. Inasmuchas as it is American's societal imperative To Win ...
Posted by Beau on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:56:00 PST

HELL-O-WEEN SHOWDOWN: ZOMBIE V. SHARK

...
Posted by Beau on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:00:00 PST

it puts seven filters on the reality

coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool. via EnglishRussia.com (SFW)...
Posted by Beau on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:58:00 PST

No Country For Old Men

    I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three times. Three times. The last time was...
Posted by Beau on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:20:00 PST

spook country: second impressions

dan brown's 'the davinci code' popularized our generation's irritatingly contemporary literary habit of filling a 300-500 page novel with chapters that are, at their longest, four to five pages in len...
Posted by Beau on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:20:00 PST

spook country: first impressions

"After they'd had a look at Alberto's memorial to Helmut Newton, which involved a lot of vaguely Deco-style monochrome nudity in honor of its subject's body of work, she walked back to the Mondrian th...
Posted by Beau on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:21:00 PST

we might as well talk about my hand

you would think something that looks as ghastly as my right hand looks right now would hurt.you'd be wrong.there isn't pain so much as itchiness (which means healing is happening!) and an everpresent ...
Posted by Beau on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:35:00 PST

an advertisement for delicious food? or a nascent reminder of our impending death?

it really makes you think. (kinda)
Posted by Beau on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:43:00 PST