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Andrew

laughing behind the back of adversity

About Me

You can't know me... I don't know me.
But, I got three words to say to you, Royal Grand Prix...

My Interests

Music, Beer, Driving, Baseball, Hockey, Reading, Demolition Derbys, Explosions, Trebuchets, www.whatifsports.com, Red Cat Records

I'd like to meet:

The Apple Strudel Man, the Girl From Ipanema, the Children of the Corn and whoever has my DVD of Straight To Hell and Fishing With John.

Music:

Geoff Berner, Blanche, Bughouse Five, The Buttless Chaps, Captain Beefheart, Johnny Cash, The Cramps, Ray Condo, The Damned, Deadbolt, Deja Voodoo, The Dik Van Dykes, The Doers, Johnny Dowd, The Eagles of Death Metal, The Fastbacks, Flipper, Flop, The Fugs, Howe Gelb, Ghost House, Holly Golightly, Gore Gore Girls, The Gruesomes, Hank and Lily, The Highballs, Amy Honey, Chris Houston, The Knitters, Man... or Astroman?, Carolyn Mark, The Meat Puppets, The Meat Purveyors, Tolan McNeil, The Minutemen, The Monkees, Ennio Morricone, Motörhead, The Nervous Breakdowns, Nomeansno, Ford Pier, Radio Birdman, Ramones, The Replacements, The Rezillos, Rod Torfulson's Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuk, Run Chico Run, The Sadies, Gil Scott-Heron, Slow, Slow Poke and The Smoke, David P. Smith, The Soft Boys, Soul Coughing, Split Lip Rayfield, Carl Stalling, The Stooges, Swank, They Shoot Horses Don't They?, Velvet Underground, Wall of Voodoo, Link Wray, X, Young Fresh Fellows

Movies:

Apocalypse Now, Army of Darkness, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Big Lebowski, Big Trouble In Little China, Brazil, The Changling, Crumb, Dawn of the Dead (70's version), Dead Man, The Dirty Dozen, Duck Soup, Eight Men Out, FUBAR, Goodfellas, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Highway 61, Life of Brian, The Long Riders, Matewan, Mr. Death, Night of the Hunter, Resevoir Dogs, Repoman, Schizopolis, Slapshot, (This Is) Spinal Tap, Straight To Hell, The Thin Man, The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers (70's versions), The Thing, Thunder Road, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Usual Suspects, Wild Zero

Television:

Arrested Development, Deadwood, Extras, Fawlty Towers, Fishing With John, The Goodies, Hockey Night In Canada, In Search Of..., Kids In The Hall, King of the Hill, Monty Python, The Night Stalker, The Office, Red Dwarf, The Rockford Files, Rome, The Simpsons, Speed Racer, Trailer Park Boys, The Twilight Zone, The Young Ones

Books:

Our Band Could Be Your Life - Michael Azerrad, Short Stories - Ambrose Bierce, The Conquest of New Spain - Bernal Diaz, The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas, Flashman and the Great Game - George MacDonald Fraser, The Histories - Herodotus, The Bandy Papers - Donald Jack, The Face of Battle - John Keegan, The First Casualty - Phillip Knightley, Please Kill Me - Legs McNeil, The Watchmen - Alan Moore, Never Mind the Pollacks - Neil Pollack, Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett, Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book - Shel Silverstein, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - B. Traven, The Proud Tower - Barbara Tuchman, Cat's Cradle - Kurt VonnegutArtists: Sergio Aragones, Linda Barry, Eva Brannen, Jack Davis, Drew Friedman, Edward Gorey, Goya, Kate Kennedy, Dorthea Lang, Gary Larson, Don Martin, Sean Maxey, Bill Mauldin, J. McLaughlin, Raymond Pettibon, David P. Smith, Elke Starck, Ralph Steadman, Rob Thomson, Gahan Wilson

Heroes:

Daffy Duck, Reid Fleming, Victor Franco, Emma Goldman, Ted Lindsay, Lee Marvin, Steve McQueen, Robert Mitchum, Van Lingle Mungo, Elmo Oxygen, Les Paul, Snake Pliskin, Jim Rockford, Boris S. Wort

My Blog

I moved.

I moved.Loooonnng story... not going to go into it here.  I'll post a big blog about it one day soon.Anyway, over the course of 27 days, Amy and I drove from one side of the country (Vancouver Is...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:18:00 PST

Let me off this planet... I’ll walk the rest of the way.

"We've been attacked," he says, "by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture."
Posted by Andrew on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:33:00 PST

Whew!

Well that sure was a hell ride.All better now. At least, as far as I can tell... and barring life suddenly deciding to become a motherfucker again.Now, where was I before I was so rudely interuppted?...
Posted by Andrew on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:02:00 PST

Good Bye Kurt Vonnegut

I'm not going to shit on his memory by trying to write anything eloquent about his passing. All I'm going to say is, fuck goddamn, I'm sad to see him go. I guess 84 years is a pretty good run, and a...
Posted by Andrew on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:21:00 PST

Hey Bands... Publicity Guy

Odd thing... Dave Gowans and I are slowly but surely trading lives. I think we'll draw the line at the wives, we're pretty partial to the ones we have.Anyway, the latest step is that I will be taking...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:20:00 PST

My Life: The Soundtrack

Opening credits: Ennio Morricone - Ecstasy of GoldWaking up: Bill Haley & His Comets - Forty Cups of CoffeeAverage day: Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Having An Average Weekend First date: Amy ...
Posted by Andrew on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:05:00 PST

Best Albums of 2006

Best Albums of 2006 (in alphabetical order):Belle & Sebastian - The Life PursuitI'll tell you the truth, I was never the biggest fan of Belle & Sebastian's cardigan wearing tea time pop music. Then t...
Posted by Andrew on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:45:00 PST

2006 in Review

1) DRINKING BUDDY OF THE YEAR? When I'm drinking, everyone is my buddy.2) LIFETIME SERVICE AWARD - LONGEST FRIEND(s)? Garth, Doug, Juliet and Elke have all hit the "half a lifetime" mark. 3) NEWCOMER...
Posted by Andrew on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:35:00 PST

Booze and Me

1. When was the last time you drank?Coupla beers last night.2. Where did you drink at?Home.3. Have you ever been kicked out of a bar?Yup. I was kicked out of the Art's Club on Seymour for bringing my...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:08:00 PST

Ashlee wants you to join the Secret Webcams Group. Go to Hell.

The thing I hear from a lot of my female friends, about what sucks about myspace, is the creepy guys that contact them. Chick collectors, lonely dweebs, potential stalkers and the other usual detritu...
Posted by Andrew on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:36:00 PST