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Sam

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About Me

I don't fuck people over. I'm handy. Among other things, I find critters for a living and like shooting them.. with my camera. Some of my images are here: Calphotos Most were taken here in California.

My Interests

Cinema, music, art, outside, ecology & sustainability, ornithology and herpetology. Occasional moonlit walks in a booze induced trance and waking up in unfamiliar places are favorite pasttimes.

I'd like to meet:

People who are easily but rarely bored.

Music:

John Scofield, Bowie, early Joe Jackson, Herbie Hancock, nomeansno, Minor Threat, fIREHOSE, Nels Cline, Cornelius, Django Reinhardt, Pink Floyd, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Diz n' Bird, Deltron, Charles Mingus, Elvis Costello, Ennio Morricone, DEVO, Bjork, The Damned, Al Dimeola, The Kinks, The Who, Gary Numan, Mike Oldfield, etc.

Movies:

Rashomon, Ikiru, & Seven Samurai (most anything by Kurosawa). Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, & Wild at Heart (most anything by Lynch). Halloween, In the Mouth of Madness, The Thing, & Prince of Darkness (lots of shit by Carpenter). Brazil, Fear and Loathing, & The Meaning of Life (Gilliam). Juliet of the Spirits, 8 1/2, La Strada, & Satyricon (Fellini). Bob Le Flambeur, Le Cercle Rouge, Le Samurai, Un Flic (Melville). Naked City and Riffifi (Dassin). Les Diabolique & Wages of Fear(Cluozot). Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, The Shining, & Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick). Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, & O'Brother (Coen). Good, Bad, and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, & Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone). Sonatine, Zatoichi, & Battle Royale (Takeshi). Human Nature and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry). Scanners, Videodrome, The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers, & Naked Lunch (Cronenburg). The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Fitzcarraldo, Even Dwarves Started Small, & Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog). Spirited Away & Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki). Alien, Blade Runner, & Legend (Ridley Scott). Akira, The Jerk, The Man with Two Brains, Willy Wonka (Wilder), Easy, Ghost in the Shell (only the 1st movie and the Standalone Complex, GITS2 was shit), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Life of Brian, Kingpin, A Night at the Roxbury (Please forgive me this guilty indulgence), Soylent Green, Logan's Run, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Branded to Kill, True Stories, Matthew Barney (release all that shit fucker!), more and research ongoing

Television:

TODAY: Simpsons, Nova, anything by Sir David Attenborough, The League of Gentlemen (much thanks to Andre!), Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Chappelle, Family Guy. 99% of TV is worthless wank!_______________ OLDIES: anything by Sir David Attenborough, Cosmos, Twin Peaks, Doctor Who (Tom Baker years), Young Ones, Fawlty Towers, Python, Ren & Stimpy, Magnum P.I.

Books:

Henry Miller, Dostoevsky, Bukowski, Kafka, Nabokov, Steinbeck, Vonnegut, Fante, E.E. Cummings, Asimov, Chomsky, Jim Woodring, Daniel Clowes, Stan Sakai, Christopher Hicks, Masamume Shirow, and some others...

Heroes:

Attenborough

My Blog

Stone Brewery 10th Anniversary Celebration

Went to the Stone Brewery on Saturday, September 9th for the 10th Anniversary celebration and beer tasting. There were over 40 breweries offering tasters. I think I can speak for everyone who wen...
Posted by Sam on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:02:00 PST

Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Run

Just got back yesterday from a trip up to Pescadero, a wee town of about 1,500 between Santa Cruz and San Francisco. Its the kind of town time seems to have forgotten. Ranches with cabins and old barn...
Posted by Sam on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:51:00 PST

Have you ever attended a bris?

From "Memoirs of a Drunk" by SStewartEver attended a bris? I'm not particularly fond of the concept as it smacks of genital mutilation but as I told my hebe friend Assaf, I can respect the Jewish trad...
Posted by Sam on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I'm leaving

Over the next few months I'll be paying down my credit card debt, selling all nonessential items, and finding my brother a roommate to pay my 1/2 of the mortgage so I can get the fuck out of this coun...
Posted by Sam on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Eggy Effervescence

I was talking to my boss in her office. She was looking for an exhibit to a document and asked if it was in my possession. I said I'd check my office. I jogged over cause I felt a rumbling in my bo...
Posted by Sam on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST