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Adam

Agent of The Ministry of Propaganda

About Me

My father is a retired businessman and former racecar driver (vintage class), my mother is a housewife is a former pilot (of small aircraft). My brother is a mechanical engineer and works for one of the "Big Three" motor companies in Detroit, Michigan. My family (including myself) loves sailing and boating. I come from 3 generations of businessmen. I love to travel, and the more I travel, the greater my desire to see the world. I was an exchange student in Australia for a summer during highschool, and I studied in London for a semester during college. I grew up in Iowa, moved to Texas for college, and moved to California to try something completely new. The world is too small to stay in one place for too long!

My Interests

Learning, travel, music, cars, sailing, art, oil painting, my guitar, history, soirees, parties, bars, meeting new people, concerts, cocktail parties, shennanigans, media, pop culture, people, reading, getting cultured, driving 'round and roadtrips, harassing people, blah blah blah....

I'd like to meet:

I like people, so really, I'd like to meet people I haven't met yet....View All Friends | View Blog | Add Comment

Music:

Genres- Jazz & BeBop, Indie Rock, Blues, "Alternative," Brit Pop, some hip-hop, some electronica & techno Here are some samples: The Smiths, Garbage, Elastica, The Clash, The Ramones, The Velvet Undrground, Iggy Pop, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, The Faint, Gomez, Portishead, Pink Floyd, Phish, B.B. King, U2, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, Cityview, Blur, Deltron 3030 (or Del the Funky Homosapien), Caesars, Stereolab, Air, Cameron Adkins, Sing-Sing, Jethro Tull, Youth In Orbit, With These Words, Old 97's, Black Tie Dynasty, They Might Be Giants, New Order, The Cure, XTC, NOFX, Interpol, The Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers, OutKast, PJ Harvey, Belle and Sebastian, Superdrag, Matthew Sweet, Cat Power, Echo and the Bunnymen. The Toasters, The Pietasters, Elliot Smith, 41 Gorgeous Blocks, Box Holiday, Lou Reed, New York Dolls, MC5, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday The Helio Sequence, Bob Marley, Smaller, A, Simon & Garfunkel, KMFDM, George Gershwin, Johnny Cash, Stan Getz, Thelonious S. Monk, Horace Silver, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Marr & the Healers, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, At the Drive In, The Mars Volta, Hard-Fi, The Aquabats, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,The Velvet Underground, Franz Ferdinand, Van Morrison, Sublime, Trip Shakespeare, The Streets, The Sundays, Sally Majestic, The Rentals, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, The Violent Femmes, Leftfield, Underworld, Ladytron, Elastica, John Coltrane, James Brown, Guster, The Meters, Janitor Bob and the Armchair Cowboys, Hot Hot Heat, The Hives, Green Day, Goldfinger, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, G. Love and Special Sauce, A, Digable Planets, The Cars, The Black Crowes, Allman Brothers, Five Point Plan, Beck, Duke Ellington, Betty Blowtorch, The Specials, The English Beat, Snoop... this could take hours...

Movies:

(I'm backlogged on a lot of movies I need to see, but here are the ones I like) ---
The Motorcycle Diaries, Almost Famous, Bird, Fight Club, Trainspotting, The Singles, SLC Punk, Boondock Saints, 007, The Usual Suspects, Reservior Dogs, Clerks, Mallrats, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Oh Brother Where art Thou?, The Manchurian Candidate (the Original), Alfred Hitchcock

Television:

The Simpsons, That 70's Show, Futurama, Family Guy, Deadwood, Coupling (BBC Version), The Office (BBC again), Lupin the 3rd, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, [Adult Swim], The Daily Show, Will & Grace, Seinfeld, Modern Marvels,The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Most (but not all) of the History Channel, Insomniac with Dave Attel, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Black Books, The Saint, Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Books:

On The Road, The Lonesome Traveller, The Subterraneans - Jack Kerouac /Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand / High Fidelity - Nick Hornsby / Prague - Anthony Phillips / The Godfather - Mario Puzo /A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking /The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy /A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle

Heroes:

Jack Kerouac / Andy Warhol / Wasily Kandinsky / Alexander the Great / Julius Caesar / Frank Lloyd Wright / Buckminster Fuller / George Washington Carver / Einstein / My Family / My Close Friends (they know who they are)

My Blog

Working from home

Working from home is much better than working at work.Why?1.  You get to stay in extremely comfy clothes2.   You don't get bothered by people who annoy me at work3.   You get to li...
Posted by Adam on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:17:00 PST

MacGregor's Birthday

    That's right, Mac is turning 28, and we're going to celebrate.  Here's the lineup for Friday, May 18th 2007:-Sake House  [sushi & drinks]-The Troubadour  [Melt Ba...
Posted by Adam on Fri, 11 May 2007 08:40:00 PST

Uncle

As of last night at about 4:30am (EST) I became an uncle to a baby boy named Hunter.  I'm happy but kinda in a daze because it's still a little bit of a shock.  Now I finally get to play the...
Posted by Adam on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:59:00 PST

Have a great weekend!

Seriously.  Have a great weekend!  I'm probably going to go see the Slits play (last week was the Damned). Stop reading this and go outside and play!
Posted by Adam on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:28:00 PST

2 Years in California

Time has moved by very fast lately.  Since I've written last, I've seen the X-Games, I've seen a San Diego Chargers game, I've celebrated my 2 year anniversary of living in California, I've visit...
Posted by Adam on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:15:00 PST

Drilling

    I get to go to the dentist!  Whoop-a-dee!  I get to have a needle shoved in my mouth so they can bring in the drill!  Then I get to hear that wonderful noise, accompa...
Posted by Adam on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:53:00 PST

Captive on a Friday afternoon

    I sit and work diligently in my cubicle, listening to music.  I feel unmotivated, yet entirely energetic.  Listless, yet I felt the need to write.  I already feel lik...
Posted by Adam on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 03:58:00 PST

Sick once again

Ill again.  I know many of you have e-mailed me and I'm sorry I haven't been good at responding - I stare at a screen all day, and the last thing I want to do is stare at another screen.  Ju...
Posted by Adam on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:20:00 PST

Thoughts about being sick...

It sucks!
Posted by Adam on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:37:00 PST

Happy New Year!

I know, I know - it has been a very long time since I have even written a blog, let alone posted anything anywhere. So you, reader of my blog, feast upon my obligatory blog with your ravenous eyes.Ok...
Posted by Adam on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:25:00 PST