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Ethan Steele

Rule #96: Etiquette isn't old-fashioned. It's sexy!

About Me


I've had eight cars and two motorcycles in eight years. I've interviewed for twenty four jobs, been offered twenty two and held twenty in ten years. I've lived at ten addresses in five states and only been asked to leave once my whole life. I will always be the first to tell you an embarrassing story about myself, but the last to ask what's on your mind. I listen more when it doesn't matter and less when it does. I believe that man is inherently good, but that mankind is inherently evil. I love to hate everything and hold that pessimism is more than a tendency, it is a belief. I think that MySpace is possibly the worst thing to happen to society in the history of the world. I'm also occasionally a hypocrite.

My Interests

Shitting on people that wear a tie to the bars either loosened or completely undone.

edit: People that wear bluetooth cellphone headsets anywhere in public are 1000x more offensive.

I'd like to meet:


Shift Happens

Music:

Anything to inspire involuntary head nodding (especially within an auto,) every one hit wonder since 1950, any band whose name is mentioned on I Love the 80’s or 90’s, songs that start out slow and slap you in the face with their ass kicking just as you’re about the change the station, continuous techno that makes you lose track of time, Headbanger’s Ball-esque metal/rock that makes you feel like it would be perfectly OK to drive through a crosswalk in use, and the Thundercats theme. I like anything that I can look like a total idiot/asshole (depending on POV) listening and rocking out to in stop and go traffic.

Movies:

Memento, The Usual Suspects, Seven, A Simple Plan, What the "Bleep" Do We Know, Arlington Road, Brick, The Time Machine, Swingers, A Princess Bride, GO, Four Rooms, Super Troopers, 8MM, The Matrix, The Mexican, Boiler Room, Waiting, Wall Street, Glengarry Glen Ross, Heat, Twelve Monkeys, Under Siege, Demolition Man, TMNT, Legend, Who Framed Rodger Rabbit, A Scanner Darkly... I could go on.

Television:

History Channel, Discovery, TLC, HBO and Showtime's series (Entourage, Deadwood, Weeds, Brotherhood, Rome, Sleeper Cell etc.) Movies don't have commercials, so I tend to watch more of them. (I hate product placement and basically all advertising even though I am occasionally impressed by its creativity.)

Books:

Albert Camus' The Stranger, Tucker Max's I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov... my train of thought doesn't afford me the ability to read very often.

Heroes:

My father. My mother. My sister. Anyone that respects others as much as themselves.

My Blog

Don't judge me, unless you want to judge me...

Since you asked and since I claim to have nothing to hide... here you go! I did this almost exactly a year ago. I hadn't looked at it until I changed my picture here, honest! The experiment was origin...
Posted by Ethan Steele on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:55:00 PST

Dave Matthews Band is not ALL bad...

Once, when I was five and my sister was three my mother asked us what we wanted for dinner. My sister answered on my behalf, We want French fries! I disagreed. She insisted with her hands on her hips,...
Posted by Ethan Steele on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:28:00 PST

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Free up 6 minutes and watch this entire movie. It was directed by Mark Osborne in 1999, and is the highest rated short film on IMDB. It was first shown to me in a film class while I was in school in ...
Posted by Ethan Steele on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 02:21:00 PST