afghanistan bananastand

About Me

I'm left-handed and fascinated by giant squid

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

people with wooden legs, but real feet

Music:

Modicum, Los Abandoned, Ambulance LTD, The Kills, Midnight Movies, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Like, Radio Vago, Sahara Hotnights, The Mooney Suzuki, Tegan and Sara, Grandaddy, Kings of Leon, Har Mar Superstar, Muse, Cibo Matto, Namelessnumberheadman, Idlewild, Northern State, Josh Wink, Old 97's, Paul Westerberg, Pinback, Sparklehorse, The White Stripes, Joan Jett, Asobi Sexsu, Tom Waits, The Wrens, Shonen Knife, Johnny Cash, Chemical Brothers, The Go! Team, Coco Rosie, Aimee Mann, Flaming Lips, Liz Phair, The Datsuns, Pink Martini, Puffy Ami Yumi, The Ventures, old Van Halen, I like that Japan-a-radio station on iTunes Radio, Roy Rogers, Le Tigre, PJ Harvey, Machu Picchu (those girls rock) and so on and so forth...

Movies:

Smokey is the Bandit, Jesus is Magic, The American Astronaut, Ed Wood, 2046, The Saddest Music in the World

Television:

Squidbillies, CCTV, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Project Runway, Top Chef, TLC, Conan O'Brien, Fooly Cooly, Family Guy, Futurama, Tom & Jerry

Books:

ones with lots and lots of pictures, In Me Own Words - The Autobiography of Bigfoot, The Sirius Mystery, The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, The Book of the Hopi, Webster's Dictionary

Heroes:

Michio Kaku, Roy Rogers, Satchel Paige, Nikola Tesla, Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Koko the Gorilla, Benjamin Franklin, George Gervin, Hayao Miyazaki, Terry Gilliam, Crispus Attucks, Robert Smigel

My Blog

Penguins on the Moon

THIS JUST IN: ROBOTIC SPACE PENGUIN TO HOP ACROSS THE MOON The first lunar colonists may not be a humans but compact robots capable of jumping more than a kilometre in a single bound. Enginee...
Posted by afghanistan bananastand on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:42:00 PST

Pleistocene Park, Western Nebraska, USA circa 2062

Elephants, lions, cheetahs and camels could one day roam the western US under a proposal to recreate North American landscapes as they existed more than 13,000 years ago, when humans first encountered...
Posted by afghanistan bananastand on Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:39:00 PST

I have a post-it on my computer monitor to rent the films, Dark Waters (1994) and The Hot Rock (1972) and today in the middle of the day, to make it a perfect day with birds singing and sun shining an...
Posted by afghanistan bananastand on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Leaving on the next whale boat

Posted by afghanistan bananastand on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

BLAH

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Posted by afghanistan bananastand on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

M Bar

After much threat of not showing, Sarah Silverman took the stage at the M Bar Monday night. The place was only half full, I've never seen it so empty. It was nearly the coldest night of the year outsi...
Posted by afghanistan bananastand on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Helium 3

Helium 3 is the perfect fuel source. It's extremely potent. It's nonpolluting. It produces nearly no radioactive by-product or nuclear waste . It will change the way our world works. A ton of it is w...
Posted by afghanistan bananastand on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Trading Post

I love going into old convenience stores in the desert. The kind with squeaky wide-plank wood floors and a large jar of pickled eggs on the counter. If you could get fresh fry bread, a hand-woven wool...
Posted by afghanistan bananastand on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

iCan

What day is it? The streets are Omega Man-empty. I love it. The air is sweet. The sunlight is soft. What is that tree with the violet flowers in bloom? Wow that tree is amazing, we need more of those,...
Posted by afghanistan bananastand on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Waking with grass in my hair...

Recent happenings: Had a huge house party. Radio Vago was to perform but it didn't work out. Sorry Nicole, would love to have you girls play another time. DJ's Heavyhandz and Rico spun. A lot of pe...
Posted by afghanistan bananastand on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST