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greg

I am here for Friends

About Me

I smell faintly of soap.

My Interests

Wikipedia, snopes, Alicublog, Atrios, Altercation, Beer, crosswords, Fear Surgeon, Yankees, Newyorkiness, making grandiose plans for grand greatness, settling for less, bands, subways, ads, oglio y aglio

I'd like to meet:

Anyone but you. Seriously, your band is fucking awful.

Music:

(pressing "shuffle songs" on iPod) Sebadoh, Belle and Sebastian, Jimmy Cliff, Modest Mouse, Silver Jews, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Blondie, Outkast, Abba, Howie B, Joy Division, Morningwood, The Beatles, Billy Bragg, Leonard Cohen, The Strokes, Velvet Underground, Echo and the Bunnymen, Oneida, Pixies, Supergrass, Wire, Dock Boggs (?), John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, The Blow, Frank Sinatra, The Castaways, Liz Phair, Skinny Puppy, Dr. Octagon, Lambchop, Beck, Electric Six, Built to Spill, The Faint, Dennis Cooper (??), Washington Social Club, Elastica, The Smiths, Echoboy, Isley Brothers, The Jam, Galaxie 500, Tom Waits, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco, Lloyd Price

Movies:

Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Network, The Last Picture Show, Bottle Rocket, Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary, Big Lebowski, Night of the Hunter, On the Waterfront, Virgin Suicides, Happiness, Harold & Maude, Unforgiven, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Good Night and Good Luck, Billy Elliot, Harold & Kumar go to White Castle, Hud, Manchurian Candidate (60's), Paris, Texas, My Life as a Dog, Spirited Away, Magnolia, A History of Violence, Save the Green Planet!, City of God, Ed Wood, Election

Television:

Veronica Mars, Upstairs Downstairs

Books:

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow; Egypt, Maine series by Carolyn Chute; Rabbit series by John Updike; Portnoy's Complaint and The Plot Against America by Philip Roth; Ball Four by Jim Bouton; March Book by Jesse Ball; Choose Your Own Adventure no. 12: Inside UFO 54-40 by Edward Packard

Heroes:

Oh Dae-Su, Dave Righetti