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raised by giraffes

At no time does my hand leave my wrist.

About Me

What?

My Interests

Radio, comedy, film making, the New York Mets, beer pong, pro wrasslin, waxing philosophical,

I'd like to meet:

the lunatic fringe

Music:



Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Tool, Alkaline Trio, Tenacious D, Coheed & Cambria, The Mars Volta, Phantom Planet, Deftones, Weezer, DJ Shadow, Kid Koala, Plastic Little, Beck, White Flight, Gilles Peterson, Queens of the Stone Age, Elliot Smith, The Smashing Pumpkins, Bob Marley, Wilco, Weezer, Piebald, Bjork, Isis, The Dandy Warhols, The Arcade Fire, Homelife, Blockhead, DJ Food, Sixtoo, Herbaliser, Bonobo, Basement Jaxx, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Grandaddy, Mr. Bungle, Nada Surf, Cake, Badly Drawn Boy, Interpol, Soulive, Pedro the Lion, Grateful Dead, The Weakerthans, Jump Little Children, David Bowie, Propellorheads, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Cure, Him, M83, Slipknot, Soilwork, Pinback, Mindless Self Indulgence, Mos Def, Lynard Skynard, The Coral, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Queen, Unkle, Vast, Wolfsheim, Ozma, Harry Belafonte, Gnarls Barkley, Glassjaw, Prodigy, Curtis Mayfield, The Streets, G. Love and Special Sauce, System of a Down, The Bellrays, Sublime, Yesterdays New Quintet, Threebrain, Muse, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Pinback, The Bloodhound Gang, Foot of Feathers, Hood, They Might Be Giants, Piebald, Phish, Nine Inch Nails, Belle and Sebastian, Moe, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cannonball Adderley, DJ Dangermouse, King Missile, Meatloaf, TeamSleep, Minus the Bear, Johnny Cash, Group X, Isaac Hayes, Air, Sneaker Pimps, Massive Attack, The Avalanches, The Strokes, Pavement, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Fantômas, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, At The Drive In, Dan the Automator, Presidents of the United States of America, Super Furry Animals, Gorillaz, Kool Keith, Head Automatica, Incubus, Del Tha Funky Homosapian, Say Anything, Beastie Boys, Andrew WK, Daft Punk, Mark Ronson, Vince Guaraldi, My Chemical Romance, The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, Penjabi MC, Marvelous 3, Outkast, George Clinton and the P Funks

Movies:

Gleaming the Cube, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Dr. Stranglelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, The Princess Bride, Fight Club, Nacho Libre, Donnie Darko, Napoleon Dynamite, Resevoir Dogs, Run Lola Run, Trainspotting, Kids, The Crow, Brain Candy, 007, Suicide Kings, Back to the Future, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, Citizen Kane, A Clockwork Orange, Star Wars, A Christmas Story, Bottlerocket, Rolling Kansas, The Sponge Bob Square Pants Movie, Memento, Boondock Saints, The Big Lebowski, Wet Hot American Summer, The Sandlot, Stand By Me, Rushmore, House of 1000 Corspes, Snatch, Dune, Labrynth, SLC Punk, The Royal Tenenbaums, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest, Anchor Man, Spinal Tap, Lord of the Rings, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Saw, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Unbreakable, the Matrix, any Monty Python movie

Television:

Monty Python's Flying Circus, Kids In the Hall, The State, The Daily Show, South Park, Strangers with Candy, Family Guy, The Andy Milonakis Show, Samurai Champloo, Tenacious D, Mr. Show, Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, FLCL, Robot Chicken, UFC, Pro Wrasslin, The Simpsons, Cops, The Fairly Odd Parents, Sponge Bob Square Pants, Reno 911, Chapelle's Show, Floogie McKranket

Books:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, To Kill A Mockingbird, Fight Club, Survivor, Choke, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, House of Leaves, Catcher in the Rye, Guns Germs & Steel, Alice In Wonderland / Through The Looking Glass ..

Heroes:

Scott Myers, Eddie Vedder, Hunter S. Thompson, J.D. Salinger, Douglas Adams, Liam Howlett, Bill Waterson, Mitch Hedberg, Chuck Palahniuk, Lon Chaney, Anthony Cumia, James Norton, Greg Hughes

My Blog

I’m a negative creep.

I don't normally bring up my problems to people because I'm afraid they'll try to fix me.  Like, even now I'm thinking of not posting this because someone's going to try to get emo with me. ...
Posted by raised by giraffes on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:28:00 PST

In the past year..

I quit my job, went to a hippie festival, almost moved, started film school, got some badass gear, got a flat tire, had a birthday,flicked my cigarette ashe into the eye of some little fuck in Manhatt...
Posted by raised by giraffes on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:12:00 PST

the weekend of 420

For some reason, the only thing that makes me want to blog anymore is recovering from an epic party. I just wanted to throw a note out here so people might give their accounts of what happened at my ...
Posted by raised by giraffes on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:21:00 PST

Christmas Card to the Universe

This is my Christmas Card to the Universe. Take a look inside..
Posted by raised by giraffes on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:19:00 PST

one wild weekend

It's taken me an entire week to reflect upon the events of June 16-20. There was music, booze, spraypaint, and somewhere along the line I ended up with a job. Friday- Found myself a ride with Kevin ...
Posted by raised by giraffes on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:07:00 PST

Dane Cook in Boston

The other day (Fridayish) my friend Shawn IMs me to ask if i want to go to Dane Cook in Boston with him the next day. I explained that I was broke, so I couldn't go. A few hours later, he IMs me again...
Posted by raised by giraffes on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:09:00 PST

it's really coming down out there

Lets start at the beginning. Thursday night, had a few friends over, played a shitload of beer pong, got hammered. Friday night, went to Tammany Ales and puked on the curb for free. That is to say, ...
Posted by raised by giraffes on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:11:00 PST

12/23 and 12/31 Oh-5

Two of the finest parties I have ever thrown/been to. On my birthday, I was stinking drunk and still drinking. I literaly felt more viscous than normal. Slippery, even. New Years was a party unlike ...
Posted by raised by giraffes on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 11:52:00 PST

hard chillin' at the Hess

So this would be day 3 spent in bed, deep in thought. This morning at 3:30 I got bored and put on my Doc Martens (which really really need to become available in half sizes) and three pairs of socks ...
Posted by raised by giraffes on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 05:24:00 PST

my life is a Green Day song

Longview, incase you were wondering. Yeah, jerking off is no fun anymore, and I've been told several times by my mother to get a job. I'm also pretty sure she don't like the one she's got. I'm closi...
Posted by raised by giraffes on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:39:00 PST