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Person!

Gain my admiration. Save a reed organ.

About Me

Just keep it surreal! Does anyone ever know what they're doing?"It is not merely stamina that is important - one must play with conviction".

My Interests

Too many and not enough to list here.NOTE: z No smoking around Andrew. Thankyou for your co-operation.
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From Go-Quiz.com

I'd like to meet:

Someone who can sing all 10 star-spangled anthems at once. Creepy stalker girls. So far, no takers. However, maybe I should just be looking for super awesome non-mainstream girls instead. I'd like to meet that girl from the butterfinger crisp commercial. No, seriously. Also, that girl who used to work at Subway... no, not that Subway, the other one. Yes, you know you are, don't you? Jeremy Barnes, awesome musicians like that. Younger ragtime enthusiasts/composers/musicians who are not yet aware of the ragtime community. Anyone else who is alive and awesome who will and won't cause a lot of drama by talking, arguing, hanging out and interacting with me and other people I know. I would have liked to have met Harry C. Thompson, and (of course) Les Copeland, but they have been dead for many decades now. Fortunately, their brilliant music survives.As far as current well-known musicians go, the only two I'd care to meet sometime soon are John Sebastian and John Brion, though there are a few others I also wouldn't mind meeting. I respect their work very highly. I would also really like to meet a Nelson-Wiggen style 7, a Peerless Trio; a Niagara En-Symphonie, and a North Tonawanda photoplayer. Can anyone hook me up?Anddd.... here's who I DON'T want to meet: Conservatives, Christian fundamentalists, right-wing pundits, Bros, bro-hoes, people who drive around in giant gas-guzzling SUV's or lifted pickup trucks, people who have a Myspace name like "*ChIcKy*" or something similar, people who do nothing but drink, do drugs, and/or party in their spare time, people who give the middle finger in pictures to be "cool" rather to express being pissed off; people who wear baseball caps backwards, guys who wear their shorts practically way down around their ankles. Girls that are abnormally thin and don't do anything about it; people who make gangsta signs all of the time and aren't rappers or in gangs; people who are obsessed with stars and pop culture to the point of making me nauseated; people who go along with what "everyone else" (their friends) are doing, without thinking for themselves as to whether it is really what they want to or should be doing (this especially applies to choosing the "heroes" section). People who are vacuous and don't do anything about it. I may add to this list in the future. I DEFINITELY don't want to meet any more spammers. You spammers are all on my shit-list.

Music:

Please see my "heroes" section, although not all of them are musicians. I cannot always tell who is making the music I like to listen to, but I can tell if I like it or not. The music currently on my profile is "Cold Shivers", written(?) and performed by The New Lows. Oops, make that "Blue Horizons" by Randy and the Bloody Lovelies. Oops, make that "The Job" by Modern Cinema.[Currently, it's an alternate take of "Greensleeves" as interpreted by the Vince Guaraldi Trio. If you like what you hear, be sure to show them some support by visiting their page, from my friends section.] Now, I guess it's an eternal classic by Jon Brion. His is probably the best music ever to grace my profile.
Get your own countdown at BlingyBlob.comActually, I have the sound file set up to be normally stopped so it doesn't startle you.

Movies:

I mostly like the old silent comedies such as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd and others, but I also have some favorite more modern movies: Crash, Dangerous Men, The Shawshank Redemption, The Terminal, Saved!, Legal Eagles, Starman, Lost and Delerious, the Truth About Cats and Dogs, Twice Upon a Time, Donnie Darko, The Triplets of Belleville, Race For Your Life Charlie Brown!, The Wrong Trousers, The Incredibles, A Night at the Opera, Duck Soup, Captain Ron, You Can't Take It With You, The Breakfast Club, Summer School (well sort of...) plus more. I saw a great documentary on the first person to drive all the way across America in an automobile: Horatio Nelson Jackson, who, along with his friend Sewall Crocker and dog Bud made the bumpy coast-to-coast round trip in 1903. The documentary is called "Horatio's Drive" and was done by Ken Burns... unless you are one of the people mentioned in "who I DON'T want to meet", try to see it.

Television:

Wonderfalls, Cheers, Who's Line is it, Anyway?, Junkyard Wars, Antiques Roadshow, Law and Order (the original) Mr. Show with Bob and David, Out of This World and the Secret World of Alex Mack. I also think South Park is fairly funny, and watch it unless it is a really disgusting episode. ..

Books:

Anything by James Howe, or John Bellairs. Most of the John Steinbeck books I have read. All Quiet on the Western Front, 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Things Fall Apart, To Kill a Mockingbird, Death of a Salesman. Ender's Game and the sequel. Harry Potter.

Heroes:

Paul Conrad ; Amanda Maunder ; David Lynch ; certain of my uncles ; Billy Taylor ; Sean Aycock ; Ashley Betters ; Paul Meredith ; Allen Ginsberg ; Fred Hoeptner ; Alyssa Koestner ; Bryce Bretton ; Nikola Tesla ; Monica Melgar ; Richard Rodriguez ; Amber Brownell ; Thomas Edison ; Edward Said ; Jane Tompkins ; Luke Brunda ; James Baldwin (the author) ; Horatio Nelson Jackson ; Sewall Crocker--Eugene O'Neill ; John Rad ; Barry Ranbet -- Luckey Roberts ; Ray Deo ; Art Tatum ; Clarence Johnson ; Roy Bargy ; Pete Wendling ; Jimmy Blythe ; Paul Pratt ; J. Milton Delcamp ; Les Copeland ; Donald Lambert ; Charley Straight ; Herbert Ingraham ; Cliff Hess ; Arthur Schutt ; Lee Sims ; Willie "the Lion" Smith ; Harry C. Thompson ; Cliff Jackson ; Albert Ammons -- Tom Brier ; Ron O' Dell ; Terry Waldo --Bix Beiderbecke ; Eastwood Lane ; Edward MacDowell ; Cecile Chaminade ; Frederic Chopin ; Stephen Heller ; Bruce Broughton ; Zez Confrey ; John Sebastian -- others to follow as time and memory permit.

My Blog

Easter!

I know, I know: these are so bad they are excellent.from Tom Foolery:Why does the Easter Bunny hide the eggs?l ll ll ll ll ll l_l l_.. /vBecause he doesn't want anyone to know he's been fucking around...
Posted by Person! on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:44:00 PST

Excellent, radical, excellent!

These people are super creative. I kept expecting this Rube Goldberg machine to end, but it kept going, and going, and going, in new and creative ways. (it does finally end, however). Search Youtube f...
Posted by Person! on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:08:00 PST

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Dammit, this guy is now my hero. I can't imagine anyone who has actually managed to put into words what I have often felt.[Quote]"It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they mig...
Posted by Person! on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:15:00 PST

suh-suh-suh-sweeeet.

You Are SurrealismDreamy and idealistic, you've created a world that is all your own.It's very likely that you've either dabbled in drugs or are naturally trippy.You are always trying to push beyond t...
Posted by Person! on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:52:00 PST

What type of idiot am I?

You are a Philosopher!Hmmmm... You're an idiot because you constantly think about the meaning of life, and why exactly we're all here. You more than likely have thought up a complex explanation, but m...
Posted by Person! on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:48:00 PST

Alert

I am addicted to this site (glitteryourway.com) the way I've been addicted to Urban Dictionary and Wikipedia. As a matter of fact, I'm STILL addicted to those two sites because they are informa...
Posted by Person! on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:20:00 PST

A bad yardstick

How Much have YOU changed in 2 years?[note: this is not a very relevant thing to judge change by for me. However, it may be of creepy use to some creepy stalker girl, so I'll post it here. Hopefully s...
Posted by Person! on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:30:00 PST

Neither girl nor guy - this test stinks (but it's funny so I'm posting it)

DOESN'T MATTER IF YOUR A GUY OR GIRL FILL BOTH OUT.[Andrew's grand total at bottom]GUYISH:[ ] You like being sweaty.[ ] You love hoodies and jeans.[ ] Dogs are better than cats.[ ] It's funny when peo...
Posted by Person! on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:45:00 PST

Check out this video: HA! - Golfer's Rag

I don't recognize the background rag. It sounds modern.... rather bizarre, actually. Now I want a copy of the music!Posted By:MichaelGet this video and more at MySpace.com...
Posted by Person! on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:12:00 PST

Xylophone Rags video

Charles L. Johnson, George Hamilton Green... good stuff!Posted By:CraigGet this video and more at MySpace.com...
Posted by Person! on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:10:00 PST