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Tim

Tim

About Me

I rock.

My Interests

Music, film, lit, eats, drinks, wiminz.

I'd like to meet:

Another me.

Music:

Pulp, Stereophonics, Underworld, Starsailor, Elbow, Cousteau, Embrace, Doves, Muse, The Music, Manic St. Preachers, The Libertines, Venom, Stryper, Styx, Air Supply, Jim Croce, Ministry, Olivia Newton John, Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Europe, ELO, Lo Fidelity All Stars, Spiritualized, Brian Eno, Vangelis, Yanni, Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Louis Prima, Thelonius Monk, Kurt Elling, Information Society, Kon Kan, Rialto, LA Guns, Splitsville, Air, Mellow, Trashcan Sinatras, Jayhawks, Wood, Blind Willie McTell, Serge, Lazy Dog, Sigur Ros, America, Jim Steinman, hmm - many others I'm sure...

Movies:

Amelie, Requiem for a Dream, 8.5, Once Upon a Time in the West, Goodfellas, True Romance, La Dolce Vita, Taxi Driver, etc.

Television:

Cheaters, Elimidate, Breaking Bonaduce, America's Next Top Model, American Masters, Check Please, Mexico - Once Plate at a Time Starring Rick Bayless, News, etc.

Books:

On the Road, Yes I Can by Sammy D.J., The Fountainhead, 5 Volume Hemingway Bio by Michael Reynolds, Dharma Bums, The Sun Also Rises

Heroes:

Kerouac and Hemingway

My Blog

Ours - the band

Beware Ours fans hoping to enjoy any Summer concert by the band. With total disregard for the audience, the band demands that venues operate sans air conditioning. This is because Princess and the Pea...
Posted by Tim on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:45:00 PST

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Sigur Ros at Civic Opera House. Very good. Some irritating aspects messed up the overall experience. It was a bunch of Columbia College stoner hackysackers in the crowd. Young, and slightly obnoxious....
Posted by Tim on Fri, 12 May 2006 06:02:00 PST

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The Assembly and The Its at Metro. Never heard The Its before. They were damn good. Very Franz Ferdinand sounding. Dont know how much longer bands will be using that sound, but these guys were pr...
Posted by Tim on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:43:00 PST

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Returning for a moment to the subject of Jim Steinmans Tanz der Vampire - In discussing the matter, a friend had heard a different song than the one I had from the play and told me that it was Total E...
Posted by Tim on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:25:00 PST

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Just re-watched Lost in Translation. An excellent flick. One of the better tragedy-of-love/impossible situation stories out there. The interactions between Scarlett J. and Bill Murray were so damn rea...
Posted by Tim on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:22:00 PST

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Hard Fi and Assasins at Metro last night. There was an opening band forgot the name. Vultures of Valencia or something like that. They were really good. Some young kids from Elmhurst, IL. They were k...
Posted by Tim on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:22:00 PST

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Found the greatest track ever last night. It is from Tanz der Vampire (not sure if that was the song title as well as the title of the musical from which it came). It is a play with music by Jim ...
Posted by Tim on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:50:00 PST

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What is it with all of these horribly annoying, nasal-voiced radio talkshow hosts these days? Their voices are just the worst. This is not even considering the crappiness of the shows themselves just...
Posted by Tim on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:35:00 PST

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We live on a mountainRight at the topThere's a beautiful viewFrom the top of the mountainEvery morning I walk towards the edgeAnd throw little things offLike car parts, bottles and cutleryOr whatever...
Posted by Tim on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:18:00 PST

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Chicago is finally on its way to becoming one big strip mall. RIP to those great original places Trader Vics, Tiny Lounge, Berghoff, and even Marshall Fields. Damn  the loss of Trader Vics is part...
Posted by Tim on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:33:00 PST