Fast facts

• At the movies I like to see: subtitles, apparently: the last three movies have all been foreign films (Spanish, French & German, respectively)-- though I did not plan it that way...
• Last movie seen: No Country for Old Men, The Lives of Others (German, w/English subtitles), Pan's Labyrinth (Mexico, in Spanish)
• Music I listen to: Emmylou Harris, Los Lobos, Richard Thompson, Kate Bush, Joe Ely, the late "Snakefinger" Philip Lithman, old John Hiatt & Declan McManus, etc.
• Best album right now: I'm an OG, so I really don't listen to anything that appears on Billboard...
• Favorite author: Fyodor Dostoyevski, Federico Garcia Lorca, Theodore Adorno, Edith Wharton, Robinson Jeffers, Stephen Jay Gould
• Last book read: The Last Election, Blindness (Jose Saramago), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Creation (Gore Vidal), Name of the Rose, Mumbo Jumbo (Ishmael Reed), Cuba Libre (Elmore Leonard), Heart of Darkness, House of Mirth, Beowulf (Seamus Heaney trans)
• Best game right now semiotics (a puzzle), cacophany society, hoaxes: zapmeals.com (fake Web 2.0 startup) and the JT Leroy hoax
• Software I use: EditPlus (primarily, for for HTML, CSS, PHP and javascript), Macromedia MX2004 studio, Photoshop, various database programs, etc.
• Hardware I use: Acer Travelmate 290, Centrino 1.5 Mghz, 512 mbs RAM, nVidia Go 5900 128mbs SGRAM
• If I won 1 million dollars, I would: buy a house, buy music equipment & top 'o the line computer, work on stuff I like-- WHEN I like... write a screenplay-- who the hell knows???
• If I were a super hero I would: not advertise the fact
• I wish I could: see above (work on stuff I like-- WHEN I like)
• Favorite travel destination: the Coast (pick one)
• On my vacation I..: vacation? you mean when I'm not working? (never happens), or when I'm not getting paid for it? (which is MOST of the time)...
• Favorite sports team: Cal Bears, Oakland A's
• I'm passionate about: finding love in this world
• Food I like: anything equatorial (carribean/cajun, thai, middle-eastern/north african, etc)
• I don't like: being condescended to by lower life forms

Blog posts

• ...and the sun turned red as blood...
• And, speaking of Hot Vacation Spots
• Don't Miss the Fabulous California Fire Season!
• Of Course!!! I always wondered where they got these "experts"
• Hey, Carol!
• VISTA is EEEVILLL!!! (addendum)

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