Rum Diaries

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About me

Gender Male
Location Spencer, MA
Introduction My name is Colby and I am a 22 year old college student. I attend Westfield State College and was the edtior-in-chief of the Westfield Voice. I love writing about sports, music, and whatever else is on my mind. I hope you enjoy the blog that my friend Matt and I have created, and it is inspired by one of our favorite Hunter S. Thompson novels, The Rum Diary.
Interests Music, Concerts, Writing, Red Sox, Golf, Tennis, Photography, Folk Music, New York City, BBQ Chicken Pizza, Magic Hat #9, Classic Novels & Movies
Favorite Movies Annie Hall, Good Will Hunting, High Fidelity, There's Something About Mary, The Jerk, Goodfellas, Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Finding Forrester, Shawshank Redemption, Reign Over Me, The Pursuit Of Happyness, Seven Pounds, Caddyshack, Blazing Saddles, Airplane!, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Taxi Driver, Almost Famous, Gone Baby Gone, Crash, The Departed, Mystic River, Taken, The Graduate, Casablanca, Step Brothers, I Love You Man, Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Favorite Music Tom Petty, The Grateful Dead, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, The Allman Brothers Band, Phish, Dave Matthews Band, O.A.R., Dispatch, Jimmy Buffett, John Mayer, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Fleetwood Mac, U2, Trey Anastasio, The Beatles, The Doors, Pearl Jam, Neil Young, The Flaming Lips, State Radio
Favorite Books On The Road by Jack Kerouac, The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, The Teammates by David Halberstam, The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. -Jimi Hendrix “The ideas that Jack (Kerouac) and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.” -Lawrence Ferlinghetti