Buzz
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Cookie Dough Thoughts and Unsubstantiated Flotsam
- F O R G O T T E N G R I N
- SCREAMING FEMALES
- Technology Blather
- The Breathing End of Oblivion
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Occupation | Philanthropic Technology Punk, Napalese Architect (Kim Greene Protege) |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | Who am I? Nobody important, for sure. I toil in the murky world of software development and architecture for my supper, a frustrated writer who fell into the technology game quite by chance. My humor is usually parched and pitch black (if you don't squirm, it's not funny), aimed often at the brilliance and sublime idiocy in politics and pop culture. Finally, at the end of the day I'm really just a devoted student of life with failing grades who keeps registering for new classes with the fervent hope that he doesn't get expelled this semester. The opinions expressed here are my own (and they usually don't qualify as that for very long). They are not to be construed as opinions of my employer, my dead dog, the Pope, Richard Nixon's ghost, or Paris Hilton. (Well, maybe on occasion, Paris. I think that - like me - she's student of life at heart.) |
| Interests | Politics, Pop Culture (especially 50's Beat, 60's Mod and folk/rock, 70's Punk/New Wave), Music (Punk, Alternative, first gen new wave), Technology, Reading, Movies, Urban Blight, Pestilence, Larceny, Black-as-night Humor |
| Favorite Movies | I don't even want to try ... most things by Scorsese, most things by Orson Welles (especially Touch of Evil), Woody Allen, before learning he's awful. Maria full of Grace was good. Usually enjoy anything written by David Mamet (State and Main is a gem of his that I just came across in April 2009). Usually like the Cohen Brothers movies. Dr. Stranglove, most of Billy Wilder, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Clerks (the man: Kevin Smith), Leaving Las Vegas, Most of Coppola (both Francis and Sofia) - Godfathers I and II, The Conversation, American Graffiti, Jaws, Dog Day Afternoon, Lost in Translation, the Virgin Suicides, Guy Van Zant's Stuff (Drugstore Cowboy, especially), Closer, Garden State, White Heat, High Sierra, Dead-End |
| Favorite Music | Too broad to list ... Nina Hagen, Elvis Costello, Clash, Elvis Costello, Nirvana, Leonard Cohen, White Stripes, Springsteen, Throwing Muses, Sleater-Kinney, Magnetic Fields, Black Flag, Billy Joel, Brahms, Beatles, Stooges, Velvet Underground, Ramones, Sinatra, ABBA, Partridge Family, Screaming Females, Wussy, Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Germs, X, Arctic Monkeys (and throw in the warmer, 60s variety), Gang of Four, Dylan |
| Favorite Books | Too many to list - Anything by Charles Bukowski, most of John Irving, the late lamented John Kennedy Toole (Confederates of Dunces, my personal favorite) and the late celebrated Doctor Hunter S. Thompson (especially the early work, before the fear and loathing beat him down), William Burroughs, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, James Frey (yeah, he may be a bit of a fraud but doesn't mean the man can't write). Claude Brown (Manchild in the Promised Land), 1000s more. Lester Bangs, can't forget him. Don DeLillo, Natsuo Kirino, Maureen Dowd, most of Truman Capote, most of Joesph Heller, most of Norman Mailer. Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man). Henry Rollins (misc writing). Also enjoy Michael Chabon (Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys), Jay McInerney (Brightness Falls, Story of my Life, Bright Lights/Big City), Nick Hornby, Tony Hawks ('Round Ireland with a Fridge), Kirsten Bakis (Lives of the Monster Dogs), Chuck Klosterman (Killing yourself to Live, Downtown Owl, various mag articles). The list could go on and on. Of the technology variety, anything by Martin Fowler. |