25 things
There’s a thing on facebook where people are posting 25 things about them. Here’s my list of 25 “interesting” things. My friend Lee called it the plague of facebook. I guess it is.
1. I can slam dunk really well on 8 foot basketball goals.
2. More than almost anything, I want a superpower. My top choices are teleportation, flight, or telekinesis, if any of you are handing out powers.
3. I proposed to my wife on an Easter egg hunt on our 1 year anniversary. The ring was in a giant egg, and I told her to open it to see what was in it, but she wanted to keep searching because she wanted to find the most eggs. We were married exactly a year later. Our 10 year anniversary is this year.
4. I have mad love for robots, Radiohead, Thai and Indian food, red wine, New Castle Brown Ale, trees, the number 4, and locally owned restaurants.
5. My disdain for raw onions is borderline crippling. Unless they’re mixed with tomatoes.
6. I have a degree in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. I very much enjoyed my college experience, and wrote a lot of poems about food. I still often write about food.
7. I used to be a card carrying member of the Evangelical Church. I now don’t agree with how they do things or with their purpose. That said, I am a follower of Christ, but more aware of how the Church has driven people away from the idea of God or Christ. The Church didn’t drive me away from God, just gave me huge reservations on Church. There is a lot of anger and hate in the modern Church, and it makes me sad.
8. I find the terms “junk,” “bits,” and “parts” to be utterly hilarious.
9. I have post-it notes everywhere. I feel that I can’t remember things without them. My life is almost completely and totally organized by small yellow squares.
10. The Harry Potter books made me love reading, which is important for someone who wants to write novels for a living.
11. I wrote a novel, trashed it, rewrote it, set it aside, and I’m working on another one, all under a different name. I also paint and make films under a different name. You know, just to protect my privacy. And yours.
12. I love lists. I even created a blog about lists. Just lists.
13. I don’t know if I’ll ever want children.
14. I have a great love of names. I love to name everything. My computer at home is called Fiona. My computer at work is called Hubbardston Nonesuch. They’re both Macs. I have lists and lists of band names just in case I need to start another band. When I was on the road in the late 90’s, we named every bit of equipment we had and would call everything by name when we were moving it from the vehicle to the venue.
15. I have a skin condition that the dermatologist referred to as “pressure hives.” Whenever something presses against my skin, I hive up in that spot. If I scratch my back, I have red streaks and bumps all over the back. Currently, this is the main reason I don’t have a tattoo. I really want a tattoo.
16. Once during my sophomore year of high school, Josh Jones and I pulled several of his childhood toys out (Star Wars, Transformers, GI Joe, Dungeons and Dragons action figures), laid them out, chose one by one, set up bases, and played with them like we were 9 again. We almost did it again last week.
17. I like romantic comedies. I’m also very secure in my manhood that I don’t care what people think about me or the things I like. That said, I own Moulin Rouge.
18. I really struggle with people who think they are right and everyone else is wrong. People who are condescending or don’t listen to you, but merely want you to think that they are right. I can’t have conversations with these people, and I’ve tried to eradicate them from my life in general. Not kill them, but merely not be part of them. That.
19. I’ve moved over 30 times in my life. I’ve also kissed over 30 girls. I counted both of these up before, but i don’t remember exact numbers. Basically, I’m a nomadic man-whore.
20. I’ve worked at the same company now for 9 1/2 years, and I still like my job. A good portion of that is because of some of the people I work with.
21. I don’t like dogs. I’m ok with puppies, but they turn into dogs.
22. My heart is filled with unexplainable joy when I enter the men’s room located in the building where I work and the motion sensor light flickers to life. This means that no one has filled the room with sad odors. Sometimes I trigger the paper towel dispenser with my beard. Also, I only pee in public restrooms. Ever. Not because I’m a germaphobe, but because of stage fright.
23. I can’t drink hard liquor socially. It sneaks up on me, and I become uselessly sleepy.
24. My favorite movies are Fight Club, Amelie, Stranger than Fiction, The Matrix, Juno, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I also love movies based on comics/superheroes. This past year, Iron Man and Dark Knight were exceptional.
25. I’m on a personal quest to be positive in everything I do, as much as I can. That said, if you post something on my page in facebook, and I find it too negative, I will delete it. Why spread negativity? It helps no one.
AlleyCat Lounge closing
The saddest news. East Nashville eatery and bar, AlleyCat Lounge, is closing, as of tonight. I just found out today that they were closing and just found out 10 minutes ago that tonight was the last night they were going to be open. I called to see if they were taking carryout orders, but they told me that they weren’t serving food tonight.
I am very sad.
No more Black and White Bean Dip. I just went last week with Mark and enjoyed the Nachoes and a Chicken Sandwich that was amazing. Good beer specials too.
My main complaint, and the complaint of several people that i’ve talked to, is that the place was a smoking establishment. You go in to have a delicious meal, and you come out smelling like you smoked 4 packs by yourself. I personally think that was the largest reason that they couldn’t make it. Often, i would order food and carry it out, just so i wouldn’t be innondated with the thick smoke. That said, Leslie and i agreed that we would have eaten there much more had they been smoke-free.
Oh well. A sad day. I wish they had at least given me a week or 2 warning.
Fantasy Rock Band (minority and women edition)
Here’s the task. Create an Fantasy Rock Band, composed of people from other bands. Remember, you want the band to have a “sound,” if you will. It’s not really a “best of” thing. You want to find people that will play together to make a kind of music that you would really like.
This time, you can only use minorities and women. Go.
sh4wn’s band:
vocals/rhythm guitar – Kele Okereke (Bloc Party)
drums – Carla Azar (Autolux)
lead guitar – Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine)
bass – Paz Lenchantin (A Perfect Circle)
multi-instrumentalist/producer – DJ Dangermouse
Jones’s band:
drums/percussion – Carter Beauford
bass – Victor Wooten
guitar – Carlos Santana
piano/keyboards/vocals – Stevie Wonder
bgv – The Pointer Sisters
Paul’s band:
Lead Vocals/Guitar – Neko Case (Solo/New Pornographers)
Guitar/Vocals – Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio)
Bass – Corinne Lee (Snowden)
Drums – Georgia Hubley (Yo La Tengo)
Anyone can play.
So this is the New Year…
01. I’m busy and i’m trying to increase my productivity this year. i have big plans, people.
02. I just ate some Organic Pomegranate Granola Cereal.
03. Leslie and i were at Target last night attempting to purchase a couple of ottomans with storage compartments. There were none on the shelf, so we asked an employee if they had any left, and he informed us that there were 6 black ones in stock. Perfect. We’d like 2 please. He goes to the back to score 2 of them for us, informing us that he’ll meet us at the front of the store with said ottomans in tow. As we’re waiting for the delivery, i notice that Dan Miller, one of the anchors on Channel 4 News, who is much taller than i expected him to be, is standing in the checkout line. I point him out to Leslie, telling her that he’s much taller than i expected. We’re purchasing some other items, and the guy with the ottomans is not coming over to us like he informed us he was going to do. It ends up that Dan is purchasing 5 of the 6 black ottomans, leaving us with 1, which won’t work, because we needed 2. He says to Leslie, “I’ll arm wrestle you for them.” There was some laughing, and then we left without an ottoman. Maybe he was going to make a fort out of them.
04. I ran into my friend Aslyn in Hillsboro village the other day. She just finished up a new album that should be out soon. She’s super nice.
05. I got to see a bunch of my high school friends on New Years Eve and Day, which was very fun.
06. I want to build a house with a view. Currently in the process of trying to find a view.
07. Leslie and i are in the process of tiling our upstairs bathroom. if any of you know me, you should get a good chuckle out of that.
08. Facebook wins best/most useful website of 08. Highly addictive.
09. As always, hoping this year is the best year ever.
