About
I drink to much coffee, spend to much time reading, listen to way to much music, and spend to much time online. Truly i lead a full and active life.
I love Aretha Frankensteins, I'll talk your ears off about philosophy, religion, politics, history, music, books, and just about anything, there or anywhere else.
I love mythology, faerie tales, folklore, folk art, making fun of people i see walking down the street. I don't go to church nearly enough. I give my money and cigarettes to bums, I then have to turn around and bum money and cigarettes from my friends. I believe in making alphabetical lists.
I skip I hop I dance I fly look at me go voom voom voom!
Music
Animal Collective, The Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki, Devendra Banhart, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Ben Folds Five, Frank Black, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, David Bowie, Vashti Bunyan, Calexico, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crooked Fingers, The Decemberists, Sandy Denny, The Ditty Bops, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Electric Light Orchestra, The Essex Green, Jay Farrar, Feist, Arlo Guthrie, George Harrison, Iggy Pop, Iron & Wine, Jetrho Tull, M.I.A The Magnetic Fields and all the other Stephin Merritt bands, Amy Millan, Mirah, The Moody Blues, Rich Mullins, Neutral Milk Hotel, Joanna Newsom, Nirvana, Pixies, Biff Rose, Pete Seeger, Son Volt, Bruce Springsteen, Spoon, St. Vincent, Stars, Cat Stevens, Sufjan Stevens, Tarkio, Tegan and Sara, Tilly and the Wall, Traveling Willbury's, Dave Van Ronk, Whiskeytown, Wilco, Brian Wilson, Neil Young, and many many more. Go to my last.fm page, http://www.last.fm/user/cluricaun/
Television
Arrested Development, Doctor Who, Firefly, Futurama, The Office Scrubs, Stargate SG1
Books
Orson Scott Card, James C. Christensen, Alexandre Dumas, Dave Eggers, Neil Gaiman, Frank Herbert, Robert Jordan, James Joyce, Andrew Lang, CS Lewis, George MacDonald, George RR Martin, Martin Millar, LE Modessitt Jr., Haruki Murakami, Terry Pratchet, Philip Pullman, JRR. Tolkien, Tad Williams, Roger Zelazny.
Movies
Barton Fink, Batman, Beetlejuice, Big Fish, The Big Lebowski, Bottle Rocket, The Butterfly, The Corpse Bride, The Darjeeling Limited, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Fargo, The Great Mouse Detective, I Heart Huckabees, The Last Unicorn, The Life Aquatic, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost In Translation My Fair Lady, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pan's Labyrinth, Raising Arizona, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Shootist
Interests
Reading, Writing, History, Philosophy, Linguistics, Mythology, Folklore, Fairytales, Mythology, Gardening, Traveling, Shiny things
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AprilApr 25 Friday Fri 08
AprilApr 17 Thursday Thu 08
six queries
six things came to my attention as i was walking around today that i would like to make note of.
1st. Who is that old guy in the new Indiana Jones movie and
2nd. What has he done with Harrison Ford
3rd. Where is waldo
4th. When did the tortilla factory close
5th. Why is the Bijou showing Caddy shacks?
6th. How does having almonds in a Hershey bar make it good for you?
yes i know 3 doesn't have anything to do with anything really i had to throw it in there to get the whole who what where when why how thing done.
AprilApr 16 Wednesday Wed 08
my silver lining
Let me tell you, i'm doing a terrible job at quitting smoking, but i'm doing a fantastic job at not quitting. I figure as long as i'm doing something well, everything is ok.
AprilApr 11 Friday Fri 08
AprilApr 10 Thursday Thu 08
gurrr
allright, this stupid thing screwed up when i tried to import my rss feed from blogger. it imported two of everything, i started to go through and delete the duplicates but its just not worth it.
AprilApr 9 Wednesday Wed 08
Old Spice and Bruce Campbell, how can you not love it
The newest
Behind the scenes
The first one, just cause i really like it
Hiho hiho
Once upon a time staying up till 5 in the morning would have bothered me, at least I think it must have, I can't really remember when that time was. my current theory is as long as I'm asleep before the sun starts to come up I'm ok, which is something I actually failed in last night, but you can't win them all. between messing around with the colours for this blog (i finally threw together a color scheme that doesn't instantly make me cringe, though I'm not sure about that light blue in the background), and flipping back and forth between the history channel and adult swim there was just no time to sleep. not that it really matters, I work 3:30pm till midnight, I'd be hard pressed to oversleep and be late for work.
heh, if by some miracle I did oversleep and was late for work they'd never even notice if it wasn't for that damned time machine, not the clock, the one below it where I swipe my card through. I don't actually do anything at work, I'm there for 8 hours, things I do that can actually be considered work take up maybe four hours, maybe, that's if I actually put my mind to it. an average day at work for me consists of a couple of hours walking around trying to look like I'm working, hanging outside in the smoking area chatting with the security guard, playing final fantasy on my gameboy, calling people on my cellphone, and just to keep things interesting I do actual work in between all this slacking. which I'd like to say isn't actually slacking on my part, I get all of my work done,there just isn't 8 hours worth of work for me to do each day.
First job I've had thats been like that, the aquarium kept me busy; at the various coffee shops there was always something I could be doing; the daycare... if I had even thought about taking my eyes off those kids for 5 seconds the world would most likely have ended; the kitchen, well I spent most of my time trying to hide from my crazy manager. I don't like it, at first I spent a lot of time worrying that somebody's going to figure out just how little I do there, then I realized that nobody else really does all that much work either that did soothe my troubled mind a bit. still, it gnaws at me, our dept just had our budget cut and my 90 day review is coming up which means that for another week or so they can lay me off without having a reason, so I'm getting worried again, but we persevere. Out of curiosity, are there any songs that put going to work in such a happy light as the one the seven dwarves sing? every song I can think of about work and going to work is rather negative, I guess if I owned a diamond mine I might be cheerful about going to work too.
Today at work i'll be playing final fantasy 6 all throughout the day, reading South of the Border, West of the Sun on my break. then comes my favorite part of the day my walk home with my ipod, I think today will be a Bowie day.
lonely werewolf girl
So...
there's this author: Martin Millar.
I've read one of his books The Good Fairies of New York and I loved it. Ever since I read it i've been sitting on amazon drooling over his other books which are just way to expensive (for example Dreams of Sex and Stagediving for $41.72 used, and Ruby and the Stoneage Diet for $50.52) since with the exception of the good faeries all of his books have been published in the uk and haven't found their way over to our shores as of yet. As it turns out Martin Millar has a new book coming out in june called Lonely Werewolf Girl, sadly it won't be published in the US either. I bought it anyways, I'm very very happy.
Long story short, read Martin Millar (any Neil Gaiman fans? you'll love this book), the Good Fairies is affordable on amazon, buy it, read it, love it, join me in the misery of waiting for his other books to be released in the US.
EDIT:: I spoke to soon, I was browsing amazon just now in a post work daze I came across Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation for a really good price and snagged it. so, two books affordable on amazon at the moment.
oh happy day
Crappy day at work, but none of that matters anymore. I got home and a book was waiting for me, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa By Jan Potocki. I've heard some great things about this book and have been wanting to read it for quite some time now. If only I could get a book in the mail everyday.
I think the history channel is reusing interviews, they've been running all sorts of pirate shows this week thanks to the 3rd pirates movie coming out and I know I've seen some of these same interviews on different shows. Oh, I just heard something stupid, they're talking about medicine on the pirate ships specifically amputation, this guy said something about how hard amputations would have been to watch since there was no anesthesia to speak of... maybe its just me but I would think that the hardships of the audience would pale in comparison to the hardship of the person being operated on.
I complain but do I change the channel? of course not, well not for 5 minutes anyways when the daily show comes on. and then back to the history channel and then to comedy central to watch futurama, tomorrow I'll wake up and turn on the history channel again.
As long as I'm talking about television, comedy central has a new show coming out called "little bush" it looks oh so stupid. come on already Bush talks funny and does stupid things, we all know this let it go.
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. It's amazing, It's wonderful. Everyone should watch it all the time.
Everyone should also watch firefly all the time. it's got a wiki, which should prove that its amazing.
Its just wonderful
yah... I'm excited.
The Golden Compass
Its also a book, its amazing, read it
Stardust
This is a book as well, read it, its wonderful
lonely werewolf girl
So...
there's this author: Martin Millar.
I've read one of his books The Good Fairies of New York and I loved it. Ever since I read it i've been sitting on amazon drooling over his other books which are just way to expensive (for example Dreams of Sex and Stagediving for $41.72 used, and Ruby and the Stoneage Diet for $50.52) since with the exception of the good faeries all of his books have been published in the uk and haven't found their way over to our shores as of yet. As it turns out Martin Millar has a new book coming out in june called Lonely Werewolf Girl, sadly it won't be published in the US either. I bought it anyways, I'm very very happy.
Long story short, read Martin Millar (any Neil Gaiman fans? you'll love this book), the Good Fairies is affordable on amazon, buy it, read it, love it, join me in the misery of waiting for his other books to be released in the US.
EDIT:: I spoke to soon, I was browsing amazon just now in a post work daze I came across Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation for a really good price and snagged it. so, two books affordable on amazon at the moment.
can't buy me love
but you can buy me music.
In all honesty, its close enough.
it was my birthday today, went to Ameoba, one of the few things i'll miss about LA when i finally ditch this joint. Got a few cd's (Uncle Tupelo, Whiskey Town, Son Volt, Golden Smog, and Ryan Adams), grabbed dinner at the olive garden (fettuccine alfredo, the grownups macaroni and cheese, yummy) met up with Rosa, grabbed some beer and watched the Evil Dead 2. good times.
Now I'm sitting at home watching the futurama marathon, a good end to the day.
Old Spice and Bruce Campbell, how can you not love it
The newest
Behind the scenes
The first one, just cause i really like it
how pathetic am I?
So pathetic that i have a crush on this girl I walk past her every day on my way home from work.
Hiho hiho
Once upon a time staying up till 5 in the morning would have bothered me, at least I think it must have, I can't really remember when that time was. my current theory is as long as I'm asleep before the sun starts to come up I'm ok, which is something I actually failed in last night, but you can't win them all. between messing around with the colours for this blog (i finally threw together a color scheme that doesn't instantly make me cringe, though I'm not sure about that light blue in the background), and flipping back and forth between the history channel and adult swim there was just no time to sleep. not that it really matters, I work 3:30pm till midnight, I'd be hard pressed to oversleep and be late for work.
heh, if by some miracle I did oversleep and was late for work they'd never even notice if it wasn't for that damned time machine, not the clock, the one below it where I swipe my card through. I don't actually do anything at work, I'm there for 8 hours, things I do that can actually be considered work take up maybe four hours, maybe, that's if I actually put my mind to it. an average day at work for me consists of a couple of hours walking around trying to look like I'm working, hanging outside in the smoking area chatting with the security guard, playing final fantasy on my gameboy, calling people on my cellphone, and just to keep things interesting I do actual work in between all this slacking. which I'd like to say isn't actually slacking on my part, I get all of my work done,there just isn't 8 hours worth of work for me to do each day.
First job I've had thats been like that, the aquarium kept me busy; at the various coffee shops there was always something I could be doing; the daycare... if I had even thought about taking my eyes off those kids for 5 seconds the world would most likely have ended; the kitchen, well I spent most of my time trying to hide from my crazy manager. I don't like it, at first I spent a lot of time worrying that somebody's going to figure out just how little I do there, then I realized that nobody else really does all that much work either that did soothe my troubled mind a bit. still, it gnaws at me, our dept just had our budget cut and my 90 day review is coming up which means that for another week or so they can lay me off without having a reason, so I'm getting worried again, but we persevere. Out of curiosity, are there any songs that put going to work in such a happy light as the one the seven dwarves sing? every song I can think of about work and going to work is rather negative, I guess if I owned a diamond mine I might be cheerful about going to work too.
Today at work i'll be playing final fantasy 6 all throughout the day, reading South of the Border, West of the Sun on my break. then comes my favorite part of the day my walk home with my ipod, I think today will be a Bowie day.
oh happy day
Crappy day at work, but none of that matters anymore. I got home and a book was waiting for me, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa By Jan Potocki. I've heard some great things about this book and have been wanting to read it for quite some time now. If only I could get a book in the mail everyday.
I think the history channel is reusing interviews, they've been running all sorts of pirate shows this week thanks to the 3rd pirates movie coming out and I know I've seen some of these same interviews on different shows. Oh, I just heard something stupid, they're talking about medicine on the pirate ships specifically amputation, this guy said something about how hard amputations would have been to watch since there was no anesthesia to speak of... maybe its just me but I would think that the hardships of the audience would pale in comparison to the hardship of the person being operated on.
I complain but do I change the channel? of course not, well not for 5 minutes anyways when the daily show comes on. and then back to the history channel and then to comedy central to watch futurama, tomorrow I'll wake up and turn on the history channel again.
As long as I'm talking about television, comedy central has a new show coming out called "little bush" it looks oh so stupid. come on already Bush talks funny and does stupid things, we all know this let it go.
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The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. It's amazing, It's wonderful. Everyone should watch it all the time.
Everyone should also watch firefly all the time. it's got a wiki, which should prove that its amazing.
sigh... its coming...
apple sent me an e-mail all about it, the bastards, they know i can't afford to spend 500$ on what is quite possibly the sexiest thing i've ever seen, and yet they torment me! damn you apple for letting me sign up for your mailing list!