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| User: | noflashlights (8655124)
a lifelong study of evasion
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| Name: | noflashlights |
| Location: | Cambridge, Ohio, United States |
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| noflashlights | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| Bio: | After a little over 1400 posts on my previous journal, woodyi, I thought I'd give another shot at a new journal. Think of it as woodyi version 2.0, though with less memes and a growing interest to write better and well-informed entries.
He lived by his ideas. His knowledge was real, and he could document it, chapter and verse.
He was here to give aid, to clarify and move, and to make certain if he could that the greatness of humankind would not entirely evaporate in bourgeois well-being.
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- Saul Bellow, Ravelstein
If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.
Currently Reading Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Books Read in 2007
--Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne and Ernest Shepard A+
--Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem A-
--The Fate of the Artist by Eddie Campbell B
--Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem B
--Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World by Arielle North Olson and Howard Schwartz C+
--Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut A
--Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters by John Waters B
--The Invention of Hugo Cabret by David Selznick A+
--Hot Water Music by Charles Bukowski B+
--Post Office by Charles Bukowski B+
--Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck A
--You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem D+
--Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi A
--Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi A-
--American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang B-
--Night Flight Antoine de Saint-Exupery A
--A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter B
--Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates A
--No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy A+
--King-Cat Classix by John Porcellino A
--All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy A
--If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell B
--Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore B
--A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker C
--Lady into Fox by Dave Garnett A
--The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami B
--Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy B-
--Icelander by Dustin Long C-
--A Fine Dark Line by Joe R. Lansdale A
--Lost Echoes by Joe R. Lansdale A
--Dead in the West by Joe R. Lansdale B
--Mucho Mojo by Joe R. Lansdale A-
--Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy A
--I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert B+
--The Two-Bear Mambo by Joe R. Lansdale A
--Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge B-
--Bad Chili by Joe R. Lansdale B+
--Cold in July by Joe R. Lansdale B-
--A Model World and Other Stories by Michael Chabon B
--The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy B-
--Caught Stealing by Charlie Huston B
--Child of God by Cormac McCarthy A
--Savage Season by Joe R. Lansdale A-
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| Interests: | 96: a tribe called quest, adrian tomine, akira kurosawa, angela bettis, anthony bourdain, antidepressants, aphex twin, bishop allen, boards of canada, bonnie "prince" billy, book worms, books, bookslut, bookstores, boxes of photographs, cameras, cheap red wines, chungking express, criterion collection, david byrne, david cronenberg, david sedaris, daydreaming, deadwood, dexter, documentaries, downtown, dreams, driving, dvds, eurotrash girls, film, finding things, giallo flicks, girls with glasses, goodwill, haruki murakami, hayao miyazaki, horror, iggy pop, indie films, insomnia, insomniac, iron & wine, j.d. salinger, jack hill, japan, jimmy the cab driver, joe bob briggs, joe r. lansdale, king-cat comics, laps, larry david, late night drives, late night movie watching, lazy days, letters, libraries, long showers, magical realism, making lists, may, naps, night, nightmares on wax, paul pope, payday, photos, raymond carver, reading, road trips, samurai flicks, shoegazing, short stories, sleep, sweaters, swimming, tea, the brian jonestown massacre, the smell of books, the tao of pooh, the wire, thoughts, ticket stubs, tom waits, toshiro mifune, travel, used bookstores, venture bros, vincent gallo, walking, wanderlust, watership down, werner herzog, wong kar-wai, zombie flicks |
| Schools: | None listed |
| Friends: |  | 24: | 0wls_do_cry, august32nd, avertedgaze, battlemaster, beefyness, cheeksthellama, davenport_6, dreamerrose, gideondefoe, hungry_traveler, jully_buggy, keith_london, lizzard, lovemotionstory, luckylucy, ned_vizzini, noflashlights, popbitch, rph_0000, toey8, tomihime, typeohero, urbaniak, vertamae |  | 2: | film_stills, the_cthulhu |  | 1: | officialgaiman |
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| Account type: | Basic Account |
