Ihave no idea if any of this is true, but, o fuck, here's the picture

More Things I'm looking forward to
Arab Strap: The Last Romance.

Arab Strap are 1 of my 5 fave bands of all time, and from the looks of reviews, The Last Romance seems to be a real step forward.

the album comes out on 2/21 (ie, in less than a month)

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I love New Order, I really really liked Lost In Translation.
Marie-Antoinette

is Sofia Coppola's next film.
I just wished she wasn't using horses in it.

Looking forward to
Jasmine tea

In early december I quit drinking coffee
Now I drink a cup of Jasmine tea in the morning.

I look forward to drinking manycups in 06

More things I'm looking forward to

Eating at teapot way more often


and drinking sessions as often as possible

More things I'm looking forward to

Beer Tastings at The Bottle Shoppe

I'm a basically optimistic person.
but there are several things about 2006 I will be really looking forward to.
these are some of them.

Inland Empire- Basically Mulholland drive is one of my favorite movies of all time. Inland Empire, Lynch's next film, should be coming out in 06.















Nintendo Revolution.

the next console from the only console maker that actually makes interesting games.






















The Legend Of Zelda:Twighlight Princess

I'm a Gamecube fan, zelda enthusiast, and this game looks to be one of the greatest games ever created.

my wife's blog
http://pearlyswirlygirl.blogspot.com/

More Favorite Books
Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
The Consumer, Michael Gira
The Turn Of The Screw, Henry James
Steps, Jerzy Kosinski
Child Of God, Cormac Mccarthy
Girl, Blake Nelson

my favorite books of all time
Paul Auster, Moon Palace
Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph
Larry Brown, Joe (thanks Dave)
William S Burroughs, My Education
Raymond Carver, Will you please be quiet please?
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Arthur C Clarke, The City and the stars
Susan Cooper, The Grey King
Dennis Cooper, Try
Derek Mccormack, Grab Bag
Don Delillo, The Body Artist
Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama.

More to come.....

More Heroes
Dennis Cooper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Cooper
I'm not the least bit exagerating when I say that Dennis Cooper is the best English language writer ever. read his 5 novel cycle, as well as his 3 subsequent novels. then try to find someone witha better grasp of language, narrative, etc...

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John Bonham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bonham

more heroes

Paul Watson
"We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales."

http://www.satyamag.com/mar04/watson.html

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Agota Kristof

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agota_Kristof

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WG Sebald

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,619971,00.html

For Dave

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Kubrick

More Heroes to come
however, this is grabbed my attention (from yahoo news)

Study Lends Support to Opponents of Logging

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - New research indicates that forests don't need to be replanted after wildfires and that cutting the burned trees for timber increases the short-term danger of new fires.

The study of the aftermath of a massive fire in an Oregon national forest, to be published online Friday in Science Express and later in the journal Science, gives opponents of salvage logging new support. But it is not likely to resolve the continuing debate in Congress over what to do with the millions of acres of national forests that burn every year.
"These results surprised us," said Dan Donato, a graduate student in forest science at Oregon State University who was lead author of the study. "Even after a huge high-severity fire in a place that is really tough to grow trees we are finding abundant natural tree regeneration."
Based on test plots in areas that were logged and not logged, the study found abundant seedlings growing, even in areas severely burned, most of which were killed when dead trees were cut down and hauled out. It also found that cutting the dead trees left much more wood on the ground to fuel future fires, even after the logs were hauled away, than leaving the trees standing, unless crews burn the debris.
The Biscuit fire was the nation's biggest in 2002, when it burned 500,000 acres of the Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon. It became the focus of intense legal and political battles.
Environmental groups argued that the best course is to let burned forests regenerate on their own, producing diverse habitats more resistant to future fires. The Bush administration and timber industry counter that harvesting dead trees provides valuable timber and pays for modern reforestation techniques that produce a new forest decades faster than nature.
Jerry Franklin, professor of forestry at the University of Washington, called the study "good science," bolstering his view that salvage logging almost never contributes to ecological recovery of a forest.
But John Sessions, professor of forest engineering at OSU, said the ultimate test of leaving a forest alone would be how many seedlings survive to maturity while competing with brush that will not be controlled unless dead trees are sold to pay for it.

Jorge Luis Borges
http://www.themodernword.com/borges/



Allison Lance Watson

http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/articles.php?a=636

for whatever reason I statrted to thik about my heroes.
or idols. or people I respect deeply.
I have so many.
Here's some famous ones