User profile: toreador
Name (verified): Michael Austin
Joined: Feb. 18, 2005
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Birthdate: September 28, 1969
Occupation: DBA
Location: OP
Hometown: Nebraskeee
Annual income range: Content and grateful
Estimated quarterly value of my ability to mooch (in US $): $1
Favorite Lawrence restaurant: India Palace
Favorite Lawrence bar: The Bourgeois Pig
Favorite local band: The Get Up Kids
Things I miss about Lawrence since moving away (if applicable): The openess, the fun, the small town flavor. The amount of music at all nights of the week.
Hobbies: if it wastes time and spends money.. I am there!
Favorite blogs: Okay,. most of the blogs on here that do not have to do with sports.... ;)
Cup O' Joel for the fun topics..
Godjilla for the wit, wisdom, and great writing of Jill!
Sinema Paresito for the angst!
Favorite media: Entertainment Weekly
Spin
Rolling Stone
Favorite Web sites: Fark.com
Lawrence.com
ViewAskew.com
Favorite music: The Organ, Arcade Fire, Murder by Deaath, Keane, REM, The Postal Service, Sister Scissors, Franz Ferdinand, Barenaked Ladies, They Might Be Giants, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Elefant, The Killers, Green Day, Weezer, The Get Up Kids, Enigma, The Police, Tori Amos, The Servant, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Johnny Cash, all kinds of other stuff....
Favorite books: Animal Farm, Brave New World, To Kill a Mockingbird,1984, LOTR, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.. I have to say I haven't read much modern.
Favorite TV shows: My Name is Earl,Scrubs, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Random stuff on Cartoon Swim, CSI and Law and Order. Coupling, Spaced, Cowboy Bebop, Full Metal Alchemist, Insomniac.
Favorite movies: Full time movie whore...
Bladerunner, Life Aquatic.., Nightmare before Christmas, Garden State, Fight Club, Six-String Samurai, The Killer, Lemony Snicket, Pulp Fiction, The Crow, Austin Powers, Big Trouble in Little China, Princess Bride, Lord of the Rings, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Shaun of the Dead, 28 days later, Heathers, Monty Python Movies, Legend, Labyrinth, Ladyhawke, Brazil, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Akira, Bubba Ho-Tep, Kill Bill, Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissor Hands, A Fish Called Wanda, The Lost Boys, 12 Monkeys, The Professional, The Big Hit, Big Fish, Super Troopers, Army of Darkness, Reservoir Dogs, The Road Warrior, Once Upon a Time in the West, Napoleon Dynamite, Buckaroo Banzai, Crouching Tiger, House of Flying Daggers. etc,. etc,.
Opinion on the South Lawrence Trafficway issue: everyone has issues...
Opinion on West Lawrence: Too close to Topeka?
Opinion on the smoking ban: smoldering is much better..
A short essay on why I am or am not a hipster: Too old to be hip? Too geeky to be hip? Too Johnson County to be hip?
Bandit Teeth / ColourMusic :: After a seven-year hiatus, this trio of Lawrencians has reestablished itself as a top-shelf draw for their brand of high-energy, punk-influenced indie rock ... More info
- Opening Reception for "AbracaData" by Yuri Zupancic
- RedLefty / Kasey Rausch and Friends (early all-ages patio show)
- Sleep Is Like Sex
