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The Swirling Vortex of Verisimilitude
A Traveller's Log...
Created on 2003-05-27 23:01:36 (#1083140), last updated 2009-06-13
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Basic Info| Name: | FunkyPlaid |
|---|---|
| Location: | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Website: | Dynamophone Records |
Contact:
funkyplaid@mac.com BioWho doesn't have an agenda? I'm as guilty as the next person, though I don't need Fight Club to convince me not to join the herd. Awareness turns me on. Self-centrage makes me want to kill. Discourse is demanded. My only rule: spend every minute of waking life doing something important – even if it's just quietly vital to your own well-being. You don't have to change the world, but always be ready to change yourself – the times demand it. Think big, live bigger.
Twelve years in Detroit, twenty-one in San Francisco, and one big one in Edinburgh. My two personas fight it out over an uncertain future – living a comfortable, artistic, consumer-based lifestyle in the Bay Area, or being the foreign, perpetual student in Scotland – for the rest of my life.
My day-to-day: I'm the co-owner of Gamescape in San Rafael, one of the Bay Area's preeminent analog game stores. While I survive by acting as an emotional bartender for all of geekdom, my heart lies in the hallowed collegiate halls, and I'm currently putting together a doctoral proposal that intends to contribute immensely to the discipline of Jacobite history. Publishing projects in the works, perpetually blended with historical research, lectures, and a tight rapport with the boys back in the field all help me to keep an eye on the prize. Currently slated for 2010.
The absolute epitome of Taurus. No bull. Born right down the middle, on Beltane eve.
I'm the alco-stodian of the California wine-spaz community![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
grapes_traipse. Why don't you stick your head in and give it a nosing?
My apoplectic, shallow stutterings with little meaning can be found here.
And I am completely devoted to, smitten by, and nuts about my most treasured swarthy swan,![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
cygnoir.
Twelve years in Detroit, twenty-one in San Francisco, and one big one in Edinburgh. My two personas fight it out over an uncertain future – living a comfortable, artistic, consumer-based lifestyle in the Bay Area, or being the foreign, perpetual student in Scotland – for the rest of my life.
My day-to-day: I'm the co-owner of Gamescape in San Rafael, one of the Bay Area's preeminent analog game stores. While I survive by acting as an emotional bartender for all of geekdom, my heart lies in the hallowed collegiate halls, and I'm currently putting together a doctoral proposal that intends to contribute immensely to the discipline of Jacobite history. Publishing projects in the works, perpetually blended with historical research, lectures, and a tight rapport with the boys back in the field all help me to keep an eye on the prize. Currently slated for 2010.
The absolute epitome of Taurus. No bull. Born right down the middle, on Beltane eve.
I'm the alco-stodian of the California wine-spaz community
grapes_traipse. Why don't you stick your head in and give it a nosing?My apoplectic, shallow stutterings with little meaning can be found here.
And I am completely devoted to, smitten by, and nuts about my most treasured swarthy swan,
cygnoir. ConnectInterests (145):
>, 4ad, 826 valencia, academia, acuras, adolphe-william bouguereau, adrian fog, afghan whigs, alan moore, alcohol, alphonse mucha, anti-burning man, arab strap, archaeology, archival detective work, are you gone?, arthur rackham, artistry, bay area, believer, bellydance, black heart procession, black swans, bones, boobies, books, boxing, boyd rice, brian froud, bright eyes, buca, canines, charles delint, charles vess, cheese, chris ware, cocteau twins, cranes, cygnoir, death in june, devics, doumbeks, dreads, drumming, dynamophone, eddie izzard, edinburgh university, eighteenth-century texts, electronic music, elvis costello, elysian fields, faeries, fake fur, fake hair, fark, felines, fey, forensic science, gamescape, gaming, good scotch, goth fashion, grace, haberdashery, hats, hedwig, history, howard zinn, in gowan ring, incense, integrity, ixmae, jacobitism, jane's addiction, jennifer charles, jimmy corrigan, legs entwined, leopard print, londer, lord george murray, low, mac osx, mark lanegan, massive attack, maurice sendak, mcsweeney's, mermaids, middle-eastern music, militaria, mimolette, mushroom circles, music, napa valley, nick cave, noam chomsky, north african music, npr, overidentifying with fictional characters, painting, passion, persian carpets, pinot noir, plaid, poise, pre-raphaelites, pressed lips, purple, queen adreena, rebecca guay, red wine, robert charles wilson, san francisco, satchel, scorpion wind, scotland, sealing wax, sensuality, shawn smith, snail sex, sparring, spirals, standing stones, stephen ambrose, swans, sweetness and light, tablas, tandem silver pines, tanks, tattoos, techno-geekdom, the cure, the smiths, tom waits, tony diterlizzi, tram, tricky, unconditional love, urban exploration, urban fantasy, vanilla, vercingetorix, vikings, vintage clothing, wargames, wholphin
External Services:
 | funkyplaid@livejournal.com | |
 | FunkyPlaid |  |
Schools:
College of Marin / First Unified College of Kentfield - Kentfield, CA (1992 - 1997)University of California - Berkeley - Berkeley, CA (1998 - 2000)
University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh, Scotland - Edinburgh, United Kingdom (2003 - 2004)
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