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User:austinish (14584951)
Austin-ish
Allow me to join your cowboy cult.
Name:Austinish
Location:United States
Birthdate:02-24
Bio:Hey there.

I am a painfully small-time local media personality from the Midwest who's planning to move to Austin, Texas sometime in June or July of 2008.  Put simply, I'm bored with my surroundings and need a change.  Let's see what I can get into down south. I have no job lined up, no apartment, nothing.  I do not know anyone in Austin though I have family in Texas a few hours away.  It's just a great city with a relatively low cost of living where I decided in mid-2007 that I should relocate.

If I've added you recently then it's because you're either an Austin resident that I think is worth knowing or you're someone in the same boat as I, someone with whom I can compare notes.  At some point I'll get around to dropping my resume out of planes, but until then just know me as a freelance entertainment writer (with clips), a graphic designer (with samples!) and a gifted promo strategizer.  I'm comfortable in front of a camera and behind a microphone and I have the tapes to prove it.

More on all that later.

WHAT I MAY TALK ABOUT
  • progressive and reasoned politics
  • well-written comics (both spandex and indie)
  • spicy Mexican food and good barbecue
  • Austin neighborhoods (as I learn more)
  • Texas politics (I'm boning up on Texas Monthly).

THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO DO ONCE I MOVE
  • Find a job in something I'm good at, preferably print or interwebs.  Maybe get better at it.
  • Re-establish my reputation for being aloof, distant and possibly brilliant.
  • Get around to finishing my degree before the close of 2010.  Don't take breaks, kids.
  • Maintain a bitchin' tan.  Develop muscles. 
THINGS I WILL BE BRINGING ALONG
  • a very small Korean vehicle
  • a bedframe and mattress
  • meager savings
  • two computers
  • many varied books
  • clothes
  • a Nintendo Wii
  • a girlfriend, who functions A) as my put-upon life partner, B) my excuse for initiating this change of scenery (she's looking at going to UT for grad school in '09), and C) as my best friend.
I won't drop many personally identifying details about myself in this journal-- most of my close friends know what I'm up to (and if you're one of them and you stumble on this journal, humor me and don't reference our relationship). It's just that I work at a place that treats me great, a place I'm going to have a really tough time walking away from emotionally, financially and creatively... but when the time comes, I've gotta do what I've gotta do. I'd just as soon prefer they not know about what I've gotta do until I'm ready to share the info.
Memories::12 entries
Interests:18: bloomberg, bukowski, casablanca, defamer, ed brubaker, freelance writing, johnny cash, magazine writing, obama, politics, radio, salsa (not the music), television, texas, texas monthly, the new pornographers, the pixies, warren ellis
Schools:None listed
Friends:
People26:271828182, amacmillian, angelinger, anima_mundi, austinish, beehivegumby, cigamerisedi, cyclonestruckit, delicatetbone, devotdsatellite, graphicnovelist, greengalnblack, haldira, hussyred, iluvrhinestones, insomnia, melanctha, moonlightwish, nait, no_relation, nomichelle, orangetango, pandora_0, spurnnedhistory, wellsheeyit, xulong
Communities7:austin_texas, austincommunity, austinjobs, austinrents, lj_maintenance, lj_spotlight, news
Mutual Friends:12: 271828182, amacmillian, austinish, cigamerisedi, greengalnblack, haldira, melanctha, nait, no_relation, nomichelle, orangetango, pandora_0
Member of:6: austin_texas, austinchat, austincommunity, austinjobs, austinmusic, austinrents
Account type:Plus Account

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