Aaron Holden

Newport High School, Attended 1996 - 1999, Class of 1999

Newport High School, Pacific University, Central College, Trinity College, Wenzhou Medical College in Zhejiang, China

Pacific University, Attended 1999 - 2003, Class of 2003, Bachelor's Degree, English Lit

English Teacher

guitar (acoustic/fingerstyle), all music, art, bars, blues, china, coffee, exotic food, hiking, history, jazz, linguistics, literature, live music, modest mouse, nick drake, portland, reading, soccer, sushi, the muppets, the simpsons, travel, wine

Dammit again...they don't give room for much of a list do they! Look below at, "Who you want to meet."

Big Fish, Beetlejuice, The Big Lebowski, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Shine, Labrinth, Willow, Any of the Muppet Movies (hell yeah!), Being John Malkovitch, Igby Goes Down, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Mean Machine, Amelie, Royal Tenenbaums

Modest Mouse, M. Ward, Songs: Ohio, Ugly Casanova, Jack Johnson, Morphine, Ben Harper, Cake, Sufjan Stevens, Miles Davis, Kelly Joe Phelps, Iron & Wine, Dispatch, Stephen Malkmus, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Leo Kottke, Tom Waits, Spoon

Scrubs, The Muppets. I don't really watch TV much. Especially in China. Yinwei wo ting bu dong.

Taurus

quick update: go to www.myspace.com because that is much more up to date. i see on here a lot more people so i'll do this one soon...

Dammit it wouldn't let me add more music but I wasn't done...allow me to finish my list: G. Love and Special Sauce, Bright Eyes, Califone, Nick Drake, Django Reinhardt, Johnny Cash, Le Tigre, Bert Jansch, Radiohead, Cat Stevens, Elliott Smith, Medeski Martin and Wood, Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Will Oldham, Portishead, Lambchop, Bonnie Prince Billy, The Beta Band, Pedro the Lion, The Shins, Enya (shut up), The Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie, Coldplay, Yo La Tengo, The Black Keys, The Notwist, Beck. About me? Describe myself? Well, I don't know. I love traveling, eating, music, literature, eating more, and playing my guitars. I'm interested in most everything, including interesting people. I tend to be pretty quiet and spend a lot of time by myself reading and listening to music. However, I also tend to be pretty outgoing and social and spend a lot of time at various bars with my friends here. Also, I get pretty goofy and spastic when I'm comfortable with people. I dunno, what else...I've been a lot places, seen a lot of things, and eaten a lot of crazy food. Because I'm crazy like that. And crazy people aren't scared of anything. Even YOU! HA! Right now I'm teaching English at a medical college in Wenzhou, China. I plan on being here for another year and a half or so, then I'll come back to grad school for a Master's in Teaching English as a Second Language, or Applied Linguistics. And I miss my friends. A lot. Ok, then, that's enough...

I want to meet you if you like any the music I mentioned at all. If you like any of these books: Cannery Row-John Steinbeck, Midnight's Children-Salman Rushdie, Suttree-Cormac McCarthy, Catch 22-Joseph Heller, All of Kurt Vonnegut, Walt Whitman, Invisible Man--Ralph Ellison, Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury, On the Road-Jack Kerouac, Shel Silverstein, Dr. Suess etc., etc. I love so many more but I can't write them all here. You get my general taste though, I think. If you play guitar, if you like to travel and eat crazy food. Or, hell, if you just want to talk--or if you have any questions about living and teaching in China. Also, if you're a long-lost friend, most likely because I'm a bastard about communication, and you're not too pissed to talk to me, I'd love to hear from you.