watercolor, poker, music, technology, spades and euchre, beer and wine, weapons of mass destruction program related activities, chess, cooking and eating, creative writing (which I rarely do anymore), driving around on a sunny day, watching NFL games, swimming, going to good shows, half-finishing projects, camping, vacations, electric toothbrushes, long weekends and short weeks, cartoons, comedy clubs, room service as a concept, magic tricks (but I don't do any), Spring and Fall (not so much Summer and Winter), video games, board games, head games (just kidding).
I exercise the gym and play basketball whenever I'm down in southern bama.
I'd like to meet:
Dear fakesters,
I do like to meet new people, and I do like to read blogs in my down time or to break out of the programming mind between tasks. I do NOT collect random friends. If you are going to send me a friend request, please note the following criteria I apply to adds:
NEW! If you are trying to get me to check out your webcam / site, or hit you up with my email / IM / IRC, I'm just going to report it as spam
If you send me a message before you add me, I am way more likely to approve
If we've met or I can describe you as an actual friend, you're in
If you can make me laugh out loud, I'll add you right now
If you keep a blog, I am more likely to add you
I'm really 30. If you are under 21, don't add me.
If you have 1000+ friends, don't add me
If you have no bio / interests / pictures, or seem like a spam account, don't
If your add request or profile appears fishy, I won't add you without exchanging messages first
It's not like the Friends of JB is an elite organization, but you have to at least appear to be authentic to get in, even if your picture is a hot bikini-clad woman. If I do add you, but we never talk, you are probably going to be removed. If you spam me after I add you, you are definitely going to be removed.
I know a lot of people already. I don't know that there's anyone I'm dying to meet in the virtual myspace sense, but there's a lot that I don't know. In fact, I revel in my own ignorance. No, I roll around in it like a dog in things that smell bad. I love things that I don't know more than things that I do because they're new.
I've had someone ask, so let me say this: I am a compulsive blog-reader. If I am subscribed to your blog but have never sent you a message or a friend request, don't freak out. That just means that I found your blog and further found it interesting.
The Position of JB's Muse has been filled.
The effects were almost immediate, as if hips and eyes and fingers were plugs and wires and switches. Independence given freely is not lost, but returned with the force of two and twenty more. Gracias, mamacita.
Music:
I'm going to round this out even more. Believe me, my musical tastes give the iTunes store an aneurism every time I log on. I could keep going until I reach some theoretical database field limit, but I have to get to work now.
Special Mad Love
The Acoustipimps, The Merediths, Joanna Newsom, two are friends and the third is a huge crush.
Previously unmentioned:
MF Doom (with or without Dangermouse), Dangermouse (with or without MF Doom), Cee-Lo, Aaron Neville (and all his brothers), Stevie Wonder, Jr. Gong, John Legend, The Temptations, Green Day, Rakim, Eric B, the old Fugees, Steely Dan, The Romantics, Richard Cheese, James Blunt, OutKast, india Arie, The Commodores, Ringside, tenacious D, Dave Brubeck, Henry Mancini, Ozzie, AC/DC, Nelly, Ben Folds, Canned heat, Black Eyed Peas, Heather Headley, The White Stripes, Kanye West, E.L.O., James Brown, The Who, Joan Osbourne, Tracy Chapman
The Old List:
Ben Harper, Bob Marley, David Gray, Beck, Spearhead, The Flaming Lips, Col Claypool, Digital Underground, Alison Krauss, Jimi, Santana, Nick Drake, Tom Petty, P-Funk, G Love & Special Sauce, Bill Withers, Jane's Addiction (even some Porno For Pyros), John Lee Hooker, Elvis AND the Beatles, RL Burnside, Snoop, Soul Coughing, Neal Diamond, Jurassic 5, Jonny Lang, Grandaddy, Ben Kweller, The Eels, The 5-6-7-8s, Puffy AmiYumi (I admit it, I like J-Pop), Johnny Cash, Barry White, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Norah Jones, Al Green, Jack Johnson, Bonnie Raitt, Van Morrison, Rufus Wainwright, Mos Def, Rusted Root, Thievery Corporation, Dylan, Led Zeppelin, They Might be Giants, Marvin Gaye, Elliot Smith, Paul Simon, Del Tha Funky Homosapien (and Deltron 3030 / The Gorillaz) Mississippi John Hurt, Credence, Sting and the Police, Fiona Apple, The Cardigans, anybody from the Rat Pack, Chris Thomas King, Clapton, Fuck Your Yankee Bluejeans (or some shit), Busta, Pink Floyd, The Animals, The Who, Peter Tosh, Sublime, Weezer, Isaac Hayes, Digable Planets, Blind Melon, we've almost scratched the surface now...
Movies:
Usual Suspects, Hudsucker Proxy (et al.), Raiders of the Lost Ark (et al. too), A Fish Called Wanda, Dreamcatcher (I laughed / I cried / I shat a killer eel), 12 Monkeys, Yojimbo & Sanjuro, Fight Club (finally a movie better than the book), LOTR, Spider Man, Anything Pixar, Popeye, Aliens and Alien, Fear and Loathing, Happy Gilmore, Road to Perdition, Half Baked, Ghostbusters, High Fidelity, Unforgiven, True Romance, Snatch & Lock Stock, Full Metal Jacket, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, Better off Dead, Gallipoli, Suicide Kings, Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, Sleepy Hollow, The Sting, Bridge on the River Kwai, High Plains Drifter, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, Memento, Nick of Time, Big Trouble in Little China, The Sting, Ferris Bueller
Television:
New TV Addictions to feed my DVR: My Name is Earl, Battlestar Motherfuckin Galactica, The boondocks (Really and truly all of Adult Swim with the exception of the Squidbillies, Perfect Hair Forever, and 12oz Mouse ... those three shows are dung), The Colbert Report, that freddie prinz show (don't tell on me), Lost
I think I could be one of a select few TV watchers that finds Desperate Housewives to be trite and boring. I would watch it if they cut it down to ten minutes and basically just showed them off half-naked. Removing the remaining 40 minutes of programming would be a winner for me
I love Deadwood, Chappelle's Show, The Daily Show, anything on Food TV, 24, Curb Your Enthusiasm, X-Play (oh yes I am nerdtastic), World Poker Tour / World Series of Poker / Celebrity Poker Tour, Keen Eddie, Brimstone (Fuck You Fox Execs), The Tick (live action or the cartoon... again, Fuck you Fox), Futurama (Need I say it again?), The Family Guy (Yes, Fuck you once more), Real Time with Bill Mahr, NOW with Bill Moyer (deeper than Real Time, but not funny), Frontline, America Undercover, Six Feet Under
Books:
Neuromancer, Starship Troopers (Yes the movie sucked except for the nice boobies), The Tao of Pooh, Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, A Deepness in the Sky, About a Boy, Arundel, Rabble in Arms, Choke, Lullaby, Fight Club, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Odd Thomas, It, Harry Potter, LOTR & The Hobbit
I tend to read authors more than books, usually being put onto a new author by a friend or random happenstance. I'm also a binge reader, sometimes going a year between books and then swallowing one every few days.
Heroes:
David Berg (R.I.P.), The Dude (or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing), Dave Barry or Hunter S Thompson (depending on whether it is a nice day outside), Spider Man (fuck Aquaman), Crazy Horse (Fuck Custer), DL Hughley, Sidney J Mussberger (sure sure), Toshiro Mifune, Mike Lazzo, Bill Hicks, Malik Sooch
