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C.J.

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truth

About Me

i find that i read two chapters of a book, and put it away, or i read it cover to cover...nonstop

My Interests

food, wine, music, food, new music, more wine, travel, books, thoughts, truth, food, people, interaction, senses, a little more food, and a lot more wine...

I'd like to meet:

the late, great Bukowski, Hunter, Neal Cassady, and Bobby D. That's so cliche, but who cares..icons are icons for a reason, i can't just make this shit up...Go ahead and throw in M.L.K.J...he's got a street/highway/avenue/parkway named after him in every city in America, plus we share the same birthday...Dostoyevsky, Herman Hesse, and Chris Farley three days before he died.

Music:

Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Led Zep, Jimi Hendrix, Ryan Adams, Bonnie Prince Billy, Cat Power, Devendra Banhart, Okervill River Flaming Lips, Built to Spill, Pedro the Lion, Damien Jurado, Songs: Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co., Eagles of Death Metal, Vetiver, Queens of the Stone Age, Neil Young, Godspeed!, Arhitecture in Helsinki, Iron and Wine, Modest Mouse, Wolf Parade, The Beatles, Wilco, Woody Guthrie, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Rocky Votolato, Broken Social Scene, Feist, Belle and Sebastian, Bright Eyes, T-Rex, T.V. On The Radio,The Arcade Fire, Louis Armstrong, Stan Getz, Miles Davis, David Bowie, The Pony's, The M's...

Movies:

Cool Hand Luke, Life is Beautiful, Coffee and Cigarrettes, Its a Wonderful Life, Barfly, High Strung, Tommy Boy, The Breakfast Club, Roger Dodger, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, The Godfather (1 and 2), The Big Lebowski, Donnie Darko, High Fidelity, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Outsiders, Radio Flyer, Everything is Illuminated, Charlie and the Chocalate Factory, (new and old), The Boondock Saints, The Squid and the Whale, The Door in the Floor

Television:

Family Guy, Boondocks, The Office, Deadwood

Books:

Charles Bukowski: yes please....., Siddhartha, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Walden, Brothers Karamazov, Notes from Underground, Book of Hours, On the Road, The Sun Also Rises, Black Like Me

Heroes:

my mother and my sisters

My Blog

well, thats just the way it is...

some honest words from a ragged god..... "sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours,days,weeks years seem wasted- stretched there upon my bed in the dark ...
Posted by C.J. on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:50:00 PST

the most beautiful woman ever....

..> I remember it like it was yesterday, it was a breezy and sunny afternoon...i was in Mamacita's eating my third plate of fish tacos..  it was a tuesday, Mamacita's had all you can eat fi...
Posted by C.J. on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:03:00 PST

in case anyone was wondering

i am officially settled in the city of chicago...well minus any room furniture or "stuff..."  however, it is a good feeling, i've spent the last 6-7 weeks doing something between squatting, couch...
Posted by C.J. on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:43:00 PST

i love it

the aroma of slow baked, coca-cola basted, petit jean ham mixed with an assortment of dried red spices fills the kitchen and creeps under the crack of the doorway into my room and infiltrates my nostr...
Posted by C.J. on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:07:00 PST

number 27

it is my sister, mindi's birthday today...everyone say, "happy birthday, mindi"...thank you...mindi was my first friend...thanks mindi, you sure are swell...seriously, i love you...mindi, even though ...
Posted by C.J. on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:17:00 PST

a thought...actually, a question about life....

have you ever been stopped at a railroad crossing,  just waiting for the train to go by?  of course you have.  there are the flashing lights, and the dinging bells....well, i've always ...
Posted by C.J. on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:47:00 PST

lucky lotto loser

i drove across the border today and i bought some cheap beer and some lottery tickets...lucky 7's, i believe...in the same way my grandfater, uncle, cousins, second cousins, and great uncles have done...
Posted by C.J. on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:17:00 PST

brandy and soft porn

anyone that knows me knows that i don't sleep so much...while not sleeping i like to dilly and dally on the internet, read, drink brandy, and watch tv...tv consumes the most time...we got a lot of cha...
Posted by C.J. on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:29:00 PST