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John

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About Me


Softkey Left softkey Right.. add to your profileIt's like when you're a kid, the first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it because everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it, the turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour and the entire planet is hurtling around the Sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go...That's who I am.
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Someone once told me I have good instincts. I only ever hope she was right.
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"And if I hear one more time about a fool's right to his tools of rage, I'm gonna take my friends, and I'm gonna move to Canada, and we're going to die of old age..."
(Note: because a lot of people have asked, the accompanying music is "I Love NYE", by Badly Drawn Boy. Many thanks to Damon Gough, the badly drawn boy in question, for not suing me)
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Despite the fact that I see the world through the lens of fiction, I believe that magic is real, and that the best love stories are true.I also like Freeze Tag and sandboxes.

My Interests

NPR podcasts, baseball, things that smell good, Will Shortz crossword puzzles, reading things (mostly books, but other things too), jumping up and down frantically, enthusiasm, bitterness, etc.

I'd like to meet:

Marketa Irglova

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Jo March

Anne Elliot

Carole King

People with the last name "Sedaris".

David Tennant

Huston Smith

Helen of Troy

I'd like to meet you
In a timeless, placeless place
Somewhere out of context
And beyond all consequences
I won't use words again
They don't mean what I meant
They don't say what I said
They're just the crust of the meaning
With realms underneath
Never touched
Never stirred
Never even moved through

-S.V.

Music:

*The Clash* *MUSE* *R.E.M.* *Damien Rice* *U2* *The Frames/Anything involving Glen Hansard* *Bruce Springsteen* *Blondie* *Aimee Mann/'Til Tuesday* *The Killers* *Gillian Welch* * EISLEY* *Feist* *Jenny Lewis* *Dropkick Murphys (for Boston)* *Badly Drawn Boy* *Elliot Smith (I miss you)* *Social Distortion* *The Explosion* *Green Day* (American Idiot only, but that record is so brilliant it warrants their inclusion) *Nirvana* *Smashing Pumpkins* *Jeff Buckley* *John Wesley Harding* *Radiohead* *Blur (and anything else Damon Albarn has touched)* *Sufjan Stevens* *Carole King* *Gustav Mahler* *Felix Mendelssohn* *Ralph Vaughan Williams* *Thomas Newman* *10,000 Maniacs (Natalie-era only)* *INXS* *Patti Smith* *The Police/Sting* *Regina Spekter* *Live* *Duran Duran* *Billy Idol (and Generation X)* *Aaron Copland* *Beethoven* *Mozart* *Rufus Wainwright* *Strike Anywhere* *Ryan Adams* *Ani DiFranco* *David Gray* *Ben Folds* *Robbie Williams* (yes, I know, I have a problem, but I'm just being honest here) *Randy Edelman* *Nellie McKay* *Coldplay* *Travis* *Neil Finn* *Mark Lanegan* *The Streets* *Fleetwood Mac* *The Who* *The Faint* *Rage Against the Machine* *Flogging Molly* *The Bouncing Souls* *The Verve* *The Pixies* *NIN* (before Trent got all lame and shit) *The Cure* *Tears for Fears* *Teenage Fanclub* *Vast* *Simon and Garfunkel* (and just Simon) *Joni Mitchell* *Fiona Apple* (esp. When the Pawn and Extraordinary Machine) *((old) Weezer* *The Beatles* *The Stones* *Ella Fitzgerald* *Roy Orbison* *Gershwin* *David Bowie* *Led Zepplin* *The (International) Noise Conspiracy* *Johnny Cash* *Tom Petty* *Roy Orbison* *Elvis Costello* *The Kinks* *Hard-Fi* *Billy Bragg* *Jurassic 5* *Norah Jones* *Eminem* *Mark Knopfler* *The Ramones* *Common* *Stevie Wonder* *Suzanne Vega* *Sam Cooke* *Billlie Holliday* *The Roots* *Del tha Funky Homosapien* *Dan the Automator* *No Doubt* *Foo Fighters* *The Velvet Underground*, two Madonna songs and any band that doesn't try to get me to add them to my MySpace list...

Movies:

Once, The New World, Amistad, Contact, Looking for Richard, Dark City, Wings of Desire, Heavenly Creatures, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Eyes Wide Shut, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars (all six, and yes, I'm willing to have that argument if you want it), Run Lola Run, The Thin Red Line, Magnolia, 12 Monkeys, About a Boy, Moulin Rouge, Clockwork Orange, AI, The Truman Show, Rushmore, Amelie... And Jurrasic Park, 'acause I like Dinosaurs and junk. And Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff, 'acause I like space and astronauts and junk.

Television:

Doctor Who. Torchwood. Life on Mars. Countdown with Keith Olbermann. The Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Both versions of The Office. Battlestar Galactica. Wonder Showzen. South Park. The Catherine Tate Show. Lost. Anything involving Joss Whedon.

Books:

The works of: Douglas Coupland, Italo Calvino, Laurence Durrell, Nick Hornby, JD Salinger, Hiruki Murakami, JRR Tolkien, Joseph Campbell, Philip Roth, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Thich Nhat Hanh, Michael Chabon, Sherman Alexie, Salman Rushdie, and about a jillion other people who humble me and make me want to smile, cry, or just jump around in admiration... And the Harry Potter books (and many other things that involve magic and escapism and young heroes and such...yeah, I know I'm a nerd. Thanks).
And, of course:

Heroes:



And: Joe Strummer, Nikita Kruschev, Joss Whedon, Italo Calvino, Jo March, Leon Trotsky, The Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jesus, Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Michael Stipe, Tony Almeida, St Francis of Assisi, Ted Williams, Baruch Spinoza, Joseph Campbell, Severus Snape, Kevin Millar, The Green Lantern, Noam Chomsky, The 2004 Boston Red Sox, ASMIMH

My Non-Heroes: Ayn Rand, John Calvin, Karl Rove, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Lee Atwater (death bed apology not withstanding), Joe McCarthy, Alex Rodriguez, Bill Frist, Tom DeLay, Stalin...Oh I could go on, but needless to say they all need a stern talking-to and a punch in the nose.

My simultaneous enemy/hero/enemy again: Christopher Hitchens

My Blog

the davinci code (and other things seen on planes)

http://thedailyhated.blogspot.com/2008/06/10-airport-novels- see-also-davinci-code.html...
Posted by John on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:03:00 PST

fuck pollen

for reals http://thedailyhated.blogspot.com/2008/06/9-pollen.html
Posted by John on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:48:00 PST

The Wire

http://thedailyhated.blogspot.com/2008/06/8-people-who-keep- telling-you-much.html...
Posted by John on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:17:00 PST

Deadness sucks

http://thedailyhated.blogspot.com/2008/06/special-entry-geor ge-carlin-not-being.html...
Posted by John on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:46:00 PST

Conversate

http://thedailyhated.blogspot.com/2008/06/5-anyone-who-says- conversate.html
Posted by John on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:57:00 PST

People

We hate People.http://thedailyhated.blogspot.com/2008/06/4-subscribe rs-to-or-regular-readers-of.html
Posted by John on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:47:00 PST

Grrrr...Jesus Fish

http://thedailyhated.blogspot.com/ game on.
Posted by John on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:48:00 PST

Hated: "Jenny and I"

http://thedailyhated.blogspot.com/ get your hate on. (by the way, i'm starting to hate people who say things like "get your ____ on"...
Posted by John on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:16:00 PST

Sunshine, The Heat, Complaining

http://myreviewsblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/reviews-at-glance. html hot trends, kids. hot trends.  ...
Posted by John on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:48:00 PST

John reviews "The Most Recent Episode of Battlestar Galactica"

http://myreviewsblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/most-recent-episod e-of-battlestar.html   OMGs!!!!!!!!!...
Posted by John on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:05:00 PST