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yes, it is.

About Me

i am a fly on the wall and history is in the room telling secrets. i edit photographs and make digital collages. i spend time in classrooms. i collect junk. i ride bicycles. i go places sometimes.i get by with a little help from my friends at THE MARVELOUS COLLECTIVE

My Interests

the past. things with purpose. things without. empty spaces, junk, and junk that fills up empty spaces. photographs. art. language. vinyl lp's. addition, but not subtraction. all celestial bodies, but not the sun. the color black. post structuralism. the cynicism of reality and the romanticism of the ideal. army surplus goods. q-tips. libraries. summer nights. brunettes. night driving. simplicity. coincidences. little debbies. bicycles. rain. books. hot tea. naps. going places. going nowhere. going someplace that turns out to be nowhere or going nowhere and finding out that you are really somewhere.

I'd like to meet:

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'" -Jack Kerouac

Music:

ak-ak. animal collective. bonnie prince. paleo. califone. calla. bhp. devics. remy. zippers. bird. django. satchmo. sinatra. waits.

Movies:

are ok, but films are better.

Television:

kill your tv.

Books:

history of love. extremely loud and incredibly close. the moviegoer. blue like jazz. the book of genesis. the gospel of john. walden. the english patient. ishmael. the great divorce. franny and zooey. kerouac. eggers.

Heroes:

little debbie. father abraham. arthur fonzerelli. ed v. alexander supertramp. sal paradise. papa and mamaw. christian boltanski. warhol. nachtwey. duchamp. simon norfolk. curious george.

My Blog

apes and apes

all day today there has been debate over which poster design to submit for the upcoming APES show in b'ham. I like both, but thats because I made them. Which do you prefer? In the left corner, Chee...
Posted by j on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:24:00 PST

and then Linda dies...

Tonight, at Bottletree, a dylan/devendra-like hairy fairy with sufjanian aspirations performs at nine. It will be an evening to remember. PALEOis currently writing, recording, and releasing a song ev...
Posted by j on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:10:00 PST

the lost boy

"This way, Metro Center?" he asked with a thick, broken accent. Maybe French. I'm sure he had been practicing how to say it in his mind, but all the accents were on the wrong syllables once it was v...
Posted by j on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:17:00 PST

WHAT IS THE WHAT

One of the best ways to begin the new year was by reading what was one of the best and most unexpected Christmas gifts given to me this year - WHAT IS THE WHAT, the autobiography of Valentino Achak De...
Posted by j on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:54:00 PST

in silence, a list

its so quiet. the rain outside is a consistent ssshhhh to all those who might attempt at making noise. the day, usually filled with the sounds of the city, is silent. its the first day of the year....
Posted by j on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:59:00 PST

rough beauty

I like Dave Anderson's photographs. A lot. His portfolio from Vidor, TX entitled ROUGH BEAUTY portrays a sense of the heroic and tragic and the assimilation of life and death and landscape in a bea...
Posted by j on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:51:00 PST

for most of it i have no words

there is perhaps no other greater influence in my photography than SIMON NORFOLK. i met him at a workshop in bath, england in 1999 and besides being one of the most intense personalities ive encounte...
Posted by j on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:10:00 PST

The Man Up There

Tonight is clear and the air smells of Cold and Snow and Smoke and Fire and I've gone to the window to look at the Moon but I cant see it, but I know its up there somewhere big and full because I can ...
Posted by j on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:18:00 PST

autobiography

I've been recently initiated into a music club set up by a friend here in DC. Each month one of 12 club members edits and mails out a mix cd to the 11 other members. Each person takes a turn and over ...
Posted by j on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:55:00 PST

au revoir mon beau Peugot vélo rouge, au revoir

Today, I went into battle with my valiant vintage Peugot head to head versus an idiot-lady and her brand new Acura. I emerged victorious. I am, perhaps, unbreakable. The crash sent me hurdling through...
Posted by j on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:38:00 PST