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Jacob

I am here for Friends and Networking

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People who use F A C E B 0 0 K.

Music:

Elliot Smith, Pedro the Lion, Howard Jones, Martin Sexton, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Mike Doughtey, Ben Lee, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, U2, Depeche Mode, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Tori Amos, Duncan Sheik, Jason Mraz, Stevie Wonder, October Project, Beth Orton, Sneaker Pimps, Hooverphonic, Interpol, The Shins, Arcade Fire, Hot Hot Heat, Spoon, Five for Fighting, The Smiths, BT, Maroon5, Johny Cash, Sting, Spymob, Scissor Sisters, The Killers, Weezer, Stabbing Westward, VAST, Year of the Rabbit, ON, Corinne Bailey Rae, Grann Bell Fisher, White Light Riot, Doves, South, Guster, Headphones, The Bees and the list continues....

Movies:

Serenity
Highlander
Star Wars
Waking Life
Under a Tuscan Sun(I can't help it... I want to go to Tuscany)
Hackers(Even though it's way old and the dialogue has much to be desired I still find it to be a fun movie with a solid soundtrack)
Underworld(Dark and beautiful, I could watch this movie several times in a row)
Nightmare Before Christmas
Iron Giant
Goonies
Strange Brew
The Saddest Song In The World(another funny movie about Canadians and their love of Beer)
Office Space
Safe Men(under rated-Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn playing casiotone)
Bladerunner
Immortal
Run Lola Run
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
Gladiator
The Village
Day After Tomorrow(the wolves were lame but the story itself is interresting)
Donnie Darko(f*cking brilliant)
The Princess Bride("Stop Rhyming and I Mean It!")
Ferris Bueller's Day Off("They bought it. Incredible. One of the worst performances of my career, and they never doubted it for a second.")
The Family Man
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
There are more...

Television:

Jericho
Numbers
Bones
House
Prison Break
LOST
Heroes
Dead Like Me(A brilliant short lived tv series)
Firefly(FOX screwed this amazing epic in its first season)
Six Feet Under
Boston Legal
Older shows - Friends, Red Dwarf, Dr Who
---If you are sick of commercials check out MythTV, it's an open source program for linux and 10x better than tivo. needless to say it can recognize commercials versus the aired show.

Books:

Currently reading: When the Wind Blows-James Patterson, Life of Pi-Yann Martel, Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Diamond Age-Neil Stephenson

Snowcrash, Ender's Game, Flash Hacks

Heroes:

Depeche Mode... still creating amazing music after so many years. Their music has been my surviving rythm, carrying me through over a decade of good and bad times.

Timothy Daniel ... A great friend who is making a name for himself in the music scene. He is the kindest, most honest, and wisest friend I am honored to know.

The Current... 89.3FM station in the Twin Cities.

My Blog

Alaskan Airlines found my phone!

This is a real quick post as I'm at work...  So my dad just called and apparently my phone has been found and Alaskan Airlines is shipping it to my parents house.  Things do move a little sl...
Posted by Jacob on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:36:00 PST

Oh, apparently Im a prick.

So I was on facebook, in the control center area and I had two advertisements for a radio show.  One was brought up via note and in the events.  I asked my friend in a quick one liner facebo...
Posted by Jacob on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:02:00 PST

Western Digital aka Wheres My Data

My hard drive died, 400Gigs brand new a month and a half ago.  I will never buy Western Digital again.  In my lifetime I have had 4 Western Digital hard drives all of which died in less than...
Posted by Jacob on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:16:00 PST

I have a phone again.

I have a phone.  Call me so I can put your number in.  Thanks much my friends.
Posted by Jacob on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:54:00 PST

I lost my cell phone. Anyone have an old sprint phone?

I lost my cell phone as soon as I arrived in Anchorage, AK last week.   I'm under contract with Sprint until April.  Can anyone help out?  I just need an old sprint cell.  My old o...
Posted by Jacob on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:25:00 PST

FOX TV, REALLY WTF ARE YOU DOING?!?!

Here we go again.  Last year on TV show "the LOOP" there were two female main characters Lizzie and Piper.  Where are they now?!  We as fans of season 1 are left with no explanation.&nb...
Posted by Jacob on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:35:00 PST

Jericho on CBS - Friday 8pm CST - Watch it.

Please watch.  I'm a die hard fan of this show now.   I would love to see it get more than just a 7 episode second season.  We need more fans to keep it alive.  You don't need...
Posted by Jacob on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:00:00 PST

Punch a ticket scalper.

So I was thinking about going to one of the two Guster concerts in Apple Valley this July. Then I go online to find it is sold out.  And I'm sure anyone who is scalping them is selling them for $...
Posted by Jacob on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:43:00 PST

A video recap of BA/BE Rally 07

Alright, I haven't blogged on here in a while because I have been doing more and more over on facebook.  This blog post may not be up for very long but her is a little vid-u-mentry of the events ...
Posted by Jacob on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:36:00 PST

Myblog is here and there

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Posted by Jacob on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:35:00 PST