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jim

Life is ideas made real.

About Me

I write, photograph, make music, and wander around trying to get to the bottom of everything, even if it's just my latest cup of coffee.

My Interests

Science fiction, fantasy, **good** comics (for example, anything by Alan Moore), metaphysics, reiki, channeling, skepticism, writing, reading, listening to music, making music, photography, travel, Indian classical music and dance, movies worth their film stock.

I'd like to meet:

People who think, talk, laugh, do, enjoy life, and enjoy raising new ideas all the way to the finished line.

Music:

King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Bjork, Beck, Grandmaster Flash, Dolemite, Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Primus, Praxis, Parliament Funkadelic, the Police, Outkast, Portishead, Clutch, Sepultura, White Zombie, Dr. Octagon, Barkmarket, Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Orbital, DJ John Kelley, Bollywood techno, Brahms, Jane's Addiction, Prong, Helmet, Tool, Thought Industry, Ne Ne, DethKlok, The Toadies, Post Stardom Depression, sHeavy, Floating Widget,

...and roughly 8% of rock, %2 of country, and %5 of any other musical genres.

Movies:

1950's: Rashomon, Seven Samurai, High Noon, Roman Holiday, Father of the Bride, Mystery of Picasso

1970's: Star Wars, Dog Day Afternoon, 2001: A Space Oddyssey, Taxi Driver, Young Frankenstein, Planet of the Apes, The Longest Yard, The Wall, Patton, A Bridge Too Far

1980's: Full Metal Jacket, Say Anything, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Better Off Dead, Escape From New York, They Live, The Road Warrior, The Terminator, Scanners, Videodrome

1990's: Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Killing Zoe, Romper Stomper, Roger & Me, Man Bites Dog, The Ice Storm, Hands on a Hard Body

21st Cent: (too early to tell?) Donnie Darko, A Scanner Darkly, Fahrenheit 911, The Last King of Scotland, Brick, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Royal Tenenbaums, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Weathermen, Blind Faith

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Heroes, The 4400, The Venture Brothers, Dr. Who, BJ and the Bear, WKRP in Cincinnatti, Simon & Simon, Space 1999, Logan's Run (yes, it was a TV show!), The Rockford Files, Tales from the Dark Side, All in the Family, Good Times, Lost, Deadwood, the Sopranos, Rome, Six Feet Under

Books:

Critical Path and Synergetics,The Illuminatus Trilogy, VALIS, anything else by Philip K. Dick, Infinite Jest, Lord of the Rings trilogy, anything by Harlan Ellison, anything by Jack Vance, almost anything by Kurt Vonnegut, anything by Robert Heinlein, almost everything by Roger Zelazny, almost everything by Edgar Rice Burroughs, almost everything by Robert E. Howard

Heroes:

R. Buckminster Fuller, Noam Chomsky, Philip K. Dick, Robert Anton Wilson, Brock Samson

My Blog

Last year was actually a great year for movies?!

Can it be? It's hard to believe myself, but last year movies gave us some incredible artistic successes that actually made money.Children of Men.Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Unfortunately it wasn'...
Posted by jim on Thu, 17 May 2007 01:15:00 PST

Gratitude.

I helped a friend of mine move to her new apartment last night, from the LA downtown are. I put in a full day at work and then helped her move at night, 'til like 2 AM. But that wasn't the crazy part....
Posted by jim on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:09:00 PST

And this week's head explosion is courtesy of - the new Burkini!

The new I-shit-you-not cross between a burka and a bikini. An all-body swimsuit that makes it possible for Muslim women in some sects to swim without being stoned. Er, stoned in a bad way.This bit of ...
Posted by jim on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:36:00 PST

Who would win in a fight between Jack Bauer and Snake Plissken?

In the right corner, Jack Bauer      Jack Bauer is in the right corner, 'cause so many right-wingers take "24" as proof that the Bushites should torture anyone they want. &...
Posted by jim on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:30:00 PST

Does anyone know if Beyonce drives a grey Lotus?

I have to know. I was coming back to my house in Venice on Friday night, driving my awesome/ridiculous bright yellow 1983 postal jeep.  Before I bought it, it was used by a tree service called "T...
Posted by jim on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:08:00 PST

LA can be murder

Sounds like a good title for a 70's detective show, eh? Perhaps for "The Rockford Files", or maybe even "BJ and the Bear".Actually it's just a descriptive title for this picture I took from my car, on...
Posted by jim on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:03:00 PST