Dr. Jonny Fever - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I go to funerals.

My Interests

Piano, guitar, live music, extended chords, dissonance. Mathematics, dynamics, heat transfer, control systems, engineering in medicine and biology, image processing. Cinema, photography, illustrations, watercolor, collage, critical paranoia. Language, poetry, neologisms. Yoga. Observing the ongoing battles of Scientology vs. Anonymous vs. Operation Clambake, RIAA vs. Everyone, evangelists vs. rational materialists. Learning about my friends' interests.

I'd like to meet:

Winners.

Music:

MotÃ¶rhead, HÃ¼sker DÃ¼, EinstÃ¼rzende Neubauten, Blue Ã–yster Cult, MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e, Punky BrÃ¼ster, QueensrÃ¿che, BjÃ¶rk, GyÃ¶rgi Ligeti, DÃ«thklÃ¸k...basically I like any band or musician with umlauts in their name.

Movies:

Werner Herzog, Lars von Trier, Peter Greenaway, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jan Å vankmajer, Akira Kurosawa, Todd Solondz, Harold and Maude, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, I'm Not There, Christopher Guest, Harmony Korine, Andrei Tarkovsky, Irreversible, Stanley Kubrick, Ghost World, Jesus Camp, 12 Angry Men, Jim Jarmusch, Being There, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Truffaut, The Big Lebowski, Larry Clark, Blazing Saddles, Wes Anderson, Blow-Up, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, May, The Breakfast Club, Sex and Lucia, Elling, Scratch, Catherine Breillat, Stan Brakhage, No Country for Old Men, Michael Haneke, Hitchcock, The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus, The Dark Crystal, Dogme 95, Ingmar Bergman, Real Genius, Dark City, Cemetery Man, Crumb, Punch-Drunk Love.

Television:

Twin Peaks, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The X-Files, South Park, Northern Exposure, Neverwhere, The Mighty Boosh, Metalocalypse, Kids in the Hall, Red Dwarf, Home Movies, The State, Family Guy, The Daily Show, Arrested Development.

Books:

And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave, The Illuminatus! Trilogy and anything else by Robert Anton Wilson, A Crack-Up at the Race Riots by Harmony Korine, Flan by Stephen Tunney, From Hell by Alan Moore, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasquez, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Possession by A.S. Byatt, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, VALIS by Philip K. Dick, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

Heroes:

Robert Anton Wilson, Buckminster Fuller, Werner Herzog, Georgia Sutton, Nikola Tesla, Harry Partch, Kim Gordon.

My Blog

rock over london, rock on chicago, mcdonald’s, i’m lovin it

I just watched one car run another car off the road because they couldn't wait two more seconds to get to McDonald's. Fast food is bad for you.
Posted by Dr. Jonny Fever on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:57:00 PST

nothing a pair of scissors cant fix

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are touring North America this September & October. I want to go. Anyone else with me? They're playing in Denver the day after the Red Elvi play there...
Posted by Dr. Jonny Fever on Wed, 21 May 2008 07:27:00 PST

under your spell again

Buck Owens has been in my alarm clock for the last week or so, and I've been waking up to "Under Your Spell Again" every morning.you've got me under your spell againsaying those things againmaking me ...
Posted by Dr. Jonny Fever on Tue, 20 May 2008 08:16:00 PST

lighter fluid by the can

Don't you hate when you try to tell someone, "I'm feeling sick to my stomach," but instead you accidentally say, "I'm feeling sick to my moustache?"
Posted by Dr. Jonny Fever on Thu, 01 May 2008 07:58:00 PST

string break

I bought my String Break ticket last week. Today it occurred to me that I am on antibiotics and am supposed to stay out of sunlight. I have been on them for almost three weeks and have jus...
Posted by Dr. Jonny Fever on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:56:00 PST

walk the dog

On my way to work this morning, I saw a car pulling a dog along on a leash. He looked like he couldn’t quite keep up with the car. I stopped and watched them for a while to make sure...
Posted by Dr. Jonny Fever on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:39:00 PST

I hope they didn’t hire an artist for this.

Last night I bought the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! It cost $17.99 but came with a huge booklet, so I thought I was getting some art or something that would make ...
Posted by Dr. Jonny Fever on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:56:00 PST

sleepee

Last night I fell asleep right when I got home from work and didn’t wake up until it was time to go to work again this morning. I love when that happens.
Posted by Dr. Jonny Fever on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:15:00 PST

this ones for everybody

J.A.N.E.T. is playing Saturday night with punk rockers Bent Left from Kansas City. We’re going to play a couple of new songs: an original song called "Tater Buds," and a cover of a tune ab...
Posted by Dr. Jonny Fever on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:43:00 PST

doom and gloom

"Tuesday will never feel very warm," according to the Wichita Eagle....
Posted by Dr. Jonny Fever on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:31:00 PST