Jimmy Misanthrope [Jim-MEE mis-AN-thro-pee] aka M. Jaimz Sims:
Yet another one of a multitude of Jimmys in this world.
I appreciate any creative and/or artistic endevour, regardless of whether i actually personally LIKE it, as long as it has some sort of IMPACT on me. I vehemently despise the pre-packaged consumer driven myths created by the churning machine that is the society I am a member of, a society which propogates an ethos of personal gain over the welfare of the species as a whole, by fostering such empty notions such as the idea that having an abundance of flashy material possesions and being a big wheel (in whatever strata of society you place yourself in) will actually lead to any kind of meaningful existence on your part.
Golly that was a long sentence.
I try my level best to keep an open and inquisitive mind, to remain aware at all times of any hint of myself falling into any sort of complacent rut as I grow older. I wanna experience my existence as thoroughly as possible. I don't want to take life at face value or for granted as so many of my fellow humans seem to. I live to create, whether it be by musical means or by images or by words, or merely by creating a ruckus, I dunno.
So I'm a very passionate person.
But also a fairly decent (well, I aspire to being a "decent" and "good" person) and despite my sarcastic (but rather nifty, dontcha think?) MySpace pseudonym, a fairly friendly person... I'm also someone who is reluctant to share too much of himself to people he doesn't know via the internet O_o
Hmmm... why have I suddenly started referring to myself in the 3rd person? An onset of paranoia perhaps?
Nyeeeeheeeheee that's really pretentious of me... I'm really not a pretentious elitist type, no not at all... not meeee... ah fuck it, if you reeeeeally wanna get to know me, send me a message y'all.
(Oh, and I [or I wish I] breed mongooses in my spare time. NOT monGEESE, mongooses.)
People who share similar interests to mine, because there aren't that many around here, and that gets very boring.
I adore music, the music that I feel drawn to is something I find vital and inspirational, music brings so much to my life, I don't know what I would do without it. So many people I have encountered in my life seem merely content to let the radio, the media, and marketing companies dictate what they should listen to, I've never understood that kind of passive reaction to music. I'm constantly searching for new music to transcend the blandness of everyday existence. My drive for music is pretty fuckin' insatiable. I enjoy the ragggaaarrrrgggghhhh and the exquisitely pretty. Shimmery and spiky. Transcendant and apocrophytical.
Jaimz loves (In no particular order..) glassjAw, Strapping Young Lad + Devin Townshend solo stuff, Queen Adreena, Psydoll, Stolen Babies, Radiohead, Meg Lee Chin, New Way Home, deftones, tool, Primus, Second Theory, Mr. Bungle (and pretty much everything Mike Patton is / was involved in), Secret Chiefs 3, theSTART, Flatstick, Pzychobitch, Autechre, Failure, Daisy Chainsaw, Squarepusher, Peaches, Ladytron, Codeine Like Candy, Moloko, Big Black, Sugarcubes, Poison The Well, Team Sleep, Look What I Did, Kidney Thieves, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Jesus Lizard, Grim Faeries, Tapeworm, Oceansize, Mindless Self Indulgence, Opeth, Melt Banana, Johnny Hollow, Blood Brothers, Cripple Mr Onion, My Ruin, Vast, Cranes, Sad Music For Happy Humans, HORSE the Band, Eurythmics, A Perfect Circle, (the) Vanishing, Sikth, (Hed)pe, Pearl Jam (some of it), He Is Legend, Rasputina, Otep, The Pixies, Aphex Twin, Devo, Gorillaz, Schoolyard Heroes, Headless Chickens, Grotus, Carcass, Porcupine Tree, Estradasphere, Malenky Robot, Nine Inch Nails, John Zorn, Sevendust, Botch, Jeff Buckley, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Residents, At The Drive-In, Danny Elfman, Boards Of Canada, Skinny Puppy, oldskool Fear Factory, Devil Driver, Lamb Of God, Atari Teenage Riot + Alec Empire / Hanin Elias / Nic Endo solo works, Gigglebox, Miss Kittin, Arcana, Dieselboy, Black Dice, The Birthday Massacre, Queen, Ophelia's Dream, Soundgarden, CocoRosie (cos their stuff is just so damned strange), The Mars Volta, Portishead, Jakob, Will Haven, John Frusciante solo stuff (it can clear rooms y'know.. put on his 1st 2 albums on at a party and watch the atmosphere get completely sucked out of the room. funfun!), Mudvayne (even though their new album sucks), American Headcharge (even though their latest album sucks also), Faith No More, Fever Lake, Lydia Lunch, Bjork, System Of A Down, Meshuggah, Norma Jean, Ulver, Mastadon, Keelhaul, Beth Gibbons, Red Sparrow, Boredoms, Bic Runga (her debut album is gorgeous), Ayria, Kyuss, refused, Pantera, Moesaboa, Fell Silent, Tesseract, muse, Grant Lee Buffalo, Day One, Jane's Addiction, I could be here all day...
Stolen Babies:
Miss Kittin:
Nightmare Before Christmas, Spirited Away, Suicide Club, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Donnie Darko, Aliens, The Exorcist, Being John Malkovich, Bad Santa, Ichi The Killer, Ghost World, Kill Bill 1&2, Matchstick Men, Akira, Layer Cake, Requiem For A Dream, Ultraviolet, Lord Of War, Fight Club, Battle Royale, Pirates Of The Carribean, True Romance, The original three StarWars films, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Napoleon Dynamite, Heavenly Creatures, Cube, Bound, Sleepy Hollow, Sixth Sense, The Boondock Saints, Gremlins1 but especially Gremlins2, Lost Highway, Interview With The Vampire, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Beetlejuice, Dark City, The Big Lebowski, City Of Lost Children, Blade Runner, Sin City, Run Lola Run, Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow (visually, conceptually, but I'm not 100% sold on the actual plot of the thing. [and cos I kinda hate Jude Law __O ]), BASEketball, The Blade movies, escpecially Blade Trinity, Pitch Black, Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2 - Apocoleeeepse (worth it for Milla's audio commentary alone), Sean Of The Dead, Lost Boys, Raising Arizona, Kafka, DieHard 1&2, The Doooooom Generation, Constantine, Heathers, Hellboy, Pulp Fiction, Collateral, and there's bound to be a couple of others that aren't springing to mind right at this moment...
Invader Zim, Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, The Grim Adventures Of Billy & Mandy, Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokoro-Chan, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Full Metal Alchemist, Samurai Jack, Aeon Flux, Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends... but TV is generally a vile, vacuous medium.
"Howl's Moving Castle" by Diana Wynne Jones, "Invisible Monsters" by Chuck Palahniuk, "Zeet" + "Chimney 25" by FsC, "Johnny The Homicidal Maniac" + "I Feel Sick" by Jhonen Vasquez, "Ghost World" by Daniel Clowes, "Serenity Rose" by Aaron A, "Grrl Scouts" by Jim Mahfood, "Ranklechick & his Three Legged Cat" by Rosearik Rikki Symons and Tavisha Wolfgarth-Symons, "Nightmares & Fairytales" by Serena Valentino and FsC, "Bear" by Jamie Smart, etcetera etcetera...
My friends (you know who you are).