Jeff - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Done with my road trip around the country. Now looking for work.

My Interests

writing, bars, reading, parties, gaming, the usual.

I'd like to meet:

People with a good sense of humor, or who at least have the good sense to laugh at my jokes. ;-)

Music:

Gorillaz, Doves, Badly Drawn Boy, Shins, Beck, The Clientele, Nick Drake, Eels, New Day Sting, Matthew Good, Seal, Genesis, Ben Folds (Five), Peter Gabriel, Duncan Sheik, Death Cab, Postal Service, Porcupine Tree, Joseph Arthur, Vienna Teng, Halloween Alaska, Azure Ray, Hall and Oates, baroque, the Unitards, Tom Petty, BRMC, Decemberists

Movies:

LOTR, Office Space, Indiana Jones trilogy, L.A. Confidential, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation, Clay Pigeons, Goonies, Spider-Man 2, Saved!, Holes, Fight Club, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, The Corporation, The Matrix (1), The Fifth Element, Dark City, Batman, Batman Begins, Serenity, Children of Men

Television:

Prison Break, Heroes, Fullmetal Alchemist, West Wing, Cowboy Bebop, Love Hina, Tenchi Muyo, and the dearly departed Homicide, Firefly, Angel, Sports Night

Books:

Cryptonomicon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, other Michael Chabon stuff, Stephen King stuff, The Pillars of the Earth and A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett, George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Catch-22, The Wild Shore, LOTR, Imajica, Empire Falls, Disobedience, Snow Crash, Mother Tongue, NFT Boston '06/'07, The Baroque Cycle, The Phantom Tollbooth, His Dark Materials

Heroes:

That guy who runs www.ocremix.org. And Bill G. of Radio Paradise. And reporters who stand up to their big media bosses. Howard Dean. Russ Feingold. And the good folks at the Aloha restaurant.

My Blog

Porcupine Tree + Clientele

O frabjous day! In the space of the next month two of my favorite bands, Porcupine Tree and the Clientele, are releasing new albums. Attending this are tours to the U.S., including the hom...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:04:00 PST

Gifts of spring

Christ, it's been miserable out lately. Spring was snatched away by the foaming jaws of an undead winter... an undead rabid dog of winter. Thing. I've been posting all of my bloggishness over at th...
Posted by Jeff on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:34:00 PST

My new blog

Check it out, chilluns!Jeff Deck's Humor BlogIt's gonna be awesome.
Posted by Jeff on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:21:00 PST

Birthday was bashed

It occurs to me that I can just post a new blog. Not necessarily think it through overmuch, as thought processes of this nature are passé, the French way of saying le past tense, but y'know, just sor...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:32:00 PST

Jesus House, Part 3

The perils of living in a Jesus House include the below. I'm thankful the denizens of Somerville are not inspired to more permanent defacements of my car, or at least on this side of McGrath Hig...
Posted by Jeff on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:12:00 PST

Fully empowered to shower

Revised from a note to Paula: When I moved into the first floor of this ancient house in Somerville back in March of last year, I did so with the full knowledge that the bathroom had no shower. ...
Posted by Jeff on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:56:00 PST

The big two (aught! aught!) seven

Old Helios is rising on what promises to be a strange year, but one holding certain potential... for me, at least, and that's what this chronicle is all about, en't it? At this point last year I was ...
Posted by Jeff on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:28:00 PST

Maybe this Christmas

I think "scattershot" would be a good way to describe my mental state as of late. Most attempts I've made to hunker down and make substantial edits to the stories that need them have been met with fa...
Posted by Jeff on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:10:00 PST

Shop talk

I forgot to mention... I did reach my goal this year in Nanowrimo. Truly derring-do in the realm of verbiage: 50,000 extremely poor words in 30 days-- or even a little less than 30, actually, since ...
Posted by Jeff on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:59:00 PST

Another idiotic news story about the electronic bogeyman

Go and read this article. It's okay, I'll wait."Does game violence make teens aggressive?"Hey there, thanks for coming back. I had a doughnut while you were gone, and I *savored* it. So what did yo...
Posted by Jeff on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:07:00 PST