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Jax

The other white meat.

About Me


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My Interests

Film, music, literature, scuba diving, computers, languages, science, history, beer and wine.

Music:

Mike Patton, Radiohead, Anemos, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Eleutheria Arvanitaki, the Boredoms, the Beatles, Propagandhi, Tin Hat Trio, Portishead, Frank Sinatra, Nina Rota, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, Ishmal Cervantez, Philip Glass, Vangelis, Stamatis Spanoudakis, Wilco, Sigur Ros, Jane's Addiction, Maroon 5, Jimi Hendrix, Elysian Fields, Primus, Zappa, Zorn, Bela Fleck, Gorillaz, Ween, Audioslave, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Josh Welborn, Ben Inman, Waxahachie.

Movies:

"The Princess Bride," "The Godfather" "North by Northwest," "Kill Bill," "Ed Wood," "Shaun of the Dead," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Spinal Tap," Any film directed by Kubrick, Scorcese, P.T. Anderson, Wes Anderson, Peter Jackson or Terry Gilliam.

Television:

Curb your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Spaced, Simpsons, Lost, The Office, House, Monty Python, X-files, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Battlestar Galactaca, Farscape, 24, Eureka, Dinner for Five...

Books:

"Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.; "Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams; "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein; "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster, "The Rum Diary" by Hunter S. Thompson; "Rebel Without a Crew" by Robert Rodriguez -- Any short story by Hemmingway, Twain, Poe, Kafka, or Harlan Ellison.

Heroes:

Mike Patton, Jim Morrison, Lenny Bruce, Stanley Kubrick, Alexander the Great.

My Blog

"Conflict of Interest" Wraps Production

So I've been working on a movie with Ranch Studios for a long time now, it's called "Conflict of Interest." We started principal production on June 2nd and officially wrapped last Wednesday (although ...
Posted by Jax on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:15:00 PST

SHORT STORY: "Error 82-401"

I wrote this short story five or six years ago, and I think it's one of the best things I've ever done. I got rejected from every magazine and contest I sent it to. They hated it. Fuck them.--ERROR 82...
Posted by Jax on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:53:00 PST

What I dont say to people...

Today, an actor on a film I'm working on sent me an email containing this sentence: "I have an idea that would make a great movie."I replied to him, and it took me almost an hour to phrase it right. I...
Posted by Jax on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:42:00 PST

Life is Spam.

I've had answering machines over the years. The first one had tiny tapes in it, one which held the message I recorded, and one which held the messages my callers recorded. That system seemed to work o...
Posted by Jax on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:34:00 PST

Happy New Year!

It's been over a year since I wrote in my Myspace blog. Last time we talked, in December of '06, I was selling office furniture and pens and what are called "impressions" in the print department of Of...
Posted by Jax on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:24:00 PST

My bird likes Faith No More!

I have a new baby parakeet named Napoleon who loves Faith No More. This is an amazing coincidence, because Faith No More was my favorite band when I was a kid.He doesn’t seem to like Christmas m...
Posted by Jax on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:23:00 PST

I should be doing something more productive than this.

This is the written portion of a job application I made a few years ago, to the Lake Travis Independent School District. I was applying for a job as a substitute teacher. The very last thing on the ap...
Posted by Jax on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:42:00 PST

Robert Altman, deceased.

I rented Prairie Home Companion on DVD last night, and this morning I learned that Robert Altman died last night. How weird is that? I'm pretty sure my viewing his last movie was in no way connected w...
Posted by Jax on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:07:00 PST

Revealing material...

I'm trying to get a job. I read an article about how employers are checking google and myspace pages and so on, trying to scoop dirt on prospective employees.I googled myself (tell me you've never don...
Posted by Jax on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:38:00 PST

Look at me, I'm a filmmaker.

We screened my short film "Privileged" for the first time this week, and I got a lot of compliments for it. I was nervous; hell, I was petrified. But I think it came off well. I KNOW it came off well,...
Posted by Jax on Sat, 13 May 2006 01:45:00 PST