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Jake

yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

About Me

"There's room at the top they are telling you still, But first you must learn how to smile as you kill..." (John Lennon, WORKING CLASS HERO)

My Interests

travel, postcards, mix CD's, photography, graphic design, road cycling & dogs. Also that which I don't know much about and things I'm not good at (lots).

I'd like to meet:

more people; their family, friends and pets too, of course.

Music:

CHECK! this stuff always helps, no matter what mood or nature of the most recent & world changing catastrophe! For me, stuff by Modest Mouse, The Shins, Flaming Lips, Coldplay, Radiohead, Tom Petty, Sublime, STP, Velvet Underground, Beta Band, Ray Charles, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jurassic 5, Cee Lo Green, Outkast, etc. etc.

Movies:

Cool Hand Luke, Hud, Butch Cassidy & Sundance, The Outlaw Josey Wales, East of Eden, Streetcar, Bullitt, The Outsiders, Name of the Rose, The Professional, Forrest Gump, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Bennie & June, Harold & Maude, Napoleon Dynamite, Fight Club, Amelie, Trainspotting, Breaking Away, American Flyers, Triplets of Belleville, Shreck, Monsters Inc. and recently Ray, Closer, Finding Neverland & The Ballad of Jack & Rose. And 100's more I've temporarily forgot.

Television:

rarely. Oh, "Cycling Sundays" on OLN & old movies on occasion.

Books:

A Prayer for Owen Meany, World According to Garp, Invisible Monsters, High Fidelity, About a Boy, The Power of One, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, Memnoch the Devil, Return of the King, and lately The Cloud Sketcher, Dark Star Safari & All The Names.

Heroes:

Armstrong, Eastwood, Kemp Remillard, my Grandmother & a cool, old dude named Ronald Arnholm.

My Blog

Lloyd ft Andre 3000 and Nas - I want you (remix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDJYMVO6lJA you mean this one?...
Posted by Jake on Sat, 24 May 2008 02:31:00 PST

put the mustang down & back away slowly...

so I was pretty close to buying a 1:24 scale, '70 Mustang by "DUB Edition" or some other, large-rims manufacturer @ Walgreen's just now... went in to buy cough medicine (Robotosin CF, as recommended b...
Posted by Jake on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 02:15:00 PST

the chase

So it's January, and even in California, that means more time spent inside... been riding this contraption called the rollers and renting old movies to TRY and make more use of these short days and ea...
Posted by Jake on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:33:00 PST

NWA flight 333

Now what wonderous deception is it that we humans can travel amoung these Couds? Should not our advancments and technological allow for some natural mysteries to remain? What if we were never meant ...
Posted by Jake on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST