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j o n

please stop looking at me like a dog that's been shown a card trick

About Me

I'm a serious kidder and a guy that likes to have fun, but is straight forward with people. That doesn't mean that I'm a mean person, but I guess that I discuss way too many things in life. For the people who are already my friends, they know it's all good. Though some people never get the joke. Talk to me and find out what I'm like. You could say that I'm one of those guys that you can have a conversation about most things with and get an interesting and humorous response.I can talk a good length about most things and I do that, because I'm passionate about certain things. Key subjects are music,movies and society, but hey I'll talk about whatever comes up whether it is relevant or even irrelevant to what we were just talking about, so try me.

My Interests

music, comedy, writing, movies, socializing, drinking, books, being fascinating in inane ways, your facial expressions when I speak, rubbing one out in public, resisting technology's inavasion on everyday life, eating less meat, dancing, DJ'ing, the TV biz, riding my bike around town late at night, getting around to learning how to cook, relaxing settings, testing how much weight my ceiling fan can hold, putting out fires with gasoline, etc.

I'd like to meet:

Be whoever you are regardless of anything I say or do, because it could make for interesting results, but I hope it's the right group of elements to let us co-exist. It just doesn't do it for me if music is only a sound in a room to you and if you can't have an indepth conversation about a topic of some substance or even something inane. Have a strong sense of humor, be out going, don't be flaky and/or shady, for the love of whatever you hold sacred don't play into the bullshit NYC ways of socializing and who knows maybe we can share the same air space on a fairly consistent basis.

Music:

Alice in Chains, And One, A Perfect Circle, Bauhaus, Beck, DAVID BOWIE, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Chris and Cosey, The Clash, COIL, Covenant, The Cure, Danzig, Def Leppard, DEPECHE MODE, De/Vision, THE DOORS, Doubting Thomas, Download, Faith No More, The Flaming Lips, Forma Tadre, Front Line Assembly, Front 242, The Glove, Guns N Roses, HAUJOBB, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Interpol, JANE'S ADDICTION, JOY DIVISION, KMFDM, Kraftwerk, Lassigue Bendthaus, Massive Attack, Meat Beat Manifesto, Megadeth, Ministry, NEW ORDER, NINE INCH NAILS, NIRVANA, Pixies, Porno For Pyros, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Secret Machines, SKINNY PUPPY, Smashing Pumpkins, SONIC YOUTH, Throbbing Gristle, Tool, U2, UNDERWORLD, etc.

Movies:

Alien, Aliens, Batman (1989), The Big Lebowski, The Cable Guy, Caddyshack, Creepshow, The Crow, The Devil's Rejects, Dumb and Dumber, The Empire Strikes Back, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Evil Dead Series, The Exorcist, Falling Down, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Ghostbusters, Goodfellas, Good Will Hunting, Halloween 1 and 2, High Fidelity, Interview With The Vampire, Jaws, National Lampoon's Vacation, Natural Born Killers, A Nightmare on Elm Sreet, Porky's, Predator, Return of the Jedi, Revenge of the Nerds, Risky Business, The Shining, The Silence of the Lambs, Sin City, Star Wars, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 and 2, Trainspotting, UHF, old John Carpenter movies, Johnny Depp movies in general, Bill Murray, Jack Nicholson and Gary Oldman movies, horror greats and disgraces of the 70's and 80's, etc.

Television:

The Kids in the Hall, Married With Children, Seinfeld, Arrested Development, Curb your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Scrubs, Chappelle's Show, 30 Rock, That 70's Show, Howard Stern, VH1 Behind the Music, South Park, etc.

Books:

MY MOST CONSISTENTLY ENJOYED AUTHORS: Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Chuck Palahniuk, Brett Easton Ellis, Arthur Nersesian, Irvine Welsh, David Sedaris, etc.

Heroes:

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Bill Hicks, Silky Johnson, Michael Moore, Robert Rodriguez, Mom and Dad for their infinite patience, support and lack of awareness, etc.

My Blog

An Ogre's opinion on the hyper-realization of ourselves

I'd say this is pretty spot on. I've seen plenty of what he's talking about and it is an interesting social phenomena. I mean jeez look at how huge things like Friendster and MySpace are. So here's...
Posted by Jonathan on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:09:00 PST

There's Cookies in my pocket

Oh my goodnesss last night just tailspinned out of wack. Thankfully Judith was there to give me a parachute landing with some cabfair. Though I have no recollection of how I got home. I just awoke...
Posted by Jonathan on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:58:00 PST

Caused A Scene

The prequel to the Texas Chainsaw MAssacre is totally, totally fucking awful. DO NOT go see it. I repeat, DO NOT go see it.Alas I did go see it.During the opening sequence and certainly at the openi...
Posted by Jonathan on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:24:00 PST

Suddenly

Good art inspires others. That's what I believe when it comes to such matters. Some take it too far and make it so obvious as to what they were touched by that it no longer shows what voice the inte...
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:48:00 PST

Horror-Scope

CapricornThe L Magazine 9/13-26/06"Getting a little be fucked up now and then ain't such a bad thing, is it Capricorn? Whether it's booze, drugs, sleep depravation, physical exhaustion, heartbreak or ...
Posted by Jonathan on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:56:00 PST

fanboy fantasy come to life

'nightclubbing'anyhow this is a iggy/bowie/reznor/bauhaus fanboy fantasy heremy goodness they played the joy division too.oh my my...http://www.nin.com/current/radioshows/index.html ...
Posted by Jonathan on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:31:00 PST

The Scheme Before The Funny

Yesterday I contacted some comedy clubs about doing some amateur/open mic gigs and it sounds like (initally) a scheme to pump money out of the struggling young upstarts. It's almost like a band where...
Posted by Jonathan on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:57:00 PST

PISS'd

Another night at Union Pool w/o much success socially to return home to have a night cap drink to pass into the great beyond with.So as I sit here listening to some music on my laptop while chatting t...
Posted by Jonathan on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 01:02:00 PST

Who does this shit?

I'm an accomplished chickenshit when it comes to meeting people I'm interested in. I fucking never approach anyone on the subway or in the street. In three years I think I've randomly did it once in...
Posted by Jonathan on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:55:00 PST

Trimmed

Recently I've come to the conclusion that some people that I thought were my friends are in fact not. A couple I used to know put me in my place. This other fellow just never responds to calls. Ano...
Posted by Jonathan on Thu, 11 May 2006 06:37:00 PST