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JimmyG

Appalachian American

About Me

I'm into Tangerine Dream. And the future.

My Interests

Movies, games, surfing, MMA/BJJ/Kickboxing, animation, science fiction, westerns, visual effects, playing bass/guitar/music, science, fringe science, culture theory, anthropology, comics, reading. Michi Tsunoda.

I'd like to meet:



Music:

Division Day, Marty Robbins, Neil Young, Lynyrd, Skynyrd, Odelia, Blue Oyster Cult, Atari Teenage Riot, MIA, Autolux, Saian Supa Crew, 2 Skinnee J's, 7 seconds, Flatt and Scruggs, Outback, Leadbelly, Nick Drake, Liz Phair, Pinback, DJ Shadow, Danzig, The Beatles, Hank Williams Sr, Tricky, Johnny Cash, Massive Attack, The Specials, Portishead, Ravi Shankar, Mason Jennings, Bad Brains, Fugazi, Prokofiev, Phillip Glass, 311, The Police, No Knife, Mindless Self Indulgence, Black Sabbath, J5, Dr. Didg, The Stooges, Modest Mouse, Black Flag, Dagnasty, Minor Threat, Helmet, Ministry....I love music in general. All kindsa music.

Movies:

Syriana, A Tale of Two Sisters, Primer, Singin' In The Rain, Constantine, Sideways, Genghis Blues, Baraka, Bladerunner, Amelie, All the President's Men, High Fidelity, Grosse Point Blank, Trekkies, Tron, Donnie Darko, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Crumb, Conan, 2001, Scratch, Stalker, Koyaanisqatsi, Rushmore, Matrix, LOTR, Pixar films, Bakshi films, September Sessions, Old School, Road Trip, Apocalypse Now, Cable Guy, Lost's: The Decline..., SLC Punk, Super Troopers, Napoleon Dynamite, The Kill Bills, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Adaptation, Xmen, X2, Spiderman, The Hulk, Anchorman, The Station Agent, Pi, Pitch Black, Chronicles of Riddick, Forbidden Planet, How the West was Won, Good the Bad and the Ugly, Last of the Mohicans, Gangs of NY, Office Space

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, Mythbusters, Forensic Files, Antiques Roadshow, The Next 48, Heroes, Venture Brothers, Reno 911, Deadwood, Firefly, Northern Exposure, MXC, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared,TUF, UFN, Beauty and the Geek.

Books:

Preacher, The Darktower/Gunslinger series, Watership Down, Ender's Game, Lucifers Hammer, California Voodoo Game, The Tao, Siddartha, LOTR, Sin City, The Watchmen, H.P. Lovecraft, Bone, Snow Crash, Otherland, Harry Potter, David Sedaris, Bradbury, Grendel(Wagner and/or Gardner), Anything by Frank Miller or Alan Moore, The Talisman, 20's to 60's sci fi.

Heroes:

Ron Cobb, Syd Mead, Mobieus

My Blog

Terrifying sex story.

My friend IM'd me recently and told me that she was mad because she has to sit with her friend all day tomorrow at the hospital, after which, she'll have to work all night.I ask her why she's mad abou...
Posted by JimmyG on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:08:00 PST

My review of 300

So, 300 came out this weekend and already several of my friends either sort of don't like it or hate it. The most common complaints are: the acting, the CG environment(you're biting the hand that feed...
Posted by JimmyG on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:18:00 PST

Bad film premise 1.

Hollywood just couldn't wring enough money out of poor old dead JRR Tolkiens guts, so they decided to take matters into their own hands.Lord of the Rings 4: Quest for the Horny Horn!Despite Sauron's d...
Posted by JimmyG on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:40:00 PST

Seriously now...

Is this REALLY necessary?I saw this image this morning (Thanks Kirk) and I can't get it out of my head.  A backflip HATCHET ATTACK!  How did this come about? I think I know....Just like in m...
Posted by JimmyG on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:44:00 PST

"LA people" and my city in the city.

People talk a lot of crap about LA, and I can understand why in some cases, but overall those people are generally incorrect in their observations outside of complaints of traffic and pollution. I hea...
Posted by JimmyG on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:10:00 PST

Artificial eye in ancient Iran

I realize the title sounds promising, or maybe even pretentious, but it's literal: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/12/18/eyeball_arc.html?ca tegory=archaeology&guid=20061218140030&dcitc=w19-...
Posted by JimmyG on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:16:00 PST

Children calibrate your 'death awareness'.

When I was in my early teens or what Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen referred to as 'tweens' this morning on the Today Show, my best friend Tony Capute and I were already cynical, sarcastic and misanthropi...
Posted by JimmyG on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:00:00 PST

A summary of Western Soto Zen Buddhism

...as written by my father, in response to a student researching buddhism.   Hello, My name is Jerrod and I am a student at Mankato State in Minnesota. I am currently in a human relations in a m...
Posted by JimmyG on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:33:00 PST

Netflix: The myspace for movies

And like myspace, you can leave cynical, mean comments about movies like my friends and I do.  For example:   The Constant Gardener "Would have been better if dude wasn't such a pussy. If yo...
Posted by JimmyG on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:15:00 PST

I am not a Metrosexual.

It's been suggested that I am a Metrosexual by several people in the recent past. Let me count the ways in which I am not: 1.  I do not 'shape' my eyebrows.  2.  I wash my face with t...
Posted by JimmyG on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:43:00 PST