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Jon

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About Me

I am a good person, but not always a nice person. I am interesting, sarcastic, and smart as hell. I like people who can be honest about who they are and what they want, and who give more importance to true self expression than to adhering to social convention. I like music a lot. I have an awesome dog. I work as a counselor with the criminally insane. That combined with my natural disposition goes a long way towards inuring me to the small weirdnesses we all run into riding the bus or walking around downtown. As a result I can often find beauty and worth where others might miss it, and that is one of my best abilities I would say. I am a person worth knowing, particularly when things go a bit sideways.Free MySpace Layouts by Iron Spider

My Interests

reading, music, WoW, thinking, drumming, walking, excercising, trying to write, friends, playing with my dog, philosophy

I'd like to meet:

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”- JK

Music:

I like music a lot. Some artists that I like more than others are: Adem, Traveling Willburys, Tool, Sarah Harmer, The Beatles, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Sigur Ros, The Black Angels, Blue Scholars, Common Market, The Velvet Underground, The White Stripes, Jurassic 5, Widespread Panic, Thievery Corporation, String Cheese Incident, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Cake, Soul Coughing, Mike Doughty, Cloud Cult, Cold War Kids, Slobberbone, Regina Spektor, Rilo Kiley, Tom Waits, Dave Matthews Band, Calexico, Chris Whitley, Thom Yorke, Radiohead, Iron and Wine, Citizen Cope, The Cure, Nortec Collective, O.A.R., Portishead, Ratatat, Ray LaMontagne, Death Cab, Postal Service, The Decemberists, Dispatch, Phish, Elliot Smith, Jeff Buckley, Hot Chip, Halou, Nine Inch Nails, The Flaming Lips, The Fruit Bats, Galactic, The National, Pela, Jack Johnson, James Taylor, Led Zeppelin, My Morning Jacket, Jump Little Children, Lyrics Born, M83, Medeski Martin & Wood, Moxy Fruvous, Midlake, Modest Mouse, The Mountain Goats

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, Fear and Loathing, Good Will Hunting, The Usual Suspects, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars (meaning the original trilogy), George Romero Zombie Movies, Really any zombie movies come to think of it, The Shawshank Redemption, Mirror Mask, Stranger Than Fiction

Television:

TV rots your brains.

Books:

A smattering of books and authors I enjoy in no particular order: The Song of Ice and Fire, The Wheel of Time, The Dark Tower, Lord of the Rings, Most things by Jack Keroauc, The Prophet, Any Stephen King Book, Neil Gaiman, Dave Eggers, David Sedaris, Chuck Palahniuk, Joseph Heller, Heaven and Hell, David Eddings, RA Salvatore (a guilty pleasure), Hemingway, Stenibeck, and suchlike.

Heroes:

Your mom.

My Blog

Old Times. . .

This is something my friend Mike wrote about me on Friendster some time ago.  I like it so I decided to post it as a blog.  :-)  Motherfucker can write, yo. In the 11 years I'...
Posted by Jon on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:43:00 PST

Dubya buckles his swash

So, according to estimates recently compiled by intelligent, thinking people, the war in Iraq has cost the American taxpayers 500 billion dollars so far.  That’s a lot of cash.  Bush h...
Posted by Jon on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:53:00 PST

What Color is the Sky in Ralph Naders World?

So, Ralph Nader is going to run for President.  Again.  His stated reason:  The current candidates are too close to the interests of Big Business.  Ok.  Great.  Now, does...
Posted by Jon on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:59:00 PST

Why I am going to miss A unit

Coming soon to a community near you!!  Thats right, the guy who sent this letter is actually getting out sometime in the near future.  :-)  His words are in red.Dear Counselor,Outside o...
Posted by Jon on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:40:00 PST

Ugly Green Chair v2.0 is all win

That's right.  You heard it here first.  Though if you heard about it anywhere else I'd be a little weirded out right now.  What's the rumpus you ask?  I'll tell you!  I ...
Posted by Jon on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:32:00 PST

This is why my job rocks

I received this note from an Offender the other day.  The names have been omitted to protect the. . .  innocent?  . . .guilty?  Whatever.  The note is in red. Greetings, Are t...
Posted by Jon on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:24:00 PST