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Jarrod

You're pretty much dialing in fried gold on a telephone made of awesome in your sleep...

About Me



My Interests

Funny toots, a pigeon that will automatically reset my alarm clock (with his beak) every night before I go to bed, Amelie green, long road trips with total strangers and/or friends, the way the interior of an airplane smells, old photos of my parents, forgetting the past and present, honesty/dishonesty, continuing to drink White Noises even when one knows that a hangover is now inevitable, jukebox selections, random gifts of large or small value, installation art and its impending rules, exploring, dressing up (with or without makeup), Saturday mornings/ Sunday afternoons, handmade mix tapes, Extra Strenth Tylenol vs. Regular Strength Tylenol fighting in a boxing match, throwing things at my co-workers heads, Noodles 28 Fridays, MILF's and FILF's, album art, the "Paul Is Dead" conspiracy, long days at the movie theatre because of late fees at all video stores in a 5 mile radius, ..., Razzle Dazzle Rose, subway charades, pictures of faces projected into brandy snifters, The Singing Nun, avoiding physical contact at all costs, projecting shadows onto weeping willows, the price of a harp, finding a new job, Gael Garcia Bernal, decorating my room with retro music posters, avoiding Nelnet, taking shitty pictures with my shitty camera, embodying The Royal Tenenbaums, resurrected friendships, quiet beauty, loud ugliness, being a wild west hero, reading your tarot cards, giving lessons in music history, re-decorating, potentially fixing a watch, the apocalypse, putting things in boxes and then taking them out again, whistle-tones, River to River Festival, summertime, acquiring every book I've ever wanted to read in large stacks, mix tapes as gifts, lying on the beach, Fire Island (as portrayed by Terrence McNally), the time it takes to organize an IPOD, words and phrases attributed to Jews, stroking Jolene, Academy Award Best Picture Nominees Fridays, Annie (from church), garlic fries with lemon, the methodical rules of shortening words, really good recordings of Pachabel's Canon, trips to Six Flags, making cookies with non-traditional ingredients, mice, Blackberry Snapple, Woody Allen matinées, color filtered photographs, The Clapper, climbing back into bed after a shower, promises, lists, late night debates, quick stitches (and commutes), sock puppets, Brooklyn, picking up an instrument later in life, squares, pop culture trivia, record sales, umbrella collecting, deciding where to move next, great success, maintaining a solid win to loss ratio in Monopoly, The wii, costumes thrown together at the last minute, 4AM conversations, conveniences, soy products, profanity, unpredictable behavior, hissing radiators, advent calendars, playing catch up, playing catch, imaginary animals and friends, nicknames and other things.

I'd like to meet:

You, when you come and see Mixed Tape 08

Starts June 5th, more details to follow.

Music:

A new obsession.

Movies:

Top 5 of this year, and here we go: Little Children, Children of Men, The Last King of Scotland, Knocked Up, Volver

Top 5 of all time, and here we go: Eternal Sunshine, The Royal Tenenbaums, Ordinary People, Harold and Maude, and Nashville.

One of many films I reference alot more than I probably should: Tarnation

Television:

Lunchtime With Laura
Episode 1 (Dubbed)

Books:



Heroes:

Brian Atene

My Blog

Jarrod Did A Survey Thing

Date: Dec 19, 2007, 1:30 AMSubject: life story...Body: STORY OF MY LIFEHi my name is:JarrodWhen I'm nervous:I rambleBy this time next year:I'll ...
Posted by Jarrod on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:55:00 PST

Part 3 in a series of Building Personifications

CNT: Hey Seattle Space Needle, you hearing all this shit coming from New York? SSN: Yeah, CN Tower. Wanna go take a trip? CNT: Just a minute. Let me go put on my shoes.       SLA: Hey, ...
Posted by Jarrod on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:06:00 PST

Hasenpfeffer Incorporated

I started a new blog book today, because I'm avoiding my history on Live Journal, and this is just too kitsch-ey. If you don't read it, we'll still be okay. It more than makes up for the fact th...
Posted by Jarrod on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:42:00 PST

Awesome headphones and...

No matter how organized you become at the beginning of October, there's always that plesent reminder, when you reach in your pocket to swipe your Metrocard and...To the prick who stole my IPOD at appr...
Posted by Jarrod on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:44:00 PST

Fight

Me and Jonathan had a fight yesterday. Our house has made tentative plans to go see Leslie and the Ly's on Halloween in Chicago, which ruins me and Jonathan's former tentative plans to dress...
Posted by Jarrod on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:48:00 PST

My Dance Party

I'd really like to take this opportunity to thank the Academy for this award... But more importantly, I'd like to thank everyone who contributed music to the dance party last night. To say it was an a...
Posted by Jarrod on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:48:00 PST

My Period.

Things that are likened to my arms being ripped off by a nice, friendly shark:   1) Listening to "Heron" by James Yorkston over and over again, and longing to be on a bus by myself in the middle ...
Posted by Jarrod on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:03:00 PST

Fahrenheit 451

when i sleep at night, i begin to cook in my own sweat, and jeff claims to wake up in police tape outline made of his own (sweat) and we sit in front of the fan and we lie in front of the fan and we r...
Posted by Jarrod on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:27:00 PST

Power Out

So the power went out, and I didn't really learn anything. I wanted to charge my cell phone. I wanted to put new music on my Ipod. Me and Jeff pretended to go camping. We also pretended there was a lu...
Posted by Jarrod on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:18:00 PST

Dump.

I think blogs are a pretty stupid idea. But that song makes me think of me and Jeff's old apartment, and it makes me a little sad. Thinking ahead, I want to have a dance party where I get to DJ a nigh...
Posted by Jarrod on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 04:33:00 PST