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About Me

My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I don't know from one day to the next what's remembered and what's made up. Like when you memorize a poem, and for one small unimportant part you supply your own words. The meaning's the same, the meter's identical. When you read the actual version you can never get it into your head that it's right and you're wrong. What I give you is the day's edition. Tomorrow it may be different. - Elizabeth McCracken.

My Interests

i like it when people keep all of their entertainment in alphabetical order, but it bugs me to no end when someone lists their "favorite" things that way. i want to know where i can buy a metal spork. i'd like to take a roadtrip to richmond to find departments 1-8. that's where most of the best infomercial stuff comes from. speaking of which, i love the trikke 8 but i don't know where to get one anymore. perhaps that ship has sailed.

I'd like to meet:

a man with a wooden leg named Smith. someone with a room to rent. anyone who can teach me how to play the accordion. the lost boys (runaway children or vampires; i'm not picky). people who know too much for their own good. someone that'll be my friend without thinking there's an ulterior motive. a drinking buddy. someone who knows all of the words to the muppet show theme song. anyone who can tell me the plural of "jesus." fluent pig-latin speakers. people who are opposed to acronyms. someone who can organize a fight between Bel Biv Devoe and Toni Tony Tone'. that'd be awesome.

Music:

i like every type of music there is, however i Hate the following with a passion: the beatles, led zepplin, pink floyd, the doors, the dead (pre and post-jerry), modest mouse, coheed and cambria, generic indie/emo (the two may not be the same thing, but nowadays, the lines are blurring and it makes me sad), crunk, r&b without either rhythm or blues, lyricists with no flow and overblown production, hip hop overladen with pretense, teen pop that pretends that it isn't, punk without ethics and elitist bastards.yes, i understand the irony presented here.

Movies:

Amelie. Delicatessan. Toys. The City of Lost Children. Brazil. Time Bandits. 12 Monkeys. The Fisher King. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Magnolia. Cheesy romantic comedies. Movies without much plot, but lots of explosions or death. Martial Arts movies.

Television:

just about anything on trio!. adult swim. arrested development. scrubs. the muppet show. fraggle rock. ed. monty python's flying circus.

Books:

Comic Books: Laughter of the Damned. The Arsenic Lullibies. Y: the Last Man. Automatic Kafka. Cages. Sandman.Real Books: Still Life with Woodpecker. The Televisionary Oracle. The Phantom Tollbooth. Lolita. Lord of the Flies. The Little Prince.

Heroes:

my dad, terry gilliam, mike doughty, and the incredible hulk. he's awesome.

My Blog

why the internet ruins everything.

the internet has absolutely replaced human contact. if you think about it, back in what i like to refer to as "the day" men and women were judged according to their works, their wealth, and their pen...
Posted by Jamais on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:04:00 PST

Aereogramme

Seclusion by design. Seclusion by duress. Equal measures of quarantine and division that have made us feel like strangers in the cultural landscape we have called home since our adolescenc...
Posted by Jamais on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the invisible college.

first and foremost, whatever else you may think, you are machines. biological robots, operated by electrical firings and chemical spasms... things are simple: you forgot you were parts of a machine....
Posted by Jamais on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

forest park high school

today we took our class to "Tiny Tots" put on by forest park high school's band. they played theme music to cartoons and movies that children can relate to, and made sure that the snappy banter in be...
Posted by Jamais on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i miss the following things:

Being impressed by magicians Conversations in which i forget to light a cigarette because i'm too busy listening Making rain angels, gravel angels, zamboni shaving angels in florida Reverse trick-o...
Posted by Jamais on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

It does exist

I've been looking for this poem for years. Arethmetic by Carl Sandburg Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. Arithmetic tells you how many you lose or win if y...
Posted by Jamais on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

my revolution

The following things need to return post haste: 1) the phrase "i'm just joshin" 2) pogs 3) shoulder pads 4) 80's hair 5) the sitcom Scorch 6) Nickelodeon Shadow Writer 7) tequiza 8) Candy ciga...
Posted by Jamais on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

depressing, yet oddly satisfying.

tonight after i got off of work, i headed to serve for community service. aside from being the single most boring place i've ever been, it was hot and smelled bad. as i was finding menial tasks to o...
Posted by Jamais on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

is it sad that this is my first journal?

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Posted by Jamais on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST