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James4®

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About Me

Altruist, Bibliophile, Raconteur, Autodidact, Artist, Narcissist, Trivial Pursuit Ass-Kicker, Historian, Sarcastic Bitch, First Born Son of a First Born Son of a First Born Son of a First Born Son, Pseudo-Buddhist, Anglophile, Loner, Sensualist, Goofball, Observer, Drummer, Lapsed Catholic, Pretentious Wanker, Conciliator, Geography Whiz, Dodgeball Superstar, Lover of Reason and Logic, Non-Conformist, Spelling Bee Champ, Arrogant Prick, Insecure Bastard, Epicure, Ex-Drunk, Set-Up Man, Critic, Polymath, Jackass, Chef, Dreamer, Audiophile, Pundit, Seriously Mellow Dude, Concussionist, Contrarian, Washout, Carol's Little Boy, Procrastinator, Ice Hockey Player, Drifter, Someone Way Cooler Than You, Gentleman, Re-Mixer, Conceptualist, Cinephile, Pragmatist, Savant, Traveller, Optimist, and all-around Nice Guy
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: James
Birthday: November 2nd
Birthplace: Durban, South Africa
Current Location: Philadelphia
Eye Color: Irish Green
Hair Color: Mousy Brown
Height: 6'-0"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Irish/Scottish/Polish
The Shoes You Wore Today: Bruno Magli
Your Weakness: Swedish Fish
Your Fears: Circus Folk
Your Perfect Pizza: White Pizza with Spinach and Tomatoes
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Top Shelf on the Glove Side
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: Have no clue
Thoughts First Waking Up: Again?
Your Best Physical Feature: Eyes (so I've been told)
Your Bedtime: Whenever I lay my head down
Your Most Missed Memory: Going on Tour
Pepsi or Coke: Arizona Green Tea
MacDonalds or Burger King: Both Make Me Sick
Single or Group Dates: Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Earl Grey
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Cuban Coffee
Do you Smoke: ...(cough)..hang on a(cough) sec...yes
Do you Swear: Fuck No!
Do you Sing: Backing Vocals
Do you Shower Daily: Yes
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: Been there
Do you want to get Married: Possibly
Do you belive in yourself: Sometimes
Do you get Motion Sickness: Absolutely
Do you think you are Attractive: Behold Narcissus!
Are you a Health Freak: No
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes
Do you play an Instrument: Drums and Percussion, Computer and Sampler
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: No
In the past month have you Smoked: Yes
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yes
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yes
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yes
In the past month have you been on Stage: Tons of times before...in the past month, No
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No
Ever been Drunk: Unfortunately many, many times
Ever been called a Tease: Yes
Ever been Beaten up: No
Ever Shoplifted: No
How do you want to Die: In a Bizarre Gardening Accident
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: The Pope
What country would you most like to Visit: Burkina Faso
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Brown
Favourite Hair Color: Doesn't Matter
Short or Long Hair: Long
Height: Over 5'
Weight: Somewhere South of "Zaftig"
Best Clothing Style: Saucy
Number of Drugs I have taken: I Don't Remember...stupid question
Number of CDs I own: 400
Number of Piercings: nil
Number of Tattoos: 3
Number of things in my Past I Regret: 8 and 1/2
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!

My Interests

Music, Films, Modern Architecture, Reading a SHITLOAD of Books and Magazines, Otto Kane Crawford Martin, Evolution vs. Creationism,Computers and Technology, Buddhism, Exotic Foods, Contemporary Art, Other Cultures, Economics, Philadelphia Flyers,Glasgow Celtic Football Club, Sushi, Japan, Ireland, The Singularity, England, Cooking, Scotland, Espionage, Trivia, Eclecticism,GeoPolitics,Running, Meditation, Drums, Soviet History

I'd like to meet:

Bill Hicks, Robert Pollard, Tenzin Gyatso, Aung San Suu Kyi, Ron Flockhart, Ian MacKaye, Tia Bella, The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch, Tor Johnson, Willie Shoemaker, Isaac the Bartender, Charles Nelson Reilly, Ichiro Suzuki, Dick Van Patten, Chesty Morgan, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Spiro Agnew, Dikembe Mutumbo, Inger Stevens, Punxsutawney Phil, Ginger Rogers, Run-DMC, Willard Scott, Johnny Vander Meer, Bela Karolyi, Rubber Johnny, All the members of Kajagoogoo,



My son, Chubby Cheeks

Music:

Fugazi, DJ Shadow, Manic Street Preachers, Mission of Burma, Tortoise, Bad Brains, Kraftwerk, Pre-"Shiny Happy People" R.E.M., That Petrol Emotion, Joy Division, Roni Size, Battles, PiL, U.N.K.L.E., John Coltrane, Wire, Television, Thelonious Monk, Aphex Twin, Husker Du, My Bloody Valentine, David Bowie, Jean Sibelius, Sigur Ros, Deftones, Gang of Four, Girls Against Boys, The Roots, John Zorn and Naked City, Basement Jaxx, Miles Davis, The Pixies, Muse, Stereolab, The A's, Guided by Voices, Jeff Buckley, Holy Hand Grenade, David Holmes, Brian Eno, Shudder to Think, De La Soul, Big Black, The Clash, Beatles, Rites of Spring, The Pogues, Prokofiev, Roxy Music, Blur, Supergrass, Built to Spill, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Radiohead, Pavement, Sonic Youth, dirt jake replicas, XTC, Massive Attack, at the drive-in, U2, The Who, Ween

Movies:

Pi, Borat:Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Donnie Darko, The Big Lebowski, Smoke, Blade Runner, Memento, Drugstore Cowboy, Saving Private Ryan, Kingpin, Eyes Wide Shut, Swingers, Lost in Translation, Chinatown, A Fish called Wanda, Royal Tennenbaums, Kill Bill (Vols.1 and 2) Lawrence of Arabia, Apocalypse Now, Secretary, Full Metal Jacket, Spun,Taxi Driver, Fargo, Das Boot, This is Spinal Tap, Buffalo 66, Amelie, Secretary, Basquiat, Super Troopers, The Thin Red Line, Rashomon, Spanish Prisoner, Trainspotting, Sexy Beast, Lock, Stock,and Two Smoking Barrels, Boondock Saints, Ed Wood, 24 Hour Party People, Mulholland Drive, Reservoir Dogs, Magnolia, Band of Brothers, A Clockwork Orange, Goodfellas, Blue Velvet, The Constant Gardener, Primer, The Salton Sea, Snatch, Boogie Nights, Life of Brian, Amadeus, Bully, The Seven Samurai, Requiem for a Dream

Television:



Books:

"de Kooning: An American Master" by Stevens and Swan, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki, anything by Neal Stephenson, "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse, anything by William Gibson, "Power of One" by Bryce Courtenay, anything and EVERYTHING by Haruki Murakami, "Borstal Boy" by Brendan Behan, anything by Martin Amis, "God is not Great" by Christopher Hitchens, "The Russian Debutante's Handbook" by Gary Shteyngart, anything by Paul Theroux, "Burmese Days" by George Orwell, "Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell, anything by Chuck Pahlaniuk, "Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera, "Buddha of Suburbia" by Hanif Kureishi, "The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon, "Three Pillars of Zen" by Philip Kapleau, "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole, "Dharma Punx" by Noah Levine, "I Bought Andy Warhol" by Richard Polsky, anything by Philip Kindred Dick, "No Logo" by Naomi Klein, "Duveen" by S.N. Behrman, "Tropic of Cancer", "Black Spring",and "Tropic of Capricorn" by Henry Miller, "Coin Locker Babies" by Ryu Murakami, anything by Mark Leyner

Heroes:


Rhoda, Dalai Lama, Brian Eno, Ian MacKaye, Bill Hicks, James Randi, 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, Jean Michel Basquiat, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Gerhard Richter, Joe Strummer, Willem de Kooning, Damien Hirst, James Joyce, Richard Feynman, Bill W., Neal Stephenson, Shane MacGowan, Siddhartha Gautama, Dr. Bob, "Band of Brothers"
.. /par

My Blog

Top 50 Atheist Quotes

  Top 50 Atheism Quotes George Carlin 1. Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man...
Posted by James4® on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:08:00 PST

Still Don’t Think That Theism Is A Mental Disorder?

Still Don't Think that Theism is a Mental Disorder? .. start main content --> .. begin content --...
Posted by James4® on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:46:00 PST

Top Ten Signs You’re A Fundamentalist Christian

Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian     10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existe...
Posted by James4® on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:35:00 PST

What a free and tolerant country we have!!

..>!! ATHEISTS, GET THE HELL OUT OF AMERICA !! ..> ..> ..> ...
Posted by James4® on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:28:00 PST

In Europe and U.S., Nonbelievers Are Increasingly Vocal

In Europe and U.S., Nonbelievers Are Increasingly Vocal By Mary JordanWashington Post Foreign Service Saturday, September 15, 2007; Page A01 BURGESS HILL, England -- Every morning on his walk to wor...
Posted by James4® on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:13:00 PST

How dare you call me a fundamentalist (Richard Dawkins)

How dare you call me a fundamentalistThe right to criticise 'faith-heads' --> --> The hardback God Delusion was hailed as the surprise bestseller of 2006. While it was warmly received by most of the 1...
Posted by James4® on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:14:00 PST

10 Myths About Atheism

SEVERAL POLLS indicate that the term "atheism" has acquired such an extraordinary stigma in the United States that being an atheist is now a perfect impediment to a career in politics (...
Posted by James4® on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:06:00 PST

Top 20 Dumbest Things Religious Fundamentalists Have Said

08-21-2007 1. "Multiculturalism in America should ONLY mean we have choices of eating Chinese food, Indian food, Thai food, French food, etc&" buzzthepug!, FreeConservatives [Comments (...
Posted by James4® on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:54:00 PST

A New Army of Atheists

Holy War!A new army of atheists is taking no prisoners in its battle with God and his self-appointed faith dealersBy JAMES PARKERJune 6, 2007 3:34:59 PMThere's no doubt about it: right now, God is on ...
Posted by James4® on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:26:00 PST

Typical Hypocrisy of the Religous Right

Backpack Blowback: Religious Right Activists Want Preferential Treatment From Public School Forum They Created May 31st 2007 We commented last December on a Pagan group in Albemarle Co...
Posted by James4® on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:00:00 PST