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Jack of Spades

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I'm 26 year-old ISTJ living in the gorgeous mid-west. I work in Arts Management in Grand Haven. Volunteer a lot of my time with my local Community Theatre Companies. Functionally Crazy (clinically) and I have a small (dwindling) new-age hippie side that I don't foster enough, Mother Earth is suing me for abandonnment, but with the state's assistance, I got the guy that got that student-loving High School Teacher in the SOUTH *cough* Midwest off...Oh, yes, with all stereotypes taken, I'm just another mid-western boy, but overall just another fleshsack of gratitude.*blink blink*...god, that all really is my entire life in a nutshell right now...hmmm...Overall, just on a personal mission to increase the exposure of the fine arts in Western Michigan. So, if you're like-minded, we'll probably get along juuuuuust fine.

My Interests

The Arts (ALL of them), Arts Advocacy, Piano, Communication Theory, Parody, Shakespeare, Modern Theatre, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Finding my Niche, Tarot, RPGS, Dr. Pepper.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone, I'm open. But people who strive for the furthering of the fine arts in modern society...and those who love Dr. Pepper...come to the front of the line.

Music:

Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Fiona Apple, Air, Ani DiFranco, System of a Down, Cake.

Movies:

Labyrinth, Dick, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Memento, You Me and Everyone We Know, Creatures from the Pink Lagoon, Happy Endings, Capote, Napolean Dynamite, Talk to Her, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Anything Tim Burton, Anything Johnny Depp or Parker Posey.

Television:

Twin Peaks, Law and Order (all of them), CSI (all of them), ER, Without a Trace, Cold Case, Futurama, Family Guy, Farscape, Project Runway, Veronica Mars, The Closer, Charmed (guilty pleasure...) and Judging Amy (only in Syndicate)

Books:

House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski), Vurt (Jeff Noon), Carrie (Stephen King), The Shining (Stephen King), Golem in the Gears (Piers Anthony), Huis Clos or No Exit(J.P. Sartre), The Stranger (Albert Camus).

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My Blog

Back at the GHAAC

And the vertigo is over-coming, in it's constancy.  It's like one day, you wake up and the room is at a 45 degree angle to reality, and then the next day someone tells you, yeah, we need you back...
Posted by Jack of Spades on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:02:00 PST

Woah there Nelly...it’s another LiFe ChAnGe...

Today I was fired from the Grand Haven Area Arts Council.  I suppose it was coming, I mean, regardless of just how hard you work and how well you succeed at making and growing a young organizatio...
Posted by Jack of Spades on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:17:00 PST

Come See a Cute Children's Show in Grand Haven, MI.

SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT! CPP's Family Theatre productions, THE LEGEND OF LIGHTNING LARRY and CHARLESTON!, will be staged at the Grand Haven Area Arts Council building July 12, 13, and 14.  Two shows...
Posted by Jack of Spades on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:35:00 PST

A Brave New World, Life Update 7/07

Ok, so I've been writing e-mails all day and I'm about to pass out, but for some f'ed up reason I thought, "I should update my blog."  Call me sadist. So, I've got a wonderful new job.  One ...
Posted by Jack of Spades on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:08:00 PST

Back on track? Maybe.

So, let's see.  I've been back about two weeks and things are still swirling, but in a good way. I'm "working" again.  Volunteering my time with Central Park Players in Grand Haven, MI. ...
Posted by Jack of Spades on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:16:00 PST

Life is nothing but Cyclical

Everything that is happening to us has happened to us before and in the long run we will only turn full circle upon the earth.  Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and somehow...I ended up home in Mich...
Posted by Jack of Spades on Sat, 26 May 2007 08:26:00 PST

The End is Past, This is the New Beginning

Blah blah blah, I won't wax philosophical on the terms of what is life and what is death.  I'm not THAT pretentious. What I will say is this.  Don't knock homeless people.  Knock bums a...
Posted by Jack of Spades on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:46:00 PST

Update Halloween 2006

I'm going as a homeless person for Halloween.  (The costume was free with the job, so *shrug* might as well wear it.) I won't go into details until I'm ready to talk about it, but basically, it's...
Posted by Jack of Spades on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:58:00 PST

Life Update, OCT 2006

Let's make this short and sweet. Looking for a job, worrying about money, on hiatus from life and friends, broke up with Alex after a year, although I don't know if I'll ever stop loving him, maybe.&n...
Posted by Jack of Spades on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:00:00 PST

Free Soda and Internet

So, I went to the hospital the other day and ended up staying for about 10 days.  Long story short, my Paxil has been increased to 40 mgs, and that's fine with me. So, I'm back to temp work....
Posted by Jack of Spades on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:24:00 PST