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jordi sais quoi

according to Guitar Hero, I rock!

About Me


my inner child's preoccupations...

My Interests

my interests include, in no particulr order: pork/ design/ deep-fried things/ karaoke!/ scrabble/ UTZ puff'n corn / creating anything: art, delicious food, ideas, etc./ tennis/ world travel/ yadda yadda yadda

I'd like to meet:

my self-actualized self. so I can ask him, "What took you so long, Bitch!?";and anyone who can prove me wrong!

Music:

To name a few: Nina Simone, Janis Joplin, the ARK, Ratatat, Jaime Lidell, The GOSSIP, Morningwood, the Boy Least Likely To, Jenny Lewis, Wolfmother, the lovemakers, the GO! Team, The New Pornographers, The Stills, Hot Chip, The Concretes, Bloc Party, Radiohead, Weezer, Hot Hot Heat, Travis, Palo Alto, the SOUNDS, White Stripes, Arcade Fire ,Portishead, Ima Robot, Franz Ferdinand, Gilles Peterson, Beastie Boys, Basement Jaxx, Lemon Jelly, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Camp Lo, Islands, Mozart, the Strokes, royksopp, Madonna, James Ingram, Blood Sweat & Tears, Patti Labelle, Postal Service, Frank Sinatra, Beck, Cesaria Evora, Los Amigos Invisibles, Sade, Rufus Wainwright, Theivery Corporation, Bebel Gilberto, Sufjan Stevens, Peaches, Bjork, Smokey & Miho, Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, CAKE, FEIST, rjd2, the Beatles, Moldy Peaches, N.E.R.D., Michael Jackson, Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, Gorillaz, Jurassic 5, Daft Punk,Lauryn Hill, Sigur ros, Dimitri from Paris, Roni Size, Air, Jay Jay Johanson, Phantom Planet....the list is endless....

Movies:

I heart Huckabees, Shortbus, Napolean Dynamite, Irreversible, Velvet Goldmine, Titus, An Inconvenient Truth, Flirt, MAY, School of Rock, the PROTECTOR, Zoolander, WIT, Ghost in the Shell 2, Bowling for Columbine, Clockwork Orange, Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent , the Shining, Sister Act 2, American Splendour, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Eternal Sunshine, Empire Records, 28 Days Later, Harold and Kumar, Shaun of the Dead, Amelie, Spirited Away, Boondok Saints, Serenity good action/adventure movies

Television:

Extras(HBO), Intervention ,Drawn Together, Rockstar:, Wondershowzen, Trailer Fabulous, Little Britain, Battlestar Galactica, Oblongs, Law & Order, Top Chef, News Radio, Strangers with Candy, Family Guy, Law and Order, the OFFICE, Star Treks (yes i'm nerdy nerdy!), almost anything on TLC, Food Network, adult swim, 24,Meet the Press (when i can), informercials, So You Think You Can Dance, alright who am i kidding...i'll watch anything.

Books:

i used to save reading for foreign films and menus... though these days... i've been reading Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh, i guess i'm doin' a little soul searching. Middlesex was also brilliantly written & Le Petit Prince will always be a favorite.

Heroes:

"We don't need another hero
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond the thunderdome" ~ms.tina turner

My Blog

Ella fitzgerald: LIVE1969 Montreux

just finished watching this concert and am continually blown away by Ella's musicality and soul. kids, hannah montana?? really?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiea8g6SqvQ another amazing cover...
Posted by jordi sais quoi on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:36:00 PST

well, slither me timbers!

Yesterday I caught a 2 ½ foot snake with my bare hands. I know, dumb. REAL dumb. Needless to say, this is quite uncharacteristic of me as I have a strong aversion to most animals (unless they're slath...
Posted by jordi sais quoi on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:09:00 PST

BEIGE-ing OLYMPICS

Okay, I wasn't gonna blog about the Olympics cuz everyone's got a patriotic boner over it all and I'm still getting flack for not thinking that God himself put the reel of Batman: the Dark Knight onto...
Posted by jordi sais quoi on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:18:00 PST

Jonesing...

because i've been catching up with the interweb and i don't know where the remote is, i just realized that i watched the blockbuster hit: BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY... in its entirety. simultaneous with th...
Posted by jordi sais quoi on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:59:00 PST

anthony bourdain

Anthony Bourdain is everywhere these days. i know i should like him cuz we have similar tastes and i admire his casual literariness. but i don't like him. he's too much like a culinary henry darger......
Posted by jordi sais quoi on Wed, 21 May 2008 10:26:00 PST

list-less

i went to shoprite earlier this evening. supermarkets are what separates us from animals and i like to remind myself of that as often as possible; at times, with money saving coupons. i brought with m...
Posted by jordi sais quoi on Sat, 10 May 2008 08:01:00 PST

my exciting friday night...

...i wish i weren't being sarcastic.actually, y'know me, i need some alone time with my television and we've missed each other all week (except for frat boy Deal or No deal...why?!?!). and the next fe...
Posted by jordi sais quoi on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:59:00 PST

no deal! dude!!

It's Spring Break '08 on Deal or No Deal. They brought in a hot tub, brought in some sand, beach balls and filled the studio with sigma chi frat brothers. Dude, it's a damn good thing, the ...
Posted by jordi sais quoi on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:14:00 PST

wasteful!

argh! i hate when people UPS me a couple of forms and use a UPS box to send it in. Honestly, you don’t have to be a tree hugger to know that’s environmentally irresponsible. &nb...
Posted by jordi sais quoi on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:43:00 PST

NONQUANTIFIABLE!!

I hate to toot my own horn but: TOOOOOOOT-TOOOOOT BADDA DOOOOT TOOOOOT!!! Sorry, since my company has decided to insult me with my piece of shit annual increase (after ALL I’ve done for them) I...
Posted by jordi sais quoi on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:02:00 PST