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Jim V

My ears are hot.

About Me

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I am a designer/art director at an advertising agency in downtown Nashville. I used to freelance a lot for music packaging. I also create illustrations and take black and white photographs of rock shows and landscapes. Happily wed, and I recently finished my second bachelor's degree.

I used to play drums in Serotonin . I play guitar now, however seldom, though I am hoping to get the rock going again soon, in some form or another.

Visit my new online portfolio of design & illustration - (12/07)

jimvalosik.com

My Interests

visual art, black and white photography, comedy, all types of film/movies, abandoned hospitals and creepy buildings, novellas, graphic novels, short stories, music, writing, drums, guitar, visual art, graphic design, Mexico and Spain, cruel episodic comedy, stand-up comedy, lots of very specific magazines, HBO, my scanner and camera, swimming pools, finding time to hang out, little ray-ray.

I'd like to meet:

People too busy for real life interaction, and also people with real lives who don't have time for this internet socializing. Landscape photographing hiking buddies. Other designers / photographers / aging post-rockers, or anyone else with interesting interests. Also people I've already met.

Music:

Messhugah, Coalesce, Jeremy Enigk, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Go Team, Dillinger Escape Plan, Neko Case, the Constantines, Calexico, Iron & Wine, Torche, Baroness, Paint it Black, Das Oath, Kaki King, the Darkness, Goblin, Mastodon, Kenny Rogers, Tragedy, Hot Cross, Jenny Lewis, From Ashes Rise, (older) In Flames, The Bronx, Give Up the Ghost, Converge, Hero of a Hundred Fights, Owls, American Football, the Mars Volta, At the Drive-In, 400 Years, Shai Hulud, Tenacious D, Fugazi, Serotonin, old The Promise Ring, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Young, His Hero is Gone, Jawbox, Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, the Highwaymen, Cap'n Jazz, The End, The Tony Danza Tap-Dance Extravaganza, Rites of Spring, Blood Brothers, Braid, Envy, (old)The Fall of Troy, Fucking Champs, Green Day, Bars, Strike Anywhere, Hot Snakes, Hoover, Jesuit, Kiss It Goodbye, Rorshack, Polvo, old Piebald, Quicksand, Photek, Pan(a)sonic, Neurosis, Scarlet, an Albatross, Forget Cassettes, Rodan, At the Price of the Union, Arch Enemy, old Today is the Day, older Tortoise & The Sea and Cake, Minor Threat, Loincloth, Thursday, Beyond the Buried and Me, Pel, Against Me!, Girls Vs Boys, Some Girls, John Denver

Movies:

28 Weeks later, There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Oldboy, Right At Your Door, The Departed, Grindhouse, Grizzly Man, Eyes Without a Face, Behind the Mask, Bug, Pulse (Kairo), The Descent, Hard Times, Three...Extremes, A Tale of Two Sisters, Jackass 2, Requiem for a Dream, The Machinist, Batman Begins, Sin City, Dark Water, Memento, Open Water, Jeremiah Johnson, Halloween, Ju-on, The Matrix, The River's Edge, South Park: the Movie, National Lampoon's Vacation, Battle Royale, Kill Bill, Ravenous, Lord of Illusions, In the Mouth of Madness, Mullholland Drive, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre AND the remake, Seconds, the Manchurian Candidate, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Village of the Damned, Saw, Ju-on, Dumb and Dumber, Suicide Club, See the Sea, Blow-Up, the Weather Undergound, The Eye, The Fog, Mad Max, Carnival of Souls, M, Peeping Tom, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The King of Comedy, Twilight Zone: the Movie, Jackass: the movie, Three Kings, Flirting With Disaster, Superman Returns, Election, Dancer in the Dark, Children of the Corn, The River, Wages of Fear, Eyes Wide Shut, First Blood, Taxi Driver, La Strada, Ran, the Thin Red Line, Half-Baked, Rosemary's Baby, The Shining, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, the Road Warrior, Long Weekend, Rushmore, Austin Powers, Dawn of the Dead, the Exorcist, The Lord of the Rings movies, Christopher Guest movies, Fletch!

Television:

Arrested Development, Seinfeld, The Office (bbc), Extras, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mr. Show, Reno 911!, The Larry Sanders Show, WildBoys, Jackass, Fawlty Towers, The 80's Twilight Zone (which no one seems to remember), Night Gallery, Ray Bradbury Theater, Chappelle's Show, Band of Brothers, Real Time w/ Bill Maher, CNN, CNN Headline News, PBS, Blind Date, WildBoyz, the Daily Show, The Colbert Report, No Reservations, Kitchen Nightmares

Books:

The Road, The Prestige, survival and bushcraft manuals, Anything by Nathaniel Hawthorne, King's Night Shift + Skeleton Crew, Beloved, the Catcher in the Rye, the Sun Also Rises, The Thief of Always, Confederacy of Dunces, America: the Book, Vol.1-3 of Presidential Misspeak, Child of God, And the Ass Saw the Angel, Skeleton Crew, Life After God, Billy Budd, horror anthologies of any kind. Also an absolute ton of Adobe tutorial books and the like.

Heroes:

Gordon Ramsay, Rod Serling, Will Oldham, Phillip Dwyer, Charles Bronson, Zachary Barochas, Bill Maher

My Blog

For John Carpenter Fans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT7AH4JyuNs This is off the charts....
Posted by Jim V on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:22:00 PST

New Desktop Designs

Here are some new illustrations and desktops. The first three can be downloaded for personal use, and are approximately 1280x1020. Let me know what you think about any of these. Hurricane WeatherTenne...
Posted by Jim V on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Brand new Desktops (10/11/05)

Here are some new desktops free for use. their screen sizes are listed. I also added a couple of new illustrations. Let me know what you think.Fireworks 1280x960Small Gray Town 1280x840...
Posted by Jim V on Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:56:00 PST

New B/W landscape photos from Florida

Some photos from the beach, Fourth of July weekend, in Anamaria, FL. ...
Posted by Jim V on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

B&W photos from tons of recent shows

Here are some (mostly) recent live shots of bands that have played Nashville, and Nashville bands that i have been taking shots of. Until my fortcoming site is running, i will be posting new photos in...
Posted by Jim V on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST