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About Me

They printed it on the nametag: "Jeremiah," it said. I looked at it, then looked at them, and back at the name. We sat in silence for awhile until it finally set in. There was no escaping it. Jeremiah. This was me. This was who I was. Everything I do for the rest of my life will all come down to this ... Jeremiah. And I felt suddenly depressed.
THE SILENCE SAYS EVERYTHING YOUR LIPS COULDN'T.
..
I AM THE WHO WHEN YOU CALL "WHO'S THERE?"
Favorite Quotes:
"I know that I know nothing." - Socrates
"An unexamined life is unworth living." - Socrates
"The Universe is wider than our views of it." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden
"Scripture is as useful to a person who has seen the Truth, as a well is to someone who lives in a city between two rivers." - paraphrased from the Bhagavad Gita
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." â€“ Buddha
"'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.' 'Oh,' says man, 'but the Babel Fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't.' 'Oh, I hadn't thought of that,' says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic." â€“ Douglas Adams, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything." - Robert Heinlein, Job: A Comedy of Justice
"Fall in love. It's good for you." - Eddie Vedder
"Love is the answer. But, while you're waiting for that answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions." - Woody Allen
"I'm sorry I'm not the man with the megaphone ... but this is what I do." - Jude, Across the Universe
"Live for nothing, die for something." - John Rambo, Rambo IV
"Don't argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level and beat you with experience." - Unsourced

My Interests

Writing, zombie movies, funny books, the Denver Broncos, Nintendo Wii, armed robbery, the color blue, long walks on beaches, art, oysters, panda guts and killing sprees.

I'd like to meet:

That guy who played in Fargo.

Music:

Pearl Jam; The Beatles; Trapt; Breaking Benjamin; The Killers; Alanis Morissette

Movies:

Across the Universe; Dogma; I Am Legend; 28 Days Later; Night of the Living Dead (1968); Dawn of the Dead (2004); Gattaca; Shakespeare in Love; Big Fish; First Blood; Waiting

Television:

LOST; SCRUBS; SOUTH PARK; SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS; TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES; FUTURAMA; FAMILY GUY

Books:

Victor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning"; Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We"; Freud's "The Future of an Illusion"; Alex Haley (and Harold Courlander)'s "Roots"; Stephen King's "The Stand" and "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon"; Robert Jordan's "Eye of the World"; Piers Anthony's Incarnations series, starting with "On a Pale Horse"; Mick Foley's "Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks"; Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend"

Heroes:

Eddie Vedder, John Elway, Kevin Smith and Billy Pilgrim (a man such as myself, who was "unstuck" in time)

My Blog

WTF. We Are Going.

http://www.coterietheatre.org/notld.htmWe are going. Now.Pack your bags.
Posted by jayvee on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:32:00 PST

No Heroics

Funny fucking British comedy about superheroes ... for you! That's the first episode. Whadda ya'll think?...
Posted by jayvee on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:56:00 PST

I Need Some Criticism on an Article

I'm writing this for a special insert in the next paper, and I've worked on it for four hours today and have nothing left to give, in terms of seeing what's right and what's wrong with it. So, fo...
Posted by jayvee on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:31:00 PST

Maus

While other people dream of hot super models, I dream of mice.Sick, emaciated mice. Things I had rescued from the desert, I told myself; later I remembered them being from a scientific test facility. ...
Posted by jayvee on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:27:00 PST

An essay on Virginia Woolf

Existential Motives in Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" In order to fully understand Lily's existentialist journey, her quest for Identity (with a capital "I"), we ...
Posted by jayvee on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:49:00 PST

Can it be?! More LITTLE NEMO?!

Here are pages 4, 5 and 6.There is a minor correction coming, changing "Mr. McKay" to "Mr. McCay" (as in Winsor McCay, the guy who created Nemo), but that shouldn't be enough to curb your enthusiasm. ...
Posted by jayvee on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:37:00 PST

A Bit of Bad Poetry

"Self-Inflected Career Suicide by Means of an Excruciatingly Bad Rhyme Scheme but Worth It in the End if it Gets the Message Across in Such Ways that Corny Dialogue Can Only Achieve"We were tired, we ...
Posted by jayvee on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:32:00 PST

Oceans

It's 11:35 and I'm tired. This is usually when I'm most awake.On a superstitious note, this feeling is my witching hour. It's the time between times. There's something about being so close to the drea...
Posted by jayvee on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:15:00 PST

An Essay on Nietzsche

The Existential Motives in Nietzsche's "the Birth of Tragedy" At its core, "the Birth of Tragedy" is a Greek history, dissecting philosophy and culture through Nietzsch...
Posted by jayvee on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:23:00 PST

An Essay on "the Merchant of Venice"

Shakespeare's Concept of True Love as Evidenced in "The Merchant of Venice" It would be easy to say that Shakespeare is a master wordsmith and thus able to characterize ...
Posted by jayvee on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:40:00 PST