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Jonathan

Steam-powered.

About Me

Go tell the Spartans, passerby,
That here, by Spartan law, we lie.

Here are some other online identities of mine, the better to stalk me with, my dear.
My Yelp page : restaurant reviews and such.
My Facebook profile . (You'll need to be logged in to facebook, and even then you probably won't be able to see much of my profile. Facebook is so weird.
My Twitter page : Ostensibly this is where I post what I'm doing RIGHT NOW, but in practise, it's more like my inside jokes & stupid sayings.


My Interests

    cyberpunk, biopunk, steampunk, themepunk, clockpunk, ribofunk, steamcrunk typography & graphic design aeronautics, aerospace, & space travel fencing fashion urban exploration Asian art & culture, anime & manga fire architecture art Samurai movies board games video games Zork & other text adventures linguistics game theory literature, poetry, & speculative fiction vampires, zombies, & other undead God love horror science & technology graphic design

I'd like to meet:

Legal immigrants. Scottish people. Icelandic people. People who can speak, and people who can listen. Goths, metalheads, punks... Writers, gamers, artists, muses, scholars. Real people. People who can both mourn and rejoice.I'd also like to meet rogues, priests and magi.

Music:

    The 5.6.7.8s the 69 Eyes a-ha Ayumi Hamasaki Bauhaus Blind Guardian Boris Covenant Cradle of Filth The Crüxshadows Dead Can Dance Great Big Sea Havalina Rail Co. JdaGreat Johnny Cash Jolie Holland Kraftwerk Korpiklaani L'Ame Immortelle Laibach Malice Mizer Nick Cave Nightwish Nobuo Uematsu Ockham's Razor Opeth the Pogues Rhapsody Seabound Sigur Rós Siouxsie and the Banshees Sopor Aeternus Sunn 0))) Symphony X Tomahawk Tragically Hip Trans-Siberian Orchestra Utada Hikaru VNV Nation Wolf Eyes Wolfsheim

Movies:

Seven Samurai
Ikiru
Citizen Kane
Gattaca
Heaven and Earth
Bright Eyes
Triumph of the Will
Lawrence of Arabia
The Lord of the Rings
Grave of the Fireflies
Blade Runner
Andrei Rublev
Star Wars
The Crow
Koyaanisqatsi
Ran
Kagemusha
Schindler's List
City of Lost Children
La Jetée
The Virgin Suicides
Night of the Living Dead
Fight Club
Stalker
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
Voices of a Distant Star

Television:

X
Hellsing
The Outer Limits
Star Trek

Books:

The Diamond Age, Neuromancer, The Elements of Typographic Style, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, The Lord of the Rings, The Man Who Sold The Moon, Hellsing, Jorge Luis Borges, T.S. Eliot, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, John Donne, J.R.R. Tolkien

Heroes:

Joan of Arc, William Gibson

My Blog

Robots

From the front page of the Drudge Report today: "Automated killer robots 'threat to humanity'...".
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:53:00 PST

I Am Nick

Silly iTunes. iTunes automatically grabs album art, but it seems to have some problems... It assigned the image of the "I Am Sam" soundtrack to all my Nick Cave songs that don't have an album name lis...
Posted by Jonathan on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:40:00 PST

Funeral Music

My current profile song (Forsaken by Projekt 2501) is a cover of VNV Nation's Forsaken with a female vocalist and a much more contemplative sound. I've always wanted Forsaken played at my funeral, but...
Posted by Jonathan on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:10:00 PST

Destinations

I've been meaning to make a list of places in Socal which I intend to visit. I reckon I had better get started, because two of those places burned this week. I need to really get on this before all my...
Posted by Jonathan on Fri, 11 May 2007 08:13:00 PST

April is the cruellest month.

It is time once again for my yearly Eliot reading. Has it really been a year already?There is shadow under this red rock,(Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something dif...
Posted by Jonathan on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:03:00 PST

Warhammer or LotRO

If any of you are going to be playing either Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning or Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, contact me and tell me what server you'll be on so we can coordinate.Obv...
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:16:00 PST

Link Wray & Heavy Metal

So I stumbled across Link Wray, an American rock & roll guitarist from the 1950s, '60s, and onward.What caught my eye was this 1958 instrumental song Rumble, because some say that this song signals th...
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:42:00 PST

Ha! The operating system holy wars rage on in our hearts and minds.

I'm working in Adobe Illustrator on Windows. Upon saving a file, a warning comes up to notify me that the filename has been truncated to 31 characters for compatibility with Macintosh browsers.I reall...
Posted by Jonathan on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:27:00 PST

Fashion, Fabric, and Clothing for Bachelors

I just found this great series of articles on fashion, fabric, clothing and such, for bachelors or people who just want some info about how to choose good clothing, and how to take care of it and such...
Posted by Jonathan on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:24:00 PST

What kind of goth?

In this article, I read that this guy called Tal Stoneheart has passed away and is being sent off in a funeral involving a viking longship and archers with fiery arrows at a Gothic festival. With thes...
Posted by Jonathan on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:34:00 PST