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jaysin

knives and fire and dead things

About Me

whatever. i'm cool. i'm sarcastic. i'm the nicest guy you'll ever meet. i'm sweeter than jewish wine. i really like wine. delicious wine. i know too much about random things. i cook. i like to cook. so it's all good. i have an amazing girlfriend who rocks my little world more than i can believe. i'm either trying to or trying not to turn my life into a Nick Hornby novel. sometimes it works. other times it's interesting.

My Interests

good food, music, punkrock, good wine, mtn bikes, movies, Johnny Cash, hardcore, good coffee, great breakfasts, getting out of the city, being in the city, Triple Rock Social Club, Grumpy's, big fruity drinks at the Dragon, friends who look out for me like family...not in that order.

I'd like to meet:

I already met her. As for the others, be into good music, food and wine and beer. I probably still won't talk to you, but that's more cause I don't care.

Music:

The Pixies, The Epoxies, The Delgados, Johnny Cash, Jawbreaker, Pulp, American Nightmare, Lifter Puller, Lifetime, Turbonegro, Blood for Blood, El-P, Atmosphere, Notorious B.I.G., Anthrax, Kid Dynamite, Rites of Spring, Cro Mags, None More Black, Dillinger Four, Refused, Hatebreed, Integrity, Kill Your Idols, Belle and Sebastian, Interpol, Madball, Martyr AD, MLIW, The Clash, Converge, Unbroken, The Weakerthans, DJ Z-Trip, The Hold Steady, Big Business, Soviettes, Midnight Evils, Fugazi, Jay-Z, Ted Leo, M83, High on Fire, Mastadon, Muse, Nick Cave, TV on the Radio...

Movies:

Swingers, Evil Dead, Rushmore, Old School, Eat Drink Man Woman, Drunken Master 2, Cinema Paradiso, Bottle Rocket, Best in Show, Three Kings, Kill Bill, Lost in Translation, all those damn hobbit movies.

Television:

Simpsons, The Office, Arrested Development, Kids in the Hall, Mr. Show, Family Guy, Iron Chef, too many shows on the food channel that make me seem like a big nerd.

Books:

those by: Anthony Bourdain, Bill Bryson, Charles Bukowski, Terry Pratchet, Hubert Selby jr., and many others. right now a lot of cookbooks. a LOT of cookbooks. but really the ones with nice pictures.

Heroes:

Johnny Cash, Ian MacKaye, Brian (the dog from Family Guy)

My Blog

alive and well

Seems like everyone is posting and letting people know that they survived the bridge collapse. it is pretty crazy, like a movie, something that only happens in SF or something.Everyone I know is alive...
Posted by jaysin on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:10:00 PST

ridiculous

OK, so i havent written anything on here in ages, but tonite went to see Fucked Up at the triple rock and that was just plain ridiculous in the good sense. i havent seen or been into a band like that ...
Posted by jaysin on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:39:00 PST

finally snow

We finally got hit with the snow. i love it. Don't like the driving or the shoveling, but i do love it. Finally looks like winter out there. Spent sunday inside. Well, after an hour an half of shovel...
Posted by jaysin on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:17:00 PST

Orange cough syrup will make your car fly.

I have once again decided that I love Sarah Silverman more than anything. For a long time I thought I should be married to Parker Posey, but once again after watching her show I have realized her geni...
Posted by jaysin on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:39:00 PST

new tatoo

My good man, Dan Dittmer has started my latest tattoo. It was booked back in March and just got started this last week. He is a popular man, and for good reason. So this is what Jana bought me for our...
Posted by jaysin on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:13:00 PST

new year...so far so good

I guess I am liking 2007 so far even though it started out not so great. the stomach flu hit me about 2pm on New Years Eve. And continued on through the night and next day.But really I am loving the n...
Posted by jaysin on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:08:00 PST

Home for the holidays - a yearly re-cap.

It is our second xmas together. The first official one in our house. We actually have a real tree. We have decorated the house, no to extent i would like, but enough to satisfy us both. There is no sn...
Posted by jaysin on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:39:00 PST

moving on

So today is my last day at the Roast. Officially on the schedule and all that. Kind of a weird feeling since i have seen this baby through from the begining and now it's done. I always thought that it...
Posted by jaysin on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 08:53:00 PST

winter

hey it snowed for the first time. now it's gone. but it was here and the cold weather still is. i dont think i am ready for it. but i turned on the furnace and she fired up. still need to do all the o...
Posted by jaysin on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:32:00 PST

loyalty...

I like to think that i am quite loyal to people and to work. i want to be loyal. i want to be in a place and working with people and for people who inspire that. i thinkn i am somewhere with an idea t...
Posted by jaysin on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:39:00 PST