James [assembled from archival footage]

About Me

I am aware.

My Interests

Music, film, good conversation, people-watching, wine, beer, art in general, architecture, Cuban cigars accompanied by 20-year port, sleeping when I want to, Space Mountain Movie Club (charter member), filmmusic, writing, poetry, NPR, news in general, conviction, confusion, contradiction, and ... dogs.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to Meet the Press.LOOK! A DOG!!!

adopt your own virtual pet!

Music:

Nine Inch Nails, "Survivalism" Royksopp, "What Else Is There?"
Get this video and more at MySpace.com Dresden Dolls, "Sing" Arcade Fire, "Rebellion (Lies)" Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Cheated Hearts" Altered Images, "I Could Be Happy" New Order, "Regret" Massive Attack, "Protection" Brian Eno & John Cale, "One Word" Lindsey Buckingham, "Holiday Road" Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, "Falling Slowly" David Byrne, "Miss America" Elbow, "Grace Under Pressure" Kate Bush, "Running Up That Hill (Deal With God)" Modest Mouse, "Dashboard" Madeline Matar, "Ana Lameen" James, "Say Something" (London) Suede, "The Beautiful Ones" Stereophonics, "Dakota" Belle & Sebastian, "Is It Wicked Not To Care?" Interpol, "Slow Hands" David Bowie, "I'm Afraid of Americans" Smashing Pumpkins, "Perfect" Marianne Faithfull, "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" The Kinks, "Come Dancing" Nelly Furtado, "Powerless (Say What You Want)" Stellastarr*, "Sweet Troubled Soul"

Movies:

Movies make me glad.

Television:

Sex and the City, Scrubs, Lost, Boston Legal, Daily Show, Simpsons, Seinfeld, Space Ghost, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Desperate Housewives, Murphy Brown

Books:

The T&A reading list: Naked by David Sedaris, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Eggers, The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell, A Home At the End of the World by Michael Cunningham, Collected works of Allen Ginnsberg, Imajica by Clive Barker, Snow by Ohran Pamuk, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeir, and the likes of Whitman, Burroughs (pick one), theology, politics, the theology of politics, the politics of theology ... and a bunch of out-dated magazines that just happen to be lying around (Newsweek is a favourite).

Heroes:

Bruce Campbell.

My Blog

The Mirror

Wake up, go to the restroom; look in the mirror, directly into the mirror. Look up and down, thuroughly. Come to your neck: so fragile. Pick up the razor and imagine -- just imagine!...
Posted by Personality Tree on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:47:00 PST

Lies, excuses, and Guinness

I want to find the exact combination of words, silence, and movement that forge a friendship. What does it? Is it common interest? Physical attraction? Confusion giving way to ...
Posted by Personality Tree on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:41:00 PST

O for a muse ...

I'm beginning to buy my own press. The good and the bad.
Posted by Personality Tree on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 01:55:00 PST

Aphorisms (making sense)

"Wait, wait, wait -- what is this?! A sixty-minute line at the world's most famous theme park? On the day after Thanksgiving?! I am shocked and offended that such a thing could happe...
Posted by Personality Tree on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:46:00 PST

On the Fall

Bliss! Bliss! Bliss! Bliss! In some quarantined quarter of my subconscious, we are married. We win elections. We win wars that are not win-able. We win our r...
Posted by Personality Tree on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:50:00 PST

Don't think.

I may be wrong. *** The 5 at night -- with no traffic -- is a thing of beauty. Why move to Los Angeles when I'd only be losing an excuse to spend a couple of hours alone with my th...
Posted by Personality Tree on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:36:00 PST

9.10.01

September 10th, 2001: Five Years Later Planes crashed -- in fields, on water, upon take-off. Never did they seem to crash in densely populated urban areas, as though some patron saint of ...
Posted by Personality Tree on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:37:00 PST

It happened one night

It's 3am. In weather such as we've been having, one wonders why more people don't choose to stay up the whole night, to embrace it for the simple fact that it is not the arduous and ill-tempere...
Posted by Personality Tree on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:12:00 PST

Reading "Wait For Godot" On the Toilet`

I can think of no more appropriate place to read "Waiting For Godot" than on a toilet. I can think of no more inappropriate place to read "Waiting For Godot" than on a toilet. There is no good reason ...
Posted by Personality Tree on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:21:00 PST

Footnote to "Slerner Over the Atlantic"

Poetry is just a word.
Posted by Personality Tree on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:15:00 PST