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jason

ramblin' man

About Me

comanche/numunu/muskogee/mvskoke, book slinger, scribbler

My Interests

writing, film, food, drink, apple computers, music, comanches, creeks, natives, creative people, etc.

I'd like to meet:

a vw mechanic who will tell me the honest truth about why a synthetic oil change costs 70 dollars.

Music:

in stream of conciousness order, lyle lovett, the cramps, elvis presley, gene vincent, ozomatli, jack johnson, hank williams, hank thompson, old 97's, reverend horton heat, chet baker, getz/gilberto, wayne hancock, coltrane, miles davis, billie holliday, sarah vaughn, santana, celia cruz, texas tornados, steely dan, bob wills and his texas playboys, willie nelson, buddy holly, stray cats, brian setzer, early 70s earnest pre ironic pop, 70's stevie wonder, rockabilly, earth wind and fire, bebel gilberto, strokes, george strait, ronnie dawson, link wray, waylon jennings, uncle tupelo, son volt, wilco, ryan adams, whiskeytown, west coast cool jazz, brazilian samba, bebop, western swing, duke ellington, chet baker, dizzie gillespie, elvis costello, nirvana, pixies, the clash, chris issak, tom waits, pete yorn, norman's biggest export (besides the sooners who break my heart) the flaming lips, trip hop, stereolab, ernest tubb, chuck mangione, nick drake, badly drawn boy, helmet, ministry, lemonheads, white stripes, tejano, selena, 49 songs, powwow songs, creek stompdance sounds, baptist hymns in comanche and creek (though i wouldn't consider myself all that religous i just like the sounds), george and ira gershwin standards, t.rex, dwight yoakum, dylan, the byrds, tito puenta

Movies:

outsiders, 70s to mid late 80s woody allen, with a smidgen of sweet and lowdown in for good measure, breathless, powwow highway for sentimental reasons, fisher king, the last time i committed suicide, next stop wonderland, rushmore and the royal tenenbaums, amores perros, touch of evil, the elephant man, il postino,hoosiers, pulp fiction and resevoir dogs, the commitments, ghost dog, down by law, townes van zandt-be here to love me, croupier, lone star, greivous angel, feliini, scorsese, cassavetes, hitch, what else i dunno, lots yes...

Television:

both versions of the office, gotta love that office.

Books:

like books. i will read most anything by roddy doyle, salinger, james welch, sherman alexie, joy harjo, nila northsun and louise erdrich, john irving, kerouac, burrows, dan rhodes, cormac mccarthy, rilke, bronte, austen, i read stephen king and v.c. andrews as a kid i ain't bout to try to hide that either.

Heroes:

mah parents, spiderman, bill clinton, john stockton, quanah parker, jeff hornacek, kerouac, alexie, salinger, jean luc godard, kiowa painter t.c. cannon, comanche painter rance hood, creek painter jerome tiger, creek poet joy harjo, any native filmmaker who can manage to make a film, parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, some friends, jim and dwight from the office.

My Blog

Times write up of Denton

One of my favorite towns has been discovered by NYtimes, Denton, TX.Some of the best times I ever had in Texas have happened in this cool little town. It's as cool as Austin but without half of the B...
Posted by jason on Wed, 14 May 2008 04:53:00 PST

if you aint doing nothing thursday night swing by

something i did last year with some really cool and talented people. we shot it in two days, on a cheap camera, in one location, on purpose. the 2 leads (Jacinthe and Bryan) never even met each other...
Posted by jason on Tue, 13 May 2008 09:11:00 PST

an old poem

she showed up from gallup and they were mostly all gone...outside santa fe, near el doradophone calls, from norman, from abq, from navajolandfrom reality.here we are, playing horseshoes, drinking, lau...
Posted by jason on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:41:00 PST

all my teams lost

clinton won, the spurs won over the suns, and lastly and most importantly, the hornets spanked my mavericks once again. this was not a good evening for any of the teams i root for.
Posted by jason on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:34:00 PST

listening to http://www.kntu.unt.edu/

some friends of mine up in santa fe are putting on a film festival at the institute of american indian arts. i think you have to be affiliated with ia in some fashion, whether it be student, current ...
Posted by jason on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:45:00 PST

words im tired of

as a native person, who has a job i kinda like (most days), and who has visited a native american charter school and spoken to native kids, for the first time ever, something i never thought i would e...
Posted by jason on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:12:00 PST

on irony

i've been past irony for awhile now, post irony you might say. i was discussing this with a friend recently, this idea of irony. i said it's lazy, it lacks discipline. it seems easy. irony. it's ...
Posted by jason on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:32:00 PST

11 hour day

i got a ton of reading ahead of me for this aio thing. the stack is like more than an inch thick and copied on both pages. it will be interesting, except for maybe the novella by an instructor that i ...
Posted by jason on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:09:00 PST

creativity

i’ve been listening to a lot of daniel johnston music lately after watching the doc on him. like rss feeds, vegetables, and overall order in general, i had avoided his music up to this point in...
Posted by jason on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:42:00 PST

work

work, work, work, work work work work. all i do is work lately. the more i don’t think about what i’m doing it seems the easier it is. the more i try to think about it, the more complic...
Posted by jason on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:11:00 PST