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Jebediah

Time to sync the throttle bodies again...

About Me

A life joy-rider who likes to pilot on occasion. An adventurer, metaphysician, renaissance hopeful.

Things I like. Bricks, wood and plaster. Black tea with cardamom. Working in the garage on a warm day with the doors open. Camping out on the roof. Giving the garden a haircut. Riding 1000 miles in a day and doing it again the next.

Things I don't like. Road salt. Big fucking cars. Cheap ice cream. Tight-ass white people. French nails. Turbulence. Having 20 degrees of temperature difference between my bedroom and my kitchen (actually, I find this last one rather amusing).

I'm often over-optimistic. I like non-sequiturs and complications. I work hard, sometimes on too many things at once. I respect those most whom endeavor, embrace the unknown.

Right now this is my main focus .

My Interests

Motorbikes, Philosophy, Mechanical Design, Aesthetics, Indian Food, Theremins, Aeroplanes, Cats, Ultimate, Semicolons, Building/Fixing Stuff, Writing Stuff, Smoking Stuff

I'd like to meet:

Fellow day trippers, vagabonds, intellectual imperfectionists, masochistic motorcyclists.

Music:

Air, American Analog Set, Flaming Lips, Beck, Big Fresh, Radiohead, They Might Be Giants, Blood Sweat & Tears, Les Debutants, Blue Goat War, Optigonally Yours, Pinback, Faun Fables, Beta Band, Steve Malkmus & the Jicks, Sigur Ros, Rasputina, The Shins, David Bowie, Broadcast

Movies:

Pi, Donnie Darko, The Big Lebowski, Waking Life, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, Better Off Dead, Saving Grace

Television:

Watching the dust settle, or maybe the Daily Show.

Books:

Neuromancer, Truth in Context, Theremin- Ether Music and Espionage, Chronicles of Narnia, Naked Lunch, The Philosophers Dog; anything by Aristotle. And, of course, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Heroes:

Leon Begeman, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Jesus of Nazareth - dudes with tenacity.

My Blog

Runabout

I flew up to Newark last Wednesday and picked up my new city car, a '76 Mini Cooper. I've really wanted a Smart SCV for a while, but they are cost-prohibitive, since they won't officially be for sale ...
Posted by Jebediah on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:44:00 PST

Embrace the Drill: Zeppelin and Singing Birds on Nitrous

I went to the dentist today to have a long-overdue damaged filling replacement.  I hadn't had any major dental work done in years, and was struck with the refinement of the office, all the specia...
Posted by Jebediah on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:53:00 PST