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John

I am nothing of a builder, but here I dreamt I was an architect.

About Me

If you are looking at this page, then you want to be looking at this page: John Says Sorry

My Interests

Guitar, Vespas, Skating, Nintendo, hazardous and brutal introspection, drawing, and I would say music, but who isn't interested in music? Go check out www.forgettingforever.com if you want.

I'd like to meet:

Corny things about people I haven't met from places I probably won't ever go belong here.

Music:

The Weakerthans, the pillows, The Good Life, The Get Up Kids, mewithoutYou, eastern youth, Gogol Bordello, Okkervil River, I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business, Devendra Banhart, Bob Dylan, Not Quite Bernadette, Brand New, Silverchair, Slowpoke/Mourning Maxwell, Saves the Day, Taking Back Sunday, The Decemberists, Thursday, Silverstein, Kings of Leon, Bright Eyes, The Early November, Wyclef Jean, The Streets, Kings of Convenience, Nada Surf, The Fine Print, Phantom Planet, Snow Patrol, Dashboard Confessional, Cursive, Desaparecidos, Juliana Theory, Busdriver, The Ramones, Local H, Queen, Gorillaz, Chris Thomas King, Nickel Creek, Neil Young, Jimmy Eat World, Hendrix, Deep Blue Something, Oasis, Spill Canvas, Minus the Bear, Modest Mouse, Resolve, Tommy Johnson...

Movies:

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Superbad, The Karate Kid, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, 8 Crazy Nights, Waiting..., The Outsiders, Ordinary People, Paris, Texas, The Rundown, American Wedding, Mr. Baseball, I Am Legend, Major League, Big Fish, Say Anything, The Wizard, The Frisco Kid, the Ralph Macchio Crossroads, Akira Kurosawa movies, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, El Topo, Pan's Labyrinth, Donnie Darko, Kikujiro, The Good Girl, My Own Private Idaho, Die Hard trilogy, Drop Dead Fred, Goonies, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I & II, the old Star Wars movies, Vanilla Sky, both of the Bill and Ted movies, The Rescuers Down Under, It Happened One Night, Tron, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Sandlot, the first Land Before Time, To Hell and Back, Indiana Jones, The Princess Bride, Identity, The Neverending Story, Happy Gilmore, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, They Call Me Trinity, PCU, So I Married an Axe Murderer, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Hackers, Edward Scissor Hands, 28 Days Later, The Three Amigos, Legend, UHF, Hudson Hawk, Haggard, skate videos, This is Spinal Tap, One Crazy Summer, Better Off Dead, Bulletproof Monk, Constantine, Hellboy, The Breakfast Club, SLC Punk, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Van Wilder, Kissing a Fool, Grave of the Fireflies, Whatever it Takes, Can't Hardly Wait, The Burbs, Death to Smoochy, Big, Punch Drunk Love, Wayne's World, Enter the Dragon, Requiem for a Dream, The Fifth Element, Memento, Smoke Signals, The Last Samurai, St. Elmo's Fire, City by the Sea, Dog Day Afternoon, Empire Records, Intolerable Cruelty, Slackers, The Big Lebowski, The Truman Show, Mean Girls, Pale Rider, Brick, Airborne, Orange County, Just Friends, Cool Hand Luke, Super Troopers, Little Miss Sunshine, The Wicker Man, The Weatherman, Batman Begins, Transformers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jarhead. More as I remember them.

Television:

The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Futurama, Kids in the Hall and a couple more probably.

Books:

The Outsiders, Good Omens, House of Leaves, The Castle, Hearts in Atlantis, The Contortionist's Handbook, E. E. Cummings stuff, American Gods, The Great Gatsby, Speak, The Dark Tower series, How We Die, Lord of the Rings, Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction, Nine Stories, The Catcher in the Rye, The Glass Bead Game, Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, Pictor's Metamorphoses, Beneath the Wheel, Steppenwolf, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Rum Diary, Better than Sex, Choke, Invisible Monsters, The Stranger, The House on Mango Street, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, I Am Legend, Robert Frost poems and probably more.

Heroes:

Rodney Mullen . Fictional characters and John K. Samson.

My Blog

One foot in front of blah blah blah.

I went for a walk the way that I imagine you used to, back when you used to.  So I guess I don't really have to explain my state of mind.  Straight down the road, let the cars swerve if that...
Posted by John on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:08:00 PST

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Sometimes I think I see you walking down the street.  I'll be driving home from somewhere-I don't know, school, or the store-and there you are, just walking.  Face towards the ground, not pa...
Posted by John on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:40:00 PST

Derek knows what I'm talking about.

Sometimes I wish for zombie attacks.  Every time there's a power outage, I sit in my living room as the house grows hotter, imagining a horde of undead behind the lack of electricity.  Mobbi...
Posted by John on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:12:00 PST

San Francisco Marathon

I am in California again, this time with other people to go running.  I'd write a lot more about it, but at 5:40 in the morning, about to leave in something like 20 minutes, that really seems to ...
Posted by John on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:42:00 PST

The fact of the matter.

The people that actually know me and read any of my blogs are likely wondering why unlike some other journals, I haven't been writing anything more that just an account of what happened in my day, not...
Posted by John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Car accident at Warner and Dobson.

Seriously, maybe a half mile away from my house, and it's two thirty in the morning, I'm going North on Dobson, a fair distance from the light when the signal changes from red to green. There's two ca...
Posted by John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A brief return.

Chito is back, for a limited time only. Take advantage of this offer while it lasts! Me, him, Quihuis and Bedford went and had Peter Piper lunch buffet and I stayed home from school today, but I'm pre...
Posted by John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

How to rob graves for fun and profit.

Last night started off really slow, I talked to Jamie online, and she mentioned going to some cemetary, and she said to bring Megan, so I figured I'd go to the mall since she was working. I called De...
Posted by John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Today

Got a girl's number, decided to change my major to Journalism and Mass Communication, bought the Busdriver CD, went skating by myself. I'm out of practice at all of those things.
Posted by John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Wow.

Last night I dreamt that a man was thought to be a killer, because he woke some lady up in the middle of the night, telling her that someone was going to kill her, that someone was going to hunt her d...
Posted by John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST