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Ffej

and we fail each time we meet

My Interests

Music:

In general:
Okkervil River, Jason Molina, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Mountain Goats, Elliott Smith, The Decemberists, Jeff Buckley, Kings of Convenience, and a thousand others.
Recently:

Movies:

Chasing Amy, Waking Life, The Rules of Attraction, American Beauty, Citizen Kane, Edward Scissorhands, The Royal Tenenbaums, Closer, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Princess Bride, Garden State, Before Sunrise, Brick, Reality Bites...

Television:



Books:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence, Brett Easton Ellis, Kurt Vonnegut, Candide, Catch 22, Johnathan Franzen, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Italo Calvino, The Preacher comic books by Garth Ennis, On the Road, Plato, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Secret History, Nietzsche, Thomas Hardy, and plenty more.

Heroes:



My Blog

Another About Me

Though everyone seems to love the 'The only people for me are the mad ones&' passage from On the Road, I've always preferred the line about the pain that stabbed his heart every time a woman he loved ...
Posted by Ffej on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:35:00 PST

Regarding My December 21 2007 Blog

I want to thank everyone who offered suggestions (or proposals) on my blog from 12/21/07 and would like to offer an apology to anyone who relied on my promise to propose marriage by the 11th of this m...
Posted by Ffej on Thu, 29 May 2008 01:45:00 PST

What I really want out of life...

I have been waiting--nay YEARNING--for this to be available since the Digital Video Disc was invented in 2001:http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/visual_audioLoan checks come out tomorrow (if your n...
Posted by Ffej on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:18:00 PST

2007 in books

I'm almost embarrassed to do this for this year, but here is the (sadly short) list of books I've read in 2007. You'll notice, as I just have, that this is the first year in recent memory that I have ...
Posted by Ffej on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:52:00 PST

Marry Jeff off in 2008!

Well, since old-age is fast approaching, I think it's time to start thinking about settling down. I know what you're saying, 'But Jeff, a handsome and charming young man like you could continue to pla...
Posted by Ffej on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:38:00 PST

Meaningless blog entry

Truth is, I'm in a good place lately. I'm not doing the things I'm supposed to, not in any sense of it, but I'm getting more work done than I did last semester and I'm reading more and I'm more comfor...
Posted by Ffej on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:26:00 PST

turtles and mr2s

I have two new best friends. Their names are Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes Junior and Arthur Schopenhauer. They are turtles. If you used to have best friend status, I am sorry, but you have been repla...
Posted by Ffej on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:49:00 PST

more about me

I run more now. I might be the most insecure person you know. I want people to think I don't care what people think, but I care a great deal about whether or not they think this. I tell people things ...
Posted by Ffej on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:26:00 PST

Favorites

Here are a few of my favorite lines from a few movies, you know, in case you were interested:The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou"What happened to Jacquline?""She didn't really love me."Lucky Slevin""I...
Posted by Ffej on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:45:00 PST

my novel

I'm writing a novel. It's an important literary novel, the kind critics talk about whether it sells or not. The kind that's pretty likely not to, even though it has a chance of being an honest to god ...
Posted by Ffej on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:08:00 PST