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jon

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About Me

i'm 26. and i'm damn happy with life... (this used to say "23 and loving it..." but what was i loving honestly? no clue.) i'm a very proud father a beautiful baby boy, and he's pretty much consumed my life... almost 5 years ago, i was diagnosed with hodgkin's lymphoma, went through a whirlwind tour of chemotherapy, and i'm nothing but stronger for it. it's strange to find out just who DOES and DOESN'T care about you like they claim when you're faced with a life-threatening illness, ya know? for now, i WAS working as a tech for an automotive enthusiast company, got fired by lame ass fuckers, now i'm doing graphic design/ad work for the Plain Dealer, scratch that. left there. worked at SCENE magazine (clevescene.com) and doing some photography and design work on the side. i finished my degree at CSU, and one day, i'll get the megabucks job that will support my lust for fast cars... i probably don't disappoint when you see me in person like all these myspace model hooker wannabe's who use weird angles to make their 250lb. lard asses look like 110lb. skinny chicks with tig ole bitties. in general, i used to ride BMX quite a bit (and started that ish again, i missed the 2 wheeled kinda fun), until i got a car and focused everything i had into it... and then i sold it. and got another car... and it hasn't seen the light of day in months... damn perfectionist that i am won't let it be anything less than amazing when it rolls out with retina-searing yellow paint... i hope... and it did. then i blew the motor. again. so it's hibernating outside the shop, waiting for engine parts to come in, so it can burn tires into oblivion, hopefully before the end of summer or fall... and of course, now it's gone. again. to california. clothes... fun things... i'm a simple guy. i like laid back styles, very much a wearer of element & zoo york skate clothes and old school shoes... love it... if people watching were a profession, i'd be a multi-billionaire. i'd be sponsored, i'd be rocking the mercedes on double-deuces, i'd be on MTV Cribs... but since it's not, i'm an IT guy, making no money. but it's fun to be a fashion critic, what can i say...

My Interests

cars, music, combinations thereof... if it's fast, loud and low, i like it. i guess that doesn't just refer to cars anymore, does it? lifted/lowered trucks, hot rods, choppers, custom motorcycles, girls that like these things... long walks on the... yeah. i've got an insatiable curiousity for finding out how things work, learning new things, and gaining knowledge in areas that average people don't find important. i also love to argue, regardless of the point. i'm the most logical and argumentative person you'll ever find, and that's definitely a keypoint in knowing me and what i'm interested in. i'm the most factual dreamer there is...

I'd like to meet:

people interested in helping me get out of this hole of a city (or at least into some high-profile big dollar job so i can drive the ferrari i want)... a cunning linguist is always fun to talk to... and hell, a nice girl isn't too much to ask, is it? apparently it is, anymore, but hey... honesty can't be too much to ask... wait, that is too? dammit. wanna know more about this? ask.

Music:

lola ray, alice in chains, thrice, thursday, disown, audible thread, a tribe called quest, q-tip, jay z, the cult, taproot, nonpoint, tiger army, no use for a name, nofx, system of a down, hatebreed, puya, fu manchu, dj dangermouse, underoath, 12 gauge rage, snot, slipknot, coal chamber, fear factory, rob zombie, white zombie, soundgarden, stone temple pilots, velvet revolver, samiam, screaming trees, mos def, common, darude, sunna, deftones, pharcyde, ak 1200, freestylers, biohazard, factory 81, relative ash, downset, soul coughing, rah diggah, danny the wild child, lost prophets, orange 9mm, hed pe, gravity kills, krs one, digable planets, danny the wild child, atreyu, bad boy bill (richard humpty vission), sevendust, beastie boys, static-x, kanye west, knoc-turnal, krs one, mos def, alias x, tik tak, kc, dara, dieselboy, dj moose

Movies:

cannonball, monty python and the holy grail, the transporter, the last samurai, top gun, jackass, mischief, falling down, training day, the bone collector, hackers, fight club

Television:

viva la bam, monster garage, motorcycle mania 1-3, mythbusters, speed channel as a whole, aqua teen hunger force, dexter's labratory, home movies, johnny bravo, tom & jerry

Books:

gerald's game (steven king), insomnia (steven king), tuesday's with morrie, the alienist (caleb carr), 24 hours, sleep no more, (greg iles), da vinci code

Heroes:

lance armstrong, jesse james, billy lane, mat hotch, chip foose, troy trepanier, zach de la rocha, david usher

My Blog

If its not one thing&

It was March. I gave Dave the car to work on and do some custom body work. We were replacing the rear quarter panels on my bright yellow car. We were also trying to figure out which taillights to cu...
Posted by jon on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:04:00 PST

so you wanted to know about it...

this is the paper i've been working on, which seems appropriate to post now...since my 4 year anniversary is quickly approaching and i get my test results from my yearly CT scan tomorrow 3/20...keep i...
Posted by jon on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:49:00 PST

theft sucks.

Getting into your car and looking at the dashboard, you'd expect to see your radio, your CD player, whatever musical device you choose to use, you want it to be there when you get into your locked veh...
Posted by jon on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:54:00 PST

lower is just a state of mind...

Simply put, I'm disgusted. In myself, in my friends, in my choices& in the world as a whole. It can't get too much lower than where I'm sitting. And then it does. It always does& is that a surprise an...
Posted by jon on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:53:00 PST

the headline would be a shameless plug for crayola...

I'd rather be stabbing myself in the eye with a blunt object, working on a way to get past the shut lid, pushing hard with my crayon, hoping it pops the milky orb so I don't have to do this crap that ...
Posted by jon on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:02:00 PST

what's that smell?

If I had the chance to turn around and walk away from everything I'm doing right now and just leave, go to some other country, start my life all over, leave my debt, my healthcare, my personal issues,...
Posted by jon on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:57:00 PST

just one reason why...

i don't have a job now... why?for reasons like this one.this convo is about an email that was sent to my boss. asked him what he wanted me to do for icons. said to do them exactly like the previous on...
Posted by jon on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:15:00 PST

death of the DJ... can i take your order please?

"Who's spinning right now?" was the question I asked at a prominent Cleveland club on a busy night last fall. The answer, not surprisingly, came from someone who wasn't familiar with the DJ or the mu...
Posted by jon on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:32:00 PST

no one should be this calm...

when your truck gets towed. i was at the garage bar last night. parked in the westside market parking lot. there were at least 30 cars there. didn't notice the signs from the towing company. that was ...
Posted by jon on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:24:00 PST

when it's over...

who is left with more pain in the end? who has to deal with more of the emotional trauma? is it blunt, acute? are you left burning up inside wishing the end would come a little bit quicker than it the...
Posted by jon on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:46:00 PST