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Jason Charles

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About Me


Notorious for misjudgements founded on my embarrassingly indestructible optimism.

My Interests

the romance, music!, reading, bed, roadtrips, central and eastern europe, the metro, eating, girls, spontaneity, planning, dachshunds, penguins, sunshine, trying to live beyond my means, my ipod, maps, postcards, photo albums, fluevog shoes, food, history of the cold war, cheap beer, bombay sapphire gin, vodka, the morning after

I'd like to meet:


a light that never goes out.

Music:

david bowie, brian eno, the smiths, morrissey, joy division, new order, wire, the fall, pulp, new york dolls, the cure, the long blondes, the national, the walkmen, the cardigans, t.rex, roxy music, tv on the radio, bauhaus, echo and the bunnymen, nick cave, the organ, the knife, kate bush, adjective, new wave, post punk, glam, the next big thing is just a band, et cetera.

my last.fm page

Movies:

oldboy, everything's gone green, good bye lenin!, das leben der anderen, annie hall, killing zoe, rushmore, the rules of attraction, lost in translation, velvet goldmine, downfall, my life without me, zoolander, ghost world, trainspotting

Books:

andrey kurkov, milan kundera, douglas coupland, gary shteyngart, farley mowat, marquis de sade, wladimir kaminer, bret easton ellis, haruki murakami

My Blog

laika

A little bit about Laika, the stray dog from Moscow that became the first living creature in space. My hero that suffered so much and died needlessly and is still floating above us somewhere. I t...
Posted by Jason Charles on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:39:00 PST

ceska republika

I got back to Prague from Dresden on Friday afternoon. Being the third time I arrived in Prague it was starting to feel strangely like home there. I walked down to the beer garden and immediately bump...
Posted by Jason Charles on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:19:00 PST

farewell, dresden

This past week I flew back to Belrin from Latvia for a day and then took a train down to Dresden. I stayed four days, a day longer than I expected. It ended up being the most relaxing time of my entir...
Posted by Jason Charles on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:13:00 PST

latvija

Latvia was really cool, and kinda crazy. Half the population in Riga speaks Russian. The first place I went when I got there was the Central Market, and it was fucking crazy. They say it has...
Posted by Jason Charles on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:29:00 PST

berlin

I got to Berlin early Monday evening and Simon met me there a few hours later. It was great to see a friend from home, and I had told Simon last year that we would meet up in Germany this spring. I wa...
Posted by Jason Charles on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:32:00 PST

polska

I just erased everything I wrote here because I don't understand German as well as this computer does, so I'll make this brief. Poland was really cool and more time there would have been great but I'm...
Posted by Jason Charles on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:27:00 PST

back in zizkov

Haven't posted an update in a while, so here we go. From Slovenia I went back to Budapest for a few more days. I got there around 11 pm and there were birds singing outside and it was nice and warm. S...
Posted by Jason Charles on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:37:00 PST

slovenija

Hey! Slovenia is such a beautiful country! The train ride from Budapest was about eight and a half hours and I even got to go through Croatia. Almost as soon as you cross the border into Slovenia from...
Posted by Jason Charles on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:23:00 PST

i love budapest

Just to let you know, my English hasnt deteriorated, I just cant find apostrophes, commas, and other things on this crazy Slovene keyboard.So, Budapest. I love it so much! I didnt decide I would be go...
Posted by Jason Charles on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:10:00 PST

bratislava

Bratislava was really weird. I got there by bus form Brno around dinner time and walked to the hostel. I checked my stuff and did some night time sightseeing. Mainly just Novy Most, which is the stran...
Posted by Jason Charles on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 01:17:00 PST