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Jhen / Gracie Killjoy

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine...

About Me

From the first Tinglerz gig ~ Rox, Las Vegas ~ June 6th, 2008 Who 's Your Inner Sexy Cartoon Chick ?
Tinkerbell
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Name: Jhen Kobran
Birthday: October 16th
Birthplace: New Jersey (note the "r" in "Jersey"... those of us Jerseyites who were taught how to speak properly actually pronounce it!)
Current Location: Las Vegas, baby!
Eye Color: Brown, under torquoise/sapphire lenses
Hair Color: Blue Black with flaming red and blonde bangs
Height: 5 feet, 5 1/2 inches (I didn't think I was that tall but my niece just measured me)
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Belarusian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian and Italian
The Shoes You Wore Today: Black, leather biker boots
Your Weakness: Pretty boys
Your Fears: Myself
Your Perfect Pizza: When my mother makes it: Chopped meat, mushrooms, peppers and onions. Otherwise: Anchovies and clams or meatball and bacon!!!
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: To get laid. Is that too much to ask? Really?
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: I don't use IM
Thoughts First Waking Up: "Holy shit I have to pee!" courtesy of Pig Vomit
Your Best Physical Feature: Brain (and hands ~ okay, DEFINITELY my hands)
Your Bedtime: Varies
Your Most Missed Memory: Childhood
Pepsi or Coke: Pepsi (especially the Diet Wild Cherry variety)
MacDonalds or Burger King: Carls, Jr.; Jack In The Box; Quiznos; and Buffalo Wild Wings
Single or Group Dates: Either
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Arizona Green Tea
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Dunkin' Donuts French Vanilla
Do you Smoke: Weed
Do you Swear: Constantly
Do you Sing: Badly
Do you Shower Daily: Yes.... who exactly is answering 'no' to this question?
Have you Been in Love: Once
Do you want to go to College: "Been there/done that"
Do you want to get Married: Yes
Do you belive in yourself: Yes. And isn't it spelled "believe"?
Do you get Motion Sickness: Only on the Mad Hatter's Tea Party ride at Disneyworld/land
Do you think you are Attractive: No
Are you a Health Freak: In spurts
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes
Do you play an Instrument: Bass, some guitar, some vocal stylings
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes
In the past month have you Smoked: Weed
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Yes
In the past month have you gone on a Date: No
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: No
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: They come in bags, not boxes and - since I'm a Hydrox devotee - no.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yes
In the past month have you been on Stage: Yes
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No
Ever been Drunk: Yes
Ever been called a Tease: No
Ever been Beaten up: No
Ever Shoplifted: No
How do you want to Die: Don't
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Tinkerbell
What country would you most like to Visit: Belarus, Italy, Greece... and I'd love to re-visit Switzerland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Belgium, Ireland and the UK!
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Blue
Favourite Hair Color: Black
Short or Long Hair: Short (but not TOO short)
Height: 5'10" - 6'
Weight: 160 lbs. - 200 lbs.
Best Clothing Style: Jeans, suits, rock, naked
Number of Drugs I have taken: Not sure - more than 1/2 a dozen
Number of CDs I own: 500+
Number of Piercings: 19
Number of Tattoos: 9
Number of things in my Past I Regret: NOT A GOD-DAMNED THING!
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My Interests

Music, playing bass, film, painting, writing, reading, cooking, 420, tattoos, piercings, and New York Jets football!!!

I'd like to meet:

Joe Namath, Patti Smith, Keith Richards, Tom Petty, Anna Tsuchiya, Nikki Sixx, the late George Carlin, Kurt Cobain, Theda Bara, Lord Laurence Olivier and Lady Vivien Leigh.

Music:

Roadsaw*, Queens of the Stone Age*, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Ween, Distillers, Eagles of Death Metal, Nirvana, Masters of Reality, (Jon Spencer) Blues Explosion, Iggy Pop, Mountain, ZZ Top, Foo Fighters, Amy Winehouse, 7 Year Bitch, David Bowie, Tom Petty, Janis Joplin, the Ramones, Nashville Pussy*, Slunt (duh!), The Police, Beck, Detroit Cobras, Social Distortion, Rolling Stones, Helmet, The Cars, the Doors, Zeke, Green Day, Eric Clapton (Cream, Blind Faith, Derek & the Dominoes, etc., too), CrackTorch*, Milligram, Scissorfight*, Sex Pistols, Nebula*, Billie Holiday, RL Burnside, Elton John, John Mellencamp, The Zico Chain, CCR, Bob Dylan, Wolfmother, Eagles, the Clash, Motorhead, Steve Miller, Tina Turner, the Moody Blues, Danzig (and Misfits, Samhain), the Melvins (the only concert that ever made me cry), Led Zeppelin, Queen, Guns n' Roses, ELO, Jimi Hendrix, and a bunch of other artists I'm totally spacing on right now but will most certainly include later!* = artists with whom I've played shows

Movies:

"Gone With The Wind", "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls", "Dazed & Confused", "Barfly", "Wuthering Heights" (the 1939 version with Laurence Olivier, but I'd love to check out the made-for-British TV version with Ian McShane or the later version with Timothy Dalton), Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" "Peter Pan" and "Beauty & Beast"; "Easy Rider", "A Chorus Line", "Loser", "American Psycho", "Foxes", "Times Square", most Tim Burton films (although I wish he didn't constantly subject his viewers to that no-talent, home-wrecking Helena Bonham Carter cooz), most Martin Scorcese films (including "The Last Waltz"), "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "American Beauty", anything with Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Angelina Jolie, Lord Laurence Olivier, Lady Vivien Leigh.

Television:

"All in the Family", "Deadwood", the entire "Law & Order" franchise (minus the mercifully-cancelled 'Trial By Jury' spin-off), "Roseanne", "Frasier", "Will & Grace", "House M.D.", "Quincy M.E.", "Unsolved Mysteries", "Good Times", "Maude", "Taxi", "American Justice", "A & E Biographies", "City Confidential", "Cold Case Files", "Forensic Files", "Investigative Reports", "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", "Family Guy", "Spongebob Squarepants", "The Fairly Oddparents" and "Monday Night Football"!!! Which Will and Grace Character Are You?
You're Karen Walker! You married for money, and you enjoy every extravagant moment of it. You love liquor and prescription pills, and make hilarious judgmental comments about your best friends. Keep it up!
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Books:

"The Heroin Diaries" by Nikki Sixx, "Women", "Ham On Rye", "Post Office", "Factotum", "Hollywood", "War All The Time" and anything else that Charles Bukowski wrote... "The Dirt" by Motley Crue... "FM" by Richard Neer... "Mansion on the Hill"... "Hammer of the Gods", "Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia", by Stephen Fried... "'Pagne & 'Caine", "Deviance, Parts I through LXIX" by me... (auto)biographies of figures of music, film and history... and "Gone With The Wind" by Margaret Mitchell

Heroes:

Joe Namath, Tim Catz, George Carlin, Ub Iwerks, Keith Richards, Tinkerbell, Karen Walker, Jessica Savitch, James Dean, Mimi-Diego, Plankton from Spongebob Squarepants, and my parents!Wow. This kid is a friggin' CHAMP! ;)

My Blog

Yes, I Quit The Tinglerz

Yes, I've parted ways with The Tinglerz. The lameness of the band name notwithstanding, I thought I could stick-it-out for the sake of Kei, a stellar front-person, great vocalist, amazing songwri...
Posted by Jhen / Gracie Killjoy on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:52:00 PST

For Mr. Carlin

"Life has become a lot less funny, the world has become a little bit colder, and ~ if there is a heaven ~ it just gained more genius than it deserves.May the company you currently share be laughing th...
Posted by Jhen / Gracie Killjoy on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:00:00 PST

Write-up in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on June 10th, 2008

SOUNDING OFF: Tinglerz bashing out garage rock ..  by Jason Bracelin   It's hot, and the neighbors are getting hotter. The band's pushing it hard in a small, stuffy garage barely 10 feet wi...
Posted by Jhen / Gracie Killjoy on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:27:00 PST

As 2007 winds down...

Okay, I'm finding myself looking at the calendar and - just like most everyone else - stressing a la holy-shit-is-Christmas-really-only-a-week-away? and - just like most everyone else - marveling a la...
Posted by Jhen / Gracie Killjoy on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:49:00 PST

Ah, the New Year's Resolutions

It's that time of year again, when I ~ like everyone else ~ delude myself into thinking there's some sort of 'clean slate' that goes along with changing the calendar on my wall and that my well-meanin...
Posted by Jhen / Gracie Killjoy on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:49:00 PST