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(James)

Hanging out with the Dream King.

About Me

James encourages you to use www.ZenyattaMondatta.com as this MySpace page never gets looked at anymore.

James is opposed to violence, country music, and mustard. He encourages you to ask questions and think for yourself.

James is happily in love and married.

My Interests

Films, concerts, reading, socializing, music, traveling, game development, Gozer worship. You know, the usual.

I'd like to meet:

My perfect dinner party would include Melissa Axel, Gordon Sumner, Natalie Portman, Mahatma Gandhi, Laurie Anderson, Groucho Marx, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Joss Whedon, David Icke, M. Knight Shymalan, and the entire cast of Happy Days.

Music:

Healthily obsessed with the following: Sting and The Police, Tori Amos, Weird Al, TMBG, and Tangerine Dream. Also love Depeche Mode, Zero 7, Imogen Heap, Regina Spektor, XTC, Concrete Blonde, The Polyphonic Spree, Midnight Oil, Pink Floyd, Carter USM, The Clash, Pop Will Eat Itself, Devo, Madness, The Waterboys, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Ray Lynch, Enya, Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo, The Beatles, P.I.L., Erasure, Nine Inch Nails, 80s New Wave, movie scores, Jason Mraz, Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Scissor Sisters, Muse, Poe, Fiona Apple, Jellyfish, anything by Jon Brion, and other groovy things.

Movies:

Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Thief of Bagdad (1940), Brazil, Edward Scissorhands, Unbreakable, Nightmare Before Xmas, E.T., Pink Floyd's The Wall, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mr. Roberts, Magnolia, Spider-Man, Garden State, Spice World, Amelie, Basquiat, Arsenic and Old Lace, Shaun of the Dead, Marx Brothers, Lawrence of Arabia, Serenity, Braveheart, Silence of the Lambs, Love Actually, Notting Hill, My Neighbor Totoro, Pulp Fiction, Napolean Dynamite, "art house" cinema... much, much more.

Television:

Stop watching television. It's hurting your head and devastating the collective unconscious.

Books:

I like a lot of writers with "R" initials: J.R.R. Tolkien, Neil R. Gaiman, Stephen R. Donaldson, R.H. Stavis, and George R.R. Martin. I'm also a big fan of James Alan Gardner, Joe Haldeman, Glen Cook, David Icke, Douglas Adams, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Favorite books include Catch 22, 1984, Harry Potter, Daniel's Veil, High Fidelity, and my autographed copy of Sting's autobiography.

Heroes:

Groucho Marx, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gordon Sumner, Peter Parker, and the 2003 Marlins.

My Blog

Zenyatta Mondatta dot com.

www.ZenyattaMondatta.com is mine.  For the time being, it will forward here to my MySpace account until I find some time to host and play with it.  It might, in fact, be the coolest website ...
Posted by (James) on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:13:00 PST

Snuzzling

I did not get to sleep in this morning. I have been working far too many opening shifts, and it prevents me from one of my favorite past times. No, I don't mean sleeping, I mean snuzzling, which is a ...
Posted by (James) on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 05:49:00 PST

BREAKING NEWS: A Brief History of Time

A year ago, I was flown to Las Vegas for a work-related conference, even though I had already accepted an opportunity that would eventually relocate me from South Florida to Colorado. A month later, h...
Posted by (James) on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 03:28:00 PST

Cold Turkey

The first Sunday following Hurricane Wilma, I was home alone because Marti took off to Tampa for the weekend. I returned home from work to discover that every building in the apartment complex had ...
Posted by (James) on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:00:00 PST

Post Hurricane Depression

I have begun to notice many people are suffering from PHD, or Post Hurricane Depression, and I wanted to say a few things about it. First, I want to talk about how horrible the media coverage has bee...
Posted by (James) on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:32:00 PST

Five for silver and six for gold.

Marti convinced me to go out to Da Da's to celebrate my birthday tonight at midnight. Just before leaving, I announced, "Wait a moment, I want to take my first official pee as a 31-yr-old!" "Ahh yes,...
Posted by (James) on Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:21:00 PST

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore.

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. Ladies and gentlemen, I have seen brilliance, and its name is Network. The movie is a revelation. I've known about the famous "...
Posted by (James) on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:10:00 PST

Dogville

This is the sad tale of the township of Dogville. Dogville was in the Rocky Mountains in the US of A, up here where the road came to its definitive end, near the entrance to the old abandoned silver m...
Posted by (James) on Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:46:00 PST

All Mixed Up.

I am eating a bag of Trail Mix that I received in a care package at the conference a couple of weeks ago, and I find myself perplexed by its exact mixture. Specifically, I have this image of Lewis and...
Posted by (James) on Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:52:00 PST

The hare put him up to it.

As I was driving home the other night, driving up the access road that leads to my complex's back entrance, I noticed what appeared to be a soccerball-sized rock in the middle of the road. I decided i...
Posted by (James) on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:15:00 PST