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John

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About Me

Ten times more bored than I ought to be. Recovering punk rocker embracing the power of unadulterated fancy noise power. Occasional spastic member of the Satanists In Love/Drunk Boy Records schism (http://drunkboy.cjb.net - No, the free CDs thing is not a joke.) I am an attractive brain in a jar. Black Irish with a half a jigger of Serb. Did I mention that if you go to clear channel shows, you are fucking your favorite independent club/non-asshole sellout musician in the mouth with a rusty screwdriver? Well, you are. Please stop. Now.I seem to spend a lot of my time these days wanting to beat the sweet fucking bejeezus out of a few individuals. When I don't feel like that, I feel like unicorns and care bears and kittens are dancing a jig in my brain on a rainbow made out of marzipan.also ngghghghghghghgghhhhh

My Interests

Destroying Clear Channel, drinking, drinking more. Apparently, also photoshopped pictures of animals. Who knew?

I'd like to meet:

People with fists full of their bloody hearts, insomniacs, neer-do-wells, the honest, the injured, the lame, the crippled, the brilliant, the unstoppable.Reinventors of the wheel. Those of us that understand how to live between the here and now, and the now and later.People who understand allusion and metaphor without me having to BEAT IT INTO THEIR HEADS WITH A STICK.

Music:

firewater, foetus, nurse with wound, refused, godspeed you black emperor!, current 93, nomeansno, magnetic fields, aesop rock, cop shoot cop, clouddead, sage francis, buck 65, latyrx, cursive, big black, fantomas, swans, tomahawk, the the, lovage, skeleton key, matmos, the mountain goats, mouse on mars, public enemy, the pogues, sleepytime gorilla museum, idiot flesh, faun fables, lightning bolt, soul coughing, devo, negativland, tom waits, wu tang clan, xiu xiu, satanists in love, headlopper, sir weeze, sparks, the presets, datarock, klaatu, popol vuh, kraftwerk, faust, strapping young lad, mclusky, the goddamn doo-wop band, maps of norway, the corpse show creeps, hank williams, the mills brothers, more later.Also, right now, brought to you, fueled by ugly puppy:

Movies:

Millers Crossing, Fight Club, Frankenhooker, City of Lost Children, Sin City, stuff and things...THX TO JON FOR THIS ONE: .. width="425" height="350" ..

Television:

Not a fucking chance.

Books:

McSweeney's, Infinite Jest, How the Dead Live, Rev X, Dobbslit, Chris Ware stuff, Finley Wren, Motherless Brooklyn, As I Lay Dying, Sula, Marabou Stork Nightmares, Pale Fire, Pale Fire, Pale Fire (it gets three spots), The Know-It-All, The Trouble With Tom, Haunted, Giraffes? Giraffes!, House of Leaves, whatever I'm writing at the time, whatever you're writing right now.

Heroes:

RIP. THIS MAKES ME SAD.

ALSO, THE MAN WHO INVENTED BACON.

My Blog

WHOOOOOOSH! KERPOW!

Well, this will be the last blog from me for a while, I'm afraid.  No, I'm not going into exile, or jail, although I can't entirely fault anyone for wondering if that was a possibility.  It ...
Posted by John on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:35:00 PST

Obligations and online quizzes.

Christ Almighty, it's a boring day.  I'm here doing online quizzes, for fuck's sake.  It's enough to numb the world around me, helping to dodge the constant stream of political crapola...
Posted by John on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:09:00 PST

Circle the MOTHERFUCKING WAGONS, for the love of all that is holy.

Well, for fucks sake.  It was snowing this morning when I woke up.  Harbingers of doom, however pretty and fluffy the widdle snowflakes might be, as far as I'm concerned.  I hate the wi...
Posted by John on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:06:00 PST

Spelunking and stairs that only lead up.

Blog blog blog.  bloggety blogetty blog.  Feh. Pardon the lack of excitement, I am in the recovery process from some sort of lethargic semi-ailment, possibly brought on by a lack of caffeine...
Posted by John on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:53:00 PST

NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO.

Well, in the sordid, awful, wrong, and terrifying world we all live in, I'm sure you will all be revolted to know that Dustin Diamond (yeah, that Screech guy) purportedly has a sex tape on the verge o...
Posted by John on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:57:00 PST

Zeros and ones, but mostly zeros.

Two blogs in one day?  What the hell is happening to me?  If I keep this up, I'm going to need a livejournal, and then everyone will stop talking to me.  Admittedly, when speaking about...
Posted by John on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:17:00 PST

Visitations and geography, construction and preservation.

Out of town visitors make me fall in love with this city all over again.  So many simple pleasures taken for granted, hot coffee and cold fall breezes punctuating sight-seeing adventures.  I...
Posted by John on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:12:00 PST

The sort of thing I write after buying a discount comforter and talking until my mouth hurts.

So let's hear it for simple pleasures, chinese food w/sriracha, TV on DVD, drinks, cigarettes, cards, conversation.  The undeniable geometry of pool, the cheap and easy nights of conversation, la...
Posted by John on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:36:00 PST

Surface tension (originally about my newfound love for playing pool, but it didn't turn out.)

Since I have already spewed forth my love for chemicals, extended metaphor, heartbreak, and self-indulgence, and due to the fact that there are several of you that seem to look forward to these scrawl...
Posted by John on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:25:00 PST

Rubbernecking

Hello you weak-willed animals, you saints and sinners, my friends and enemies and whoever else sifts through these regular reports from heart and home. News is flashing about us all, sirens blaring, s...
Posted by John on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:17:00 PST