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jon

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About Me

gratitude.

My Interests

people, performing, sailing, painting, hiking, east coast autumns, photography, camping, directing, reading, rainstorms, writing, playing, wine, theatre, listening to music, creation, making music, sunshine, laughter, film, snow days, new bars, same bars, adventure, life.

I'd like to meet:

the person i would most like to meet is the person i know that i am fully capable of being.maybe i would also like to meet people up for collaboration. still interested in starting a performance company dedicated to new work and the exploration of cross-discipline and inter-genre original material. music. dance, theatre, film, photography, spoken word, sculpture, visual mediums, movement, etc.some girl(S)

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Music:

Iron and Wine, Del Amitri, Stevie Wonder, Twilight Singers, Snow Patrol, The Fray, Damnwells, Elliott Smith, Morphine, Jeffrey Gaines, Dismemberment Plan, Placebo, Damien Rice, The Shins, Tom Waits, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, Toad, Jim Croce, Radiohead, Guster, Eva Cassidy, Live, Frank Sinatra, Aimee Mann, Coldplay, Jason Mraz, Ricky Nelson, Ani Defranco, Matt Nathanson, REM, O.A.R., Lowen and Navarro, Better than Ezra, Barenaked Ladies, Counting Crows, Fighting Gravity, Jeff Buckley, VH, and some other stuff

Movies:

Edward Scissorhands, High Fidelity, Beautiful Girls, The Elephant Man, Your Friends and Neighbors, Indiana Jones, Seeing Other People, Dead Poets Society, Hoosiers, Heathers, Dazed and Confused, Requiem For A Dream, Empire of the Sun, Love Actually, Garden State, Blade Runner, Red Dawn, Once, Children of a Lesser God, Platoon, Good Fellas, Donnie Brasco, A Very Long Engagement, Empire Records, Dangerous Liasons, Chocolat, Hope and Glory, Legends of the Fall, Eddie and the Cruisers, Quills, Tully, Sonny, Seven, Magnolia, Chasing Amy, Waiting for Guffman, Mighty Wind, Best in Show, Swing Kids, The Big Red One, Cradle Will Rock, Dirty Dozen, American History X, Bridge on the River Kwai, 8 Mile, 28 Days Later, Great Expectations, Superman and stuff that has come out since...

Television:

Six Feet Under

Books:

Prayer for Owen Meany, Shakespeare, Geek Love, Catcher in the Rye, Blindness, Seeing, Adrian Mole Diaries, Judith Thompson, Dharma Bums, To Kill a Mockingbird, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Wuthering Heights, On the Road, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Caine Mutiny, Great Expectations, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Into Thin Air, Into the Wild, The Shipping News

Heroes:

Joseph Merrick, Christopher Reeve, Kim Hoag

My Blog

patriot?

missed chances. wasted opportunities. cruel clear perspective of hindsight. scary shining light on america's dark sides. the casual and joking references to the hanging of homosexuals, the college ki...
Posted by jon on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:42:00 PST

off to Colorado

today i leave for Colorado Springs to help with the Alex Hoag Run for Sunshine, a fundraiser for the Proteus Syndrome Foundation. Proteus Syndrome is a rare condition that affects about 1 in a million...
Posted by jon on Fri, 11 May 2007 02:43:00 PST

I have Forgiven Jesus

Alright. I hate these questionaires but since this once was more left to chance and involved music, I figured I would indulge. But I posted it as a blog so those subjected to it had to seek it out.1...
Posted by jon on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:03:00 PST

60 days

i woke up this morning and realized it has been two months to the day that everything changed. it was two months ago today that she went through my cell phone. it was two months ago today that i beg...
Posted by jon on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:11:00 PST

live wisely

"you don't need therapy, it just enhances your life." so we have decided to cut back the number of sessions. am i cured? ha. no, but i was touched by the fact that my therapist told me that she is...
Posted by jon on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:47:00 PST

little people

i am constantly amazed by people and reminded that intelligence is no substitute for maturity.   ps.  "little people" has nothing to do with people of short stature.  that was pure...
Posted by jon on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:07:00 PST

used to be. (thanks, beth)

beth sent me this quote from one of her favorite authors.  "We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise t...
Posted by jon on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:55:00 PST

my therapist

"says not to see you no more.  she says you're like a disease without any cure."  Okay, no.  Those are lyrics to a song by James.  MY therapist, when i asked her at the end of the ...
Posted by jon on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:29:00 PST

truth

I have finally begun to come to terms with and accepted the fact that I have issues that need to be addressed. Issues that caused a cycle of behavior that has hurt many people that I deeply care abou...
Posted by jon on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:00:00 PST

Ich spreche Deutsch nicht

Aber was in Deutschland Aufenthalten in Deutschland geschieht
Posted by jon on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:36:00 PST