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jacob

'He broke his neck one night playing in some metal, so I finished him off with a sledgehammer.'

About Me

I go to Berea College where I am a music major. I play percussion as often as I can. I listen to a lot of music and I watch a lot of movies. I have a small group of close friends and a slightly larger group of acquaintances. I ride my bicycle everywhere I go. I try to do yoga as often as I can. Life is busy, but good.

My Interests

Music, movies, art, tea, coffee, books,bicycles and music.

I'd like to meet:

Musicians and cool people, other audiophiles, and people who are into vinyl.

Music:

The Mars Volta, Tool, Fela Kuti, Chick Corea, Mahler, Tenacious D, Incubus, The Black Heart Procession, Led Zeppelin, Coheed and Cambria, Beck, The Roots, The White Stripes, Bjork, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, King Crimson, Yes, The Fucking Am, Golden, At the Drive-In, Don Caballero, Jaga Jazzist, Drums and Tuba, Frank Zappa, Mastodon, The Police, The Philadelphia Experiment, The Flaming Lips, Public Image Limited, Prince, Primus, Euphone, The Suicide Machines, Nirvana, Refused, Gentle Giant, Wilco, Radio Vago, Rush, CCR, Venetian Snares, Tom Waits, The Velvet Underground, Scottish Pipe Band Music, and whatever else happens to catch my interest on any particular day.

Movies:

Requiem for a Dream, The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, Pi, Hero, The Graduate, anything by Monty Python, Apocalypse Now, Orgazmo, Sin City, True Romance, I Heart Huckabees, Clerks, Mallrats, Boogie Nights, American Splendor, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Un Chien Andalou, L'Age D'Or, The Extermination Angel, Fitzcarraldo, O Brother Where Art Thou?, the El Mariachi trilogy, Coffee and Cigarettes, Being John Malkovich, Easyrider, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, and A Clockwork Orange.

Television:

I haven't watched tv since i've been in college, but i used to watch comedy central and adult swim.

Books:

Timequake, Slaughterhouse Five, Naked Lunch, Junky, The Old Man and the Sea, Cat's Cradle, The Search, The Garden of Eden, Breakfast of Champions, Choke, Fight Club, Survivor, The Great Gatsby, The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Heart of Darkness, The Teachings of Don Juan, and Une Semaine de Bonte.

Heroes:

David Lynch, and all the other great filmmakers, Joseph Conrad, Fela Kuti and all the other musicians who have inspired me.

My Blog

for those of you keeping up with me

i went to the doc today and good news! no pin! no cast! he said my elbow is healing well and the splint should be enough. in a couple of weeks i'll be able to start moving it again and then i can begi...
Posted by jacob on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:17:00 PST

oh how things change in an instant

i decided to go out for a ride yesterdsay. i took my bags off and my bike felt light and a little unwieldy. i rode around for a couple of hours to get my legs back sand when i was on my way home every...
Posted by jacob on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:49:00 PST

700 or so miles later Im sitting on my ass in Paris

So I just returned from my adventures "out west" to the Mississippi River and back. I rode my Windsor 12 speed with some army bags as panniers and a hammock and poncho and not much else. I started ...
Posted by jacob on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:29:00 PST

Failure/Victory

So I set out on my bicycle this morning around 10:30 for Lexington in the bitter, wet cold. It was really pouring down rain, but with the cold temperature (you know how April is) and my ill equippe...
Posted by jacob on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:43:00 PST

Im going to Africa

So, in case you didn't know, I'm leaving for Ghana in about 5 hours. I will driving to Louisville, flying to Chicago, flying to DC, waiting 10 hours, flying to London, then flying directly south to A...
Posted by jacob on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:46:00 PST

and you may ask yourself, "How did I get here?"

Talking Heads-Remain in LightIf you have not heard of the Talking Heads or this album then please do yourself a favor and check it out. I am certain that most of you have heard "Once in a Lifetime" b...
Posted by jacob on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:36:00 PST

Good Journeys

The trip was a success. Ended up just over 80 miles, but past the first 20 or 30 I hardly even notice. Got out a little later than I planned; I had to stretch when I woke up at 7 to the best wake up...
Posted by jacob on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:45:00 PST

Bike Thievery

Today has been rough. I had to go get my inoculations for my trip to Ghana, and I almost passed out. I was fine for the first two, but that third one hit all weird and the room got real hot and sudd...
Posted by jacob on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:28:00 PST

"It looks like Taco Bell from here on out "or "Bicycle Discrimination AKA Boycott McDonalds"

After a long day of bike riding from here to there and having only eating the Food Service on the Pinnacle, I climbed on my bicycle one more time in a quest for food. Last night I got a sweet tea fro...
Posted by jacob on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:04:00 PST

Swimming with Magic Mermaid in the Great Infinite Void

Have you ever been in the middle of something that is so big that you feel completely surrounded....almost a little helpless, until you realize that if you give in to its power than it wont hurt you. ...
Posted by jacob on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:12:00 PST