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Jim

Too Often We Excuse Those Who Are Willing To Build Their Own Lives On The Shattered Dreams of Other

About Me

am low-key but driven....working on a bunch of films and listening to Record Albums again.... Analog has come back home...

My Interests

Into watching and often creating Super8 films. Big fan of underground film. have recently started working in digital film too but love the feel of editing film w/ my own two hands.

I'd like to meet:

want to correspond w/ filmmakers, Super8, 16mm, 35 mm and dv -- also audio engineers or folks that work in sound art.hell, let's just say interesting folks in general--

Music:

I play some BAD bass--( meaning, I'm not any good at all, but I don't care too much)big fan of indie rock, blues, old country, industrial, 60s southern soul, 70s funk, punk etc... Sleater Kinney, Bratmobile, Lambchop, Throbbing Gristle, Bacharach, Isley Brothers, Hendrix, Booker T and the MGs, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Dylan, Beatles, Stones, Byrds, Gang of 4, Interpol, Joy Division, Bikini Kill, Sonic Youth, Glen Campbell, Buck Owens, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Pistols, Clash, Bauhaus, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Jazz Messengers, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitz, Bobby Womack, Candi Staton, X, Cream, the Dead, Swans, Christian Death, the Bangs, Unwound, Can, Kraftwerk, Jayhawks, Matthew Sweet, Coltrane, Magnetic Fields, Beat Happening, Fugazi, Minutemen, Merle Haggard, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp - etc...

Movies:

love film---too many to list won't bore you like w/ the long list of music.one movie fetish: films from the late 60's-early 70s urban settings.... like "Bullitt"another one: docs on the 60s/early 70s..

Television:

Newer shows: The Wire, 30 Rock From the Past: Wild Wild West, Starsky & Hutch

Books:

books on punk rock, lots of biography (I always need to find out how people evolve over their lifetimes), tons of non-fiction books particulary on art 1862-present.all the literary theory I had to go through to get my english degree sucked the fun out of fiction for me - it's taking me years to slowly start enjoying it again...

Heroes:

Jane Jacobs, Irving Howe, MLK, Janet Weiss (from Sleater Kinney), My Dad, My Grandad, Johnny Cash, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, everyone who gave their lives for the Civil Rights movement and Fred Hampton artists that endure: Nan Goldin, William Eggleston people that follow their own paths are always admired too

My Blog

Myspace.com Blogs - Amy Goodman: Mickey Mouse wont try to vote - HUMANWINE MySpace Blog

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.... ...
Posted by Jim on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:24:00 PST

Recent Faves (and some quick opinions) in Music

the new Amanda Palmer and Jenny Lewis cds kill! am not ready to write too much about them right now cos both records are still in their "magical phase" for me-- I have to hear the interaction of the...
Posted by Jim on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:25:00 PST

great piece from the Daily Show - 2 faced pundits

truly brilliant....The Daily Show outdid itself the other night: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086 &title=sarah-palin-gender-card
Posted by Jim on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:13:00 PST

Isaac Hayes.... RIP

If you have never seen any live footage of the Man...check out the WattStax movie orThe Stax Story: Respect YourselfThe first time I ever heard his "Hot Buttered Soul" record - it blew me away.....hi...
Posted by Jim on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:03:00 PST

more ruminations on "hope"

The task of leadership, the first task of concerned people is not to condemn or castigate or deplore; it is to search out the reason for disillusionment and alienation, the rationale of protest and di...
Posted by Jim on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:40:00 PST

New myspace page for the label

myspace.com/vacumepakt   lots more stuff will be on the site soon, but you can always stop by to say Hi...   J...
Posted by Jim on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:16:00 PST

record label getting off the ground....

Darron Burke from MakeShift Studio started working on our label's myspace page.we'll be working on it over the coming weeks so check it out every so often:http://www.myspace.com/vacumepaktPeace Out,J...
Posted by Jim on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:07:00 PST

2008 will make or break us.....

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. (Sophocles)It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is sha...
Posted by Jim on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:36:00 PST

finding the center in the middle of a rain storm....

tai chi and deep breathing practice outside during a 2 front thunder and lightning storm, rain and hail pounding toxins out of your soul, electrical currents coming right up through the ground -into ...
Posted by Jim on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:29:00 PST