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Jamie Engber

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About Me


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TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Jamie
Birthday: August 18th
Birthplace: Madison, WI
Current Location: Los Angeles (Silver Lake), CA
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'7"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: German, Irish, Romanian
The Shoes You Wore Today: Maroon Converse
Your Weakness: I eat a lot of chips.
Your Fears: hmmmm....
Your Perfect Pizza: Nicky D's in Silver Lake
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Many.
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: dunno
Thoughts First Waking Up: Gotta feed the cat...
Your Best Physical Feature: My Hairline
Your Bedtime: Midnight
Your Most Missed Memory: Naptime
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: Arby's
Single or Group Dates:
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: NEVER.
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee
Do you Smoke: No
Do you Swear: Yes
Do you Sing: yeah
Do you Shower Daily: Yes
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: Again? No.
Do you want to get Married: Sure
Do you belive in yourself: Yes
Do you get Motion Sickness: No
Do you think you are Attractive: I suppose
Are you a Health Freak: I work out
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes; but they are few and far between here in LA
Do you play an Instrument: No
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes
In the past month have you Smoked: No
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yes
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yes
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yes; Lunch today
In the past month have you been on Stage: Yes
In the past month have you been Dumped: Nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No
Ever been Drunk: Yes
Ever been called a Tease: Sure
Ever been Beaten up: No (Amazingly)
Ever Shoplifted: No
How do you want to Die: A long time from now...
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: A Pretender
What country would you most like to Visit: Would like to visit Europe again soon...
In a Boy/Girl..
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Best Clothing Style: Jeans & T-Shirt
Number of Drugs I have taken:
Number of CDs I own: 18,324 songs on itunes.
Number of Piercings: 0
Number of Tattoos: 0
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Some...

My Interests

Pretending, Softball, Ultimate Frisbee, My Friends, Wisconsin Beer, Free Food, Wisconsin Sports, Hearing new music, Meeting new people, Not driving in LA, Low stakes Poker with friends... my cat, Gilbert.

I'd like to meet:

My Flickr Page! I kinda like Facebook better.

Music:

Talking Heads, Robert Cray, The Band, David Bowie, Byrne, Elvis Presley, Costello, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Ben Folds, Hank Williams Sr., Super XX Man, Fleetwood Mac, Sunny Weather, Komeda, Le Tigre, Hometown Sweethearts, Devotchka, Clap Your Hands, The Spinto Band, Rilo Kiley, Oliver Future, The Nylons, Warren Zevon

Movies:

Stop Making Sense, The Game, Lost in Translation, What About Bob?, Guffman, Planes Trains, Fletch, Sneakers, The Big Lebowski, The Dirty Dozen, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, Tootsie, American Movie, Sideways, Adaptation, Silver Streak, Young Frankenstein, Rosemary's Baby, Hedwig, Free to Be... You and Me, 7 Men From Now, The Last Waltz

Television:

The Office (UK), Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Wisconsin Sports, Letterman, Arrested Development, Da Ali G Show, Mr. Show, Northern Exposure, The French Chef, California's Gold with Huell Howser, Rome, Morse Mysteries, Inspector Lynley Mysteries

Books:

Joe Orton, Yoshi Oida, Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron, Shakespeare, Robert Cohen, Miguel Ruiz, Rick Steves, Malcolm Gladwell, Dave Barry, Plays, Cookbooks

Heroes:

Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Paul Newman, David Byrne

My Blog

i had a splendid weekend; as usual lately.

things i did: A.  laundry B.  dishes C.  spent an evening of madness at tin horn flats in burbank. D.  watched the green bay packers win their football game against philly. E. ...
Posted by Jamie Engber on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:45:00 PST

Jamie vs. the Giant Horse

so, i had a callback the other day for a verizon commercial.  its a spot where a guy has to ride a horse.  ive ridden horses before; but when i got there they said that we had to ride bare...
Posted by Jamie Engber on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:10:00 PST

The la heat.

has anyone else noticed the fact that it's been like 95 degrees all week?  you probably did; because it really is the talk of the town.  seriously, every single person i talk to; that's all ...
Posted by Jamie Engber on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:17:00 PST

i almost broke the dresden.

i went to see my friends jared and duck play music last night at tangier.  they sounded great.  after the show we all went over to the dresden room, where i got beat in arm wrestling by a be...
Posted by Jamie Engber on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:18:00 PST

flickr and other random thoughts...

so, i have decided to take the plunge and join up on flickr.  i even got a pro account, so i can upload more than three pictures a month.  i am planning on uploading a bunch of digital pics ...
Posted by Jamie Engber on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:02:00 PST

Birthday drinks...

thank you to everyone who came out for birthday drinks last night at 4100 bar.  it was super fun.  it was great to see so many great people in one place.  if only everyone could move in...
Posted by Jamie Engber on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:44:00 PST

Random thoughts...

i bought a new pair of maroon converse on ebay last week.  i almost bought a pair a a store down the street; but the ones on the internet looked more old school or something, so i bought them wit...
Posted by Jamie Engber on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:40:00 PST