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Jonpaul

I'm like a young Marvin in his hey.

About Me

Hippies will save the earth but who will save the hippies?

My Interests

sour gummy worms, mrbling.com, comic books, cats, russian distortion pedals, The number fifteen, fourteen and four busses, multnomah county library, hammond B-3 organs, Douglas Adams, masked rooftop vigilantes, fair trade bananas.

I'd like to meet:

Already met them.

Music:

Pixies. Dressy Bessy. The Breeders. , that dog., the Rentals, Del tha funky Homo Sapien, Ol' Dirty Bastard, White Stripes, Cars, Cake, Ben Folds, Joanna Newsom, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Beck, The Postal Service, CYHSY, Sufjan Stevens, Elastica, Flaming Lips, Le tigre, Modest Mouse, Sonic Youth, Pavement, The Apples In Stereo, The Shins, Wilco, The Muffs, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Matson Jones, Danger Doom, Supergrass, Del, Liam Howlett, Danger Mouse

Movies:

Sophia Coppala, Michael Gondry, Spike Jonze, Terry Gilliam, Cohen Brothers, John Hughes. Blade Runner. Tim Burton's Batman. Better off Dead. I've seen far more bad movies than good ones.

Television:

The Office. That's it. I'll also endorse anything with David Cross in it.

Books:

BOOKS: Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Phillip K. Dick, Aldous Huxley, William Gibson, Neil Gaiman, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, David Harvey, Aihwa Ong, Ian Fleming, George Orwell, Amitav Ghosh, Powers by Bendis and Oeming, Planetary by Ellis and Cassaday, Astonishing X-men by Joss Whedon and Cassaday, The Walking Dead by Kirkman, Blankets by Craig Thompson

Heroes:

Emulation is no substitution for individuality.

My Blog

New Song - Wait for a Better Moment

My friend Aaron is ambitious. He has a song-a-day project where he writes, records, and uploads a song-a-day.This is another song I did for that project. We were watching Terminator 3 on TV. Aaron had...
Posted by Jonpaul on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:51:00 PST

New Year's Song - Excited to see you

Happy New Year MySpace Tom!Here's my first song of '07, written mere hours into the new year.This song is about perception, and point of view. And broken love, of course.Excited to see you (but I'm no...
Posted by Jonpaul on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:59:00 PST

Huzzah, It's July the Eighteenth, Two-Thousand-and-Six!

The Senate approved embryonic stem cell research today 63-37 which could save countless lives. The vote comes 4 votes short of a veto override. One wonders why the president would go out of his way to...
Posted by Jonpaul on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:53:00 PST

Basho and Marie come to town - 2/6/06 part one

Happy Birthday Pkins!
Posted by Jonpaul on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 07:16:00 PST

Desayuno de Juahaca

This morning I came into work, and one of the nice ladies here offered me breakfast. A pinapple tamale . Well, I like the word tamale, and I love the word pinapple, so why not.And you know what? It wa...
Posted by Jonpaul on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:22:00 PST

Hot Dish and Bars

Moving last weekend. We spent Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and the evening of Monday packing, moving, and cleaning. Now everything's in. I've figured out the programmable thermostat. And I'm getting a wi...
Posted by Jonpaul on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:01:00 PST

3/5/06


Posted by Jonpaul on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:13:00 PST

Apiphobia

Last night, after coming home from the bar. The room is dark, and i want to check my email. I shake the mouse to wake the computer up and I am immediately shocked by the pain that it caused. Not e...
Posted by Jonpaul on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 07:26:00 PST

Bento...

Since yesterday's Falafel sandwich was a bit disappointing (thanks a lot vegetarian street cart on 5th) and yesterday's dinner was even MORE disappointing (due to a 10PM tee time on dinner and lack of...
Posted by Jonpaul on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:09:00 PST

Today

I spent so much time on the bus today, picking up a router, cables. Luckily I had a brand new copy of the Pixies at the Roseland to keep me company, along with the Ricky Gervais podcast of the week. O...
Posted by Jonpaul on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:53:00 PST