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jed the space pope

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About Me


see also http://www.tacomat.com/gil

My Interests

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO IN OUTER SPACE, BITCHES!

I'd like to meet:

the inventor of pie.

and

and

Music:

been a while and my previous music rundown was horribly out of date, so let's just go over the jams that have been in heavy ipod rotation for the past month or two and let the ranking sort itself out:

    spoon [ga ga ga ga ga] cloud cult [the meaning of 8] chromeo [fancy footwork] andrew bird [armchair apocrypha] sean hayes [flowering spade] sondre lerche [phantom punch] when [trippy happy]
and there's always the strong contenders for best album of all time:
    neutral milk hotel [in the aeroplane over the sea] smashing pumpkins [siamese dream] radiohead [ok computer] the stone roses [self-titled] love [forever changes]

Movies:

rashomon, rushmore, harvey, empire strikes back, magnolia, office space, memento, do the right thing, swingers, bottle rocket, etfuckingcetera

Television:

WONDER SHOWZEN, aqua teen hunger force, numb3rs, dinner for five, arrested development, the simpsons, lost, the loop, sons & daughters and many that have gone to that great tv listing in the sky.

Books:

SANDMAN, ender's game, the beach, time's arrow, grendel, another roadside attraction, I lucifer, mage (the hero discovered), the 33 1/3 series

Heroes:



My Blog

still in denial, but it's not looking good

curse you, mr. hurwitz.curse you, FOX.but most of all, curse you if you never watched and understood the genius that is this show. may your afterlife be plagued by endless reruns of 'full house' and '...
Posted by jed the space pope on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:15:00 PST

don't hold your breath

I don't update often. can never remember to do so and myspace is blocked from work when all my good timekilling skills are at their peak performance, so only the major events of my life get chronicled...
Posted by jed the space pope on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:33:00 PST

FOX, you've made a huge mistake

it seems to happen every couple years, but once again, one of the finest bits of programming to ever grace network TV is cut down in the prime of its existence. this time it's the fault of FOX, who ha...
Posted by jed the space pope on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 06:47:00 PST

onward, robot armies!

this is news to few inside my circle of friends and acquaintances, but harmonium is actually taking off. after largeheartedboy generously tipped their collective hat to us the other day we topped out...
Posted by jed the space pope on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:35:00 PST

the little site that could

so gather round all for a tale. a tale of excitement and woe. some online friends and I started a music site. perhaps you've heard of it. I think alec baldwin namechecked it on 'will and grace'. ...
Posted by jed the space pope on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:03:00 PST

going digital

well, in the course of our ongoing office remodel, we have decided to pack all my/our 900 CDs away in banker boxes, so over the course of a week and then some, my wife and I ripped every single one to...
Posted by jed the space pope on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:35:00 PST

tori amos? really?

so in a roundabout and odd fashion I found myself in possession of tickets to tori amos last night. yes, THAT tori amos. a large outdoor amphitheater show featuring an artist I haven't really consider...
Posted by jed the space pope on Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:25:00 PST

better than magnetic poetry

before you delete that SPAM from your e-inbox, scan it for the fine print at the bottom. there are some truly bizarre and vaguely poetic non sequiturs to be mined therein: **** dumb when she leaned ...
Posted by jed the space pope on Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:21:00 PST

I never, ever, EVER thought I'd say this

but the new backstreet boys video is one of the greatest things I've seen in a long time. seriously. pitch-perfect irony that is surely at the hands of the director, but it's the smartest they've prob...
Posted by jed the space pope on Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:22:00 PST

pdxpopnow friday night wrapup

fucking great show and great vibe. totally free, totally informal, ridiculously fun. the blow highlight of the evening. she is like a cross between chan marshall and beck. low on irony, high on self-...
Posted by jed the space pope on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST