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Jeff

Prius is short for pretentious-me

About Me

And so it has been and so it is written
On the doorway to paradise
That those who falter and those who fall
Must pay the price!

I dig the Bengals, Sabres, watch UVa sports when I can.

I like villains better than heroes.

I'm annoyed by almost everyone

My Interests

The pursuit of the interesting in the world of the hackneyed

I'd like to meet:

Ernest Borgnine, Lea Salonga, Arn Anderson, the ghost of Shelby Foote, Steve Winwood, Paul Molitor, Summer Sanders, the horn section of Earth Wind & Fire and Chicago, Eddie Floyd, MaryAnn Salcedo, Sela Ward, Sam Moore, Eliza Dushku, Andre Braugher, Richard Russo, Paul Newman

Music:

Steve Winwood, Traffic, Public Enemy, the Negro Problem, Stew, Suzy Bogguss, Robert Cray, Stax/Volt, Motown, The Foundations, The Black Crowes, 3rd Bass, The Allman Brothers, Earth Wind & Fire, LTD, Chicago, Blind Faith, Norah Jones, Joe Cocker, The Beatles, Booker T &the MG's, Coleman Hawkins, Charles Mingus, The Who, Inxs, Lea Salonga, Rush, Sly and the Family Stone, Blondie, Delbert McClinton, Fiona Apple, Frederic Chopin, pretty much anything with a horn section

Movies:

The Wild Bunch, Duck Soup, Defending Your Life, Nobody's Fool

Television:

Homicide, The Shield, Deadwood, the Wire, Oz, poker, football, hockey, Arrested Development, UFC, the Ultimate Fighter, Professional Wrestling, but mostly old school NWA/WCW, not this crap, but I dig ECW and NWA:TNA

Books:

Lord of the Flies, anything by Richard Russo

Heroes:

Nipsey Russell, Ernest Borgnine, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, and Ric Flair

My Blog

Six Flags

some of you might remember a couple years back either here or my lj I posted something about Six Flags and how branding it as a Disneyland type experience would be an abject failure and how they shoul...
Posted by Jeff on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:01:00 PST

Virginia Football, Sabres Hockey

Yeah...my two viewings before hitting the road homewhile the Gator Bowl wasn't bad, it was a ball crushing defeat....but I'm trying to maintain a shred of positivity in that we have no Wide ReceiversS...
Posted by Jeff on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:02:00 PST

I’m starting to hate indy cinema

Richard KellyNoah BaumbachWes AndersonLittle Miss SunshineNapoleon DynamiteGarden Stateand now Juno...hated all the films
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:07:00 PST

mantras, affirmations and things left unsaid

I felt the need to counterbalanceI live in the past or worry about the future too often and don't enjoy the present.  I continually try and fight battles I either should have never fought, or can...
Posted by Jeff on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:04:00 PST

welcome back

so....I got back from a week in Jamaicamy roommate's fire alarm was set off by a loose screw or wire at 4 in the morning on my first night back....good times.  Thing's loudBillyhawk's not going t...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:22:00 PST

Semi-deconstruction in another art form

Steely Dan...Peg ...
Posted by Jeff on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:10:00 PST

Jamaica

It's supposed to rain while I'm there phenomenal
Posted by Jeff on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:10:00 PST

Fewer videos have made me laugh harder

than the one here http://gawker.com/news/notag/did-alec-baldwin-just-finally-w in-an-emmy-315536.php...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:12:00 PST

Hawkins podcast

http://radiofreehollywood.vox.com/library/post/affirmacast-8 ---moaklonnell-08.html Guest star: me...
Posted by Jeff on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:38:00 PST

An unpopular opinion (natch) on the Writers Strike

Here's the thing--this isn't about art, it's about commerce, and leave it to the "artistic" side to try to draw it up that way. I think both sides want money, and I find nothing wrong with that. ...
Posted by Jeff on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:49:00 PST