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Jon

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About Me

I am an upright bipedal, bilaterally symmetrical, four-limbed, endoskeletal, pentadactyl, binocular and binaural chordate. I handily defeat conventional wisdom and preconceived notions.Everything is a bit stupid, but bits of stupidity are everything.The fire is brilliant tonight, the sky crawling pink over the watery edge.I would like you and your lack of judgement to meet with me for a crow-barring of our skulls, minds opening to the new possibilites of transcending humanity.Wow. That's an eloborate way to demand a hug.

My Interests

Music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, reading, writing... and almost everything else.

I'd like to meet:

You, specifically. All are invited, but please, check your whatever at the whatever.

Music:

(New favorites in bold face) Animal Collective, Battle, Boards of Canada, Radiohead, Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band, Mister Bungle, Sigur Ros, Tool, Super Furry Animals, The Flaming Lips, The Stones, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Beastie Boys, KRS One, Mark Mothersbaugh/Devo, M83, Beck, David Bowie, The Wu-Tang Clan, Aphex Twin, 8-Bit Weapon, The Avalanches, The Bad Plus, PJ Harvey, Bob Dylan, The Boredoms, Deadbolt, Depeche Mode, Devo, DJ Danger Mouse, DJ Shadow, The Dust Brothers, Fiona Apple, The Gipsy Kings, Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Zorn, Live, Lyrics Born, The Mars Volta, Massive Attack, Neu!, Nirvana, Puscifer, Nobuo Uematsu, Rage Against the Machine, Secret Chiefs 3, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Sonic Boom & Spectrum, Television, Tom Waits, Ween, The White Stripes, Wilco. This is a Partial List. Far too many to recall off hand.

Movies:



(Current Picks): Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The Big Lebowski. Eraserhead. Office Space. Too many to list.

Television:

Discovery HD.

Books:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson). Roald Dahl, Shel Silverstein, William S. Burroughs, etc...

Heroes:

Anyone who fights tirelessly for an altruistic cause, expecting no fame or recognition in return.

My Blog

The rumors of my demise

have been greatly exaggerated.Thank you all for your kind emails, comments, voicemail and text messages... I'm feeling quite a bit better today, and should be completely back up to speed by Monday.For...
Posted by Jon on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:26:00 PST

If.

Ifby Rudyard KiplingIf you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt youBut make allowance for their doubting too,If you...
Posted by Jon on Sun, 13 May 2007 12:44:00 PST

loyalty in the land of friend ADHD

they're dropping like flies.we keep conforming and assimilating, morphing to fit the round holes.they always seem amused, interested, then delighted to know you, in that order.then, without warning, t...
Posted by Jon on Tue, 08 May 2007 10:11:00 PST

KILLING IN THE NAME OF.

"A good friend of ours said that if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazi's after World War II, then every single one of 'em, every last rich white one of 'em from ...
Posted by Jon on Sun, 06 May 2007 06:01:00 PST

battles

Artist: BattlesAlbum: MirroredI'm pretty excited about these guys... I love math rock as much as the next guy (primer on math rock if you've no clue what I'm talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Posted by Jon on Sun, 06 May 2007 04:17:00 PST

10 myths -- and 10 mruths -- about atheism

By Sam Harris, SAM HARRIS is the author of "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason" and "Letter to a Christian Nation." December 24, 2006SEVERAL POLLS indicate that the term "a...
Posted by Jon on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:28:00 PST

Fear is your only god (Thank you John!)

These guys, as Evan so astutely said, are my new heroes.Please watch:http://wbztv.com/video/[email protected]...
Posted by Jon on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:12:00 PST

strange breeze

"...Each morning of my life I have awakened to the singing of birds. Now only silence greets the day. Perhaps it is instinct, call it what you will, but they -sense- something, something evil. A stran...
Posted by Jon on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:08:00 PST

An attempt at an opus for electronic music.

If you know me well, you know that I love music in most of its forms, but there's a warm, dark, special little place deep in there for anything electronic... perhaps it's the innovation possible with ...
Posted by Jon on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:24:00 PST

Hell is chrome

Have this looping at work today... if you've never heard Wilco, I highly recommend them...Hell is ChromeWhen the devil came He was not red He was chrome, and he said Come with me We must go So I went ...
Posted by Jon on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:51:00 PST