Mos Jef - ProfilesArchive

About Me

You can see some of my design/illustration stuff here.
This profile is pretty much dead. I check messages when people send them to me, but that's about it. I've switched over to Virb for most everything else.

My Interests

Being aloof and scaring people.

I'd like to meet:

People with misplaced aggression and parent issues.

Music:

Local color...
Lone Official
Nora Deniro
Cortney Tidwell
The Mattoid
The Privates
Wizard Fist
Night Plans
Recent diversions...
Sloan
The Kinks
Sonic Youth
Joy Division
TV on the Radio
Refused
Liars
Deerhoof
Xiu Xiu
Calexico
The Clash
The Rapture
Scene Creamers
Justin Timberlake
The Hold Steady
The Thermals
Neko Case
Animal Collective
Elvis Costello
My Barbarian
Funkadelic
Wolf Parade
Interpol
Modest Mouse
Buzzcocks
De La Soul
Brian Wilson / Beach Boys
The Futureheads
Incredibad
Black Mountain
New Pornographers
Guitar Wolf
Gang of Four
Les Savy Fav
Boards of Canada
Johnny Cash
Arcade Fire
Drive Like Jehu
Fela Kuti
Wire
Caribou/Manitoba
!!!
Text
Slint
90 Day Men
Belle & Sebastian
The Beta Band
Ted Leo
Sufjan Stevens
Cush
His Name is Alive
Elliott Smith
Broken Social Scene
Rocket From the Crypt
Lassie Foundation
Sleater-Kinney
Jeff Buckley
Lightning Bolt
DJ Shadow
Squarepusher
Deathray
Text
Blur
Low
Jimmy Smith
The Unicorns
Sly and the Family Stone
The Wrens
Devendra Banhart
Adam Again
The Prayer Chain
Medeski Martin and Wood
My Morning Jacket
Neutral Milk Hotel
Outkast
Pavement
all kinds of other crap.

Movies:

Stanley Kubrick, Michael Mann when he's not doing biopics

Television:

Veronica Mars, Doctor Who, Adult Swim, The Wire, Battlestar Galactica. For comedy I watch Fox News.

Books:

Marshall McLuhan, Neal Stephenson, Chuck Palahniuk, Octavio Paz, Carolyn Forche, Sharon Olds, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Carl Sandburg, Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Craig Thompson, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Ralph Ellison, Daniel Clowes, Katsuhiro Otomo, Masamune Shirow, etc.

Heroes:

Will Eisner, Stefan Sagmeister, and whatever person/disease that kills Carlos Santana.

My Blog

Tax your ass

It's that time again... Sharon Jones and Dap-Kings time. I'm going to see them yet again tomorrow night. I'm pretty sure this is going to be the time I get pulled up on stage to dance with the lady he...
Posted by Mos Jef on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:25:00 PST

No headline will do justice

I'm sure everyone has heard by now that Dicky Cheney has shot a man. With a shotgun. I would say "in cold blood" but that would imply he has anything but oil running through his veins. Yes, I know it ...
Posted by Mos Jef on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:08:00 PST

Clap your hands, laugh at people

At the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show last week, my sister and I had to stand in line outside the place before they started letting people in. I got to hear a few pretty funny things while waiting. The...
Posted by Mos Jef on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:14:00 PST

UGHN

So yeah... Sharon Jones + Dap Kings. Completely off the hook, yet again. Give yourself a rugburn on your face if you missed it.
Posted by Mos Jef on Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:04:00 PST

Freezer burn

I'm just going to keep going down the predictable path of posting other people's funny shit so I can get a contact comedy high. Again, more good stuff from the Insound Clips newsletter, which is consi...
Posted by Mos Jef on Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:47:00 PST

I'm so sorry.

Look, I want you guys to trust me on this one. I swear this is real. This link I'm going to post in a sec is a true-blue, real-deal message a wrong number left on my cell phone a few weeks back.Enjoy....
Posted by Mos Jef on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Donna Summertime

This booze list is from the Insound Clips newsletter, which may be the only decent spam I get. The viagra haikus are pretty rad, though. Anyway, enjoy... It's summer time. That means drinking time....
Posted by Mos Jef on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Believe the hype

I, um, procured the new record by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. This stuff is stupid good. It makes me want to stay up all night and listen to it on repeat until I'm delirious and seeing monsters, and the...
Posted by Mos Jef on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Engage the rage

Every time I read the horribly awkward and shitty All The Rage tell me about what is going to be the thing to do and see this week, I think of this old Diesel Sweeties comic.(I can say stuff like this...
Posted by Mos Jef on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Fack you man

This Swearsaurus thing is about as cool as the internet will get today."How to insult, swear, cuss, and curse in 165 languages! Swearsaurus is the world's largest resource of multilingual swearing....
Posted by Mos Jef on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST