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jedimiah

what if everything around you//isn't quite what it seems//what if all the world you think you know//

About Me

if you're on my friends list, then chances are good that you already know more about me than you could ever want to know.

My Interests

carnal knowledge, metaphysics, strippers, cryptozoology, alcohol, hiking, rock climbing, white water rafting, air guitar (cuz i suck at real guitar), people-watching, hunting, fishing, trying (and failing) to write kick-ass world changing songs, trying (and failing) to write the next great american novel (well, to write anything, great or otherwise), trying (and, you guessed it, failing) to produce artwork that makes people orgasm with its awesomeness, meeting people who don't mind hanging around me, video games, dominos, and fart jokes

I'd like to meet:

H. P. Lovecraft, David Hasselhoff, Henry Rollins, Stephen King, Emily Boufante, the guy who invented canned air, John Pinette, Mitch Fatel, Jeremy Hotz, Clive Barker, Edgar Allen Poe, Jack the Ripper, John Lennon, Paris Hilton, Deepak Chopra, Doctor Steel, chicks who think i'm cool, and the little girl from "Small Wonder"....and maybe a dinosaur

Music:

tool, APC, pink flloyd, megadeath, metallica, flogging molly, supertramp, primus, buck owens, amon amarth, apocalyptica, willie nelson, the london philharmonic, audioslave, faith no more, system of a down, spinal tap, cradle of filth, alchemist, second coming, NIN, thin lizzy, zero tolerance, spanish castles, amorphis, rammstein, oingo boingo, KOrN, the 69 eyes, the bloodhound gang, soundgarden, type o negative, ghoul, rush, muse, three dog night, beatallica, tom petty, priestess, nerf herder, poe, neil diamond, killswitch engage, "weird" al yankovic, the raveonettes, anthrax, and rick astley.

Movies:

ginger snaps (and the sequels wuz pretty shnazzy, too), pervirella, revenge of the nerds, donnie darko, the reanimator, the stoned age, shoot 'em up, brick, dead alive, jesus christ: vampire hunter, gigli, kung pow: enter the fist, red dawn, roadhouse, the howling series, evil dead trilogy (anything with bruce campbell, really), class of nuke 'em high, class of 1999, this is spinal tap, highway to hell, rear window, the kentucky fried movie, B.J. Muff'n'Stuff, cradle of fear, enemy at the gates, texas chainsaw massacre 1 & 2, dead alive, star wars (yeah, the prequels, too), alice in wonderland, fantasia, godzilla: destroy all monsters, kazaam, sante sangre, overdrawn at the memory bank, harvey, dog soldiers, session 9, office space, plan 9 from outer space, the specials, edward scissorhands, edward penishands, caddyshack, almost heroes, summer school, ski school, brain smasher, hollywood hottubs, california hot wax, clerks, brotherhood of the wolf, blood: the last vampire, akira, raising arizona, vanishing point, return of the living dead 1 & 3, zombi, the beyond (not 'from beyond', that movie sucked), from dusk 'til dawn, animal house, true romance, any of the monty python movies, hot fuzz, 30 days of night, ghost in the shell...more to come soon, i'm sure.

Television:

family guy, G.I.T.S.:S.A.C., reaper, robot chicken, scrubs (don't laugh, it's good), the discovery channel.

Books:

neverwhere, what evolution is, the golden ratio, neuromancer, burning chrome, mona lisa overdrive, count zero, altered carbon, broken angels, woken furies, market forces, cabal, the adventures of Han Solo, Are you there God? It's me DuffMan, darkly dreaming dexter, IT, the inhuman condition, in the flesh, snowcrash, the wildlife of star wars, pulp scifi and fantasy novels, stuff that makes me look smart or enigmatic when people see me reading it, and comic books (spiderman, new universal, runaways, empty zone, preacher, shit like that)

Heroes:

"my heroes had the heart to live the life i want to live" - Gnarls Barkley. ergo: Luke Skywalker, Voltaire, Dr. Steel, Jack Black, Spiderman, the ninja turtles, Cliff Burton, Ron Jeremy, the Marquis de Sade, Bill Hicks, Mitch Hedburg, Captain Morgan, Eddie Izzard, and John Stewart.

My Blog

wha’choo readin’ for?!

   first order of business:  yesterday, i finished re-reading my second favorite book of all time, Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson.  i am not eloquent or coherent enough to describe t...
Posted by jedimiah on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:41:00 PST

i don’t even know any more...

  haven't posted one of these in a while...this is mainly just a test to see if anyone still logs onto myspace to do anything more than just tagging each other in photos (which i hate, 'cause i a...
Posted by jedimiah on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:12:00 PST

just fly casual...

   picture yourself standing in line at any retail establishment.  the cashier is an attractive member of whatever sex appeals to you.  you are next in line.  s...
Posted by jedimiah on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:47:00 PST

def jam poetry slam

i am a quite simple, easy-to-please dudewith wants, quite a lot, but needs, just a fewlike my books, smokes, and booze, and a smidgen of foodbut most important of all, a nice set of boobs please, i be...
Posted by jedimiah on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:27:00 PST

on ’letting go’ and other such fantasies...

  so, about a week ago, a friend of mine advised me to 'just let go', and 'give up the grudge'.  solid advice, to be sure, and probably very easy to follow if you're the kind of guy who can'...
Posted by jedimiah on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:53:00 PST

thoughts i think i’ve thunk...

Weird Words -- reciprocate, reject, revert, revert, reverse, renege, revoke, revenge, refuse, the list goes on for days.  as i understand it, the prefix "re-" means "to do again" or somethin...
Posted by jedimiah on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:01:00 PST

somnizombies

   so, in the wee hours of this morning, i dreamt a zombie took a nip out of the back of my hand.  this, despite my having shot it in the head several times, but i guess none of the bul...
Posted by jedimiah on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:29:00 PST

if lookin’ good was a crime...

...i'd be on death row.   at least, that's what i tell myself as i sit outside my favorite java-torium, peaceably reading my book, catching multudinous stares both covert and abject, from fe...
Posted by jedimiah on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:58:00 PST

a divided man’s plea to womankind.

   in the past few weeks, a war has been raging within me.  on one side, the portion (or, more accurately, portions) of me that appreciate, hell, love the way that warm weather has comp...
Posted by jedimiah on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:14:00 PST

no news is good news

   at least, that's how the old adage goes.  by that logic, things must be going pretty damn well for me, 'cause not a damn thing is happening.     i sat here, ...
Posted by jedimiah on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:05:00 PST