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Rock'n'Roll Octopus

In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection.

My Interests

Music:

The Cure, Modest Mouse, Black Sabbath, Smashing Pumpkins, Wilco, Neil Young, The Queers, A Radio With Guts, The Connie Dungs, Pulp, Bjork, Life Of Agony, Byzantine, Built to Spill, Aesop Rock, Against Me!, Songs: Ohia/ Magnolia Electric Company, Joy Division, Pantera, Screeching Weasel, Radiohead, Drive-By Truckers, Clutch, Belle & Sebastian, Jeff Buckley, Acid Bath, Sleater-Kinney, Elvis Costello, Guided By Voices, Fugazi, Lucero, PJ Harvey, Iron & Wine, The National, Ryan Adams, MF Doom, Glassjaw, Johnny Cash, The Clash, The Silver Jews, Tom Petty, Death Cab For Cutie, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Holopaw, Dinosaur Jr., Holden Caulfield, John Coltrane, My Morning Jacket, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sage Francis, The Shins, Ted Leo & The Pharmicists, Zao, and pretty much anything else that's good.

Movies:

The Royal Tenenbaums, High Fidelity, American Movie, Rushmore, Harold & Maude, The Fox & The Hound, Bottle Rocket, Paris Texas, City Of God, etc.

Television:

Recently it's been all Cartoon Network. Jonas loves the colors. My favorite is The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.

Books:

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins and The World According To Garp by John Irving

My Blog

The Present

So it's been a long, long time since I've written one of these, but I vow to change that.  In the past 10 months or so things have changed drastically.  I spent quite a while working for a c...
Posted by Rock'n'Roll Octopus on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:32:00 PST

The Curveball

I woke up and went to work on Tuesday like always.  I was tired and grouchy.  My co-workers Tim and Brandy quickly cheered me up.  The day was okay.  I get a call from my district ...
Posted by Rock'n'Roll Octopus on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:51:00 PST

Since the last entry.....

.....everything has changed.  Jonas came along and made everything different.  Life is immeasurably harder but even more rewarding than that.  I recommend having a child.  It will ...
Posted by Rock'n'Roll Octopus on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:15:00 PST

Guilty Pleasures

So it occured to me recently that I have a lot of guilty pleasures.  So to feel better about the shit that I like (keyword: shit) I'm going to list a few of these guilty pleasures.  I think ...
Posted by Rock'n'Roll Octopus on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:55:00 PST

My name is Jonas

All of you guys know that April and I have a little boy on the way.  I'm just wondering if anyone has considered what a big deal it is to name a baby?  In some ways our names define us....
Posted by Rock'n'Roll Octopus on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:56:00 PST