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About Me

Born in Los Angeles, raised in and around San Gabriel Valley, currently living in Norwich, England.
I've been made redundant from my job, and I've been conditionally accepted onto the PGCE course at the UEA. I'll be teaching RE in Secondary School. I'm through working in an office.
Work continues apace with Jacob's Ladder, the band I've been practicing with. It's amazing music but I'm still pulling my hair out trying to learn all their songs.

Check out our MySpace site! Listen to We All Love You, it's the best song ever written.
Ok, so it's not the best song ever written, but it's the best song you've heard in a while...

MYSPACE - JACOB'S LADDER

Currently Reading:
Learning to Teach Religious Education in the Secondary School; Edited by Andrew Wright and Ann-Marie Brandom
Last Book Read:
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

Currently Spinning:
Bill Evans Trio: Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Top Gear Anthems: The Greatest Ever Driving Songs
Sams Town by The Killers
Last Movies Seen (and where)
Pirates Of The Caribbean 3 at the Odeon. Very good, perfect summer entertainment. Muddy, confusing in parts, could have used a little more plot exposition, could have cut down on the sea battle at the end, could have seen more of Keith Richards. But these are small(ish) points, they didn't drop the ball at the final hurdle (vis a vis Spidey 3). Pirates 4? I can wait. Indy 4 is filming now I think, that should (hopefully) tide me over for a while.
Zodiac at the Odeon. Masterpiece, David Fincher's best movie? Maybe. Best movie I've seen in the last 12 months? Definately.
Myspace Layouts - Myspace Editor

My Interests

Playing bass guitar, writing songs, reading, listening to jazz, trying to understand Linux, getting ready for Uni in the fall

I'd like to meet:

Denise Milini. Look at her, I mean, just LOOK at her......

Music:

Favourites- First and foremost, Frank Sinatra. Sinatra's music is the only music that makes sense anymore.
Jazz; Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, John McLaughlin, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Cannonball Adderley, Jaco, and a host of others
Pop/Rock/Other; Indigo Girls, Steely Dan, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, The Doors, Mahalia Jackson, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Led Zepplin, Frank Zappa, Devo, any 60's and 70's Soul, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, most 30's and 40's swing, most 50's rock and roll, most Punk and New Wave, The Carpenters, Jim Croce, Gordon Lightfoot. Not too much from today's charts, but I try to keep an open mind...

Movies:

Favorite films - All That Jazz, my favortie film ever! If you want a crash course into what makes me tick and why (and how) I think like I do, watch ALL THAT JAZZ!

Also love: Fight Club, Easy Rider, The Big Sleep, Casablanca, The Godfather, Alien, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Jaws, Pulp Fiction, Clerks (1 AND 2), Sideways, The Right Stuff, Top Gun, Map of the Human Heart, almost anything by Alexander Payne, Oliver Stone, Spike Lee, David Fincher, John Hughes (I'm a child of the 80's, ok?) and loads loads more, just ask.

Television:

Big Brother fan, not going to deny it!
Also watching current series of Dr. Who, House and first series of Shark, as well as playing Burnout: Dominator
Favorite TV Show of all time: Twilight Zone.

Books:

Favorite authors: Raymond Chandler, Stephen King, Jack Keroac, William Faulkner, W. S. Maugham, Ayn Rand, George Orwell, Hunter S. Thompson, JRR Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Luther, Julian of Norwich, many many more and, yes, I have read all the Harry Potter books.

Heroes:

Martin Luther, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Wycliffe, Jon Huss, William Tyndale and all those who have been martyred by others for their beliefs, without taking innocents with them

My Blog

This World Needs A Father

Happy Fathers Day y'all, though it will probably have pass by the time you read this. Don't sweat it, though, it's a good wish to give often, not just once a year.The older I get the smarter my fathe...
Posted by Pony Espresso on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:44:00 PST

Idiot Wind

I often say things or write things that I think are clever, in fact, I'm SURE they're clever, and funny and insightful and cool....but somehow no one else thinks these things about what I say and what...
Posted by Pony Espresso on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:20:00 PST

Bad News From An Old Friend

I went to high school with Trey Stroud, the father of Chance (who is currently unconscious) and stepfather of Daniel (who was killed). Keep the family in your prayers.From the San Gaberiel Valley web...
Posted by Pony Espresso on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:28:00 PST

To Those Words I Beheld No Tongue

So, the "N" word rears it's ugly head yet again. Another suburban white chick casually dropping a word whose weight she'll never fathom to try to connect with her pseudo-friends she'll never really u...
Posted by Pony Espresso on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:51:00 PST

Summertime Blues

It's going to be a weird summer, y'all. I start my "booster" course in July, it's two weeks of learning about major world religions to get me up to speed to teach Religious Education. Shou...
Posted by Pony Espresso on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:35:00 PST

Keep On Running (Part 2)

So, after a month (see Keep On Running, my blog on May 01, 2007), I'm still at it. I'm up to two miles, four times a week. That's good going for someone who couldn't even jog down the block when I s...
Posted by Pony Espresso on Thu, 31 May 2007 02:07:00 PST

Tongue-twisters on tap as National Spelling Bee opens

Regular readers will know I'm not a big fan of unoriginal material in my blogs (I hate - HATE - all those frickin quizzes that everyone and their brother seem to have on their profile. I'll dive headf...
Posted by Pony Espresso on Wed, 30 May 2007 03:00:00 PST

Tattoo You

So, here's my new tattooIt's on my right arm, cost me about £75.00, took me a whole lot of time and effort to decide what it should be. I mean, this one was tough.See my photos for my other tatt...
Posted by Pony Espresso on Tue, 29 May 2007 01:14:00 PST

Everything Is Average Nowadays

How funny is it that a band that absolutely epitomizes average releases a song complaining about how everything these days is average?Well, like they said way back in the 60's, "If You Are Not Part Of...
Posted by Pony Espresso on Fri, 25 May 2007 05:40:00 PST

My Happiness (part 2)

Maybe happiness, like the kind I imagine, maybe it doesn't really exist. Could it be that it's simply an emotion purely drempt up by marketing companies to keep us unflinchingly tied into a comsumer b...
Posted by Pony Espresso on Wed, 23 May 2007 03:47:00 PST