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Uncle John [IntelliJOHNt]

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About Me

I am a globetrotter, wino, modernist, entrepreneur, amateur ichthyologist and political-junkie.

My Interests

1. Traveling 2. Wine 3. Indie Music 4. Cooking 5. Modern Art BMW, Bordeaux, French food, going out to dinner, hiking, live music, reefwalking, relaxing at home, snorkeling, trying new restaurants, watching movies

I'd like to meet:

Anyone interested in wine, food, art, or traveling.






Music:

Top Five Bands 1. Regina Spektor 2. The Shins 3. The Killers 4. Muse 5. Linkin ParkArctic Monkeys, Beatles, Bloc Party, Bright Eyes, The Clash, Daughtry, Death Cab For Cutie, Deftones, The Electric Soft Parade, Fort Minor, The Fray, Gin Blossoms, GooGoo Dolls, Hellogoodbye, Infadels, Kate Nash, Korn, Oasis, Paramore, Paul Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyk, The Postal Service, The Raconteurs, Radiohead, Rolling Stones, Rooney, Royksopp, Sara Bareilles, Smashing Pumpkins, The Strokes, Thievery Corporation, The Weepies

Movies:

Top Five Movies 1. Garden State 2. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 3. Across the Universe 4. American Beauty 5. CrashBetter Luck Tomorrow, Cashback, Chocolat, Clerks, Cruel Intentions, Dazed and Confused, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Godfather, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, In The Land of Women, Juno, Kill Bill, King of California, Lord of the Rings, Lord of War, Napoleon Dynamite, The Notebook, Office Space, The Orphanage, Pans Labyrinth, Saving Private Ryan, Scarface, Sicko, Sin City, The Squid and the Whale, Star Wars, Superbad, Sweeney Todd, Talladega Nights, Thirteen, Waitress, White Oleander

Television:

Top Five TV Shows 1. The Office 2. Scrubs 3. Heroes 4. Lost 5. Ghost HuntersBlue Planet, Dinner Impossible, Family Guy, Freaks and Geeks, Iron Chef, Law and Order SVU, Planet Earth, Seinfeld, South Park, Undeclared

My Blog

Pandoras Box

So basically this blog is a Pandora's Box of me venting about various situations going on in my life. I originally planned to make this blog available to only my preferred friends list, but as I ...
Posted by Uncle John [IntelliJOHNt] on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:43:00 PST

Irony

So lately, weird things have been happening to me left and right...just matters of complete and utter irony. Instead of writing a full blog as to what has happened, I thought I’d just list them ...
Posted by Uncle John [IntelliJOHNt] on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:08:00 PST

Ghosts, aliens, and cryptozoologic creatures...oh my!

So I've been in a really weird mood recently and have been watching all those haunting shows on TV. I am not sure why, I guess it's just my current fad. My favorite so far is the original haunting sho...
Posted by Uncle John [IntelliJOHNt] on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:13:00 PST

Who is better?

Tonight I was reading an article in the Honolulu Advertiser about a man who was charged in court today for smuggling 50 POUNDS of crystal meth into Hawaii...and instead of staying in prison for his tr...
Posted by Uncle John [IntelliJOHNt] on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:05:00 PST

Superdelegates

So the day is here...Super Tuesday where 24 states will determine which candidate they back to move on to the General Election in November. It's a big day for the campaigns of Clinton, Obama, Rom...
Posted by Uncle John [IntelliJOHNt] on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:27:00 PST

Democratic Candidate Analysis 2008 (a political blog obviously)

So typically I am quite active in politics and for the past two presidential elections, I have written blogs as to explain my stance on the candidates and the issues. Surprisingly, this year, my blog...
Posted by Uncle John [IntelliJOHNt] on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:15:00 PST

A book in life has come to a close...

I think everyone's life is broken into chapters; chapters with both a beginning and an end. The closer it gets to my departure date from Hawaii, I realize that this is not just the closing of a chapte...
Posted by Uncle John [IntelliJOHNt] on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:07:00 PST

Regina Spektor

Tonight Kathy and I went to see Regina Spektor in concert at In The Venue in Salt Lake City. To summarize how it was:   The venue was horrible, dirty and considerably too small for the thousands...
Posted by Uncle John [IntelliJOHNt] on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:23:00 PST

Lemons

Have you ever had a week when everything bad that could happen, does happen? Well I have had streaks of bad luck in the past, but nothing like this past week. All I can look forward to is that the we...
Posted by Uncle John [IntelliJOHNt] on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:43:00 PST

Actual Reality

So my last blog, months ago, was about dreams and strange occurances that have happened to me in the past several months. However, reality has finally set in. I am leaving Hawaii on December 1 to Swi...
Posted by Uncle John [IntelliJOHNt] on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:37:00 PST