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Jon

do gangstroids dream of electric peeps?

About Me

doing quite well, thanks for asking.

My Interests

Adventures, cheap toys from Rite Aid, red tea, spontaneous amateur feats of engineering or art, people who can teach me something new, contriving the reasons people do the random things they do, affordable housing as a policy decision to end poverty, and people who work toward that end.

I'd like to meet:

the evil midnight bomber what bombs at midnight

Music:

forever: black eyes, the ocs, j-live, danielson famile, clinic, the cramps, nina simone, dead milkmen, chris corwin, the evaporators, holy ghost revival, subhumans, dirty projectors, esg, numbers
currently: the octopus project, the trashies, mirah, four tet, mates of state, two gallants, tacocat, pleasureboaters

Movies:

Brazil, 12 Monkeys, The Adventures Of Baron Munchousen, (you get it, any Terry Gillian), The Night of the Living Dead (1968), Amacord, The Stuff, The Thing, American Movie, Princess Monoke, Skratch, Tremors II, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Perfect Blue, Overboard, Bamboozled, Fantastic Planet, THEY LIVE, Our Man in Havana, Thrashin', Cesky Sen, Robocop 3, Down By Law

Television:

Fawlty Towers, News Radio, or the next flavor in corporate hypnotism.

Books:

Homeless in Paradise, (by Rob Rosenthal), Shelter Poverty: New Ideas on Housing Affordability, (by Michael E. Stone) The Children, (by David Halberstam), Invisible Man, (by Ralph Ellison), The Cheese Monkeys, (by Chip Kidd), All About Love, (by bell hooks), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, (by Haruki Murakami), The Kid (by Dan Savage), The Graves are Not Yet Full, (by Bill Berkeley), Gender Trouble, (by Judith Butler), White Noise, (by Don DeLillo), The Color Purple (Walker), The Autobiography of Jimmy Buffett

Heroes:

Diane Nash, Mia Zapata, Vaclav Havel, Linda Leeks

My Blog

My mom joined myspace

I think its been two years since I've blogged, but this is a newsworthy event; yes, my mom has joined myspace. She is in my top 8; "Carol." If you've ever met my mom you know she's rad so add her as a...
Posted by Jon on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:03:00 PST

Pozor! commits suicide

My aloe vera plant, Pozor!, committed suicide at 8:06 PM Sunday the 17th, 2005; the year of our lord. Over the course of a few months of not having rotated his pot, he grew toward one side, and knowin...
Posted by Jon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Such And Such

It interests me to discover at what point in recent music history that bands abdicated the practice of having an article in front of a random noun (the...such and such), and instead cho...
Posted by Jon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Undead revelation

I posted this on the "Zombie Awareness" group topics and realized, yet again, that I can't tell when I'm being serious or not: "I think the more apt case study would be "Shaun of the Dead". The z...
Posted by Jon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST