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david jacob

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My Interests

Music:

le tigre, bjork, xiu xiu, elastica, casiotone for the painfully alone, cursive, giorgio moroder, magnapop, slint, arcade fire, pj harvey, death from above 1979, catpower, feist, lo-fi-fnk, think about life, m83, matt & kim, the chemical brothers, the knife, the kills, bikini kill, julie ruin, ratatat, junior boys, lcd soundsystem, interpol, queen, the gossip, ladytron, gorillaz, gus gus, sigur ros, the hidden cameras, chicks on speed, butchies, sleater kinney, everything but the girl, add n to (x), devotchka, daft punk, my bloody valentine, joy division, sonic youth, plasmatics, kraftwerk, cibo matto, david bowie, gary numan, dolly parton, olivia newton john, milla jovovich, electric light orchestra, blondie, imperial teen, lush, blonde redhead, asobi seksu, that dog, bis, the sugarcubes, jesus and mary chain, siouxie & the banshees, promise ring, romeo void, bronski beat, nina simone, patsy cline, air, folk implosion, cansei de ser sexy, soviet, autolux, portishead, radiohead, the smiths, pavement, pulp, the entire grease 2, xanadu and pirate movie soundtrack!

Movies:

once, lost in translation, clue, xanadu, shortbus, high art, shaun of the dead, dancer in the dark, thelma & louise, brothers of the head, before sunrise, grease 2, heathers, 9 to 5, breakin' 2: electric boogaloo, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, interstella 5555, the lost boys, pan's labyrinth, kill bill volumes 1 & 2, grindhouse, hedwig and the angry inch, jawbreaker, 24 hour party people, best little whorehouse in texas, legend of billie jean, triplets of bellvue, twin falls idaho, the sweet hereafter, the pirate movie, hysterical, lady in white, batman begins, bedknobs & broomsticks, boys don't cry, contact, cabinet of dr. caligari, night of the comet, night of the creeps, night of the living dead (the original and the remake), return of the living dead, the living end, raiders of the lost arc, romancing the stone, magnolia, legend, the dark crystal, labyrinth, krull, death becomes her, dr. zhivago, polyester, hairspray, cry baby, big business, ruthless people, all of me, alien, aliens, fargo, raising arizona, the piano, a.i., pi, pee wee's big adventutre, romi & michelle's high school reunion, resident evil, the village, flash gordon, fellowship of the ring, two towers, return of the king, day of the dead, dawn of the dead (original and remake), eyes wide shut, shining, gummo, party girl, house of yes, mulholland drive, the ice storm, dune, rope, natural born killers, goonies, blade runner, full metal jacket, 2001, clockwork orange, nightmare before xmas, halloween 2, nightmare on elm st. 3, friday the 13th 4, how i got into college, finding nemo, the incredibles, lilo and stich, the messenger, the fifth element, european vacation, die hard, dazed and confused, drop dead gorgeous, drop dead fred, frisk, poison, safe, velvet goldmine, ghost world, ghost in the shell, great muppet caper, perfect blue, akira, requiem for a dream, evil dead (1 & 2), 28 days later, fortress, funny games, session 9, songs from the second floor, spirited away, princess mononoke, amelie, city of the lost children, napolean dynamite, secret of nyhm, clash of the titans, can't buy me love, x-men (1 & 2), whale rider, the posiedon adventure, the last unicorn, animalympics

Television:

hi my name is david... and i love tv...there i said it! lost, six feet under (r.i.p.), the golden girls, the office, 30 rock, project runway! (and the other bravo masterpieces: top chef and top designer), carnivale, er (i am the only person that still watches this show), amazing race, ugly betty, weeds, survivor (yeah, yeah, i know), that's so raven (i'm secretly a 12 yo girl), cheerleader nation (see "that's so raven"), what not to wear, all of hgtv, new detectives or forensic files (or other such show "who dun" it shows), simpsons, law & order: svu, mxc, sex in the city, serial experiments lain, top model, my so called life, mystery science theater 3000, jeopardy, night court, the state, old school cartoons and any sort of "most amazing videos" show or "girl born with two heads" show on tlc....wow! i watch a lot of tv!

Books:

swansong!!!!, ishmael, lord of the flies, american psycho, frisk, naked, no david!, the lord of the rings series, tokyo doesn't love us anymore, ender's game series, wolf's hour, picture of dorian gray, the gashlycrumb tinies, middlesex, watership down, on the road, me talk pretty one day, dune, glamorama

My Blog

Top 10 Albums of 2006

I actually had a tough time narrowing this down to 10 albums (a refreshing change of pace). So much so that instead of one top 10 list, I consider all the albums on this list to be my top 25 favorites...
Posted by david jacob on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:49:00 PST

Top 10 Films of 2006

Let's see: 2006  not a great year for film, but not a bad year either. I saw some things I loved. I saw some things I hated. I saw a lot more that I liked and/or merely thought was ok. I missed a few...
Posted by david jacob on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:17:00 PST

a poet and don't know it

so the hostel i'm staying at is called piccadilly backpackers http://www.piccadillyhotel.net/london-hostels-english/london -hostels-main.html and it's really quite nice. should you find yourself ...
Posted by david jacob on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:53:00 PST

london calling

cheers mate! so i made it to london. after a long ass flight from chicago with a screaming british infant (the worst kind right) i landed in manchester to an absolute tropical storm. it was pouring......
Posted by david jacob on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:15:00 PST

auf wiedersehen chicago

don't worrry, it's not permanent.starting tomorrow, i'm going to england and denmark for two weeks...so if any of you happen to find yourself in london or aarhus or copenhagen in the next two we...
Posted by david jacob on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:39:00 PST

poetry of the ridiculously bored (pt 2)

ok...the continuing saga of the "ridiculously bored" writing team...passing time at out staff convocation a few weeks back (see pt 1 for more details). this time instead of just providing one word to ...
Posted by david jacob on Wed, 17 May 2006 08:25:00 PST

poetry of the ridiculously bored (pt 1)

so a few weeks ago, we (the staff of ccc) were forced invited to attend this staff convocation that would clue us into all the exciting things happening around our place of employment. jolene, melissa...
Posted by david jacob on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:37:00 PST

my top 10 films of 2005

2005 was a surprisingly good year for films. i say surprising because at first, i thought there were only a handful of movies worth mentioning (in fact i feared being able to come up with 10) and then...
Posted by david jacob on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 03:53:00 PST

my top 10 albums of 2005

for me, 2005 was an up and down year musically speaking. xiu xiu and daft punk (two of my all time favorites) released sub par albums this year (though xiu xius la forĂȘt is way more tolerable than da...
Posted by david jacob on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:33:00 PST

hasta luego chicago...hola madrid

adios mis amigos de myspace. va a madrid por diez dias....ok that's enough incorrect spanish for now (i'll have my share of it when i'm acutally in spain...slaughtering their language). again from ...
Posted by david jacob on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST