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James

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do

About Me

First of all, welcome to the one-stop shopping location for all those looking to stalk me. Stay a while! You're hardly an imposition. So despite my simple and strong beliefs about who I am and how my life should be led, I am narcissistic enough to have a myspace profile. This necessarily disqualifies me from being a good person. It also means that, due to the means by which you found this page, you are probably in the same boat. Sorry.

My Interests

Beauty, conversation, eudaimonia, love, music, philosophy.

I'd like to meet:

People who are swell. They would nicely complement the swell people already in my life.

Music:

A Perfect Circle, Alexisonfire, Antony and the Johnsons, The Arcade Fire, At the Drive-In, Azure Ray, The Beatles, Bjork, Bloc Party, Boards of Canada, The Books, David Bowie, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Jeff Buckley, CSS, Caribou, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, The Clash, Billy Corgan, The Cure, Cursive, Death Cab for Cutie, Death From Above 1979, Deerhoof, The Decemberists, Depeche Mode, Desaparecidos, Die Mannequin, DJ Champion, DJ Danger Mouse, The Dresden Dolls, The Editors, Feist, Final Fantasy, Franz Ferdinand, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Matthew Good, The Good Life, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Emily Haines, PJ Harvey, Hayden, Holy Fuck, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Jimmy Eat World (-I will fight you-), Joy Division, Junior Boys, Justice, The Kills, Ray Lamontagne, LCD Soundsystem, Ladytron, Lupe Fiasco, Lye, M83, M.I.A., Madonna, Massive Attack, Metric, Mew, Minus the Bear, Modest Mouse, Moist, Mogwai, MSTRKRFT, Mum, Muse, The Music, My Chemical Romance (see: Jimmy Eat World), The National, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nine Inch Nails, Nouvelle Vague, Of Montreal, Outkast, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Peter Bjorn & John, The Pixies, Placebo, Portishead, The Postal Service, The Presets, RJD2, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, The Rapture, Ratatat, The Roots, Rotersand, She Wants Revenge, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Sincere Trade, Sleater-Kinney, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Sons and Daughters, Spoon, Stars, Sufjan Stevens, The Stills, The Streets, Tool, TV on the Radio, Ugly Casanova, VNV Nation, The Verve, The Walkmen, We Are Scientists, Kanye West, Wilco, Patrick Wolf, Wolf Parade, Hawksley Workman, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Thom Yorke, Zwan.

Movies:

Army of Darkness, A Beautiful Mind, Before Sunrise, Being John Malkovich, Benny & Joon, Broken Flowers, Boondock Saints, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Garden State, Ghost World, High Fidelity, Hotel Rwanda, Kung Fu Hustle, Lawrence of Arabia, Life Aquatic, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Lost Highway, Lost in Translation, Melvin Goes to Dinner, Napoleon Dynamite, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Royal Tenenbaums, Seven Samurai, Sin City, Snatch, Yojimbo.

Television:

Explain to me, this "television".

Books:

1984, The Art of War, The Brothers Karamazov, Don Quixote, Great Expectations, The Idiot, Memoirs of a Geisha, No Logo, Notes from the Underground, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Tao Te Ching.

My Blog

The Old World Underground New Music Playlist.

At the request of a few people here (and the years of consistent comments of friends who find themselves in my apartment)-- that, "hey, how come I haven't heard this before"--to help expose them to ne...
Posted by James on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:23:00 PST

Thoughts.

What if you woke up in the middle of the night? And in your bare feet you walked outside And realizing that you were awake that you could fly Out over the world To places that you've only heard of See...
Posted by James on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:12:00 PST

39 Days (Fatalism is an odd Creature)

Affect that which is within your control. Accept and let go of that which isn't. Embrace all that is beautiful.
Posted by James on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:20:00 PST

81.

Sincere words are not beautified.Beautified words are not sincere.The good aren't persuasive. The persuasive aren't good.The wise are not academic.The academic are not wise.The sage does not hoard,and...
Posted by James on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:12:00 PST

Accident & Emergency.

The teaser of the first single of Patrick Wolf's new album has me falling over myself. I hope you enjoy it. The boy is incredible. It's certainly been a while. I don't usually write "personal" entries...
Posted by James on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:55:00 PST

Pride Weekend Photos (w/Bloc Party/BSS and Feist)

They can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/comeondieyoung . Included are shots taken Saturday during the show on Olympic Island. Flickr sucks in terms of storage space (they give you 20mb of n...
Posted by James on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:21:00 PST

An Inconvenient Truth.

Climate change (and the environment as a whole) is one issue among many that I feel passionately about. With the release of this movie, there is a large stange on which this is being brought...
Posted by James on Mon, 29 May 2006 01:00:00 PST

I'm Wide Awake, it's Morning.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about "what is right" over the past few weeks. Perhaps I am mistaken to say that I've spent a lot of time thinking about that. That is what has occupied a great amoun...
Posted by James on Sat, 20 May 2006 09:05:00 PST

Bloc Parties, Broken Social Scenes et all.

If you managed to see the bulletin I posted about this, great. If not, here we are. If you haven't heard about it, I have tickets (many of them, picked up especially for the people I love, ie. all of ...
Posted by James on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 02:28:00 PST

to my friends.

This is why I need to start writing again. I have heard this song a hundred times and it was always an important and touching piece of music. It's a completely incorrect interpretation of the song (it...
Posted by James on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:55:00 PST