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Jeff

grandbastard

About Me



My Interests

Interests Drawing, cartoonists, illustrators, coffee, cigarettes, smiles and laughs that aren't fake, staying up too late, consequentially sleeping in, being late for work, india ink, crow quill nibs, sable brushes, bristol board, movies books and music that aren't the same old crap, girls who wear glasses

I'd like to meet:

Who I'd Like to Meet

Walt Whitman
Lucifer
Rabble rousers and crazy people

Music:

Music Weird Al, Tom Waits, Beck, White Stripes, Billie Holiday, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Neutral Milk Hotel, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Wilco, The Kinks, Sigur Ros, Bright Eyes, T.V. on the Radio, AC/DC, Hank Williams (I and III), Animal Collectve, The Reverend Al Green, Arcade Fire, Eels, Dave Brubeck, Weezer, Radiohead, Buena Vista Social Club, They Might Be Giants, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Buddy Holly,Band of Horses, you shouldn't be reading this any more.

Movies:

Film The Machinist, Summer of Sam, The man Who Wasn't There, Hudsucker Proxy, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Night of The Living Dead, 28 Days Later, Royal Tenenbaums, The Big Lebowski, The Triplets of Belleville, Punch Drunk Love, City Of God, Raising Arizona, The Thin Man, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Wallace and Gromit, The Last Starfighter, Studio Ghibli (almost all of it), War Games, New York (the PBS documentary)

Television:

Books Leaves of Grass, William Blake, T.S. Elliot, War of The Worlds, The Fountainhead, Siddhartha, Steppenwulf, Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth, Blankets, Franny and Zooey, Atlas of Human Anatomy For the Artist, The Mezzanine, Stranger in a Strange Land, 1984, Ghost World, Love and Rockets, THB, Sandman, City of Glass, Lettering For Reproduction, Lettering For Advertising, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook, The Pen and Ink Book, Geek Love, Oliver Twist, Running With Scissors, Life of Pi, Everything is Illuminated, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

My Blog

Vietnamization

The Postwar Impact of VietnamHarvard SitikoffFollowing the end of America's combat role in Vietnam in 1973, and the subsequent fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) in 1975, the often prop...
Posted by Jeff on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:40:00 PST

Stir the pot, the kettle, the stew and the ashes.

Last night I was reading a collection of interviews with Naom Chomsky. A good portion of the material is devoted to pointing out various crimes of international law that the United States has committe...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 04:29:00 PST

It will snow when I shave

So.I have to shave soon because I'm helping someone make a movie in which I will play a fresh faced detective. I took some photos in order to record this years batch of facial hair. It hasn't really b...
Posted by Jeff on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:02:00 PST

I just found this old photo

This photo was taken when I was about eleven or twelve years old. It was when my brother and I went to Italy to visit my dad, who was stationed there. We spent three months in Italy, two weeks of whic...
Posted by Jeff on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:26:00 PST

Ghraaghr

I have been feeling astoundingly libidinous.Astoundingly.
Posted by Jeff on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:09:00 PST

Daily 11-6-06

Blind contour is good for you.I just started a regemin of nightly drawing that will wrap up in about a year. I'll probably post the results here. I don't have a model so I drew my hand for a while las...
Posted by Jeff on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:05:00 PST

coffee, tea, me

I've been thinking about blood sugar lately. Lately being more accurately described as the past ten minutes since I got out of bed. Here.I drink too much coffee. This is pretty well known by anyo...
Posted by Jeff on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:31:00 PST

Mexican food and coffee

I woke up from a dream that I was having about climbing a billboard with a roller coaster attached to the top. The roller coaster started at the billboard and looped and twisted away into some darkene...
Posted by Jeff on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 01:19:00 PST

Draft the first

    Fuck! The sound came out of him like spit, more like the noise a chicken makes over and over when being disturbed than a word, an expletive of instinct.     The wind and snow swirled around him...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sanctity

I'm going to marry myself. I was just talking about this with Adam. He heard someone on the radio with the same unlikely last name as he. I suggested that he marry her, barring familial ties, a...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST