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john

I am here for Friends

About Me

in general: i talk alot and am a sweaty person. i think new york might be the best place in the USA to live ("come back when you're rich and behung with lice"), but los angeles has been pretty cool. i take hyper-self-conscious paranoid self-loathing to new levels, but am generally awesomely fun to hang out with.

My Interests

inside jokes, self-reference, fried chicken, my whirly-pop, and my cast iron skillet.

I'd like to meet:

i would like to meet joni mitchell and give her a great big hug. people who will drag me out to go surfing on early weekend mornings. people who like crashing parties. people that understand how the first 30 seconds of "in the mouth of a desert" by pavement are devastatingly awesome. people who drink sparks, or better yet, make sure to have some stocked in their fridge.

Music:

pavement, liz phair, mariah, bright eyes, beulah, smiths, neutral milk hotel, the promise ring, pulp, alkaline trio (pre-vagrant), VU, belle and sebastian, the clash, redman, buddy holly, pixies/amps/breeders, aterciopelados, the comas, weezer, superchunk, stereolab, of montreal, against me!, fiona apple, jobim etc., bowie, built to spill, and joni mitchell.

Movies:

singles, almost famous, manhattan, brazil, waterworld, cable guy, metropolitan, dude where's my car, bottle rocket, you can count on me, punch drunk love, boyz n the hood, and generally anything with owen wilson, steve zahn, arnold schwarzenegger, or martin lawrence. almost all woody allen 1977-1988.

Television:

friday night lights, the OC, huell howser (all of it), america's next top model, entourage, the OFFICE (british)

Books:

austen, dorothy parker, lester bangs, please kill me, COMETBUS, frank ohara, marianne moore, virginia woolf, eggers, david foster wallace, mayakovsky, duchamp, f. scott fitzgerald, p.g. wodehouse, kerouac, howard stern

Heroes:

jane austen, marcel duchamp, frank o'hara, dorothy parker, lester bangs, joseph cornell.