jay rea - ProfilesArchive

About Me

you'll have to ask. I pimped out my profile using Jeri's goddamn badass editing skills.

My Interests

taking it easy

I'd like to meet:

Gandhi, Jackson Pollock, Bill Clinton, Malcolm X, Beethoven, Bill Hicks, Frida Kahlo, Janis Joplin and anyone free of neurosis.

Music:

lots

Movies:

Scorcese, Coen Brothers, Kubrick, Coppola, Jarmusch, Lucas, Tarantino, Burton, Spielberg, Von Trier, Van Sant, Taymor, Jackson and anything by my friend DEE NICHOLS who you may not yet know but surely will

Television:

no chance

Books:

constantly

Heroes:

Mom, my grandparents, my two beautiful sisters, Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Jimi Hendrix, James Joyce, Kurt Vonnegut, Malcolm X, Eugene Victor Debs, Andy Wallace and Simon Chardiet, guitar superhero and ultimate survivor.

My Blog

beliefs part 2

Awhile back I posted a quote which was not my own on the matter of beliefs that got a few good comments. Here's my response to the comment from a friend who spoke about the importance of that warm and...
Posted by jay rea on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:02:00 PST

beliefs

"Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing. . . "
Posted by jay rea on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:52:00 PST

check it out

check it out.
Posted by jay rea on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:55:00 PST

Artists. .

If you consider yourself an artist then this is required reading. This book will help you become a smarter human being. I challenge one and all to find a more brilliant writer. read it again and again...
Posted by jay rea on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:49:00 PST

Shut the f*.k up. Listen to the Music.

I was blessed at a very young age by the realization that I spoke too much. About 13, I think.I learned a valuable lesson about speaking too much from a friend that spoke too much who did so without s...
Posted by jay rea on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:16:00 PST

Simon Chardiet

Punk. Surf. Hardcore. Rockabilly. Swing. Blues. Jazz. Rock n' Roll at its finest. motherfucking badass guitar player. one of my all-time music heroes. He plays out alot with Simon and the Bar Sinister...
Posted by jay rea on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:01:00 PST

Vonnegut

yet another true American hero
Posted by jay rea on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:47:00 PST

books, always books

another hero
Posted by jay rea on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:43:00 PST

state of the union

read it
Posted by jay rea on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:28:00 PST

grab a gun

true American hero. .
Posted by jay rea on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:17:00 PST