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Jeff

New Song - For You. Hear it here: www.myspace.com/jeffdesira

About Me

I play 5 instruments and have been in a band situation since 1988. I released a 10 song album with "Pony Rabco" (www.ponyrabco.com), (www.myspace.com/ponyrabco) in 2003 where I played Bass, Piano and sang backing vocals. I'm currently working on a solo project (www.myspace.com/jeffdesira), singing and playing acoustic guitar. I'll be re-recording these songs with some guest musicians in the studio. Aside from music, I love bicycles and cycling and frequently am found on my days off either helping my friends with their bike problems or riding around town. I love the outdoors, the company of good friends and people who make me smile. I tend to shy away from people who surround themselves with drama. Oh yeah, and I'm Maltese.

One more time:
www.myspace.com/jeffdesira - Current solo project www.myspace.com/ponyrabco - Old band

My Interests

Singing, writing music (obviously), riding my bicycle through the Presidio or Golden Gate Park with friends, reading a good book, good conversation, laughing, making people laugh, travel, hiking alongside snow melt, trailblazing among hundreds of trees, helping out complete strangers, dancing with my honey, throwing meat at vegans (j/k), laughing and dancing around in the rain, long walks, short piers, etc..
I LOVE CHEESE AND CRACKERS!!

I'd like to meet:

So far, this is what I've come up with (subject to change): People who play an instrument or like to sing, who want to hang out and won't flake, who love or at least like bicycles or need their bike repaired, can suggest a good movie or book, have a good sense of humor and know where to find a party that doesn't suck.Music lovers and song seam-sters/ seam-stresses of all types, artists, cyclists, singers, that guy who owes me 5 bucks...

Music:

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Movies:

Bobby, The Science Of Sleep, Who Killed The Electric Car?, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Man In The Sand, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Garden State, Hi-Fidelity, Love Actually, Waking Life, Big Fish, Freida, The Shining, Dangerous Laiasons, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Pretty In Pink, Valley Girl, Office Space, Clockwatchers, Breaking Away, Quicksilver, Bottlerocket, Princess Bride, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

Television:

I work right next to the Circle Line Cruises in New York City and got to know many of the crew and staff. Some of them have been there for 50 years. The same boats are still there, and I've been lucky enough to hop on a few times. None of them had any idea that this promo even existed until I showed it to them last week! .. .. ....

Books:

How to talk dirty and influence people, Toxic Parents, Full Frontal Fiction, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Lesbian Sex Secrets-For Men.

Heroes:

Robert Palmer, Andy Partridge, Todd Rundgren, Neil Finn, Jeff Tweedy, Fred Rogers, Gil Grissom from CSI, Richey Edwards from the Manic Street Preachers.

My Blog

Who the hell are you people?

So I noticed that within something like 3 days around 50 people read my last blog. I only have 5 readers who subscribed to my blog. I really doubt that those 5 people are so obsessed with what I have ...
Posted by Jeff on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:55:00 PST

A brief musical history.

I'm originally from South San Francisco, California, where I grew up in a family of 6. Everyone had their skill: my oldest brother's was aviation, my other brother was excellent at sports, my sister w...
Posted by Jeff on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:58:00 PST

How to make your own pepper spray.

My friend Frank really likes the spice. He collects hot sauces and always lets me try them. Recently he gave me six chili peppers. 3 red ones (mild) and 3 yellow ones (super freaking hot). About 20 mi...
Posted by Jeff on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:19:00 PST

Emergency landing on the Hudson River!!

Yesterday I saw a helicopter crash into the Hudson River. I heard this noise that was unmistakably a helicopter in trouble. I turned around and SPLASH! All 8 people on board survived.http://gothamist....
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:34:00 PST

Life on the Hudson

I've now been working in New York City for about 8 days. I'm on salary and I haven't had a day off yet, until tomorrow. Been working 12 hour days too, just to get the shop off the ground and do schedu...
Posted by Jeff on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:30:00 PST

Chicago

Right now, I'm in a huge room at the Hard Rock Hotel in Chicago, Il. The company put me up here for 3 days so I could do some training at the Navy Pier before I go to New York and fill the Manager pos...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:48:00 PST

I'm moving to New York on June 15th

Today I had an interview with the Chicago based partner of the company I hoped to work for. It went well, and we negotiated to fly me to Chicago for training and I will co-manage the shop on Pier 84 i...
Posted by Jeff on Thu, 31 May 2007 11:38:00 PST

On the Today Show in New York City!!

Tonight we went to this huge book store in Soho and saw this performer named Michael Hearst wrote a bunch of new songs for Ice Cream Trucks!! There are Ice Cream trucks all over the streets here.. So ...
Posted by Jeff on Sun, 27 May 2007 11:25:00 PST

New York, Day 1

I got here around 2:30pm yesterday. I was flying standby, so they had to place me in the first class section. All that red wine, fruit salad, pastries, juice, hot towels...they even had the nerve to ...
Posted by Jeff on Sat, 26 May 2007 09:05:00 PST

First visit to New York!!

Here I go! I'm staying at my friends place in San Bruno so I can catch a flight at 6am! I just *know* I forgot to bring something. Anyways, if everything goes as planned I should get there around 2:30...
Posted by Jeff on Fri, 25 May 2007 11:21:00 PST