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Jared

About Me

I play the synthesizer in Ultra Pulverize, occasional keyboards with D.W. Box, and make music by myself and with friends in the basement. I have a song on Louisville is For Lovers this year under the name Surplus Elks. Enough about me. Kate Sachs, if you don't know her, is AWESOME.

My Interests

film, music, reading, writing, finding kick-spots, vintage synthesizers, all things analog, caffeine, fake-lunchmeat tacos, jaw harps, lo-fi pop songs, sushi, Pabst Blue Ribbon, good bourbon, Fisher-Price camcorders, circuit bending, dive bars with excellent jukeboxes, 45rpm records, the Peddler's Mall, ferrets, cockatoos, woolly sea beasts.

Music:

Paul Westerberg/The Replacements, Wilco, Elvis Costello, Guided by Voices, Robert Pollard, Husker Du, Yo La Tengo, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Fall, Hayden, LUCKY PINEAPPLE, D.W. BOX, BAD BLOOD, VRKTM, THE COMMONWEALTH, PONTY'S CAMPER, THE DUBIOUS DUO, Neko Case, The New Pornographers, Of Montreal, Apples in Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control, Nick Drake, Weezer (the 1st two albums), The Nips, The Who, Tom Waits, Beck, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, The Sonics, DEVO, The Flaming Lips, Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Petra Haden, The Decemberists, Antony and the Johnsons, Captain Beefheart, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jim O' Rourke, John Fahey, Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, Daniel Johnston, My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, Television, Silver Apples, Bruce Haack, Kraftwerk, Die Doraus und Die Marinas, German new wave, The Wipers, Sonic Youth, Bonnie Prince Billy, People Under the Stairs, MF Doom, Dr. Octagon, The Coup, Kate mixes, The Kinks, Neil Young, Mission of Burma, John Cale, Plastic Ono Band, Joy Division, etc etc etc

Movies:

Lynch, Herzog, Cassavetes, Kubrick, Scorsese, Linklater, Von Trier, Welles, Sergio Leone, Fellini, Tarantino, Rodriguez, Soderbergh, Korine, Raimi, Fincher, Judd Apatow, Tim Burton, Alfonso Cuaron, Inarritu, Cronenberg, Gondry, Romero, Wes Anderson, etc. Favorite movies of all time: Blue Velvet, Ghostbusters, Night of the Living Dead & Dawn of the Dead, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Dr. Strangelove, Dead Ringers, Rushmore.

Television:

Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Penn and Teller: Bullshit, Da Ali G Show, Six Feet Under, Seinfeld, Twin Peaks, Freaks and Geeks, Fishing with John, Squidbillies.

Books:

The Proud Highway/Fear in Loathing in America, The Rum Diary (HST), The Road (McCarthy), House of Leaves (Danielewski), Dubliners & Ulysses (Joyce), The Crying of Lot 49 & Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon), Lolita (Nabokov), Middlesex (Eugenides), The Black Dahlia and My Dark Places (Ellroy), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera), High Fidelity (Hornby), A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Eggers), The Floating Opera, End of the Road, Lost in the Funhouse (Barth), Sexus & Black Spring (H. Miller), Glimpses (Shiner), The Time Traveler's Wife (Niffenegger), Hunger (Hamsun), The God Delusion (Dawkins), The Terror Timeline (P. Thompson), anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Carver's poetry, A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway), and lots of other pretentious English-major shite.

My Blog

wow

If you played me just the audio of this, I would swear it was from the seventies.  Shit, he's still awesome. ...
Posted by Jared on Thu, 08 May 2008 10:28:00 PST

new to me.

I found out at around the witching hour last night that someone had gotten my debit card number and used it to charge $86.18 in Australian amateur internet porn, and BAD Australian amateur internet po...
Posted by Jared on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:01:00 PST

my new "project"

I am surprised and excited to have been accepted onto Louisville is For Lovers this year. My song is track 3 under the name Surplus Elks. I just made another page with just that song on it, which yo...
Posted by Jared on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:06:00 PST

hell YES

FINALLY on DVD, on November 20th:OBOYOBOYOBOYOBOYOBOYOBOYOBOYOBOYOBOYOBOYOBOYOBOYOBOY
Posted by Jared on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:23:00 PST

man...

well, that last one was a tad bitter, but that's okay. I've gone through a bit of a negative streak and as I wake up this morning I feel that I've come out on the other side of it. Early evening dri...
Posted by Jared on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:49:00 PST

wha happened?

I disdainfully opened a Velocity today only to find about 5 of my friends' pictures in there, as well as props to Wild & Woolly, Gaj Mustafa Cell and an article more or less trashing hipsters and amaz...
Posted by Jared on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:54:00 PST

Georgetown Drive-in magic

Went last night with Kate and Evan to the drive-in to see the original Halloween, the Halloween remake and GRINDHOUSE. The guy who played Michael Myers in the original was there signing autographs an...
Posted by Jared on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:56:00 PST

i’m dying

I had too much caffeine today and now my heart is skipping beats. like, often. i think it's time to kick. I don't know how my body will react to not having what it's had on a regular basis for prob...
Posted by Jared on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:01:00 PST

going and going and going

damn. it's amazing how free time can fly out the window when you work 40 hours a week. I didn't realize how much I DIDN'T work until I started full time. a blessing and a curse: money is necessary...
Posted by Jared on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:05:00 PST

delirious

Why was today the first time I'd ever stayed awake longer than 24 hours? I'm 26 years old for chrissakes - what happened to my wild years? I think I hallucinated a bug on the bathroom floor after I...
Posted by Jared on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:44:00 PST