About Me

I want to be your friend.

My Interests

Lawnmowing.
Homemade Margaritas.
www.cuteoverload.com
Nerdery.
70s motorcycles.
Bathroom haircuts.
Stars in bars.
Italian food.
Planning long motorcycle trips.
Boxing.
Early 20th century history.

Cat Fancy.

I'd like to meet:

R.I.P. Frank White

"Heart-throb, never, black and ugly as ever."

10 years. I was sitting on the couch at my friend Dan's place when I heard Biggie got killed. Best rapper, dead or alive.

Music:

Ghostface
NINE
Neutral Milk Hotel
Talib Kwali
Unbunny
Dizzee Rascal
Versus
My Morning Jacket
Iron and Wine
The Mountain Goats
Elliot Smith
Modest Mouse
Biggie Smalls
764-Hero

Movies:

When We Were Kings. That movie gets better every time I watch it.

Lost in Translation
Big Trouble in Little China
Serpico
Spellbound
The Deer Hunter

Television:

You know what I love? When people write "I don't watch TV" here. Not watching TV doesn't make you intellectual and sophisticated, it makes you narrow and ignorant.

What clearly is the best show on the teli:
Deadwood (you cunt)

Anything w/o commercials:
The Wire
Six Feet Under
The Office
And of course, The AliG.

Some things w/ commercials:
Firefly
Arrested Development

But why watch commercials when you can just download TV from the internet anyhow?

Books:

currently reading: Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

Thomas Friedman: The World is Flat
Thom Jones: The Pugilist at Rest, Cold Snap
William Gibson: Neuromancer, Virtual Light
Bruce Sterling: Distraction
James Ellroy: American Tabloid

Heroes:

Bernard Hopkins. 41, still incredible.Biggie. Gone too long.

My Blog

Intorwebs Community Service Message

Dear Hipster Myspace users: Dramatically announcing in your blog that you enjoy "video games" and "knitting sweaters for your cats" and that you are "secretly a huge dork" does not, as you suspec...
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 31 May 2006 03:58:00 PST

Rockin Them False Joints

11:49pm, drinking Rainier, at work. It's been a long month. My fourth actually. Can, not month. Anyhow the bottomside is I haven't done shit this past four weeks. No gym, no bar-har-har, no ... laundr...
Posted by Jonathan on Tue, 09 May 2006 12:03:00 PST

Get Me Away From Here

New objective for this year: Travel, bitches. No, I'm not talking about sex tourism. It's been nearly 10 years since I did any real international traveling. Country-hopping every year wh...
Posted by Jonathan on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:17:00 PST

We're Got Arguments And They've Got Guns

Sobering up at the office. Fear of DUIs is intense when you're not a real American. Good low key drunken times tonight. I like nights where there's no objectives. Freedom is futility, etc et al i...
Posted by Jonathan on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 03:21:00 PST

Shit test

First the Fat Boys break upNow everyday I wake upSomebody got a problem with Hove. Off work. Speed to gym. Punch punch, sweat sweat. Hit in the headgear, see stars, lose breath. Change, speed hom...
Posted by Jonathan on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:16:00 PST

I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor

I just paid too much for effing Arctic Monkeys ticks. Then a friend pointed out that since the show at the Croc is sold out already, they might move it to a bigger space. So now I might have to wrestl...
Posted by Jonathan on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 04:24:00 PST

Ghost Dog

After a night of firewater with Carblos and the boys, nothing goes down easier than a little curly fry action. So a few games of parking-lot-chicken later, I'm equipped, rolling down my street in the ...
Posted by Jonathan on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 02:48:00 PST

Death to the Laffy Taffy song. Oh, and America.

What the fuck? Shit is getting so a cracker can't have a secret KUBE 93.3 addiction anymore. Laffy Taffy? Jamie Foxx (a mother fucking In Living Color bit player) singing about being unpredictible in ...
Posted by Jonathan on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:42:00 PST

R.I.P. Rufus

Rufus died some time Wednesday during the day. I found his body Thursday morning in my yard. He'd been hit in the head by something - I think probably by a car. He'd crawled in to the back yard, and d...
Posted by Jonathan on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 04:37:00 PST