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jay-dee

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. - Francis Ford Coppola

About Me


My Interests

climbing trees, making movies, coloring, pursuing truth, real thunderstorms, quantum physics, being a rock star, finishing something i start, road trips, that moment when the sun first crests the horizon in the morning...

I'd like to meet:

Joss Whedon, C.S. Lewis, Bruce Wayne, Wes Anderson, Rich Mullins, Zach Braff, Ansel Adams, Bruce Lee, M. Night Shyamalan, Ralph Wiggum.

Music:

U2, Cake, Queen, Death Cab for Cutie, Beck, Flight of the Conchords, Frank Sinatra, The Wandering Sons, Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson, Weezer, Sufjan Stevens, Jars of Clay, Wilco, Eisley, G. Love & Special Sauce, Phantom Planet, Joshua Radin, Pearl Jam, Fiona Apple, The White Stripes, Counting Crows, Foo Fighters, Sondre Lerche, Gorillaz, The Shins, Coldplay, Glenn Miller, Pink Floyd, Regina Spektor, Smashing Pumpkins, Weird Al Yankovic, Imogen Heap, The Weepies, Switchfoot, The Doors, Spoon, Rich Mullins, Tom Petty, Waterdeep, Iron and Wine, Postal Service, Justin Timberlake (yes, i admit it...) The Flaming Lips, and many, many, many more ..

Movies:

The Princess Bride, Once, Braveheart, Juno, Groundhog Day, The Last Samurai, The Usual Suspects, Waitress, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, True Stories, Everything by M. Night Shyamalan, Everything by Joss Whedon, Everything by Christopher Guest and company, Everything by Wes Anderson, All of the Muppet Movies (especially the original Muppet Movie), Everything involving Wallace & Gromit, Iron Man, Run Lola Run, Eulogy, Eagle Vs. Shark, Shaun of the Dead, The Fountain, Girl in the Cafe, Batman Begins, Cinderella Man, The Star Wars Saga, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Murderball, Sense and Sensibility, The Count of Monte Cristo, Xmen (1&2), So I Married an Axe Murderer, Air Guitar Nation, The Truman Show, Dream for an Insomniac, A Christmas Story, Gladiator, Spiderman (1&2), Beauty and the Beast, 28 Days Later, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Swingers, Cloverfield, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, No Country for Old Men, Hero, Lost in Translation, Fight Club, Die Hard, Donnie Darko, Joe vs the Volcano (seriously), Jurassic Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Nightmare before Christmas, Hot Fuzz, Return to Me, Crash, October Sky, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Fiddler on the Roof, Serenity, Stranger than Fiction, Unknown White Male, Second Hand Lions, Pitch Black, Garden State, Little Miss Sunshine, Office Space, UHF, Fantasia/Fantasia 2000, Bandits, Ghostbusters, The Big Lebowski, Seven Samurai, The Music Man, The Matrix, Pan's Labyrinth, Notting Hill, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Thirteen, Rear Window, Say Anything, Enter the Dragon, The Lion King, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Edward Scissorhands, Napoleon Dynamite, Million Dollar Baby, The Full Monty, The Incredibles, About a Boy, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Shining, Shawshank Redemption, Casino Royale, Being John Malcovich, What about Bob?, Primer, Coffee and Cigarettes, Tommy Boy, King Kong(2005), School of Rock, Ran, and about a gajillion others...

Television:

Lost, Avatar, Simpsons, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dexter, 24, MythBusters, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Full Metal Alchemist, Ghost Hunters, Gilmore Girls, Survivorman, The Office, 30 Rock, Samurai Champloo, Scrubs, X-Files, Seinfeld, Family Guy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Naruto, The Cosby Show, Batman the Animated Series, The Office, Weeds, Justice League, X-Men Evolution (the last 2 seasons), Freaks and Geeks, The Muppet Show, Arrested Development, Wonderfalls, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Flight of the Conchords

Books:

The Tao of Chaos

My Blog

Further Musings

The new moon, of no importancelingers behind as the yellow sun glaresand is gone beyond the sea's edge;earth smokes blue;the new moon, in cool height above the blushes,brings a fresh fragrance of heav...
Posted by jay-dee on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:17:00 PST

Musings

I used to think friends fell into one of two categories. Either you slowly became friends over time, or you were instant friends.  Don't ask me why I thought this way, I just did.I realize now th...
Posted by jay-dee on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:39:00 PST

Ummm...

So, yeah...umm... 10 minutes ago...I felt like someone was looking at me, I turned, and thought I caught sight of something, but the second I really looked behind me - nothing... except Catherine the ...
Posted by jay-dee on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:08:00 PST

Math

From a young age, I was never fond of Math.  Early on, one of my least favorite sentences, recited me over and over again was "you have to show your work."I would regularly get poor grades on hom...
Posted by jay-dee on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:52:00 PST

I miss my friend Emily Dickinson...

I'm nobody, who are you? Are you nobody too? There's a pair of us, don't tell! They'd banish us, you know! How dreary to be somebody! How public like a frog, To tell your name the livelong day T...
Posted by jay-dee on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:04:00 PST

travelin’

If i managed to travel half as much as I write about wanting to, I would have many a story to tell... I have to imagine when the time comes when I am driving a vehicle I trust to make trips longer tha...
Posted by jay-dee on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:53:00 PST

Lacking something

I am very much aware this feeling can be heightened by insomnia, but it is not caused by it...  I feel like I am missing something... as in, 'i almost had it, but I missed it.'Overall, life is fe...
Posted by jay-dee on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:42:00 PST

Astral Projection Protection

So, starting a week ago, I began to prepare myself, partitioning a large part of my energy that keeps me in such un-naturely good health, preparing a sort of 'protective suit' of my spiritual essence,...
Posted by jay-dee on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:57:00 PST

Stormy Weather, hooray!

Ok, it's no big secret that a person's sense of humor is a creature unique to each individual.  Sometimes you connect with people who have a similar sense of humor, and lovely chaos ensues.  ...
Posted by jay-dee on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:40:00 PST

Quantum Physics vs. Relationships

The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle - the fundamental property of nature that dictates that as you achieve a level of focus, on a particular magnitude of a particle, (be it position, momentum, mass, ...
Posted by jay-dee on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:33:00 PST