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John

Maladjustment is part of the job description.

About Me


Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||||||||| 66%
Stability |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Orderliness |||||| 26%
Accommodation |||||||||||| 43%
Interdependence |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Intellectual |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Mystical |||||||||||||||| 63%
Artistic |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Religious |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Hedonism |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Materialism || 10%
Narcissism |||||||||||||||| 70%
Adventurousness |||||||||||||| 56%
Work ethic |||||||||||||| 56%
Self absorbed |||||||||||||||| 70%
Conflict seeking |||||||||||||| 56%
Need to dominate |||||||||||| 50%
Romantic |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Avoidant || 10%
Anti-authority |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Wealth |||||| 23%
Dependency |||| 16%
Change averse || 10%
Cautiousness |||||| 23%
Individuality |||||||||||| 50%
Sexuality |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Peter pan complex |||||||||||| 43%
Physical security |||||||||||||||| 63%
Physical Fitness |||||||||||||| 57%
Histrionic |||| 16%
Paranoia || 10%
Vanity |||||| 30%
Hypersensitivity || 10%
Female cliche |||||| 30% Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test
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My Interests

you know, stuff. . .

I'd like to meet:

the uni-verse that alludes. you, my muse.

Music:

akron/family, alabama sacred harp singers, andrew bird, animal collective, aretha franklin, arnold dreyblatt, the band, the beatles, beck, bill frisell, bjork, the blind boys of alabama, bob dylan, bon iver, the bowerbirds, brian eno, broken social scene, califone, the carter family, charlemagne palestine, chris thile, dave douglas, david bowie, devendra banhart, deyarmond edison, dock boggs, ella fitzgerald, fripp & eno, gastr del sol, howlin' wolf, jim o'rourke, joanna newsom, john cage, john fahey, john zorn, johnny cash, justin vernon, louis armstrong, miles davis, muddy waters, neil young, nmperign, ornette coleman, pavement, philip glass, radiohead, ray charles, roscoe holcomb, rufus wainwright, sigur ros, smog, son house, sonic youth, steve reich, sufjan stevens, sunn o))), terry riley, thelonious monk, ticonderoga, tin hat trio, tom waits, tony conrad, velvet underground, wilco, woody guthrie, xiu xiu, and others. . .

Movies:

yes.

Television:

no. . . well, the west wing.

Books:

bukowski, miller, cummings, murakami, spillane, 1984, the fountainhead, miles

Heroes:

the one some call god

My Blog

the next chapter

insert cliche opening here: as one door closes, another opens. this past weekend saw the greatest and most final moment of my main performance vehicle, lowtel. after what was our best show to date,...
Posted by John on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:18:00 PST

new 'space

i created a new space for some music i've been working on recently. some of the stuff on the page will end up being lowtel songs, some of it won't. i've been working out some guitar things/solo banj...
Posted by John on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:50:00 PST

Love Song No. 2

The past few months or so have found me thinking about how to begin bringing my musical ideas to fruition. It seems like such a daunting task to take what is in you and bring it out to the point wher...
Posted by John on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:30:00 PST

My hero

I think it's far past time that I took a little of it to talk about the only thing that really matters in my life. That's right, I'm talking of course about the omniscious, the omnipotent, the unknow...
Posted by John on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 02:00:00 PST

Objectivity v. Subjectivity

Randall was telling me about a discussion in his logic class concerning objectivity and subjectivity, and though I was only mildly interested during the original conversation, I now have one modest th...
Posted by John on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:18:00 PST

I'm not that obsessed, I swear.

From the webpage for an actual mental health institute:Akron Family Institute is dedicated to providing the highest standards of client care in the mental health field. Our professional staf...
Posted by John on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:46:00 PST

Current Listening

So all these important people are posting their current listening, so I figured even though I'm not important I should post anyway. I mean, you can't be important unless you start acting like it, and...
Posted by John on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:01:00 PST

akron/family

So I've had my life changed once more, hopefully for the better. I'm going to attribute this most recent revelation first and foremost to Akron/Family for causing me to drool constantly for an hour a...
Posted by John on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:35:00 PST