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Jared

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About Me

Until recently I was a student outside Chicago. Due to repeated indiscretions, I've found myself back in icy New Hampshire terrain. I was studying International Relations and Asian Studies, specifically concentrating on Japan. Its been a dream of mine to travel extensively throughout Asia, but so far I've only been to China. (see pictures) I had delusions of a career in academia, and am trying to salvage my dreams by taking night classes at Harvard for a semester. Should that not pan out, there are plenty of fast food establishments in the surrounding area. In the meantime, I keep a dull job in the retail field to support my habits and mild shopping addiction.

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My Interests

Literature, foreign films, event planning, graphic design, travel, languages, piano

I'd like to meet:

Anyone. I love to meet new people and try new things. I refuse classification and make friends with all kinds of people. Although, in a small town in New England, it's generally the striaght, WASPY kind that one meets. (Not that its a bad thing. Some of my best friends are hetero-normative WASPY types.) In a guy, I'd like a good conversationalist. It simply isn't enough to look good, one must be good as well.

Music:

I like a wide variety of music. Madonna, Queen, Alanis, Benny Benassi, Hellogoodbye, for starters, but then the indie scene is fun too, so Sufjan Stevens, Bell & Sebastion, Stars, Rufus Wainwright, Of Montreal, its whatever. I like classic stuff too, like Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Rosemary Clooney, Etta James etc.

Movies:

I love movies that are well written, and which have interesting characters and plot. It simply isn't enough to be entertaining. Consequently, my tastes generally run to independent and foreign films.

Television:

My guilty pleasure is DH but my true love is Ugly Betty. The jokes about how shallow the fashion industry is, start to sound hollow after time, but the clothes are fun, and Betty is always clever. Monk too, because OCD is funny after all.

Books:

This semester's read is Anna Karenina. Tolstoy turns me on, but its taking forever, so I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Democracy" by Joan Didion, and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer. Fabulous reads, all.

Heroes:

Tom Ford. c'est tres beaux.

My Blog

Matthew and Mark

Mark has again goneDown to the water with Matthew.Though the trees reached out Like arms to stop them,And sight make the unseen slither,Matthew and MarkWill sit until the darkness,Like an exhale into ...
Posted by Jared on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 05:14:00 PST

Let Us Give Thanks

My hands traced the embroidery on the napkin in my lap; I kept reminding myself to sit up straight, not to fidget. I may be the last Democrat any of these people every see, and not just because they t...
Posted by Jared on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 05:57:00 PST

Thanksgiving, a time for giving something...... I just don't know what

Thanksgiving is a special time of year, when the gluttony of American society is worshipped, honored, adored. It means that you come together with people that you love, who love you, and share a speci...
Posted by Jared on Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:36:00 PST

Fall Break is coming up

The trendiest of the trendy, currently your good friend Jared, has a new ipod nano. Steve is a welcome addition to the Jared archepelego. (thats right, I'm an island. I'm bloody ibiza). SO tonight I'l...
Posted by Jared on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:06:00 PST

Finding something to do with my time

Cup after cup of tea was poured, drunk, refilled. Cigarette after cigarette was burned down to the filter and extinguished. I sit silently in my room, my eyes fixed on the tiny screen in front of me. ...
Posted by Jared on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:40:00 PST

Putting Off Japanese

Life is a crazy thing. You think you have it ffigured out and then it comes and kicks your ass. this drug does that. These people are like that. Usually, when you do this, that happens. Not true. Not ...
Posted by Jared on Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:55:00 PST

Gun Control

This is what I'm turning in on gun control. I feel like its important that people know what the fuck is going on in America, so I'm posting it here. Gun Control In February of 2002, the Harvard Sc...
Posted by Jared on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:00:00 PST

Dissillusionment, college and surviving hating your life from a distance.

I was reading this months Vogue instead of doing homework, (like I'm writing this instead of doing homework) and i came to an article about a young man who'd hurt himself in a skiing accident in the a...
Posted by Jared on Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:40:00 PST

Hmmm

The stickiness in the air traps you wherever you are. It holds you down in the sweatiness of the moment. Escape, whether thought, speech, movement, sleep, is impossible. And where would you go? Its ho...
Posted by Jared on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:49:00 PST