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About Me

The current song on my profile is one that I recorded. I'll Give You the Will to Live is based on an event in my life where I was counted on to give hope to someone who's life was, from what I was told, at risk. That's a tough thing to put on a 15 year old.
People have no idea what to think of me. I likes to keep 'em guessing.
Someday I WILL restore a classic Woody Stationwagon.
I'm JEWish for people that get the joke.
I'm in the ever-so-slow process of recording some heavy rock demos (minus a band). I've been working on some songs as long as six years. They may not sound good to the general populous but these are songs that to me are something more than ordinary.
There was a time a few summers ago when I was radio active. I'm a trip in real life. I'm the type to drive to Canada to make an International Collect Call home to my mom using 1 800 Call ATT. I have one fully funtioning normal sized elbow. I have one fully funtioning abnormally large elbow. I've used up roughly six of my nine lives.
While hearing hip hop "music" off in the distance recently, I have come to the conclusion that it is nothing more than a soundtrack for OCD. I want to hear none of it.
I'd like to think I don't have any friends with outie belly buttons.Please remove yourself from my list of friends if you do. Or consider some surgical procedure if you think I'm worth it.
Some things that I used to be quite good at and or miss terribly: drawing and painting, summer road trips in pursuit of rock and roll, playing baseball and athletics in general, and creatively writing.
"If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams." - Life of Pi
Recently, some of my favorite songs have included:
The Waiting Room - Beneath the Starscape (I'm Becoming Alive)
The Waiting Room - I Saw You Leave, I Saw the End
The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer in the City
Stavesacre - Stars and Clouds
Dead Kennedys - Pull My Strings
Celldweller - Tragedy
Herman's Hermits - I'm Into Something Good
Denison Marrs - Send Me an Angel
Depeche Mode - The Things You Said
Project 86 - PS

My Interests

The basic. Guitars. Video games. Road trips.

I'd like to meet:

People that are genuine and give a damn. People who aren't into pop culture bullshit. People who have an actual personality, a defining persona.

If you think Nickelback are great, you are a moron and deserve a beating. Please, together we can stop this band by simply ignoring them entirely until they go back to working at 7-Eleven.

Music:

Stavesacre // Cave In
Beach Boys // Cure
Denison Marrs // Celldweller
Fingertight // Love Association
PM Dawn // Project 86
Divebomber // Seether
Chevelle // Zao
The Killers // Richard Marx
Roxette // Radiohead
Silvertide // 238
Marilyn Manson // Green Day
The Offspring // NOFX
AC/DC // Tom Petty
Michael Jackson // Alice Cooper
G'n'R // Gwar
OneSideZero // Hum
Ray Charles // B.B. King
Stevie Ray Vaughn // Frank Sinatra
Pat Boone // NESkimoes
80's // myself
Dschinghis Khan

Movies:

Flight of the Navigator, Transformers, SAW 1 and 2, Matrix, Se7en, Almost Famous, Devil's Playground, Adam Sandler, Samuel L. Jackson

Television:

I have two televisions. Zero channels. I don't miss 'em.

Books:

Relevant Magazine
Mark Salomon - Simplicity
1984 - George Orwell
C.S.Lewis

Heroes:

I'd rather become someone else's hero. Not for the sake of ego but rather to make a difference.

My Blog

The Playground of a Prostitute

She had more than her own corner. She was everywhere. Men would seek her out and fall at her feet. She bled them dry time and again. But when a man's soul is empty what else does he have to fill it wi...
Posted by .j on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 05:46:00 PST

A Mercy Killing

They were all dying. There was no weeping. There were no screams of pain. Just a silent, prolonged death."Why!? How do they continue to let her get away with this!?" he pleaded.They responded by telli...
Posted by .j on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:40:00 PST

Whispers of Good Intentions

Damn that prostitute. Damn that whore for taking my hard earned dollars. The dollars that she will continue to take from me. The life she has drained from me and continues to drain. Damn her for that ...
Posted by .j on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:59:00 PST

A Prostitute with a New Dress

I often find myself wavering back and forth on my feelings toward this city. A city fresh with many parks and biking trails. A city that will paint itself up quite nicely in a festive holiday mood.But...
Posted by .j on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:15:00 PST

Repost: Volunteering in Mississippi

I realized recently that I never wrote about my time as a volunteer for the relief effort for Hurricane Katrina in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The truth is, I never did this for any recognition. I told e...
Posted by .j on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:21:00 PST

Closer - Track One

I don't believeYou're any closer to the truth than meI can't believe inThe words you have chosen to speakWhere do you get offThat the ideals and beliefsYou so strongly holdAren't just for you but for ...
Posted by .j on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:14:00 PST

Make Me Feel

I had this all put into words an hour ago. In my head. Then again, maybe it never could be put into words. Eyes fading open and shut with every line. Hold that note as loud and as long as poss...
Posted by .j on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:04:00 PST

Get It Right

"To live the life like a child and never to forget what I know loving is." I'm going to see them again someday. We each have one shot in life to get it right... to do right by your family. To kee...
Posted by .j on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:03:00 PST

Plugged In

There is something magical about playing guitar. Not so much the actual playing of the instrument but rather the creativity. I've been learning for the past four years. I'm not as good as perhaps I sh...
Posted by .j on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:03:00 PST

Finding Life

"I suppose a single guy like you is at the strip joint in Cosmos every weekend." "No. I don't need that kind of nightlife." "Atta boy." Man, that felt good to have my grandpa back me up on tha...
Posted by .j on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:00:00 PST