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jim

Yo tengo la fe - en todo . . .

About Me

This is what I've been up to - photos and stuff - will be updated on a fairly regular basis:Jim's Flickr Page. . ............................................................ ...... ............................................................ ............ ............................................................ ............ ................. love this song - Carlos Varela - Una Palabra

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My Interests

skydiving was one of the most important things in my life for a long time . . . however I'm taking a hiatus from the wild blue yonder for awhile, shooting pool, good beer, going to movies, travel, learning new languages, the absurd side of life most people ignore.

I'd like to meet:

. . . I think I'm okay now . . .

Music:

INDUSTRIAL: skinny puppy, das ich, nine inch nails, dope, kmfdm, wumpscut, pigface, acumen nation, rx/ritalin, ohgr, terminal sect, front 242, frontline assembly, ministry, revolting cocks, butthole surfers, download, coil, evil mothers, my life with the thrill kill kult, particle son, chemlab. GOTH: sisters of mercy (you're wrong andrew, you ARE goth!!), peter murphy, bauhaus, nick cave, the cult, christian death, the swans, the cure, dead can dance. MAYNARD: tool, a perfect circle. SYNTHPOP/DARKWAVE/WHATEVER: ego likeness, vnv nation, wolfsheim, neurotic fish, tear garden, assemblage 23, delerium, doubting thomas, dead voices on air, cevin key, icon of coil, x marks the pedwalk, apoptygma berzerk PUNK RAWK: social distortion, the cramps, nofx, rancid, operation ivy, sex pistols, minor threat, avail, misfits. METAL: entombed, white zombie, carcass, pantera, system of a down, danzig, korn. THE FAIR SEX: betty x, ani difranco, tori amos, liz phair, rasputina, babes in toyland, L7, sinead o'connor, kidneythieves, kate bush, lauryn hill, lords of acid, molly zenobia, patti smith, pj harvey, poe, sarah mclachlan, switchblade symphony, tatu. ROCK: bush, stone temple pilots, nirvana, soundgarden, dave navarro, jane's addiction, porno for pyros, monster magnet, mr bungle, faith no more, rage against the machine, smashing pumpkins, tom waits, u2, third eye blind. FOREIGNERS: ntm/supreme ntm, mc solaar, noir desir, akhenaton, suba.

Movies:

Lucia y el Sexo, memento, darren aronofsky (the fountain, requiem for a dream, pi) tom tykwer (run lola run, winter sleepers, etc), atom egoyan (ararat, sweet hereafter, etc), mathieu kassiovitz (hate, crimson rivers, etc), alejandro gonzalez inarritu (babel, amores perros, 21 grams) magnolia, fight club, seven, before the rain, underground, lock stock and 2 smoking barrels, snatch, true romance, once were warriors, etc

Television:

Battlestar Galactica (the new series on Sci Fi now (2005), cold feet (a british show on bravo) - the sopranos, National Geographic Fantastic Animal Maulings specials (this woman ignored the fence and tried to take a close-up photo of Binky the polar bear . . . amazingly, all she suffered was a crushed sternum, 2 punctured lungs, and 27 broken bones throughout the left side of her body - lol)

Books:

thomas pynchon, hungers brides, tolstoy, dostoevsky, hemingway, jg ballard, house of leaves (danielewski), david foster wallace, jeff noon, william gibson, stephen king - esp Dark Tower Series, clive barker, A Million Little Pieces

My Blog

thoughts

there is something unbelievably intense that occurs inside your body when you witness someone sing, dance, write, speak or live from the very depths of their soul . . . a funeral mass is the single st...
Posted by jim on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:38:00 PST

la fuente - the fountain

I saw, and felt, something very very strongly today. This movie - the fountain - by Darren Aronofsky. It's been a long time - and a lot of movies - since I've felt anything this strongly at the movi...
Posted by jim on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:45:00 PST

Butterfly effect . . .

    Heh . . . sometimes I'm really naive and silly.  Back in the day.  well fuck probably today too.  I don't know.  so in the early days - early days of my relation...
Posted by jim on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 06:27:00 PST

death . . . stay behind me . . .

    So - as a very astute friend pointed out - I talk to you.  In my blogs.  by talking to my friends.  But it's you I'm talking to.  I recently - for the first time...
Posted by jim on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:58:00 PST

Must remember this . . . (lol)

from:http://wikitravel.org/en/Colombia    "Colombians use their hands to show the height of people and animals in a different way. Avoid using your hand with the palm facing down to des...
Posted by jim on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:39:00 PST

New Colombia Photos uploaded

Jim's Photos come on - click.  you know you want to.
Posted by jim on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:14:00 PST

COLOMBIA DOES NOT EQUAL COCAINE . . .

    Alright.  I just spent 11 days in Colombia.  And I felt exactly the same way that all of you do (probably) - so don't feel like I'm yelling or judging or whatever.  C...
Posted by jim on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:50:00 PST

scribblies plain

    scribblies plain was your theme in firefox.  jerm expressed honor (support, appreciation - damn - my words fail me now) - jerm said "wow, she was an it geek".  jerm is mor...
Posted by jim on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:52:00 PST

i or d

Bjork: Hyperballadlistening on the drive back from Phillywatching life come full-circlewatching from the passenger seatno, rather the driver seatof a different car(these here are the lyrics to Bjork: ...
Posted by jim on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:51:00 PST

scouring pad

that would be me.  i scour the web.  i learn that the dea has shut down 3 doctors and 4 pharmacies in new orleans for oversubscribing different pain killers.  i see hope - people arrest...
Posted by jim on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:36:00 PST