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Indie Jake

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

You're not cool unless your Myspace profile has some random pictures in it. So there's one.
And yer damn right I make my own sandwiches . They're the best you'll ever have.
I actually do it professionally now, too, as I'm the general manager at Jimmy John's in Christiansburg. They're the best sandwiches in town, and I'd know, as I've eaten every sandwich the town has to offer. I'm staying in Blacksburg, and I graduated in December 2005 from Virginia Tech. I'm a communications major, which means I have 'people skills' and as such, often I'm the one in the group that's going to get things going or get things done.
For a while there I was in this band Tripleside , where we recorded a handful of albums and well, it was a pretty prolific time. There's a lot of songs out there that we did. I even wrote a song as a tribute to Homestar Runner back when that was huge. It was called "Legitimate Business"... you can probably find it somewhere... something... I don't think I have it up anymore.
But then everyone else in the band had to go and graduate, so I did the only intelligent thing a guy can do - I went and recorded my own material, just by myself. I've got it in a few places, which will now be summarized by bullet points:
- myspace.com/jacobbock
- purevolume.com/jacobbock
Finally, if you're really that excited about me, and you want to know more and more and more, please go ahead and check out my website. It has all sorts of pages on it: my solo music, links to more info about Tripleside, my Shortlist and Audiobiography projects, and some pretty pictures. It's the next link you can click:
firewalkingmusic.com-jb.

My Interests

MUSIC, first and foremost. Video games are fun too. I also really like cooking, and I want to be a good cook when I grow up (more). Right now, I make some really good sandwiches (hot and cold). I also really like beverages. Drinks. Sodas, fruit juice, etc. Whatever, I like to drink good things. My favorite beer is Shiner Hefeweisen. My favorite soda is Pepsi Vanilla, but they took that off the shelves so I'm a little miffed about that.I like indie rock band buttons. If you have any, give them to me.

I'd like to meet:

someone faster at making sandwiches than me.......... which is NOBODY bwahaahahahah

Music:

!!!. +/-, 13 & God, Air, Alex Tschan, Anathallo, Apollo Sunshine, Augie March, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Folds, Bloc Party, Bright Eyes, Cave In, Celldweller, Chris Thile, Clinic, Cloud Cult, Copeland, Dada, Damien Rice, Death Cab for Cutie, Doves, Drew Worden, E, Eels, Explosions in the Sky, Flashbulb Diary, Franz Ferdinand, Freezepop, Frou Frou, Girlyman, Gomez, Halloween Alaska, Hammock, Her Space Holiday, Imogen Heap, Jupiter Sunrise, Kanye West, Ken Stringfellow, Kings of Convenience, Lake Trout, Lamb, Loney Dear, Lou Rhodes, Lovedrug, Mae, Massive Attack, Material Issue, Metric, Mew, Menomena, Modest Mouse, Muse, Mute Math, Nine Inch Nails, Of Montreal, Philip Uster and the House Floor, Races to April, Rachel's, Radiohead, Red Admiral, Secret Machines, Shapiro, She Wants Revenge, Slow Runner, So Many Dynamos, Some By Sea, Stars, Subtle, Sufjan Stevens, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Arcade Fire, The Birthday Massacre, The Decemberists, The Dismemberment Plan, The Earlies, The Fire Theft, The Helio Sequence, The Knife, The Liberation Jumpsuit, The Low Life, The Mars Volta, The Polyphonic Spree, The Posies, The Postal Service, The Rebel Yell, The Streets, The Whitlams, The Working Title, Thee More Shallows, They Might Be Giants, Thom Yorke, Tokyo, Tripleside, TV on the Radio, Wesafari, Zero 7

Movies:

High Fidelity, Shaun of the Dead, Charlie Chaplin films: City Lights, The Great Dictator, Modern Times, Ran, Ikiru, Seven Samural, Layer Cake, The Prestige, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zizzou, The Matrix, Moulin Rouge, Memento, Harry Potter, Spider-Man, Grosse Point Blank, Identity, Toys, Amelie, Amadeus, Lord of the Rings, Monsters Inc., Phone Booth.

Television:

24, Boston Legal, Lost, House, The Office to name a few.

Books:

The Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, His Dark Materials, and Uglies serieses; Koji Suzuki's "Ring" books (Ring, Spiral, Loop); I am One of You Forever and Brighten the Corner Where You Are by Fred Chappell, Catch-22, Catcher in the Rye, Asimov, Alfred Bester, random works of fiction and non-fiction.

Heroes:

I can learn from anyone.

My Blog

all around you is love

Maybe you've seen it by now. Pictures, or comments, or words, or in the way I walk these days. I met someone, or rather, got to know someone better. We fit together like puzzle pieces, interlocking. W...
Posted by Indie Jake on Tue, 29 May 2007 07:15:00 PST

Book of bad breaks

They got the name of the album wrong.Sigh. I don't blog too often. Mainly I don't blog when I'm feeling content. I'm not feeling content. Thus, blog.Generally I feel as if I've just hit a wall in life...
Posted by Indie Jake on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:45:00 PST

Blogging for the sake of blog.

Hi peoples. Let's see, what's happened since the last time I blogged:I graduatedI do solo musicI still live in blacksburg.That's pretty much me in a nutshell these days. I guess I just kinda figure th...
Posted by Indie Jake on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:10:00 PST

My top music lists of 2005.

At the very least, maybe you'll be influenced to check out some new music from this post. 2005 was essentially the best year of music in this decade. So far, anyway. The nominations for the speci...
Posted by Indie Jake on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:00:00 PST

Ok so.

Hi everyone. It's me again. Hmmmm so yeah, I check Myspace all the time now, contradicting that previous blog. Go check out my music. http://myspace.com/jacobbock My radio show is Fridays fro...
Posted by Indie Jake on Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:52:00 PST

Whose space?

So who checks this thing anyway? I'm on here so rarely, usually it's just out of boredom that I'll come and click the "myspace" button on my bookmarks bar. It seems just about everyone I know is busie...
Posted by Indie Jake on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A survey I stole from Metal Jake. Why the hell not

63 Random Things About Me 1. FIRST NAME: Jacob 2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? I think my parents just put names in a hat. Seriously. 3. DO YOU WISH ON STARS? I'm afraid of stars. 4. WHICH...
Posted by Indie Jake on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Just a few comments...

I figured I should say something so you all don't think I'm avoiding the place... it's just that I often forget I'm on here, and don't check in for weeks at a time. So yeah. IM me or something, it's m...
Posted by Indie Jake on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST