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The dude formerly known as Jonathan Randolph Smyth

A wise man's heart is at his right hand

About Me

Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a "before" in a Charles Atlas "before and after" ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy — he ain't so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I'm in Omaha. It's so cold there, by this time I'm robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain't much to look at, but who's built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything's going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say?

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'

Music:

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
-- Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Britpop mostly at the moment.

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The Verve

Oasis

Coldplay

Blur

Richard Ashcroft

Brian Jonestown Massacre

The Shore

Travis

Turin Brakes

The Music

The Shining

Muse

The Dandy Warhols

Pete Yorn

The Stone Roses

Radiohead

Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Django Reinhardt
Duke Ellington
Frank Sinatra
Glenn Miller
Atomic Fireballs
Benny Goodman
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Big Time Operator
Brian Setzer Orchestra
Lavay Smith
Royal Crown Revue
Squirrel Nut Zipper
The Chazz Cats
Pete Yorn
Tommy Dorsey
Elvis Costello
Brian Setzer
Uncle Tupelo
Travis
The Specials
Violent Femmes
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Jerry Lee Lewis
The English Beat
Roni Size
Dilated Peoples
Talib Kweli
Beatnuts
The Jealous Sound
Ryan Adams
Versus
Karate
Knapsack
The Beastie Boys
Beck
Mos Def
Bad Manners
Reverend Horton Heat
P Funk
Placebo
Digable Planets
Lenola
The Pharcyde
Son Volt
Fishbone
Pedro The Lion
Motorhead
Whiskeytown
The Wailers
Beat Happening
Apples in Stereo
Quasi
Yo La Tengo
Ugly Casanova
Spoon
Jawbox
Camera Obscura
Flaming Lips
Batmobile
Pixies
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Joan of Arc
Neil Young
The White Stripes
Wilco
Kaleidoscope
The Mars Volta
Jedi Mind Tricks
Torment
The Meteors
Nekromantix
Demented are Go
Minus The Bear
Mercury Rev
Restless
Nation of Ulysses
Pavement

Movies:


Freak Talks About Sex (1999)
Mad Max (1979)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Scratch (2001/II)
Miranda (2002)
Shining, The (1980)
Empire Records (1995)
Minus Man, The (1999)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Scotland, Pa. (2001)
Secretary (2002)
Romper Stomper (1992)
Waydowntown (2000)
Cherry Falls (2000)
Cecil B. DeMented(2000)
Benny & Joon (1993)
All the Rage (1999)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Nick of Time (1995)
High Fidelity (2000)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Jack Bull, The (1999)
Ghost World (2000)
Pushing Tin (1999)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Igby Goes Down (2002)
Say Anything... (1989)
Tapeheads (1988)
One Crazy Summer (1986)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Girl (1998)
Spartacus (1960)
Pumpkin (2002)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Believer, The (2001)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Tart (2001)
Blade Runner (1982)
Buffalo '66 (1998)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
Basquiat (1996)
American Beauty (1999)
Pecker (1998)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Clerks. (1994)
Die Hard (1988)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Dogma (1999)
28 Days Later... (2002)
Harvey (1950)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
Beach, The (2000)
Catch-22 (1970)
Fargo (1996)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Usual Suspects, The (1995)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Elephant (2003)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Dead Man (1995)
Fight Club (1999)
American Splendor (2003)
Memento (2000)
Se7en (1995)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Ed Wood (1994)
Back to the Future (1985)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Nightmare Before Christmas(1993)
Rain Man (1988)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Office Space (1999)
Princess Bride, The (1987)
Eight Days a Week (1997)
Alien (1979)
100 Girls (2000)
American History X (1998)
Love and a .45 (1994)
100 Women (2003)
Tadpole (2002)
Shining, The (1980)
Auggie Rose [Beyond Suspicion] (2000)
Jakob the Liar (1999)
Panic (2000)
Frankenstein (1931)
Léon (1994)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Exorcist, The (1973)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Snatch. (2000)
Magnolia (1999)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Terminator, The (1984)
Lola rennt (Run Lola Run)(1998)
Crumb (1994)
Trainspotting (1996)
Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Books:

Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, We The Living, On The Road, Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Candide, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Catch-22, Brave New World, The Brothers Karamazov, The Trial, Amerika, The Metamorphosis, The Plague, Anything Kurt Vonnegut, The Stranger, The Holy Bible, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Lost Horizion, Cats Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, High Fidelity, Catcher in the Rye, Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Great Gatsby, Lucky, The Rules of Attraction, About a Boy, David Mamet

Heroes:

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My Blog

Intro-spective

I hate being a sentimental, romantic, nostalgic, emotional, and intellectual. Strip me of my foresight, my perspective, my introspective, and I'd be much happier. Lately I've been a sucker for nos...
Posted by The dude formerly known as Jonathan Randolph Smyth on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Indeed

Forgive me, my Compatriots for my former state of mind. I've been thinking, lately, and I've got nothing to complain about. I've got plenty of close friends and intimate strangers in my life to ...
Posted by The dude formerly known as Jonathan Randolph Smyth on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

So my friends,

With all these advances in communication, do people talk more and say less? We're always in touch but we're never together, true meaningful conversation is an antiquity. Text messaging, and int...
Posted by The dude formerly known as Jonathan Randolph Smyth on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST