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Mr. Jonas

some colors move us in a way we only hear

About Me

I'm an eternally optimistic, hopeless romantic. I like eating takeout Chinese at late-night coffeeshops. (I think the key to these things is to sum yourself up without saying much of anything. kinda makes it an art form of sorts. like cooking with only what you find in the kitchen, or writing a song you know you'll forget by the morning.)

My Interests

the first three movies I listed are John Cusack movies. I think you can tell a lot about me from that (bearing in mind that I am not gay, just sensitive :)

I'd like to meet:

I like nice people who spread good feelings and can have a great time doing nothing specific. And people to make music with.

Music:

Jonah Matranga (OneLineDrawing, New End Original, Far, Gratitude), Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes, Desaparecidos), The Violent Femmes, Mates of State, Rocky Votolato, Anais Mitchell, Sufjan Stevens, Death Cab for Cutie, The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams, Mineral, Rilo Kiley, The Elected, Bad Religion, Texas is the Reason, American Football, Iron & Wine, Against Me!, The Seatbelts, Yoko Kanno, Cursive, Azure Ray, Harvey Danger, Ben Lee, The Faint, Red House Painters, The Promise Ring, Broken Social Scene, The Living End, Flogging Molly, Aberfeldy, Decibully, Neva Dinova, The Good Life, The Magnetic Fields, Jimmy Eat World, The Futureheads, Asobi Seksu, Bad Dream Good Breakfast, Belle & Sebastion, Badly Drawn Boy, Modest Mouse, The Arcade Fire, Red House Painters, Architecture in Helsinki, basically just good stuff that sounds new to me. in a general sense, the bands I like are the bands everyone likes. But I saw them first :P ("I like all kinds of music, but I like American music best!" ~VF)

Movies:

say anything, high fidelity, gross point blank, good will hunting, finding forester, akira, hard boiled, The Killer, garden state, Spirited Away, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, Sin City, Lost in Translation

Television:

The Muppets Show, Sports Night, Scrubs, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Gungrave, Lain, South Park

Books:

Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (best book ever written), Zen in the Martial Arts by Joe Hyams (if I had a bible, this would be it), The Demolished Man by... I forget, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson, the Belgariod series by David Eddings, Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett

Heroes:

Jonah Matranga, Penn Jilette, Vash the Stampede (so what if he's fictional!)

My Blog

In Time We'll See It

Well, I had a pretty solid couple of weeks. good music + good people = good times (and pretty good math!)I missed LebowskiFest. I was too wasted down in Federal Way to come back up to Seattle. Kind of...
Posted by Mr. Jonas on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:48:00 PST

Call Me the Brightness of a Friday Night

Its a weird feeling working at a job where you should care about what's happening within the company, how business is doing and so forth. I still can't get it in my head that I should keep working for...
Posted by Mr. Jonas on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:40:00 PST

excuse me a second, I have to get TOTALLY OBSESSED WITH THIS SONG

I'm your worn in leather jacketI'm the volume in your fucked up teenage bandA bag of smokes and a six packI'm the dreams you had walking down the railroad tracksYou and Me.I'm your first taste of roma...
Posted by Mr. Jonas on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:00:00 PST

Playing Last Rites for my Late Nights

ah, the year's end. a time for reflections of the past and plans for the future. Ben Gibbard said of Death Cab for Cutie's latest album title, Plans, "you can't make plans without being optimistic." I...
Posted by Mr. Jonas on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:20:00 PST

If I leave before you, don't you waste me in the ground

The word of the day is... cold! its very cold when it snows! So cold that the roads are no longer roads. They are skating rinks!So, I haven't blogged since September, and now its almost December. Thin...
Posted by Mr. Jonas on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:39:00 PST

you keep scratching at the old paint, but the wood is still there

I am sitting in m room, looking for the remote to my radio (I'm not in the mood for a Something Corporate ballad right now), and reflecting upon my spontaneous day.I received a ticket to Bumbershoot, ...
Posted by Mr. Jonas on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:08:00 PST

its... been much too long... I feel it comin' on... the feelings gettin' strong

hallo again! I'm alive, in case of wonderment and/or confusion. just to say hi, here's what going on with me.This howse is (insert high number here) times cooler than the last howse. My roomies and I ...
Posted by Mr. Jonas on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:42:00 PST

If I could do just one near perfect thing I'd be happy

I now type from my newfound home here at Green Lake. This howse rapes the last house. rapes it... without mercy.Let's put it this way: there's a pornstar themed party this weekend, Farley doesn't live...
Posted by Mr. Jonas on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 01:54:00 PST

There's a story in counting all the minutes 'til July the 1st

got the job. orientation Friday. start Monday.Sadly, I don't get to jump for joy just yet. I don't think I can keep this job if I live on the streets (I stink in the morning, and need more showers tha...
Posted by Mr. Jonas on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:53:00 PST

therapy

sometimes I do things that are stupid. That's when I go see my therapist, Dr. Jack Daniels.but he wasn't home tonight, so I called this hot young lassie to rock me to sleep, if you know what I mean ;)...
Posted by Mr. Jonas on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:17:00 PST