James M. - ProfilesArchive

About Me

father to a sister of thought

My Interests

avid reader, movie goer, writer, and musician. sports= baseball (God's game), tennis, golf

I'd like to meet:

LEFTIES

Music:

PAVEMENT, PIXIES, Belle & Sebastian, MODEST MOUSE, Bob Dylan, the beatles, brian wilson, PULP, radiohead, FLAMING LIPS, MAGNETIC FIELDS, NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL, The ARCADE FIRE, Talking Heads, PORTERVILLE, Stellar, Leonard Bernstein Silver Jews, Fatlip

Movies:

Manhattan, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Godfather, The Star Wars, The GhostBusters, Jesus' Son, The Zero Effect, Saving Private Ryan, the natural, The Exorcist, The Rosemary's Baby, The Big Lebowski, The Topsy-Turvy, The A Very Long Engagement, All the Real Girls

Television:

the Sopranos; Baseball Tonight; the sundance channel; curb your enthusiasm; lost

Books:

Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer; A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius- Dave Eggers; Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman; The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway; Faust - Goethe; Siddhartha - Herman Hesse; Perfect Sound Forever - Rob Jovanovic; A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking; The Conscious Life - Dr. Louis Cox; the Rainbow - DH Lawrence; The Great gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald; John Adams - David MacCullough; A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn; Harry Potter; Found Magazine & www.foundmagazine.com (obviously not a book but an exceptional part of the print media universe)

Heroes:

Michaelangelo; Thomas Jefferson v. John Adams; Jesus; William Jefferson Clinton; Martin Luther; Babe Ruth; Stephen Malkmus; Manet; Jonathan Singer Sargent; paul McCartney; WA Mozart; Johannes Brahms; Igor Stravinsky; Anderson filmmakers; Woody Allen; Roman Polanski; Rainer Maria Rilke; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; e.e. cummings; Leonard Bernstein; Robert Frost

My Blog

so you think you can tell...

There comes that moment in life when you realize you were wrong. Or, at least that your perception of a certain thing was way off base. Or, at the very least, you were simply unable to com...
Posted by James M. on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:52:00 PST

when it starts and started-everytime:again & again

Today is June 6th, and it marks a sort of yearly ritual for me and a seasonal passage that doesn't really have a denotation on any calendars you might find, except that some calendars might recognize ...
Posted by James M. on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:34:00 PST

armageddon it

The following is my reponse to an email thread that I was brought into late. It deals with the developing story about Kobe Bryant, the star basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers and ...
Posted by James M. on Wed, 30 May 2007 03:19:00 PST

letters to a friend

I sent this in an email today to Tushar and the more I started thinking about it, the more I wanted my opinion in the ether. Forgive me my presumptiveness. Do you think Pitchfork has become inca...
Posted by James M. on Fri, 18 May 2007 01:31:00 PST

weekend update, or how so much good can be ruined by a really bad hollywood movie

When our forefathers envisioned "week ends," they had a notion that after a grueling 5 or 6 days of essentially sun up to sun down work, we as humans would need at least one day to sit in a quiet and ...
Posted by James M. on Mon, 07 May 2007 01:25:00 PST

old enough to know

This morning on the news I heard a story about Courtney Love. She is, and will always be, one of the tragic characters in the culture of my generation. If her story had been played out a g...
Posted by James M. on Tue, 01 May 2007 02:10:00 PST

action/reaction (or, thoughts on a brand new Horror)

Like nearly every person residing in these United States of America, I've been shocked and riveted by the Horror at Virginia Tech. I say "nearly every person" because there are others (like Simo...
Posted by James M. on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:15:00 PST

Guitar Hero Nation

A funny thing happened the other day and it's kept me thinking about random things since. First of all, it's been a brutal few weeks which have just been the extension of a brutally busy year.&n...
Posted by James M. on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:42:00 PST

Charlie Rose vs. ESPN=Dumbledore vs. Lord Voldemort

A couple weeks back, lost amongst the grind of our lives, something truly remarkable and extraordinary and exemplary occurred. A young man who is just 21 years old and named Michael Phelps did s...
Posted by James M. on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:05:00 PST

speak no evil

To a professional singer, the word "laryngitis" is as terrifying as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. A singer, at any level in his/her training or age or experience is powerless with laryngi...
Posted by James M. on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:34:00 PST