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Jimmy

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About Me


Basically I think celebrity worship is a mild form of mental illness but I still miss John Lennon and Freddie Mercury. Peter Gabriel is one I would miss a lot, I like his music and third world conscience (Bono and Sting are too preachy) Mean people suck. Nice people suck too but in a good way.My dream is to make a really crappy cowboy movie, El Salvador is the hero, Costa Rica is his beach bimbo girlfriend (her favorite beverage is a tobacco flavored sports drink called Nicaragua)Seriously, my dream is a Marshall plan for AfricaI'm a religious person who usually prefers the company of atheists, they're just spiritually lazy, people who smugly parrot some sacred text are just as lazy spiritually and also intellectually. Those who think reciting some text gives them the right to do violence or the right to impose their will on others are also morally wrong. The worth of anything is proportional to the effort required to obtain it. Average guy who knows his life is good, happiness is knowing when you have enough, greed is its own punishment. Cheaters don't feel how good it is to win fairly.
I'm talking to you Dubya
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My Interests

.. The last great book I read
By my definition great books are timeless when doesn't matter. A true great changes you(not always for the better) Partial List:Forever War,Catch 22, Story of O,LOTR(I liked the movie too), Confederation of Dunces,Shardik,Brave New World, The Magus, Clockwork Orange(another good movie) do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep(and another)
.. My most humbling moment
Crying at a movie, not good movies where I could pretend to be deep. Dopey kids movies with orchestral crescendo and the obvious sucker punch before the happy ending.
.. Favorite on-screen sex scene
Buttercup and the Dread Pirate Roberts( if a masked man in tight leather pants doesn't do it for you may as well close the book here. Apple cheeked virgins with great cleavage inspire me to swordmanship.
.. The celebrity I resemble the most
Zorro but the mask flatters me much more than Senor Banderas(you'll just have to pretend I'm handsome)
.. The best or worst lie I've ever told
Any lie you get away with is a good lie(too glib,sorry, the best lie is the one you didn't have to tell) If "YOU" never lie you need to get out more
.. If I could be anywhere right now
Oz,Shire,Narnia,Barsoom,Camelot,Gotham City, Atlantis,100 acre woods,darkest Peru

Sort of non-fiction: Berkeley'69,Carnaval in Rio, Pre ski resort Crested Butte, Shi Shi during a winter storm,darkest Peru

I'd like to meet:

Citizens of the world, who think principles count for more than possesions. People who are serious about human and civil rights but are still playful sometimes.
The Bangles are from SoCal, boy was I wrong I always considered them the quintessential British female glamrock band.Actually, after listening to The Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool, (it's the video in my comments, Thanks Molly) geography notwithstanding they were the best British girl band, suck it Limeys.

Music:

I'm a huge fan of 70ish Motown--- Spinners, Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes,Isaac Hayes---blues Albert King, Bobby Bland--- Late 60's to mid 80's rock( sue me I'm too old to be hip anyway but disco was fun)
ALL TIME GREAT ALBUMS
My Aim is True by Elvis Costello
What's going on by Marvin Gaye
Another side of Bob Dylan
Rubber Soul by Beatles
Heart of Saturday Night by Tom Waits
She's So Unusual by Cyndi Lauper
Deguello by ZZ Top
The Mother's of Invention live at the Filmore
That's Why I'm Here by James Taylor
Fenix by Gato Barbieri
Exodus (Burnin too) by Bob Marley
Good Old Boys by Randy Newman
Gonna Take a Miracle by Laura Nyro
Look Sharp by Joe Jackson
Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane
Benefactor by Romeo Void
Desperado by the Eagles
.. to be continuedTHE SINGLES
Don't Fear the Reaper
Under Pressure
Solsbury Hill
Loser(Beck version}
I Will Survive
I'll Play the Blues for You
Train in Vain
Scatterlings of Africa
Destination Unknown(brainlessly irresistable pop)
Slippin' into Darkness
Eyes of a Stranger(awesome 80's guitar lick)
Everybody's Talkin(Nilsson of course)
Found Out About You
Der Kommissar (Falco not the ATF elevator cover)
The Weight
Ship of Fools

Movies:

If you have a shred of class(OR TASTE) you won't click any of my videos hilarious clip from break.com

So, you think your job sucks? Jesus in Hollywood?

Heroes:

Nelson Mandela-what kind of character does it take to spend a third of your life in a cell without becoming bitter or vengeful?

My Blog

How others see you

Years ago, long before I met my missus, I had a girlfriend with a huge scar on her back, a slash a foot long surrounded by little round scars where doctors had attached traction, from scoliosis surger...
Posted by Jimmy on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:16:00 PST

Random crap, gay rights and freckles

When Harry Truman decided to racially integrate the armed forces, he was told it would cost him the next election. "At least we'll know we lost for the right reason." There will always be racists, but...
Posted by Jimmy on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:39:00 PST

god is not a noun

God is not a who or what- given the limits of my language's interogatives, god is best described as a why.God is nature but not merely nature, reason will fail in the search for God( Picasso's Guernic...
Posted by Jimmy on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 07:39:00 PST

Warning depressing topic

 This will be chronological because like so many things in real life it won't break down to a coherent narrative, there is no conclusion, moral, or purpose. When I was a small child my grand...
Posted by Jimmy on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 07:58:00 PST

Rating the American Presidents of my life

Affable gladhanding weasels - Clinton and ReaganDecent patriotic caretakers -Eisenhower,Ford,Carter, and Bush Sr.Hard Macheavellian cold warriors- Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon(almost Bush senior)Unqualifie...
Posted by Jimmy on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:20:00 PST