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James

No Thanks Omaha, Thanks A Lot

About Me

I used to have this big atheist rant up here, it came across a little angry, so I replaced it with this. I still agree with everything I previously wrote, however that's not "me." Who am I? I guess I'm a hipster, I don't know what else I could be. A blue collar hipster at that, a bipster. I grew up in Freeburg, IL and have since graduated to the big city, Belleville.Not much of an improvement, but I'm still young. I spent a grueling half semester at the local community college when I was 20. That makes me educated.I'm also a local musician, currently playing upright bass with the honkytonkabilly outfit Scott Kay and the Continentals, but first and foremost I'm a guitar player.Not that I give any credence to astrology, but was born a Capricorn with my sun in Aquarius, or something like that. I like cold weather, road trips, Coca Cola, and cigarettes.

My Interests

Upright bass, filmmaking, music, instrument repair/building, religion, politics, piracy, etc...

I'd like to meet:

Geaner, Deaner, Dr. Drew, Tom Waits, Penn Jillette, Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut.

Music:

Ween, Tom Waits, Aphex Twin, The Magnetic Fields, Ween, They Might Be Giants, Pedro The Lion, Ween, Regina Spektor, Sublime, Ween, Ween, Deke Dickerson, Beck, Ween and many more artists including Ween, Morphine, and Ween.

Movies:

Dr. Strangelove, Clerks(I & II), Chasing Amy, Dawn of the Dead (original, though I liked the remake as well... I will at least sit through any zombie movie and chances are I will LOVE it), Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill (I & II), Straw Dogs, The Wild Bunch, El Mariachi, Desperado, Once Upon a Time In Mexico, Suspiria, Gangs of New York, Goodfellas, Raging Bull ("D'joo fuck my wife? D'joo fuck my wife!?"), Casino, Shaun of the Dead, Salo, any Coen Bros. movie, Donnie Darko, Vertigo, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and many more.

Television:

NOTE: I don't watch television. I download and watch only the shows I want to watch... commercial free and whenever I want.

Black Books, Peep Show, South Park, The Simpsons, Spaced, BBC Nature Documentaries, Father Ted, Black Adder, Scrubs, Metalocalypse, Home Movies, Dr. Katz, Futurama, Exit 57, The Kids in the Hall, Mr. Show, Penn and Teller's Bullshit!, Dexter, Weeds, The Jerry Springer Show and Skunk Fu.

Books:

Anything Vonnegut or Palahnuik. I love Thomas Jefferson's writings (and I understand the robot killing paradigm of Tom Jeff being one of the greatest thinkers on the subject of freedom and human rights while being a slave owner) as well as those of Thomas Paine.

Heroes:

Dr. Norman Borlaug, the only hero anybody should ever have.

My Blog

Refuge

So I've been a refuge for the past few days.  Since about 8 PM on Thursday I've been without power and the bastards at Ameren say it'll be 4 or 5 days until we get it back.  What really suck...
Posted by James on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:14:00 PST