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Jerrod

Oh Life, With Your Colorful Surprises

About Me



.And take a look you may see me on the ground
For I am the parasite of this town.
And take a look you may see me in the dirt
For i am the parasite who hangs from your skirt.
-Nick Drake, "Parasite"

My Interests

The short list would be:
Music (blues,folk,indie),
Old movies,
B&W Photography,
Coffee,
Arrested Development,
and so on...

AIM= jerrod333

I'd like to meet:


Ummm, how about some Devendra Banhart? Ok. This is "At The Hop."

A few weeks ago a friend and I went and saw David Lynch's new film, "Inland Empire," which was amazing. Lynch was even there! Well, here is the trailer.
This is a video that my friend took of the Two Gallants when we went to see them in St. Louis. The song is, "long summer day."

Music:

The White Stripes
The Black Keys
deadboy and the Elephantmen
Two Gallants
Langhorne Slim
Jeff Zentner
Entrance
Nick Drake
Elliot Smith
David Dondero
Bright Eyes
The Decemberists(& Tarkio)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Cat Power
Iron and Wine
Neutral Milk Hotel
Devendra Banhart
Andrew Bird
Sufjan Stevens
Willy Mason
Maria Taylor
Jenny Lewis
M. Ward
Mates Of State
Spiritualized
The Mountain Goats
The Blackfire Revelation
Thee Shams
The Heartless Bastards
The Soledad Brothers
Henry and June
Boogaloosa Prayer
The Immortal Lee County Killers
Junior Kimbrough
R.L. Burnside
Charles Caldwell
Asie Payton
T-Model Ford
Kenny Brown
Cedell Davis
Son House
Robert Johnson
Mississippi Fred Macdowell
Blind Willie Johnson
Blind Willie McTell
Ali Farka Toure
Bob Dylan
The Band
Tom Waits
Iggy
The Velvet Underground(not to mention, just Nico)
Johnny Cash
Ralph Stanly
Loretta Lynn
....and the list goes on from there.

Movies:

anything by:
Wes Anderson
Jim Jarmusch
Orson Welles
Fritz Lang
Carol Reed
Federico Fellini
Ingmar Bergman
François Roland Truffaut
Alfred Hitchcock
Sergio Leone
Louis Malle
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean Eustache
John Cassavetes
Michel Gondry
Amos Poe
Noah Baumbach
Vincent Gallo
The Coen Brothers
Christopher Nolan
P.T. Anderson
David Lynch
Christopher Guest
...and the list goes on from there.

Television:

I'm not one for TV, but here are a few shows that I rather enjoy:
Arrested Development
Seinfeld
Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Scrubs
Rescue Me

Books:

Works by:
Franz Kafka
Ernest Hemingway
Albert Camus
JD Salinger
Charles Dickens
William Blake
James Joyce
John Steinbeck
William Faulkner
Graham Greene

Heroes:

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love." -Sophocles

My Blog

The Weight Of Its Duty

Here is a little story*.The students sat in a silence of coughs and stares. Formed into a haggard U-shaped mess of tables they sat aware of the curious stares from their fellow students and felt awkwa...
Posted by Jerrod on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:08:00 PST