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About Me

Jim was born in a hospital in 1980. Since then, he has gone on to do many wondrous things, such as take second place in his sixth grade geography bee. It could be said that Jim wears many hats. A decorated citizen, Jim was an accomplished athlete in high school, has toured the Midwest doing standup comedy, is a published author, a regular performer at The Second City & Improv Olympic , a cast member of the hit comedy Flanagan's Wake , a commercial actor, and the front man for "The World's Greatest Mediocre Cover Band," James and the Vanderbeeks . Check out the play that Jim wrote and starred in about his real-life brain tumor which debuted at The Second City: Brain Humor . Jim likes things, and he hopes you like things too. If you would like to get to know Jim better, drop him a line as he loves to talk to new people. Here is a rough cut of his demo reel: Boylan's

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My Interests

Non-specific genres, such as: movies, books, music, television, and Maggie Carlson.

I'd like to meet:

I want to meet everybody...let's meet beneath the bleachers after school, okay?

Music:

U2, Modest Mouse, Gary Jules, Paul Simon, Radiohead, Beatles, Beck, Barenaked Ladies, Phish, King Crimson, String Cheese Incident, Guster, Jack Johnson, Pearl Jam, Talking Heads, Sufjan Stevens, Dave Matthews Band (before they sucked), Van Morrison, David Bowie, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, Ben Harper, The Cure, Tenacious D, Belle & Sebastian, Nick Drake, Ben Folds, Mason Jennings, Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, Sigur Ros, The Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon, Luna, Nickel Creek, The Shins

Movies:

Bottle Rocket, The Boondock Saints, Braveheart, The Royal Tenanbaums, Dumb and Dumber, Waiting For Guffman, A Mighty Wind, The Shawshank Redemption, Amelie, Office Space, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, The Princess Bride, High Fidelity, Groundhog Day, Kicking & Screaming (not the Will Ferrell movie), Run Lola Run, Super Troopers, American Beauty, Casablanca, Napoleon Dynamite, Team America: World Police

Television:

Simpsons, Everybody Loves Raymond, Arrested Development, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Seinfeld, Tenacious D, Reno 911, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, almost anything on the History Channel - especially if it's a documentary on serial killers

Books:

The Know It All by AJ Jacobs

Heroes:

As Bowie said, we (all) could be heroes, if just for one day.

My Blog

Musings with J!mmyC (Week 40)

- One thing that is obviously different living in LA as opposed to Chicago is the weather. Sometimes it's good; sometimes, it's annoying. I've always lived with four seasons, and those sea...
Posted by J!mmyC on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:17:00 PST

Musings with J!mmyC (Week 39)

- I caught some of Deal or No Deal the other night for the first time ever. Howie Mandel (who is probably one of the greatest comedians of our time...and by "greatest comedians of our time, I me...
Posted by J!mmyC on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:17:00 PST

Musings with J!mmyC (Week 38)

- I love how sitcoms are continually supposed to portray "The American Family" in some form or another, yet in only a select few can you see the television. They always have the family room set ...
Posted by J!mmyC on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:16:00 PST

Musings with J!mmyC (Week 37)

- As a kid, I cringed at the notion that I'd ever want to, much less tolerate, eat green vegetables. I'd hear that eventually, I'd grow out of that phase, and then I would soon learn to love the disg...
Posted by J!mmyC on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:55:00 PST

Musings with J!mmyC (Week 36)

- Some people are blessed with very clear skin. They go through junior high and high school, and they can talk about zits like, "Oh man, I remember one time, Sophomore year, I had this huge pimp...
Posted by J!mmyC on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:38:00 PST

Musings with J!mmyC (Week 35)

- I always fantasized about being the "new kid." You know...when you're in grade school or high school and there is a new kid who enters your grade because his/her parents moved from somewhere e...
Posted by J!mmyC on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:48:00 PST

Musings with J!mmyC (Week 34)

I fully realize that it has been three weeks since the whole drama of my LA Excursion unfolded; however, I didn't want to send out another awesome update only to fake everyone out again. So...
Posted by J!mmyC on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:48:00 PST

Musings with J!mmyC (Week 33)

I'm fully aware that I've been pretty lax the past few weeks when it comes to updating my MySpace blog; for that, I apologize. For anyone who actually cares about the absurd details of my life, ...
Posted by J!mmyC on Sat, 12 May 2007 12:05:00 PST

Musings with J!mmyC (Week 32)

- You know when you meet someone for the first time, and just by the look of them you think you know what their smile is going to look like? Then, when they do smile, sometimes it's nothing like...
Posted by J!mmyC on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:59:00 PST

Musings with J!mmyC (Week 31)

- It's been about six years...I think it's about time girls stopped doing Charlie's Angels poses at any given photo opportunity. Everybody cool with that? Alright. - My dad is ...
Posted by J!mmyC on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:45:00 PST