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Jamie

midwest_yelling.

About Me

just empty calories, male curiosity, and grad school for the moment.

My Interests

musical participation, late night bike rides, polaroids, found objects, horrible spelling, post irony, the east coast, playing risk at concerts, content generation, east village radio

I'd like to meet:

- Kids. loads of 'em.
- B-list celebrities

Music:

the roots, james yancy, broken social scene, josh wink, daft punk, mirah, kayne west, dj premier, dj shadow, a tribe called quest, ted leo, explosions in the sky, matmos, lightning bolt

Movies:

old boy, lady vengeance, rushmore, royal tenenbaums, ghost world, Being John Malkovich, trainspotting, shallow grave

Books:

catch 22, descartes' error, brave new world, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, 1984, catcher in the rye

Heroes:



bugs bunny, if he wasn't dead.

My Blog

jamz.

grad school, girlfriend, music festival in prep, track bikes and bros, bonaroo this summer, soon to be screenprinting, and lots of interesting folks to discourse with... life is approaching obscenely...
Posted by Jamie on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:10:00 PST

turn, turn, turn.

it has been a long way coming (and that is not some veiled reference to my lack of bits of updating on here); it has been a long road of sacrifice and change, growth and development, bullshit and (ext...
Posted by Jamie on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:29:00 PST

dark horse summer.

summer isn't as dramatically as awesome as last (at least in feeling). last summer just jumped off the page; it was in my face with emphasis and intonation. this summer has been a dark horse, the unde...
Posted by Jamie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i need better slang.

usually i write about issues bothering me/close to my heart/uber-semi-serious BS, but not now, not this jam at least (right now). so today's thoughts were my need for better slang... i was at t...
Posted by Jamie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

getting back.

tonight i saw the mountain goats, a band i like, at the catacombs. it was a good show, but i had this weird feeling the whole night. it was mostly b/c the mountain goats come through town nearly every...
Posted by Jamie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i have this thing...

i have this thing where i really like hanging out in the bathroom. i am sure it drives my roommates semi-crazy, but eh. i really like to go hang out, turn on the shower, and sit on the floor. i thi...
Posted by Jamie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

has it already sprung? doesn't matter i am still psyched.

so milwaukee this weekend, was ridiculously awesome. pictures are perhaps the only descriptors that will work as the party dream that is gil mantera and his bro were too much to handle. but i am not w...
Posted by Jamie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i think i finally understand my friend's "secret hottie" BS.

so it is really weird, feeling really at home in two very different towns (e.g., madison and philadelphia). there are definite bits of overlaps, but the dissonance between the two towns sometimes prod...
Posted by Jamie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

first of many, perhaps.

i guess i am going to start using this jam. i haven't before, but that usually doesn't stop me. and as always, i am sure this will make little to no sense to anyone besides me. and probably not ev...
Posted by Jamie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST