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About Me

Favorite Bond girl: Lois Chiles, and that's all ya need to know...
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My Interests

Guitar, music, concerts, films (docs are a fave), surfing concrete, surfing water, and writing a book that is taking me way too long...

I'd like to meet:

I have to say I have pretty much met most of the people I would ever want to meet... but I wouldn't mind adding Lindsey Buckingham and Johnette Napolitano to the list... Oh wait, here? Hmmmmm I don't know... Bring it...

Music:

If I have to name names... Sneaker Pimps, Daniel Johnston, Concrete Blonde, Prince, The Time, The Family, Wendy & Lisa, The Temptations, Sam & Dave, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Brainiac, Girls Against Boys, The Jesus Lizard, 7 Year Bitch, Frank Zappa, Nirvana, Pixies, Melvins, Shellac, PJ Harvey, Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers, KISS, Fantomas, Tomahawk, Cycle Sluts From Hell, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Coldplay, Missing Persons, Duran Duran, Billy Idol, Pat Benatar, Heart, Journey, Ratt, NIN, Depeche Mode, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, IAMX, Client... and absolutely ANYTHING Motown.

Movies:

My faves are To Kill A Mockingbird, Dogtown and Z Boys, The Devil And Daniel Johnston, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Fight Club, Jaws, West Side Story, Big Fish, and virtually everything from David Lynch.

Television:

Hmmmmmmmmm Well, my all-time faves are "Little House On The Prairie" (I am an anomoly), "Highway To Heaven" and "Taxi", with "Strangers With Candy" following right behind. "Sifl & Olly", the greatest show MTV ever cancelled, and ofcourse, "Six Feet Under". "24", "Rescue Me", "Nip/Tuck" and "Prison Break" are my shows per se... and yes, I do "American Idol".

Books:

"To Kill A Mockingbird" is the greatest book ever written in my opinion... Also, "Report From Ground Zero", "Among The Heroes", "The Greatest generation" by Tom Brokaw, "Alive" by Piers Paul Reid,"Perfume" by Patrick Suskind, "The Undertaking" by Thomas Lynch,"Fight Club" by Chuck Palahnuik... and "Dogtown -The Legend Of ZBoys".

Heroes:

My only real hero is my grandmother, whose courage battling cancer and sheer strength will always be my endless inspiration. Worth mentioning for reasons that are known only to myself... Michael Landon and Bruce Springsteen.
My musical heroes... Tim Tyler, Elizabeth Davis-Simspon, Eli Janney, Duane Dennison, Lindsey Buckingham and last but never least, Daniel Johnston.
My skate heroes... T.A., Jayboy, Hackett, & my man, Olson.

My Blog

You can't teach a dead dog new tricks... and other tales of Chinese Democracy

So I wrote a post the other day and am making it an "official blog". There is a current trend re: replacing key members in bands and hitting the road/continuing under the same name. You see this a lot...
Posted by James on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:05:00 PST

How I lost a million dollars today... Seriously.

So I skateboard up the West Side Highway to Chelsea skatepark and Vitamin Shoppe is doing a huge thing there with some female soccer medalist called Mia something... So ...
Posted by James on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:37:00 PST

New York is still dead... a few more memories...

Well, seems I have gotten quite a few emails from some of you re: my blog. Thanks, obviously many of you shared my experiences. I was at the gym looking out into the pit at Ground Zero (this is where ...
Posted by James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

New York is dead, and it ain't coming back...

I was walking thru the East Village this afternoon. It was quite nice out and I hadn't been walking over there in the daytime in a long time and I have to say it brought me incredibly down. Aside from...
Posted by James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST