James Wales, Boy Genius - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I am James. The boy genius.

My Interests

making shitty songs. working. drinking dp. hanging with buds.

I'd like to meet:

someone who thinks aids jokes are funny.

Little James riding his horse through ruggid lands of insane necromancing.

Music:

All Time Quarterback
Arcade Fire
Andrew Bird
Braid
Billy Bragg
David Bowie
Bright Eyes
Bayside
The Beatles
Beck
Ben Folds
Beta Band
Big Star
Bob Dylan
Bruce Springsteen
Camera Obscura
Camper Van Beethoven
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
The Clash
Death Cab For Cutie
Decemberists
Eels
Elvis Costello
Feist
Fiona Apple
Gram Parsons
Guster
Loretta Lynn
John Vanderslice
M. Ward
Mountain Goats
My Morning Jacket
Nada Surf
Neutral Milk Hotel
Nick Drake
Okkervil River
Oranges Band
Owen
Patsy Cline
Postal Service
Radiohead
Rogue Wave
The Rolling Stones
Ryan Adams
Say Anything
Sean Lennon
Shins
Simon and Garfunkel
Smiths
Snow Patrol
Sufjan Stevens
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Wilco

Movies:

Five Easy Pieces. Easy Rider. No Direction Home. The Graduate. Donnie Darko. High Fidelity. East of Eden. Butch and The Sundance Kid. The Great Escape. Giant. Casablanca. Citizen Kane.

Television:

Wrestling in spanish. Basketball. Soap Operas in Spanish. Japanese television. Bones. Scrubs. Wonder Years. Psych.

Books:

Anything by Chuck Klosterman. Perks of being a wallflower. Bee Season. High Fidelity. About a Boy. David Sedaris. Perfect from now on by John Sellers. Anything about useless pop culture knowledge.

Heroes:

Gram Parsons. Bob Dylan. Bruce Springsteen. Ryan Adams. Hank Williams. Mike Kinsella. Woody Guthrie. Billy Bragg. Johnny Cash. Alex Chilton. Morrissey. Jeff Tweedy.

My Blog

Boys and girls and mixtapes.

I like to believe that I am a mix master. A master of mixes and so on. I believe that I make pretty decent mixes. I also ramble. So... I want to have a mixtape party. Destination unknown but the thing...
Posted by James Wales, Boy Genius on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:29:00 PST

Let’s undress like cross-eyed strangers

Okkervil Rvier show tonite. I am excited. Logan Square auditorium. Woo. Like go Cubs woo. Anyway, I'm having an apartment show Sunday September 30th. I will rock you. Guaranteed. Bring beer and friend...
Posted by James Wales, Boy Genius on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:17:00 PST

We are all going to die, eventually

Today my friends is the anniversary of 9/11. Thats when a huge pteradactyl flew through the twin towers cause it was drunk on scotch. This is fact. So with Osama taking all the credit and the USA lett...
Posted by James Wales, Boy Genius on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:55:00 PST

New jams, rockin

I got new shoes boys. I'm rockin them as we speak Speaking of rocking I have learned to rock from the best teacher ever. Stephen Malkmus of Pavement. God bless him. I will probably post my favorite 10...
Posted by James Wales, Boy Genius on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:12:00 PST

Dogs are sweet. I WANT ONE.

I really want a dog. Make it a pug. Named Meaty. or Meatz. Undecided. Whos going to sit outside Wrigley tomorrow to hear the Police. Me thats who. Come if you want, if you're not uber gay. Cause that ...
Posted by James Wales, Boy Genius on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:05:00 PST

The city is still breathing...

Howdy. So I havn't talked to yuo guys in a while and Im sorry. The city is making me busy as fuck (plus very stressed). Anyway I thought I'd let you know what I've been up to.-I eat speggetti and meat...
Posted by James Wales, Boy Genius on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:59:00 PST

our mother has been absent since we founded Rome (aka Party at James')

I got an apartment. Jesus Christ thats still scary. I am going to be living on my own and its pretty awesome but in a completing ohmygodi'mgoingtobemegafuckingpoorandhavenofriendspleasehelp ,lovejamesp...
Posted by James Wales, Boy Genius on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:11:00 PST

I am the Volcano (the teachings of Dick Cheney, Mark Twain and Joan of Arc)

Howdy.I hope things are well. Actually I don't care. I am James, and James is James. Agreed? Good. Anyway. This summer will be party central. Aka. My small ass apartment will be packed with all of my ...
Posted by James Wales, Boy Genius on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:36:00 PST

Diary Entry 3/17/07 (Clem Snide, George Bush and obsurdity of Pabst)

Dear Diary It's been a while. Nothing much has changed. I've had a couple really good weekends but the weeks still suck. I still like sad music. Especially Joan Jett of Arc by Clem Snide. It's on the ...
Posted by James Wales, Boy Genius on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:14:00 PST

Dear Diary 2/26/07 (Mo' money, Mo' problems.)

Dear Diary I like my radtastic myspace photo. It's a tour de force of myspace photoage. That right there, that sentence I wrote, did not make any sense. So I apologize. From the bottom of my mending h...
Posted by James Wales, Boy Genius on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:06:00 PST