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Jeff

I'm the guy that does his job...you must be the other guy.

About Me

I work construction in New Orleans because I'm a crazy bastard.

My Interests

Surviving under the weight of 80 lb bags of roofing materials perched on my shoulder, learning to be a better woodworker, finding time to make music, enjoying weekends, daydreaming (but only so much as to keep all appendages safe from being cut off from heavy machinery).....

I'd like to meet:

Fun people. Creative people. Storytellers like me. New Friends from New Orleans..skem9

Music:

Alkaline Trio, Underworld, De la Soul, Fugazi, In Flames, Mission of Burma, Portishead, Squarepusher, Screeching Weasel, Stereolab, Flogging Molly, Leonard Cohen, Misfits, Dropkick Murphys, Immortal Technique, DJ Shadow, Tortoise, The Clash, Muse, Basement Jaxx, Christy Carew, Digable Planets, Amon Tobin, IAM, The Jesus Lizard, Bonobo, Boards of Canada, Morphine, Cursive, DJ Krush, Paul Oakenfold, Placebo, Propagandi, Dinosaur jr, Roots Manuva, etc, etc.

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Movies:

The Boondock Saints, Time Bandits, Major League, Amelie, The Brotherhood of the Wolf, Le Ville des Enfants Perdu, Goodfellas, Blues Brothers, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Gangs of New York, O Brother Where Art Thou?, 12 Monkeys, Alien, Pitch Black, Chronicles of Riddick, Barton Fink, Caddyshack, Enter the Dragon, History of the World p.II, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Snatch, The Godfather, Shallow Grave, Blow, The Doors, Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, Gladiator.

Television:

No time...sleeeeeeeep.

Books:

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, ANY ROALD DAHL, Crime and Punishment, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, A Scanner Darkly, Generations of Swine, War and Peace, Kitchen Confidential, Treasure Island, Lolita, The Idiot, The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford, Chekov's 12 Stories, The BFG, Toxic Sludge is Good For You, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, Where the Wild Things Are, Maus...and whatever Christy gives me to read.

Heroes:


My Blog

California...

Sure, they told me everything I needed to know about this place.  The people are as plastic as their credit cards, the backups on the highways mirror the congestion of everyone's broken dreams, a...
Posted by Jeff on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:53:00 PST

Today's NFC Championship game.

As many of you know, I'm a Bears fan living in New Orleans.  Ever since Robbie Gould hit that game winner in the Divisional playoff, assuring that the Cinderella Saints would have to prove themse...
Posted by Jeff on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:35:00 PST

Anxious Prentention

In response to, Jeff, why the hell are you moving back to New Orleans, of all places? Ill tell ya why, in complete Technicolor honesty.Im moving back because Im running away. Im moving back because ...
Posted by Jeff on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:11:00 PST

New Orleans, I'm coming home!

I miss you, dear city, it has been much too long. I'm coming back, somewhere between September 22nd and the 8th of October. We'll be reunited soon.
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 05:23:00 PST

Yeah, it's about time to ramble...

You know what I hate?  Language barriers.  I was just outside on J's back porch sippin' a Pabst and having a cig, trying to talk to J's new Mexican neighbors.  Now, arguably, it's my ow...
Posted by Jeff on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:16:00 PST

I'm not that sober...at all. In fact, I'm a little fucked up.

Whoops.
Posted by Jeff on Thu, 25 May 2006 09:56:00 PST

I'm Sober...

Ah fuck...going on two days now without a drink. Going to meetings seems to help, but I'm still shaking a bit. I have to remind myself this is the right thing to do. You know what, it'll be an experim...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 15 May 2006 06:49:00 PST

Lopatka in N'awlins, Jan 20-23

I'm making a trip to N'awlins to check things out on Jaunary 20-23.  If anyone wants pictures, etc, let me know.  Otherwise, if you're a n'awlinser, gimmie a holler.    
Posted by Jeff on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:54:00 PST

Get the Fuck outta Here!

Tony Blairs recent proposition to British Parliament, allowing the government to deport radicals seen as fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a persons beliefs or justifying or valida...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Shame! Shame!

The United States senate, in an effort to protect the institutionalized racist sentiments of their officials, agreed not to hold a roll call vote on a proposition to apologize to America for not pro...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST