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M.J.

long time comin

My Interests

Music:

AC/DC ~ Highway to Hell,
Atmosphere ~ Seven's Travels,
The Allman Brothers ~ Eat a Peach
Beatles ~ White Album (disc 1),
Chimaira ~ Pass Out Of Existence,
Coal Chamber ~ Coal Chamber, Dark Days,
Deftones ~ Around the Fur,
Dr. Dre ~ 2001,
Eagles ~ Hell Freezes Over, Hotel California
Eminem ~ Slim Shady LP, Marshal Mathers LP, Encore,
Elton John ~ Tumbleweed Connection
Eric Clapton ~ Unplugged,
Factory 81 ~ Mankind,
Korn ~ Life is Peachy,
Led Zeppelin ~ Best of Led Zeppelin (because they couldn't get it all onto one album),
Lil Wyte ~ Doubt Me Now, Phinally Phamous
Ludacris ~ Word of Mouf,
Marylin Manson ~ Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals, Lest We Forget,
Mindless Self Indulgence ~ Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy
Mudvayne ~ L.D. 50,
Mushroomhead ~ Mushroomhead,
Nine Inch Nails ~ The Downward Spiral, The Fragile (Left), (I ♥ you, Trent Reznor),
Nirvana ~ Nevermind
No Doubt ~ Tagic Kingdom,
Otep ~ Sevas Tra
Pantera ~ The Great Southern Trendkill (fuck yeah), Official Live - 101 proof,
Pink Floyd ~ The Wall, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here,
Rolling Stones ~ Let it Bleed, It's Only Rock and Roll,
Simon & Garfunkel ~ Bookends,
Slipknot ~ Slipknot, Iowa,
Snot ~ Get Some,
Steely Dan ~ Can't Buy a Thrill,
Sublime ~ Sublime, 40 oz. to Freedom,
System of a Down ~ System of a Down, Toxicity, Mezmerize,
The Game ~ The documentary, You Know What It Is (vol 3),
The Jimi Hendrix Experience ~ Axis: Bold as Love,
Three 6 Mafia ~ Most Known Unknown
Tool ~ Lateralus
Sevendust ~ Sevendust, Home, Animosity,
Static-x ~ Machine, Wisconsin Death Trip,

(Those are in alphabetical order only...cuz that's how fuckin lazy I am).

You might also catch me listening to: Metallica, Ozzy, Disturbed, Shinedown, Three Days Grace, Bob Dylan, Counting Crows, CS&N, Crossbreed, Dave Mathews Band, John Mayer, American Head Charge, Killswitch Engage, Aerosmith, Everclear, Pearl Jam, Orgy, White Zombie, Greenday (old school), Hatebreed, Lil Jon, Lil Scrappy, Bubba Sparxxx, Obie Trice, Snoop, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Van Morrison, The Doors (sometimes...), Grateful Dead,T.I., T-Rock, Ice Cube, Ten Years After, Tenacious D (cuz Jack Black makes me giggle), Tupac, Biggie, Twista, Young Joc, Van Halen, Guns n Roses, The Who, Weezer, ZZ Top....

Movies:

25th Hour
Alice in Wonderland
Almost Famous
American Beauty
American History X
Be Cool
Beerfest
The Big Lebowski
Blackhawk Down
Blow
Bone Collector
The Boondock Saints
Bourne Identity & Bourne Supremacy
Chinatown
Clerks
The Client
The Devil's Rejects
Do The Right Thing
Dogma
Donnie Darko
Edward Scissorhands
Fight Club
Fried Green Tomatoes
From Dusk Till Dawn
Fun with Dick and Jane
Girl, Interrupted
Gladiator
Glengarry Glenn Ross
The Godfather
Good Will Hunting
Green Street Hooligans
Hard Candy
House of 1000 Corpses
Interview With The Vampire
Jerry McGuire
Kids
Kill Bill (1 & 2)
L.A. Confidential
Legends of the Fall
The Life of David Gale
Little Miss Sunshine
Lord of War
Love Actually
Lucky Number Slevin
Mallrats
Man On Fire
Memento
Monster
Monster's Ball
Munich
My Girl
The Ninth Gate
Ocean's Eleven
Office Space
The Omen
Once Upon A Time in Mexico
The People vs. Larry Flynt
A Perfect Murder
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Requiem For a Dream
Scarface
Scream
Se7en
Shawshank Redemption
Sideways
Silence of the Lambs
A Simple Plan
Sin City
SLC Punk
Snatch
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
Spun
Spy Game
Stigmata
Strangeland
Taladega Knights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Taxi Driver
Team America: World Police
Tears of the Sun
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Thirteen Days
Traffic
Training Day
Two For The Money
The Usual Suspects
V For Vendetta
Vanilla Sky
The Virgin Suicides
The War
Wedding Crashers
Wolf
Wonderland

Books:

East of Eden, John Steinbeck (My alltime favorite.)
Carrie, Stephen King (His first novel, and the book that got me into reading to begin with.)
The Dark Tower Series, Stephen King (if you've ever got a couple months to kill, read these books)
The Stand, Stephen King
IT, Stephen King (Yes, I read that whole bitch. You know how that kid has a stutter? King was fucking COMMITTED to that motherfucker. Had he not written it in, length would be cut nearly in half.)
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (I think that our generation definitely needs a new teenage angst novel....but in the meantime, I still love this one.)
The Frankenstein series, Dean Koontz (where the fuck is the last one, Dean?!)
The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
Alice in Wonderland/ Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
The Stranger, Albert Camus (very existentialist)
1984, George Orwell
A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally (I hate to do this, but it really is WAY better than the movie)
This Present Darkness, Frank E. Peretti
Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inferno, Dante Alighieri
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
My Antonia, Willa Cather
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
A Time To Kill, John Grisham
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawethorne
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
Paradise Lost, John Milton
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Native Son, Richard Wright
No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre
Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe
Anything Shakespeare
Running With Scissors, Augusten Bouroughs
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Practical Demonkeeping, Christopher Moore
Survivor, Chuck Palanhiuk

My Blog

FUCK YOU FRIDAY!!!! (everybody say "YAY!")

No pussyfooting around today. Let's get right down to business.Fuck traders, truckers, rail companies, shipping lines, buyers, and every customer service rep in the entire shipping industry. You ingra...
Posted by M.J. on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:56:00 PST

The Long, Hard Road Revisited

I'm going to Hell tonight.Hell meaning home.And home meaning Racine, of course.But I get the feeling it just won't be the same as when I left. Perhaps it's simply because I know that I won't be the sa...
Posted by M.J. on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:19:00 PST

The Tag

Tagged implicitly by Dr. Quinn.Ten Random Facts About MJ1. As I wander through my daily life, occassionally I'm reminded of random little tidbits about myself that others might find interesting. I mak...
Posted by M.J. on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:06:00 PST

Fuck You Friday (is late as hell)

Hey guys. I woke up a little bit late this morning...I was still going to try to rush and post this before I left for work but I got a little....distracted while I was getting ready. Anyway, better ...
Posted by M.J. on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:03:00 PST

How Relevant (not to mention, applicable...)

Thanks, Abbie. I heart you.For the Hormone HostageThe Hormone Hostage knows that there are days in the monthwhen all a man has to do is open his mouth and he takes his very lifeinto his own hands! Thi...
Posted by M.J. on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:39:00 PST

Just Checkin In

HeyHEYheyWhat's up, kids? How's everybody doing on this fine summer weekend? What's everybody doing this weekend, for that matter? Hope you're all planning something enjoyable.Me? Well, I finally got ...
Posted by M.J. on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:40:00 PST

Yeah

Well, commence day two of gainful employment.Fuck, my job is hard.I stayed up till one am last night compiling lists of phone numbers and taking notes.I'm really determined to kick ass there, because ...
Posted by M.J. on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:52:00 PST

Fuck You Friday.

I wasn't gonna do this today...I was gonna pass and wait til next week. The only reason I'm fucking doing Fuck You Friday is because a certain fucking [ninja] BAMF insisted. So this is for you, darlin...
Posted by M.J. on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:42:00 PST

Varied Vicariousness

I am cold and indecisive.The whole world is out of touch with me.I am overly tolerant,and underly accepting.I am selfishand in perpetual need of validation.I am inconsiderate and disinterested.I lack ...
Posted by M.J. on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:04:00 PST

Change in plans...

So, as you may have noticed, I had a job interview yesterday. I appreciate the luck that you all sent me, evidently it helped - I got the job. I am gainfully emplyed once again, and this time it's a j...
Posted by M.J. on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:38:00 PST