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Jack Rio

Hailing from deep space...

About Me

I have plans...I swear.

My Interests

I quite enjoy playing instruments, watching films, driving about, chatting with strangers, climbing things, listening to classical music at high volumes, playing music in a live setting, collecting junk, reading other peoples personal writings, collecting odd blue prints, inspecting abandoned areas, trespassing, guns, knives, war documentaries, the elderly, science, science-fiction, explosives, and chaos.

I'd like to meet:

my maker

Music:

King Crimson, EODM,QOTSA, Death, Bjork, Steve Miller, Opeth, James Brown, Tribe Called Quest, The Black Keys, The Mars Volta, Millionaire, Hendrix, The Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chaka Khan, The Police, The Specials, Muse, STP, Morcheeba, The Flower Kings, Alamaailman Vasarat, Fu Manchu, KC and The Sunshine Band, Hildigaard Fundingun, Sigur-Ros, Iron Maiden, Tony Williams Jurassic Five, Bodycount, Sex Pistols, Clash, Brick,Slayer, NIN, Queen, Earthworks, Soundgarden, Portishead, Kool Keith, DJ Spooky, AC/DC, DIO, Black Dahlia Murder, Beethoven, Bach, Reverend Horton Heat, Willie Nelson, Radiohead, The Zombies, The Turtles, YES, CAKE, Fugitive Radio, Manu, The Bonzo Dog Band, The Beatles, Tom Petty, Charlie Parker, Jean Luc Ponty, Dizzy Gillespe, John Coletrane, Charlie Mingus, The Stray Cats, Rancid, Symphony X, The Dead Kennedys, Gordian Knot, The Stooges, Elvis Presley, Parliament Funkadelic, Buckethead, Tool, Oasis, Les Claypool's everything, Steve Vai, California Guitar Trio, Mayhem, Pro Murder Sicness, Tchort, Spaced Out....In Progress...........

Movies:

Dark City, Night of the Living Dead, Predator, Waking Life, Coffee and Cigarettes, Pi, Monty Python films, Crash, Brazil, Spider-Man, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Brother, Master and Commander, 12 Monkeys, Stanley Kubric anything, Evil Dead, Clerks, Being John Malkovich, The Life Aquatic, Darjeeling Ltd., The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore,The Fugitive,Little Miss Sunshine, The Hulk, City by the Sea, Lost in Translation, Akira, Battle Royale, Metropolis (Fritz Lang), The Grapes of Wrath, Ichi the Killer, Shaft, American Splendor, Ghost in the Shell (1+2), The Eye (Japan), Lars and the Real Girl, Sunset Blvd., The Lives of Others, Big Fish, Wristcutters, Shaun of the Dead, Steamboy .......

Television:



How I made my profile:
I used MyWackoSpace.com 's amazing MySpace Editor .

Books:

Anything fictional, or historical. Hmmm... strange connection... Battle Royale, American Gods, The Shrine at Altamira, Survivor, Shatterday and other Ellison, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, The Book of Totally Useless Information, Time Enough for Love, Books of Blood, Neverwhere, Foundation, the Dune Series, Stardust, Mark Twain, The Thief of Always, The Undertaking, Bodies in Motion and at Rest, Lullaby, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Fight Club, The Filth and the Fury, The Young Boys Guide to America, Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Chronicals of Thomas Covenant-The Unbeleiver, Smoke & Mirrors, The Hell-Bound Heart, The Soulforge, The Callahan Chronicles, To Engineer is Human, The Magic Mirror Of MC Escher, Darkwerks, Tom Clancy stuff, In the Court of the Red Czar, The Green Mile, The first two Anne Rice novels, Douglas Adams, Cormac McCarthy.....

Heroes:

Dave Grohl, Bill Bruford, Adrian Belew, MR.T and Lee Gaskins.

My Blog

All The Bones

...laying at the bottom of the stairs in a jumbled heap. There was not much left, and what was there was almost unrecognizable. If death was not ever-present, the bones would have been a man in the mi...
Posted by Jack Rio on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:54:00 PST

Sledgehammer

Quiet now, the night stretches out like some dark canvas, littered in streets and human detritus. The desert wind blows down Main St. soundlessly, the hot air swallows the gale in it's gritty throat.R...
Posted by Jack Rio on Tue, 13 May 2008 10:33:00 PST

I’m Big and Broken

Looking forward, I wouldn't have seen these course of events coming down on me. The bridge was burning far before I got there, and the stars shot from the heavens lies with the beauty born in the...
Posted by Jack Rio on Mon, 12 May 2008 01:01:00 PST

Dawn

Dawn Where the dreams overlap into life, I'll be waiting.In that slow time where the world holds your hand with palpable ...
Posted by Jack Rio on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:49:00 PST

this is something

Appalachian ballad in 3/4 I run where I run and I go where I go Don't know if I'm livin' or dyin' real slow.   I love where I live but I long to leave home on the highway up north too soon I...
Posted by Jack Rio on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:20:00 PST

Something I am working on...

    Suburban Boys and Motion Picture Music This is the first time you are reading this...believe me when I say that the end is never just the end, but a new place to begin once again. The en...
Posted by Jack Rio on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:07:00 PST

Writing

In your strive for opulence, you meet mediocrity. The search for virgin white marble has left you a home filled with coal. Burn everything as you pass it by. How do we survive when the price of living...
Posted by Jack Rio on Tue, 30 May 2006 12:07:00 PST

Traces

There are little things you left behind. I am haunted with echoes of what came before, plagued with a future which lacks the colour of former years. A new Spring day brings back hints of a time where ...
Posted by Jack Rio on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:48:00 PST

Could it be Revenge?

Good God!What a lovely piece of flesh!She saw herself a lovely messYou'd ask for an ending?!I'd leave you the restGood luck with your strugglesNow take off your dressYour nakedness could tell me less...
Posted by Jack Rio on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 05:46:00 PST

Why Should I Title This?

It's all lateral to youAnother day of successBreathe the stale airAnd dream of a prayerIn which you ask for it allWhere was I?How did I miss your smile?How could I miss your broken grin?So, let's run ...
Posted by Jack Rio on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 05:41:00 PST