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John Paragon

I wanna eat chicken burgers

About Me

Living each day one night at a time.

My Interests

Guinness, Young's Double Chocolate Stout, pizza, Primo Hoagies.

Music:

Ink and Dagger, Radiohead, Every Time I Die, Jawbreaker, Texas is the Reason, Andrew WK, Quicksand/World's Fastest Car/Rival Schools, Led Zeppelin, Solea, Sunny Day Real Estate, Nirvana, Elvis Costello, Pantera, The Velvet Underground, Kid Dynamite, Floor, Stone Temple Pilots, Circa Survive, Boards of Canada, the Flaming Lips, Blur, Converge, Minus the Bear, Superjoint Ritual, Cave In, Hum, Gorillaz, DJ Dieselboy, The Fire Theft, Botch, Sparta, Soilent Green, Lifetime, Coalesce, Filter, Alkaline Trio, Far, Interpol, Beck, Burning Airlines, Idiot Pilot, Fugazi, Green Day, Swervedriver, A Life Once Lost, Renee Heartfelt, Dexter Gordon, Maserati, Grandaddy, Chamberlain, Dredg, Mogwai, Isis, Caspian, Jesu, Explosions in the Sky, Daturah, Do Make Say Think, Boris, Metroplex, Prowler, All Else Failed, North, Seaweed, Handsome, Picturesque, You May Die in the Desert, The Mercury Program, St. Germain, 65 Days of Static

Movies:

The Shawshank Redemption, Traffic, Cast Away, Scarface, Dawn of the Dead (old AND new), Back to the Future, Requiem for a Dream, The Big Lebowski, Heat, Dumb and Dumber, Zoolander, The Thin Red Line, Wayne's World, Falling Down, Jaws, Ghostbusters, The Terminator, Predator, Commando (pretty much any Schwarzenegger pre '96, save for END OF DAYS), Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Fright Night, The Lost Boys, Back to School, Office Space, Donnie Darko, Alien, Aliens, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Halloween, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Office Space

Television:

Six Feet Under is the best (dramatic) show ever written.

Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lost, The Simpsons, The Shield, Miami Vice

Heroes:



My Blog

TAKE A LOAD OFF - 11/16/07 @ RUBA


Posted by John Paragon on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:32:00 PST

10/05/07 benefit for John Schenk at RUBA... come out and support a good cause

John Schenk has been Dj-ing for over 30 years now in Philadelphia and elsewhere. A couple weeks ago his car was broken into and stolen were his turntables, monitors, a bunch of rare vinyl, mixers, 7 y...
Posted by John Paragon on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:19:00 PST

Burning Bright

"...We'll go on the river. He looked at the old railroad tracks. Or we'll go go that way. Or we'll walk on the highways now, and we'll have time to put things into ourselves. And someday, after it set...
Posted by John Paragon on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:17:00 PST

When you stop looking for it, trouble is going to find you

The three best months of the year are upon us...Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Posted by John Paragon on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:30:00 PST

The Laughing Man

"...When the Laughing Man's small eyes finally opened, Omba eagerly raised the vial of eagles' blood up to the mask. But the Laughing Man didn't drink from it. Instead, he weakly pronounced his belove...
Posted by John Paragon on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:22:00 PST

Fear, Stupidity, and Craziness

Any $100-an-hour psychiatrist could probably explain this problem to me, in thirteen or fourteen sessions, but I don't have time for that. No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personalit...
Posted by John Paragon on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:52:00 PST

Smile like you mean it

I started listening to this album again... well, 3 of the 5 worthwhile songs on it at least. I listened to it way too much when I first downloaded it back in August and ended up getting sick of it, bu...
Posted by John Paragon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST