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James

On the up-side...

About Me

Quote of the "day", "week", or (possibly) "month":TOM from THE GLASS MENAGERIE: I didn't go to the moon. I went much further--for time is the longest distance between two places. Not long after that I was fired for writing a poem on the lid of a shoebox. I left St. Louis. I descended the steps of the fire escape for a last time and followed, from then on, in my father's footsteps, attempting to find in motion what was lost in space. I traveled around a great deal. The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from their branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass. Perhaps I am walking along a street at night, in some strange city, before I have found companions. I pass the lighted window of a shop where perfume is sold. The window is filled with pieces of colored glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colors, like bits of a shattered rainbow. Then all at once my sister touches my shoulder. I turn around and look into her eyes. Oh Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be. I reach for a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger--anything that can blow your candles out.For nowadays the world is lit by lightning. Blow out your candles, Laura-- and so goodbye...

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

Steve Martin.

Music:

Wolf Parade; Sufjan Stevens; Blondfire; Big Country; Madeleine Peyroux; Modest Mouse; Magnetic Fields; The Postal Service; Pavement; Merrick; The New Pornographers; Otis Redding; Massive Attack; Matt Pond PA; Magnet & Gemma; Keane; Mogwai; Jump Little Children; Jem; James Blunt; Iron & Wine; Imogen Heap; Fruit Bats; The Flaming Lips; Doves; Devotchka; Death Cab For Cutie; Damien Rice; Cat Power; Beck; Badly Drawn Boy; Brian Eno; Broken Social Scene; Thomas Newman; Carter Burwell; Beck; Belle & Sebastian; Aqualung; Air; Azure Ray; Chocolate Genius; Counting Crows; The Cure; The Smiths; Toad the Wet Sprocket.

Movies:

"Brick" was fantastic. So was "Thank You For Smoking". sLiTher was hysterically funny (in the right company - by which I mean a large group of friends who are willing to laugh at some borderline sickening things).

Television:

I don't watch much television, though I normally end the day with an episode of something entirely escapist bought on DVD.Battlestar Galactica; Arrested Development; The Office (British Version); Firefly; X-Files; Daily Show (back when I had cable); The Amazing Race (my parents love this one). I think my favorite TV picks this year were "Battleground" and "The End of the Whole Mess", both 1-hour shorts (part of the 'Nightmares and Dreamscapes' mini-series)

Books:

Recent Readings: Red Light Winter (Adam Rapp); The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon); Carter Beats the Devil (Glen David Gold); Shopgirl (Steve Martin); I, Lucifer (Glen Duncan); The Great Divorce, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Problem of Pain (C.S. Lewis); The Complete Works of William Shakespeare; The Muse Asylum (David Czuchlewski); Aesop's Fables; A Song of Ice and Fire (A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, by George R.R. Martin); E.E. Cummings Selected Poems (ed. Richard S. Kennedy); The Prophet (Khalil Gibran); Lord Byron Selected Poems; The Waste Land (TS Eliot); Bobby Gould in Hell (David Mamet); Anything by Stephen King.

Heroes:

Father Jim Stack.

My Blog

Swanky

Good ideas.  Bad ideas.This afternoon, while placing both a box of medium powdered and a box of medium unpowdered gloves in their respective holders during volunteer-i-tude (simultaneous glovin')...
Posted by James on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:16:00 PST

I lost my Identity in New York City

Or - to be more specific - in the backseat of a yellow cab while returning home from a bar at 5:30 in the morning.  Included in the dark leather wallet (same color as the cab seat, to my lament) ...
Posted by James on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:23:00 PST

Di-Crap-rio?

Watched the first few minutes of the Baz Lerman (sp?) "Romeo and Juliet".  I'd seen it in theaters when it first came out.  Hadn't revisited it since, until tonight.  Visually gorgeous....
Posted by James on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:14:00 PST

... really? ...

Ever notice how a person's mood can make them more or less attractive?  I've conducted this scientific study to see which mood makes me more of the Adonis that I am.  Results below.Sad James...
Posted by James on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:40:00 PST

Hmm...

Anyone else end their master list of philosophers (Plato, Descartes, etc) with uncle Travelin' Matt from Fraggle Rock?Maybe not so much a philosopher... but, at the very least, a hillariously skilled ...
Posted by James on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:05:00 PST

The Buzz Mix = "I'm Old"

We've all seen mix commercials:  vertically scrolling tired titles (Sinatra mixes, club mixes, the B52s)  over dissolving still frames of live performances, right?  Right.  Well......
Posted by James on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:40:00 PST

The Day that Time Stood Still

This was supposed to be a blog about a computer crash at the Time hotel which nearly brought comedic ruin to the Time lounge and to 7square (my current meal ticket); I even had a napkin covered in scr...
Posted by James on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:56:00 PST

Castor-ized...

"Play Us a Song..."Moving in a new roommate is always a rewarding experience.  Stephanie (the new roomie) arrived this week.  With the help of trusty roommate/sidekick Jeremy, we managed to ...
Posted by James on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:14:00 PST

A size 28 waist

So I'm gonna write about today because I feel like setting it down.  Ariana, don't read this one (same goes for anybody else who'd rather not read a semi-downer of a blog - fair warning). I spen...
Posted by James on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:23:00 PST

Oculus

Congratulations to my brother, Mike, and our good friend Scottie Graham on the success of their short film, "Oculus".This horror short is CLEANING UP on the festival circuit.  Mike - You Da Man.A...
Posted by James on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:42:00 PST