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Jonathan

Everything in excess, but only in moderation.

About Me

I am a freelance writer who lives in East Atlanta. I have been a Fashion Writer, then Senior Fashion Writer, then Senior Fashion and Music Writer for Gothic Beauty magazine, and am now the Entertainment Editor. I also contribute regularly to accessAtlanta/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (where I write a weekly Sports & Rec column), and contribute to other publications here and there. I used to be the Music & Media Director (aka Music Editor) for PRICK magazine, but not any longer. I typically cover subjects such as music, film, art, literature, fashion, pop culture, club events, video games, toys and things involving having fun with outsiders and deviants. I am always looking for things that are oddly entertaining and cerebral to expose to the masses. Off the top of my head, I like industrial music, rock 'n' roll, horror and sci-fi movies, pretty much any kind of books, comic books, cartoons, and the occassional conspiracy theory. Yes, I'm usually pretty quiet and I don't need anyone telling me how I don't talk that much. That usually means I'm listening and/or observing. It doesn't mean I don't like you because I try to make it obvious when that's the case. I like most people, but just am not great at meeting them. My guilty pleasures are wrestling and hair metal, but I don't really feel guilty about liking them, or anything else. I think I might have been abducted by aliens as a child, which might explain a few things. You know those bumper stickers that say something to the effect of, "If you're not angry, you're not paying attention"? I like those stickers. Too much unprotected exposure to the sun as a child is why I try to avoid it whenever possible now...

My Interests

The past, the future, absurdity, aliens, androids, artistic endeavors, assembly lines, bands with girl singers, big boots, creativity, drag queens, food, freak shows, gender bending, graffiti, hair metal, industrial music, intelligence, minimalism, oddities, open mindedness, professional wrestling, recycling things, roller derby, sleeping, spectacle, strippers, UFOs, utilitarian garb, weirdness, the writing on the bathroom wall

I'd like to meet:

Randy Quaid, Jennifer Tilly and Sting (the wrestler, not the singer).

Music:

AC/DC, AFI, Agnostic Front, Alien Sex Fiend, Tori Amos, Angels & Airwaves, Aphex Twin, Artimus Pyledriver, Atreyu, Autechre, Avenged Sevenfold, Bauhaus, Beastie Boys, Bella Morte, The Birthday Massacre, Bjork, Black Label Society, Black Sabbath, Black Tape For A Blue Girl, Bleeding Through, Blow Up Hollywood, Blue Man Group, David Bowie, Bullet For My Valentine, Burning Brides, Chemlab, Christ Analog, Cinderella, CKY, Combichrist, Alice Cooper, Billy Corgan, Cradle Of Filth, The Cramps, The Damned, Danzig, Dead Kennedys, Deftones, Devil Doll, Devo, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Dimmu Borgir, Dope, Down, Download, Electric Hellfire Club, Eminem, Faith No More, Faster Pussycat, Fear Factory, Filter, Lita Ford, Fozzy, Front Line Assembly, Genitorturers, God Lives Underwater, gODHEAD, God's Girlfriend, Goldie, Guns N' Roses, GWAR, Hank III, The Heart Attacks, Helltrash, Helmet, Hole, Iggy Pop, In Flames, The Infernals, Interpol, Iron Maiden, Joy Division, Judas Priest, Kill Hannah, Killing Joke, KISS, Kittie, KMFDM, Korn, Lady Sovereign, Lamb Of God, Legendary Pink Dots, Lords Of Acid, Lucero, Manufactura, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Mastodon, Meat Beat Manifesto, Melvins, Mindless Self Indulgence, Ministry, Misfits, M?tley Cr?e, Mot?rhead, Murder By Death, Peter Murphy, Murphy's Law, Mushroomhead, Nashville Pussy, New York Rel-X, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Nitzer Ebb, NOFX, Gary Numan, NWA, Paul Oakenfold, ohGr, The Orb, Orbital, Orgy, Pantera, Panzer AG, Peaches, Pennywise, A Perfect Circle, Pigface, Poison, Pop Will Eat Itself, Powerman 5000, Prick, The Prodigy, Prong, Psychotica, Public Enemy, Queen, Radiohead, Rammstein, Rancid, Revolting Cocks, Skid Row, Skinny Puppy, Skrew, slowEarth, Slunt, Smashing Pumpkins, Society 1, Soilwork, The Sounds, Spectremen, The Streets, Suicidal Tendencies, Super X-13, Superjoint Ritual, Supersuckers, Switchblade Symphony, Thin Lizzy, Throw Rag, Toilet Boys, Tool, Transplants, Tricky, Twisted Sister, Unknown Hinson, The Unsatisfied, Valient Thorr, The Vandals, Venus Hum, VNV Nation, White Zombie, Winger, Zeke, Rob Zombie, 3, 30 Seconds To Mars

Movies:

Alien, Aliens, American Splendor, Army Of Darkness, Artificial Intelligence: AI, Audition, Back To The Future Trilogy, Bad Taste, Baseketball, Batman, Batman Begins, A Beautiful Mind, Beetlejuice, Best In Show, Big Fish, Blade Runner, Blue Velvet, Boiler Room, Borat, Broken Flowers, Cannibal: The Musical, Children of Men, Chocolat, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Contact, The Crow, The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys, Dark City, The Descent, Desperate Living, The Devil's Rejects, Dracula, Dune, Edward Scissorhands, The Elephant Man, Elf, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Everything Is Illuminated, Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, The Excorcist, Falling Down, Fargo, Fight Club, Flash Gordon, Fright Night, Garden State, Gods and Monsters, The Grudge, Heathers, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, House of 1000 Corpses, Into the Wild, Ju-on, Kundun, K-Pax, Labyrinth, The Lost Boys, Lost Highway, Mad Max, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Magnolia, The Man Who Fell To Earth, The Matrix, Memento, Metropolis, A Mighty Wind, Minority Report, Napoleon Dynamite, Natural Born Killers, The Nightmare Before Christmas, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Nosferatu, No Country for Old Men, The Notebook, Notes on a Scandal, Orgazmo, Panic Room, Pan's Labyrinth, Pecker, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Platoon, Predator, The Prestige, Psycho, Quills, Rescue Dawn, The Ring, Ringu, The Road Warrior, Saving Private Ryan, The Science of Sleep, Serial Mom, Se7en, Sexy Beast, Shadow of the Vampire, Sideways, Signs, Sin City, Star Wars, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Thank You for Smoking, This Is Spinal Tap, THX 1138, Trainspotting, Transformers, Transformers: The Movie, True Romance, Velvet Goldmine, Vertigo, Volver, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Wizard of Oz, The Wraith, 8 1/2, 28 Days Later, 30 Days of Night, 300, 2001: A Space Odyssey..
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Television:

Usually only on DVD.Angel, Arrested Development, Beavis and Butt-Head, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Deep South Wrestling, Desperate Housewives, ECW, G.I. Joe, Ghost Hunters, The Great Space Coaster, Haunting Evidence, TNA iMPACT!, Monday Nitro, Most Haunted, My Name Is Earl, The Office, Pee-wee's Playhouse, RAW, Saturday Night's Main Event, SmackDown, South Park, Transformers, The Twilight Zone, Unsolved Mysteries, Veronica Mars, Women's Extreme Wrestling, Wrestling Society X, The X-Files

Books:

Beloved, The Bible, The Bluest Eye, Brave New World, The Canterbury Tales, The Crow, Dracula, Everything Is Illuminated, Farenheit 451, Fight Club, Frankenstein, From Hell, The Gate of Angels, Heart Of Darkness, Howl, Indecision, Kabuki, The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Leaves Of Grass, Lolita, The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell, The Martian Chronicles, Naked Lunch, Native Son, On the Road, Paradise Lost, Poison Elves, Specimen Days, Their Eyes Were Watching God, V For Vendetta, Waterland, 300, 1984, 2001: A Space Odyssey

Heroes:

"All the children say, 'We don't need another hero...'"

My Blog

JESUS CHRIST

Sometimes just leaving the house for ten minutes can provide more absurd entertainment than hours of Monty Python. I went to the post office today to see if my check from AJC had arrived in my post o...
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:04:00 PST

I Have the Power!

My power’s been on the flicker for the past month or so, sometimes going out in most of the house, but usually coming back .. a few minutes. A week or so ago, it went out completely. Or at lea...
Posted by Jonathan on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:08:00 PST

Appetite for Destruction

I was going to call this blog Things I Saw While Stuck in Traffic, but then my brain started putting some subconscious and conscious things together rather unexpectedly and I realized there was someth...
Posted by Jonathan on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:20:00 PST

They got me good

So, I got my second parking ticket ever last Friday when I apparently parked my car illegally in downtown Atlanta. (My first parking ticket was only a few weeks earlier when I parked in downtown Deca...
Posted by Jonathan on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:50:00 PST

Bang Your Head

I found out earlier today that Kevin Dubrow of Quiet Riot died last Sunday. I don't think the cause of death is known as of yet, but what a sad day this is for heavy metal. Seriously. Not only were...
Posted by Jonathan on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:33:00 PST

New issue of Gothic Beauty

I got my copies of the latest issue of Gothic Beauty in the mail a couple of days ago, which means they should be on store shelves soon if not already. It looks really good upon my initial quick glanc...
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:15:00 PST

It's been a little while

I haven't posted any blogs in a while, so I figured I should let people know what I've been up to. Issue 22 of Gothic Beauty came out a while back and has a few articles by me. I did a story on how ...
Posted by Jonathan on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:23:00 PST

Comic books

I recently started doing comic book reviews for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. They will appear in the Buyer's Edge section every other Saturday. My first review is in today's paper and it's a re...
Posted by Jonathan on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:55:00 PST

I'm in today's Washington Post

In today's issue of the Washington Post, there is an article about Gothic Beauty Magazine. As I writer for this magazine, I thought it was pretty cool and decided to give it a quick read. Then to my s...
Posted by Jonathan on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:49:00 PST

The weird world in which I live

I was talking to Aysha tonight and realized that a very strange thing came out of my mouth. "So I was talking to one of the guys from the Blue Man Group on the phone when Jayne County called and left...
Posted by Jonathan on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:38:00 PST