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James

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... Not so reassuring when you live here.

About Me

I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and living there 25 years was long enough. I always wanted to move out west, and I finally made it out to Vegas in the spring of 2004. After all this time, there's still no place like it...

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My Interests

Having a job that you enjoy ends up consuming all your time, but I'm not complaining. I really like living out here, doing what I do. I like to travel, but I've always been more about a good road trip than flying somewhere. So far I've been to 38 of the 50 States. I'll see 39 this summer in Hawaii.

I'd like to meet:

Hunter Thompson, Scott Weiland, Maynard, Jack White, Bob's two dogs in that cute, "Save the Date Photo..."

Music:

The Coachella festival in California last year, was 2 days I'll never forget. I don't think I'll be able to go this year unfortunately, but I know it wouldn't even compare. My list for the the top rock bands (that have recent material) would be: Pearl Jam, Tool, Beck, The Raconteurs, Wolfmother, Muse, Audioslave, Queens of the Stone Age, Green Day, Nine Inch Nails, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Franz Ferdinand.

Movies:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Back to the Future, Garden State, Fight Club, and I still think Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs are great movies.

Television:

The Office, 24, Mythbusters, The Daily Show.

Books:

To be honest I'm more of a magazine reader. Rolling Stone, Men's Health, Fast Company...

Heroes:

My Mom and Grandma would be 1 and 2. They both went through some hell that I will never see.

My Blog

18 Days

It's always been easier to write when life was going haywire. At this point I certainly have a lot on my plate, but in a way it's all good. Lately I've had a strong internal drive to succeed. Of co...
Posted by James on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:05:00 PST

Everything in it's Right Place

2007 has been one of the most strange/exiting/transitional years I've had in a long time. For one time in my life I actually feel like I have my shit together and I'm actually growing up. The funny...
Posted by James on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:19:00 PST

Memorial Day

Every time I decide I'm going to "calm down," not party as much, etc, it lasts about 2 weeks. Maybe its living here in Vegas, or maybe it's just my personality. Once in a while I really consider le...
Posted by James on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:46:00 PST

Nicotine

People are probably sick and tired of hearing me quitting smoking, only to go out until 6am and blow through a whole pack (or two). I do have to say, I haven't had any nicotine in over a week, and I ...
Posted by James on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:20:00 PST

Players

I usually don't talk about work much on here, but I had an interesting customer interaction this morning. I took a chance on a decent player from MGM and brought him over to our place hoping he'd sho...
Posted by James on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:13:00 PST

3 Years

It's hard to believe that in March it will be 3 years that I've been out here in Las Vegas. I've always wanted to live my life as if I was writing a story, making each day count, etc. I have so many...
Posted by James on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:31:00 PST

Chris Shinn

For those of you who don't know who Chris is, I will briefly explain and hopefully get most of the facts straight. Most people will recognize Chris from the band Unified Theory which released a self-...
Posted by James on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:42:00 PST

25 or 6 to 4

It's been quite some time since I've missed home. I watched a movie tonight about nothing in particular, and there was snow on the ground, and a young couple falling in love. It reminded me that bac...
Posted by James on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:44:00 PST

6 am and new beginings

Well since every time I post a journal entry I get blasted by my buddies back home I'll refrain from any poetry... Things are going so well lately that I almost feel uneasy. I hate feeling like the ...
Posted by James on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:51:00 PST

Another journal entry

romanticize and criticizebut only after you've discovered what is behind her eyesjustify my hypocracysimply by addinga page to the storypretending I'm lucidwhen I know damn welli can't control this dr...
Posted by James on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:33:00 PST