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Jim McCraw

The mental muscles of democracy have begun to atrophy. - Albert Gore Jr.

About Me

I am a silent partner of Hollywood Disco (Raiford's) nightclub downtown in Memphis TN. I was a machine-gunner in the United States Marine Corps for four years during that time I lived in Cuba, Los Angeles, Australia, Korea, and Okinawa Japan among other places. When I was in college the first time I was an active member of Pi Kappa Alpha and I still have many crazy memories of the old Pike house. I am very much into politics and I believe that the Libertarian party, which I am a sustaining member, is the only party who's priciples are both constitutional and practical. I am also a writer, I have written three short stories and hope to write more in the future whenever I can find the time. I am currently a Journalism major at the University of Memphis and I plan to go into internet media upon graduation. I am also a bartender. I used to bartend on Beale St., but now I bartend on occuation for the Brooks Museum of Art whenever they have events.

My Interests



Politics, Reading, writing, going out, music, video games, and working out.

I'd like to meet:

Ron Paul, Todd Hamric, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Roddy Piper, Kukubong

Music:

A Perfect Circle, Alice in Chains, Audioslave, Billy Idol, Coldplay, The Dead Kennedys, Die Pretty, The Doors, Electric Six, Faith No More, Guns N' Roses, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Manson, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, The Pixies, Operator, Ours, Pop Will Eat Itself, Prodigy, Queens of the Stone Age, Henry Rollins Band, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Smashing Pumpkins, Slayer, Starsailor, System of a Down, Anthony Gomes, Rusty Lemon, Tool, Ween, The White Stripes, Radiohead, Sepultura, Beetoven, Ministry, The Muse, Pink Floyd among others.

Movies:

Conan the Barbarian, Gummo, Deadly Friend, Cobra, The Rambo movies, the Rocky movies, any thing with Arnold, David Lynch films, John Waters films, They Live, and anything cheesy.

Television:

Real Time with Bill Maher, Robot Chicken, Ali G, Smackdown!

Books:

Gorgias - Plato, A Foriegn Policy of Freedom - Ron Paul, Good to be King - Michael Badnarik, The Assault on Reason - Al Gore, The Misfortunes of Virtue - Marquis de Sade, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, The Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnigut Jr., Surviver, Invisible Monsters, Choke, Fight Club - Chuck Paloniuk, We - Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee, The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe, any H.G. Howard or Dr Hunter S. Thompson stories, Brave New World, Island, The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley, 1984, Animal Farm - George Orwell

Heroes:

Dr. Hunter S Thompson, Callicles, Caligula, Marquis de Sade, Ron Paul

My Blog

If someone wrote a book about your life, would anyone read it?

"If someone wrote a book about your life would anyone read it?" I heard that somewhere a long time ago and this is how I try to live my life.  The way I see it you only live once and why waste it...
Posted by Jim McCraw on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:20:00 PST