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johnny

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

i've lived at 7 different addresses in the past 35 months. the most recent is a baller-ass condo overlooking the city of champions. also, i have dreams about pre-tomato italy."john awesome" is my kilgore trout.

My Interests

i'm interested in not being interested.

I'd like to meet:

thomas jefferson... the radio host.

Music:

the constantines, the fugazi, the sonic youth, the pj harvey, the dismemberment plan, the david bowie, the rjd2, the kraftwerk, the pearl jam, the shellac, the deaths, the modest mouse, the pavement, the faith no more/the mr. bungle/the tomahawk/the mike patton, the sleepy time gorilla museum, the enon, the eastern youth, the kingston trio, the soviettes, the god lives underwater, the aic, the sunny day real estate, the cake, the nine inch nails, the LIFTER PULLER, the hold steady, the arctic universe, the starship reducer, the sons of the pioneers, the devo/the mark mothersbaugh, the handsome boy modeling school, the sah, the electric six, the bjork, the ex, the random 80s pop hits, the roy orbison, the david byrne, talking heads, radiohead, motorhead, machinehead, portishead, spongehead, lemonheads, godheadSilo, mushroomhead, oysterhead, zebrahead, futureheads, blonde redhead, hammerhead, the heads etc.......

Movies:

spinal tap; hell cab; wes anderson's; spike jonze's; goodbye, lenin!; the station agent; lost in translation; fear and loathing; several coen bros'; etc...

Television:

trailer park boys, curb your enthusiasm, automobile rallye sporting

Books:

eggers, vonnegut, cicero, kerouac, c. moore, hemingway, camus, virgil, etc... also, the poetry of robert creeley, and why not?

Heroes:

charlie rose, ira glass, carl kassel, 'magic' marcus gronholm, phil mills, markko martin, and michael 'beef' park even though he's dead now.

My Blog

two more days

it's my belief - defining belief as what you haphazardly know about some of the cooler 20th century american authors - that there comes a day when expatriatizing one's self seems like t...
Posted by johnny on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:48:00 PST

local news

i watched the local news last night. i had been out of town the previous couple of days, so i thought it'd be smart to see what i had missed. the first four minutes of the broadcast focused on the loc...
Posted by johnny on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:38:00 PST

out of professional courtesy...

i have removed the previous entry.  fucking big brother.
Posted by johnny on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:29:00 PST

the saucy land

i woke up sick on saturday morning, which pissed me off real good since my plan was to go up to winnipeg to provide some sort of moral support during a time of recovery. i thought that i'd be comprom...
Posted by johnny on Wed, 31 May 2006 08:08:00 PST

forlorn, somewhat

dear diary / country and western record label producers, today i quit my job and my girlfriend moved to a different country. i can't say that i didn't see this coming. hanging in there, john...
Posted by johnny on Mon, 22 May 2006 10:53:00 PST

pretty pretty official

yesterday i got the word that i have so desperately been waiting to here for the past two years.  i was offered a sort of real job!  it is with epic systems in madison, and they set a really...
Posted by johnny on Wed, 10 May 2006 01:09:00 PST

the "bear" essentials

the grocery list: MEAT BEER SLAYER FOOD & SUPPLIES INGREDIENTS VACUUM BAGS BARBASOL
Posted by johnny on Wed, 10 May 2006 11:39:00 PST

getting their story straight.

when i woke up this morning, they were getting their story straight.  i had a meeting at 6:30am, but i got out of bed a little late and had to rush.  when i went down the stairs, i heard a...
Posted by johnny on Tue, 02 May 2006 11:17:00 PST

cities twin

and then i called shea when i got to my apartment and had packed up everything."you ready to go?""yeah. i made you a sandwich even.""great, i will see you in two minutes."two minutes later, i saw her....
Posted by johnny on Mon, 01 May 2006 08:28:00 PST

great anticipation

i should've written something earlier so that the past events would seem more visceral and gritty, but i'll tell you that i've been busy and know to myself that it's just that i've felt tired and as i...
Posted by johnny on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:07:00 PST