Jürgen profile picture

Jürgen

a letterbomb marked return to sender

About Me


the ten albums i couldn't live without....(and two recent wildcards)

Create your own Music List @ HotFreeLayouts!

My Interests


Get this video and more at MySpace.com

Music:

Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel, Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, The Clash, Gang of Four, Nick Drake, Tom Waits, The Velvet Underground, Sufjan Stevens, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Joanna Newsom, The Stooges, The Jam, Radiohead, Voxtrot, Pop Group, The Raincoats, Young Marble Giants, Spacemen 3, Modest Mouse, Elliott Smith, They Might Be Giants, Wilco, Wilderness, My Bloody Valentine, Shins, Damien Rice, TV on the Radio, Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Yo La Tengo, The Slits, XTC, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Mountain Goats, Arcade Fire, The Liars, Olivia Tremor Control, Flaming Lips, Wire, Animal Collective, Patti Smith, The Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Broken Social Scene, The Books, Spoon, Stars, The Postal Service, The Lilys, Ben Folds Five, Pulp, The New Pornographers, The Boy Least Likely To, Morrissey, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Oh No! Oh My!, The Dismemberment Plan, Built to Spill, Beulah, Stephen Malkmus, The Soft Boys, Television, Silver Jews, Sleater-Kinney, Elvis Costello, The Decemberists, Andrew Bird, The Magnetic Fields, Replacements, Dinosaur Jr., The Wrens, The Fall, Ride, The Spinto Band, Flotation Toy Warning, Guided By Voices, M83, Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Godspeed You Black Emperor, The Islands, REM, Liz Phair, St. Vincent, Magazine, Tortoise, Spinanes, Blitzen Trapper, The National, Super Furry Animals, The Unicorns, Talk Talk, Art Brut, Sugar, Zombies, Vetiver, Aimee Mann, Ani di Franco and on and on

Movies:

The Lion in Winter, The Maltese Falcon, Newsies, Brazil, The Philadelphia Story, Casblanca, Bringing Up Baby, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshin of the Spotless Mind, Royal Tennenbaums, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Being There, Charade, Children of Paradise, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, High Fidelity, Donnie Darko, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Television:

don't own a television, but i watch/have watched LOST, Heroes, Day Break, Sports Night, The West Wing, Mr. Show, Kids in the Hall, The Chappelle's Show and News Radio

Books:

The Idiot, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Chronicles of Narnia, Heart of Darkness, Great Expectations, To the Lighthouse, Siddhartha, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Wonder Boys, The Life of Pi, The Brothers Karamazov, His Dark Materials, Blindness

Heroes:

Virginia Woolf, Ian Curtis, Herman Hesse, Harold Pinter, Stephen Malkmus, Jeff Magnum, Michael Chabon

My Blog

bullying in the digital age (or when did "facebook" become a verb?)

"Etz chaim he dude, as the ex used to say."in the age of identity theft and internet sites dedicated to 24 hours of what your favorite celebrities are doing to sabotage their moral fiber, a term like ...
Posted by Jürgen on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:41:00 PST

just like watching the detectives (or my take on some fall television)

it's unfortunate today while strolling through the primetime graveyard to see the freshly filled mounds of such promising show.  i think i'm making that metaphor work way too hard, but suffice it...
Posted by Jürgen on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:44:00 PST

a song from under the bedclothes (an evening with st. vincent)

there are certain songs that make you want to run under the covers in your room and hug them tight to you with a desperation that they'll never feel quite close enough.  they make you f...
Posted by Jürgen on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:04:00 PST

industrial grotesquerie and the world of dan deacon

"there is a mountain of snow, up past the big glenwe have a castle enclosed, there is a fountainout of the fountain flows gold into a huge handthat hand is held by a bear who had a sick bandof ghosts ...
Posted by Jürgen on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:44:00 PST

"working to work"

"i shouldn't see your tired eyes" i fully admit it.  i'm biased.  i love xtc.  they're just outside of my top five, but sometimes i just need to be in a mood.  that ...
Posted by Jürgen on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:32:00 PST

you look like nothing i could steal

"my boredom has outshined the sun" as adolescent as his lyrics can be, sometimes corgan really can nail it.  well, hit the nail but not the head.  it's still a little cringeworthy.  the...
Posted by Jürgen on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:35:00 PST

crosseyed and painless

"still waiting..." it's shameful.  he sits right next to me for seven plus hours a day and i can't remember his name for the life of me even as i'm sitting here.  i think it might be anthony...
Posted by Jürgen on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:00:00 PST

"where we keep our vices warm" (a mission statement)

"count to ten and read before the lights begin to fade..." two pavement references in a row.  who am i trying to impress?  well, i figured everyone else has got a fairly consistent blog, so...
Posted by Jürgen on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:39:00 PST

drunk on the metronome click (a celebration and a plea for help)

so i've just recently taken a gander at my ipod wondering what bands hold the greatest number of songs.  now, i know if i was up on my minutemen collection, they'd probably give these top three a...
Posted by Jürgen on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:25:00 PST

tagged and bagged

so i've been tagged and i now i've got to come up with ten strange things, habits and interesting facts about me....the rules are as follows: once you've been tagged you can't be re-tagged.  At t...
Posted by Jürgen on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:35:00 PST