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Jean-Paul

I am here for Networking

About Me

new best thing ever

My Interests

modern art makes me want to rock out! Who has better dance moves... H.R. or HR

I'd like to meet:

The original LI/Situationists, Greg Ginn, Jesus, Buddha, Sol LeWitt, and I still want to fight Phil Collins.

Music:

Wrens, Der Teenage Panzer Korps, Mission of Burma, Animal Collective, VU, Sufjan Stevens, Neko Case, Lightning Bolt, Spitzzz, The Fall, Witchcraft, Black Sabbath, Slayer, Neutral Milk Hotel, Converge, The Locust, Wilco, Mclusky, Shellac, Killdozer, Dino Jr, Suzy Wong and The Honkies, Caustic Christ, Deicide, Torche, Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Pavement, Ground Unicorn Horn, Silver Jews, Madlib, Wu-Tang, Spankrock, MIA, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Mirah, Joy Division, Cat Power, Bob Dylan, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Fugazi, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Charlie Louvin, Beirut, Tellings, Medicine Lake, Emeralds, Insects with tits, Wether, Barnes, lots of other random noise stuff, Francoise Hardy, Serge Gainesbourge, Morton Feldman, just ask I suppose... there's quite a bit, but especially local music. oh... and Sunn O))) because they are awesome and have the balls to name their band after an amplifier.

Movies:

eternal sunshine, the big lebowski, me myself and irene, clockwork orange, army of darkness, I 3 Huckabees, etc.

Television:

mostly gave it up (excepting baseball, hockey and pbs. Also, thanks to the Judson... Hell Date...you've NEVER been on a date so crazy!)

Books:

Right now a lot of Vonnegut and Mailer... Always - Henry Miller, Joyce, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Greil Marcus, and random books about dada/surrealism.

Heroes:

"Ideas cannot be owned. They belong to whomever understands them." - R.I.P. Sol Lewitt"DaDa is the police of the police"

My Blog

Believe in what you wanna do, and do you think that is a major flaw?

Wolf Eyes were fantastic... sometimes I wonder why they’ve been so successful compared to similar bands.  Sunday night was a nice reminder... my neck still hurts.  James and Nikki are ...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:37:00 PST

Nels Cline, existential ennui, etc.

That pretty much sums up my day or possibly life.  I have a cold... I think... but that really doesn’t matter much.  Lucia... that’s a great track.  It’s dangerously c...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:03:00 PST

the mirrors lie those aren’t my eyes

Snowed in... didn't have work... walked to Dunkin' Donuts... keep listening to Yo La Tengo - i can hear the heart beating as one and SDRE - Diary.  I'd forgotten how good YLT's Velvet impressions...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:40:00 PST

I woke up afraid of my shadow

Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride    When dealing with upcoming releases, the ones I tend to get excited about (and I feel this may be something of a maxim) have a certain flash to them.&n...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:16:00 PST

miya in new haven

is awesome
Posted by Jean-Paul on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:40:00 PST

This is a sculpture of a couple of things we’ve got to get straight

http://www.taxidermia.hu/indexen.htmLooks awesome... thanks to Jason for the clue-in.  "...Thru clouds of persecution, and stumblin' on my wayI 'spect I'm only makin', 'bout a half a mile a day" ...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:16:00 PST

"It’s a kind of fame you can never understand"

Noise and the universal OM....or... how power electronics are the new church ;-P     To start... much like the holiday jam, last night's Camp Judson show felt really special.  The ...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:31:00 PST

ok... why not

I just realized I invest too much time and money on cd's and records....50.  Ceremony - Scared People49.  Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger48.  Witchcraft - The Alchemist47. Grizzly Bear - Friend...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:39:00 PST

- Best of 2007 -

Agree...Disagree? 20.  Tender Forever - Wider 19.  Pre - Epic Fits 18.  The Lesser Birds of Paradise - Space Between 17.  Torche - In Return 16.  Spankrock - YoYoYo 15. ...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:54:00 PST

lifted early fixed above us keeping a promise to name you among us why?

"Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did.  They called me John. Jonah - John - if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still - not because I have been unlucky for others, but because ...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:50:00 PST