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John

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About Me



burnt toast

My Interests

Being at woods, caves, rapids, dunes, and decrepit urban areas, cinema, going to memorials for incinerated astronauts, f-ing around with Flash and making bad techno videos with Julie Fab, cooking (VIVA LA www.tuesdaynightdinner.com ), reading brazilian UFO abduction accounts, volleyball, playing with dogs, sledding whilst inebriated, watching rainstorms on a porchswing, attempting to be politically & globally aware. Stabbing windmills.

I'd like to meet:

B.D. Wong

Here is a little clip of our Ozzy when he was a puppy playing ball. I love how he hops when he runs.

This is damn tasty..

And here's the video from the hot new hit by Lukalovers.



Music:

Ministry, Cheb i Sabbah, Man or Astroman, The Secret Chiefs 3, Dead Kennedies, Meat Beat Manifesto, Oblivians, Madan Mohan, DAF, Cursor Miner, Bobby Conn, Coil, Ween, Curve, Mr. Bungle, Queen Adreena, My Bloody Valentine, Yma Sumac, Tuvan throat singing, Peter Thomas, State of Bengal, Parliament, Nina Hagen, Bomboras, Gary Numan, Skinny Puppy, John Foxx, Flossie and the Unicorns

Movies:



Ed Wood, The Saddest Music in the World, City of Lost Children, Kiss Me Deadly, Aar Paar, Blade Runner, Harold and Maude, Santa Sangre, Blue Velvet, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, The House of Yes, Betty Blue, Lagaan, Rejected, Happiness of the Katakuris, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Schitzopolis, Amateur, The Last Unicorn
And Bollywood horror...

Television:

Nova, Aquateen Hunger Force, Monster Garage

Books:

Geek Love, The Power and the Glory, Brave New World, Confederacy of Dunces, The Idiot, Elvis and me

Heroes:

my friends, uncle John, janet reno

And DAN

My Blog

Precious Feist

Ozzy has been involved with some fun things lately.  Two weeks ago he was in the dog show for mutts in Berwyn:     Along with his buddy Sage (who used to be the resident dog at th...
Posted by John on Wed, 28 May 2008 11:42:00 PST

My Bloody Valentine Coming to Chicago

Holy crap!  My Bloody Valentine is coming on tour in the US and they are going to be in Chicago at 9/27 at the Aragon Ballroom.  Tickets went on sale today and we were still able to get some...
Posted by John on Sat, 10 May 2008 01:28:00 PST

frozen search

So a week or two ago I proposed to Jenny and she said yes, so now we are in the throws of planning a wedding.  It is very stressful so I thought I would step up and take on an important ...
Posted by John on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:11:00 PST

Dennis the menace

I was looking for something pertaining to David Lynch on Youtube and I happened to stumble across this gem.  Note that it is not appropriate to view in a work environment (or at least most work enviro...
Posted by John on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:21:00 PST

Wonderful in theory

You know, in my head I would like to think my life is something like this:   However, I think the reality is more something like this: That's not all bad though....
Posted by John on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:45:00 PST

dead ringer

um, so I was hanging with Ozzy today when I had a realization. He is the 11th incarnation of Yoda.  No really:  ...
Posted by John on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:10:00 PST

Nice marmot

Out at the park today Sage's dad Damien mentioned that the Portage Theater was having some old horror and Sci-fi double-features this month.  So I went to their site to check it out and learned t...
Posted by John on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:08:00 PST

My dog ate my yoga instructor

Wow, was it a eerie beautiful foggy night tonight! I had a locksmith stop by tonight and several things to take care of for work and for the condo president duties so I only got to take...
Posted by John on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:29:00 PST

followed in the night

It was finally posted to YouTube, this is a fun project that a team made at the conference I was attending.  They are trying to make it viral so please give it five stars if you can:  For the...
Posted by John on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:15:00 PST

dynamic approach

I am so excited I can't sleep so what better time to write a blog.  I'm at a the Elearning Guild's Dev Learn conference in San Jose right now and it has been really inspiring and exciting.  I have a f...
Posted by John on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:44:00 PST