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Jacob

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

Impresario, shipping magnate, oil baron, surgeon, philanthropist. One Thursday morning in November 1893, he took his usual seat at the Savoy Hotel and requested the waiter bring him “a newspaper, a bootjack, the Bible, a pint of vinegar, a paper of pins, and some barley sugar.” Upon the waiter’s refusal to comply with this extraordinary request, Evans’ face dissolved into silent tears. “Aye me, sir,” he said, “you have condemned an honest man to his doom.” Thereupon he hailed a cab, and was heard to tell the driver to take him to his office, a journey of no more than fifteen minutes. He was, of course, never seen again, although his tiepin was cut from the stomach of a twenty-five pound sturgeon caught in the Black Sea on the first day of World War One...This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5

My Interests

Books, movies, music, writing, photography, art, kung-fu, Annie Oakley, Howard Hughes, Victorian England, The Civil War, mysterious lights

I'd like to meet:

Everyone. Even you.

Music:

Whiskeytown, Mark Eitzel/AMC, Richard Buckner, Otis Redding, Willie Nelson, Built To Spill, Blind Willie Johnson, Bruce Springsteen, Modest Mouse, REM, Motorhead, Guided By Voices, Tom Waits, The Handsome Family, The Danielson Famile, The Carter Family, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, The Pogues, Johnny Cash, Okkervil River, Low, Sparklehorse, Deltron 3030, The Decemberists, Son Volt, Vic Chesnutt, George Jones, Radiohead, Damien Jurado, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, The Kronos Quartet, The White Stripes, Smog, Old country music, Jackson Browne, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sixteen Horsepower, My Morning Jacket, Joe Henry, Dr. Dre, Girl groups from the 60s, Boy bands from the 90s, Rockabilly from the 50s, The Band, Neko Case, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, The Fall, The Mountain Goats, Stax/Volt, Spoon, Sam Cooke, The Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, Iron & Wine, Hank Williams, Wilco, Calexico, Califone, Songs:Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co, Centro-Matic, Van Morrison, The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Movies:

Henry Fool, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, McCabe & Mrs Miller, Unforgiven, The Four Corners of Nowhere, The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, The Shootist, the entire Paul Thomas Anderson oevure, Jesus' Son, Fight Club, Wet Hot American Summer, Pulp Fiction, Dumb And Dumber.

Television:

Seasons 2-9 of The Simpsons, Futurama, Northern Exposure, Whatever Bill Moyers is up to these days, Conan, Austin City Limits, Countdown w/Keith Olberman, Deadwood, Sessions at West 54th, Daily Show/Colbert, Squidbillies, Venture Brothers, The McGlaughlin Group, 30 Rock, Seinfeld.

Books:

Cormac McCarthy, John Irving, Thomas Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, David Berman, James Dickey, Tristan Egolf, Michael Chabon, Samuel Clemens, Greil Marcus, Neil Gaiman, Dylan Thomas, Frank Stanford, Denis Johnson, David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, Howard Zinn, Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, St. John of Patmos.

Heroes:

Blue Factory Flames, Lone Star Sunsets, etc

My Blog

The Most Profound Book

"He had thought before and would think again as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life." --William Faulkner, Light In August...
Posted by Jacob on Fri, 09 May 2008 02:41:00 PST

Mother & God

"I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pri...
Posted by Jacob on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:53:00 PST

An Infidel In Someone’s Eyes

"I don’t know what kind of church you like to imagine but I like to imagine a church full of carcasses. You know, there’s one big carcass at the end in extreme pain and there’s a lot...
Posted by Jacob on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:54:00 PST

Moving Underground

Several years ago, when the Orange Line in Boston was moved underground, the MBTA solicited poems from grade-school kids about where they would go on the new line, and had them printed on the walls in...
Posted by Jacob on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:01:00 PST

This Grand Show

"This grand show is eternal." --John Muir
Posted by Jacob on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:34:00 PST

The Truth Of The World

The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting.  The truth of the world is that it is chaotic....
Posted by Jacob on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:04:00 PST

A Single Destoyer

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.  This world i...
Posted by Jacob on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:36:00 PST

Good Advices

Run away and join the circus.  Get a tattoo, hop a train.  Plant a garden and save the seeds.  Get married, have kids, wear a hat.  Get good with a bullwhip.  Don't lie, ...
Posted by Jacob on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:36:00 PST

Lillies & Bees

My heart of silk is filled with lights, with lost bells, with lilies and bees. I will go very far, farther than those hills, farther than the seas, close to the stars, to beg Christ the Lord to give b...
Posted by Jacob on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:45:00 PST

The Beauty Of Ignorance

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just ...
Posted by Jacob on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:48:00 PST