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Jeff

www.CrockerOnline.com

About Me

The Night Milkman.

My Interests

Bottom-shelf blue ruin rotgut whiskey; science and technology used for meglomaniacal purposes; listening to old vagabonds telling mysterious stories; the use of robotics in America's modern homes; rumbling in the alley behind my house; frenet branca; rock and roll; sex.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone that knows what happens if you beat "Pac Man."

Music:

Jetliner, AC/DC, Wilco, Rainbow, Paper Lace, Wanda Jackson, Gene Vincent, Big Sandy and his Fly Rite Boys, Ben Folds, Kate Earl, Stephen Malkmus and Pavement, Tower of Power, Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand, Dizzy Gilespie, Carl Perkins, The Kinks, Weezer, Ween, The Clash, ELO, Black Sabbath, Black Flag, Ted Nugent, Mutt Taylor, Two Gallants

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, Safe Men, CQ, Star Wars, Jaws, Spider-Man, True Lies, Unleashed, The Rocketeer, October Sky, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Fantastic Voyage, Journey to the Center of the Earth, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Aviator, Kicking and Screaming(Baumbach, not Ferrell), Fantastic Voyage, Journey to the Bottom of the Sea, It Came From Beneath the Sea, A Crack in the World,

Television:

Kenny Vs. Spenny, Magnum PI, Nip/Tuck, The Amazing Race, The Apprentice, Knight Rider, CHiPS, Quantum Leap, Arrested Development, Channel 101,

Books:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Best American Non-Required Reading, Lamb, Catcher in the Rye, Kitchen: Confidential, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Big Sleep, Last Trout in Venice, Survivor, Carter Beats the Devil, Me Talk Pretty One Day(any Sedaris), The Partly Cloudy Patriot(any Vowell), Cadillac Desert, Raid on the Sun, anything Kafka, anything McSweeneys, anything George Saunders, the concept of Hemingway

Heroes:

Kenny and Spenny; Modern Drunkard Magazine

My Blog

I’m Going to Write the Fuck Out of a Novel

I majored in English:Creative Writing at Cal State Long Beach and really got into short story reading and writing. Whenever I told people I was an English major they usually asked if I liked writing n...
Posted by Jeff on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:31:00 PST

Things to Watch

My girlfriend would be proud: Tune in to CBS tonight for the premiere of painfully, underrated sitcom How I Met Your Mother. You won't be disappointed. Bonus points for guest star Mandy Moore being h...
Posted by Jeff on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:39:00 PST

I really should be playing videogames right now

I've been working more lately, which is all fine and dandy, but it's SUCH a nice day out and I really should be playing videogames.I mean, come on, what better way to spend the last day of summer than...
Posted by Jeff on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:49:00 PST

Super Car!

I made this miniature almost three years ago and pulled it off the top of my refridgerator this afternoon to finish it. And by finish it, I basically repainted it and shellacked it with dirt around th...
Posted by Jeff on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:00:00 PST

Great Moments in American Headlines

I heard about this on Saturday and my jaw hit the floor. Here's the amazing headline from Entertainment Weekly:"KID NATION INTRODUCES YOUNGSTERS TO JOYS OF DRINKING BLEACH"The story that was relayed t...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:14:00 PST

Jeff Crocker on 101 People More Normal Than You

I did a short run of drawings for Matt Gourley's summer web-art epic-101 People More Normal Than YouMine can be found at numbers 76-80. But make sure to click through all of them as there are some oth...
Posted by Jeff on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:57:00 PST

New video for Rob Schrab - Scud @ Comic-Con!

I edited this video as part of Rob Schrab's on-going behind-the-scenes documentation of making the last issue of his comic book, "Scud: The Disposable Assassin."It's important for a few reas...
Posted by Jeff on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:27:00 PST

Margaritas are the new Pinkberry

Pinkberry is out, people. Sorry.Now, on those hot, late summer days, everyone's going out to El Torito or Acapulco's to get a sweet refreshing citrussy refreshment garnished with fresh fruit and loade...
Posted by Jeff on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:51:00 PST

Ill never be a hacker

There were times as a teenager that I thought it would be cool to "be a hacker"; live dangerously outside the law, in a dark room surrounded by computer equipment that is somehow ALWAYS running lines ...
Posted by Jeff on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:47:00 PST

INNER DUDES!

Hey everyone!I just finished a new short film and would love for everyone to check it out!You can view it on my profile(I'll embed it at the bottom too.)You can view it on YouTubeorYou can view a high...
Posted by Jeff on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:52:00 PST