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j3s

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About Me

Currently a bit displaced...and not that worried about finding it.

See also: j3s.net

My Interests

playing with language, traveling, Iyengar yoga, writing, climbing trees, the window seat, urban decay, dancing my ass off, spending all day in the park, hot women with flasks, water flowing underground, going to museums alone, dark chocolate, sashimi, modern post-modern and japanese poetry, balancing health and hedonism, dancing on broken glass, getting sweaty, bruises, bellies, snitching nibbles while people cook for me, taking pictures of textured things, androgyny, passing all afternoon at an outdoor cafe, the color brown, old man cardigans, line breaks, conservation, going someplace i have never been, thunderstorms, sekt, rhinestones, knee socks, street food, cream pies, stilton: king of the cheeses, appreciating my family, post-rave, post-vegan, live in the now, can't remember shit, dirty techno, eating not cooking, anti-domestic, the power of words, dancing all night and all morning, weekly outdoor markets, rock climbing, documentation, pranayama, orange stoli and soda, bikes and feet and trains not cars, maps, that thin blue light that signifies transition, running, organic and sustainable food, good soundsystems, dirty warehouses, falling down, urban planning, lifelong insomnia, laughing at myself

I'd like to meet:

Rowdy but grounded people. Fellow enablers. Androgynous beings. Good cooks (I'll bring the wine). People who collected rocks as children, and still sometimes pick them up.

Music:

Autechre, Nobukazu Takemura, Basic Channel, acid house, Drop Bass, Aphex Twin, Johnny Cash, Dan Bell, Thomas Brinkmann, Squarepusher, Bob Dylan, Luciano, Mike Ink, Rhythm & Sound, The Pixies, A Tribe Called Quest, Concrete Blonde, old man house, Bogdan Raczynski, Atomly, Stunt Rock, Primus, Coil, Yo La Tengo, dub, Eliot Lipp, Plug, Patsy Cline, Nasenbluten, Led Zeppelin, Monolake, Elliott Smith, Dettinger, dubstep, Bjork, Built to Spill, Moodyman, Pole, Doormouse, Ricardo Villalobos, Jane's Addiction, Theo Parrish, Gas, Janis Joplin, jungle from '94-'96

Movies:

Jarmusch, Kurosawa, Faces, The Graduate, Ghost in the Shell, Wong Kar-Wai, Belle de Jour, 400 Blows, The Big Lebowski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blade Runner, Brazil, Seven Samurai, The Shining, Christopher Guest, Super Troopers, Yojimbo

Television:

ST:TNG, Six Feet Under, Twin Peaks, Sealab, Lost

Books:

Anne Carson, Hamlet, Jeanette Winterson, Basho, Dune (books 1, 2 and 6), One Hundred Years of Solitude, Herman Hesse, Seamus Heaney, Marianne Moore, Salman Rushdie, Charles Bukowski, Gertrude Stein, Haruki Murakami, early Jorie Graham, Kurt Vonnegut, Li-Young Lee, Light on Yoga, Paul Celan, W.S. Merwin, Toni Morrison, Henry Miller, Middlesex, Mark Doty, No More Prisons, Looking Around, Adrienne Rich, Cosmicomics

My Blog

Argentina, Boliva, Chile et al...

South America is fucking fantastic so far! I have been in Buenos Aires, Cordoba, and Puerto Iguazu; tomorrow I leave for two weeks in Bolivia, which I am really excited about. The exchange rate is goo...
Posted by j3s on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:58:00 PST

Serious sausage

Last night, wondering around Neukölln on a quest for Glühwein (it's pretty damn cold out), I consumed a half-meter long Bratwurst, followed by the most sublime Baklava I've ever tasted. If I thought b...
Posted by j3s on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:28:00 PST

The next place

I figured it's been a while, I should fill whomever reads this blog in on my plans. First of all: I am leaving Berlin in the middle of December. It's hard to believe that by then I will have been livi...
Posted by j3s on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:28:00 PST

Spring green

I love spring; Berlin is exponentially more fantastic with warm weather and green on the trees...Except ugh, allergies. The first week of spring when everything blooms is rather physically uncomfortab...
Posted by j3s on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:34:00 PST

Berlin

It's been a month since I left Chicago to live in Berlin, which is kind of crazy. It feels like longer than that, but also it's gone by so quickly. It was a little strange and frustrating at first, bu...
Posted by j3s on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:33:00 PST

Departure

Now that I've told my family, my landlord, and as of this afternoon, my job, it's time for the official announcement: I'm leaving Chicago. In exactly a month, on February 6th, I'm moving with a friend...
Posted by j3s on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:13:00 PST

lift with the legs NOT THE BACK ouch

First of all, I am ok, but I will be out of commission for a bit. Yesterday I seriously fucked up my back trying to lift a crate of records. I couldn't walk, couldn't sit, couldn't really move, could ...
Posted by j3s on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:21:00 PST

Haircut, finally.

So I got a cute new haircut yesterday. Charlie gave it to me, a friend who works at Art and Science, and who has offered to give me a bitchin' haircut since this summer. (Oh how I miss summer afternoo...
Posted by j3s on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:33:00 PST

Alicia

It's still so fucking weird to me that she's gone.
Posted by j3s on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:13:00 PST

What to keep and what to purge, as applied to records

I've been having a debate with myself for quite a while about what to do with my records. I'll be doing some rather extended traveling soon, and getting rid of a lot of my possessions to do so, which ...
Posted by j3s on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:33:00 PST