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Jedediah

About Me

I live in Brooklyn and have no cats, but that's another story, or not. I record songs under the banner My Teenage Stride. There is a live version. My hobbies include Gin, clever asides, marine biology, and making up verbs. I believe that modesty is the soul of morality. I like saying little epigrams to create the illusion of an intellectual and emotional depth that I am, in reality, seriously wanting. I think that too many people in this country have been told they're special and not enough have been asked to continue to use their imaginations after childhood. I think pornography is tacky but I would defend its right to exist. I think too many people smoke pot and not enough drink liquor. I believe smokiness is next to Godliness. I believe that devout Atheists tend to take the moral high road more than most people. I am not an Atheist but I do think that it constitutes a religion. I enjoy salty foods and the existence of pudding causes me great psychic dissonance. My parents gave me no life skills but did offer me a good sense of humor. I believe that you become what you pathologically make fun of. I dislike it when people give everyone a nickname. I believe tattoos are a waste of time but I would defend their right to exist. I hate motorcycles and hats that serve no practical purpose. I can wait to die but I'm looking forward to it. I'm extremely morbid but unable to be taken seriously by anyone. What I lack in humility I make up for in clumsiness.

My Interests

Making the world more polite, by force.

I'd like to meet:

People who will consume my intellectual properties.

Music:

The Kinks, Galaxie 500, John Cale, Brill Building pop, Girl Groups, Phil Spector, The Consultants, The Misfits, The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Faeries, Mission of Burma, The Chills, Aislers Set, Elvis Costello, early Eno, Echo & The Bunnymen, Harry Nillsson, Paul McCartney, Thee Moths, Oh Dark Thirty, Talking Heads, The Smiths, Blondie, et fargin' cet.

Movies:

Jaws, Rushmore, Blue Velvet, Kicking & Screaming, Dawn of The Dead, Polanksi's Macbeth, Chinatown, Ferris Bueller's Day Off (b/w Wierd Science), 2001, Evil Dead 2, Contempt, Twin Peaks pilot, Ed Wood.

Television:

Twin Peaks, Seinfeld, Simpsons. Et filli et patri et spiritus. Sometimes MASH, and most things on PBS.

Books:

The Sound & The Fury, Bluebeard, The Floating Opera, Sharks by Richard Ellis, Galapagos, Slaughterhouse-Five, Bell Jar, Ulysses (yeah, shut it), the first four pages or so of Finnegans Wake, As I Lay Dying, Sinners In The Hands of An Angry God.