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James

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About Me

I'm from Massachusetts, and now I live in Westchester County, NY. For now.

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My Interests

music, electric bass playing, road cycling, sociology, politics, renewable energy, getting better at speaking spanish, city planning, social justice

I'd like to meet:

anyone

Music:

rock, jam bands, jazz, funk

Movies:

The Matrix, any Star Wars except episode 1, The Goonies, Transformers: the movie (the original), Office Space, Children of Men

Television:

Law and Order, Battlestar Galactica, The Office, the Spanish channels

Books:

The World Without Us, Dune, dozens of others

Heroes:

anyone who does the right thing when it isn't the easiest or most popular thing to do. And... my mom.

My Blog

Success

What is Success?To laugh often and much;To win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children;To earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endure the betrayal of false friends;To appr...
Posted by James on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:37:00 PST

Biloxi

I'm in a hurry (that seems to be the norm these days), but I really want to take a minute to talk about the week that I spent in Biloxi and Gulfport, MS. I was down there as part of LISC Americorps, w...
Posted by James on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:24:00 PST

Chicago

I spent four days in Chicago last week, along with several of my friends from grad school. I had never been to America's Second City prior to this... it was an interesting time, and it is an interesti...
Posted by James on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:20:00 PST

Check out my new Myspace Music site

I've created a site on MySpace Music for all the instrumental stuff I am putting together. Check it out at www.myspace.com/machetejamesbass. Right now there isn't a whole lot there, but it is sure to ...
Posted by James on Mon, 29 May 2006 10:24:00 PST

The Hazards of Eating

So tonight, I sat down with one of those awesome Vietnamese sandwiches for dinner, along with a choice beverage. I take a nice sip of said beverage, and suddenly find myself gasping for air and totall...
Posted by James on Thu, 25 May 2006 07:00:00 PST

Finished w/ being a hermit finally?

Yeah I sure hope so... see, I've been working on this thesis for the last 5 months, and I think I am within sight of having a draft done of this 75 page behemoth... when you take on something like thi...
Posted by James on Sat, 20 May 2006 05:49:00 PST

NYC Adventure Recap

Instead of boring you all with a long narrative about my solo 36 hour Manhattan adventure, I'll talk about some highlights of my random trip to Gotham:-I rode the Fung Wah bus down... unlike the predi...
Posted by James on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:03:00 PST