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Jody

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About Me

Movieholic, musicholic, bookholic, popcultureingeneralholic. For more info, please check here .

My Interests

photography
graphic design
movies
music
books
hiking
University of Tennessee football
Chicago Bears
Apple computers
building stuff for the house

Music:

DJ Shadow
Pink Floyd
Sigur Ros
Pearl Jam
Tool
Morphine
AC/DC
Otis Redding
Johnny Cash
George Winston
Lou Reed / The Velvet Underground
Ryan Adams / Whiskeytown
Radiohead
Nine Inch Nails
Jeff Buckley
Portishead
Doves
Social Distortion
Clint Mansell
Bill Frisell
Sam Cooke
Explosions In The Sky
Mogwai
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
A Silver Mt. Zion
The Twilight Singers
Daughter Darling / Natalie Walker
Badly Drawn Boy
Massive Attack
Goldfrapp
Iron and Wine
Willie Nelson
Tweaker
David Gray
Gomez
The Rockwells
The American Plague
Westside Daredevils
The French Broads
The V-roys
Scott Miller and the Commonwealth
Mic Harrison
The Faults
Tim Lee
Silversun Pickups
Killswitch Engage
The Sword
Trivium

Movies:

The Shawshank Redemption
Unforgiven
Twelve Angry Men
M
The Godfather
Citizen Kane
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Third Man
Cop Land
Chasing Amy
Spring Forward
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Tully
Apocalypse Now
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Se7en
Heat
The Tao of Steve
L.A. Confidential
Requiem For A Dream
Fight Club
It's A Wonderful Life
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Ronin
Collateral
Three O'Clock High
Explorers
Open Range
Last Life In The Universe
A Very Long Engagement
Deliverance
Amelie
Serendipity
In The Mood For Love
Love Actually
The Wild Bunch
The Caveman's Valentine
The Red Violin
Zelary
Kieslowski's Blue / White / Red
A Very Long Engagement
Vertigo
Used Cars
The Upside of Anger
The Crow
Shaun of the Dead
Toy Story / Toy Story 2
A Bug's Life
Cars
Finding Nemo
Three Kings
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Terminal
Cast Away
Baraka
The Texas Chainsaw Massacrebr Strangers on a Train
Some Like It Hot?
Arsenic & Old Lace
The Private Life of Sherlock Homes
Shall We Dansu?
*batteries not included
Born Romantic
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Sabrina [original]
Roman Holiday
Saving Face
Diggstown
Hard Times
The Dinner Game
Donnie Darko
The Door in the Floor
A Face in the Crowd
Facing Windows
Fail-Safe
Falling Down
Frailty
Friday
Gattaca
The Girl in the Cafe
The Great Escape
The Green Mile
Harvey
High Noon
Hoosiers
In America
Jackie Brown
Juice
L.A. Story
Layer Cake
Leap of Faith
Lost and Delirious
A Simple Twist Of Fate
Lost Highway
Lost in Translation
The Magnificent Seven
Marty
Memento
The Memory of a Killer
Following
Batman Begins
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Murder in the First
Narc
Northfork
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Twin Falls Idaho
Office Space
Paradise Now
Parenthood
Patton
A Perfect World
Philadelphia
Pi
Pink Floyd: The Wall
The Princess Bride
Léon
The Program
The Quiet Man
First Blood
Rear Window
Red River
Remo Williams
Reservoir Dogs
Rio Bravo
Rocky
Roger Dodger
The Salton Sea
Saving Private Ryan
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Seven Year Itch
Spartan
Sling Blade

Television:

The Andy Griffith Show
The West Wing
Seinfeld
Lost
The Simpsons
The Daily Show
Late Show with David Letterman
Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Monk
Psych
Eureka
My Name Is Earl
The Office
Scrubs
Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip
Twin Peaks
Lonesome Dove
Tipping The Velvet
Band of Brothers
Sunday Morning Shootout
Dinner for Five
Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe

Books:

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1984 - George Orwell
The Winds of War - Herman Wouk
War and Remembrance - Herman Wouk
The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Lamb: The Gospel According to Christ's Childhood Pal Biff - Christopher Moore
See No Evil - Robert Baer
How To Lose Friends and Alienate People - Toby Young

anything by Jack Kerouac
anything by John Steinbeck
anything by Chuck Palahniuk
anything by Jim Thompson
anything by Nick Hornby
anything by Bruce Campbell
anything by Bret Easton Ellis
most anything by Stephen King
most anything by Michael Chabon
anything by Steve Niles
anything by Ben Templesmith
anything by Garth Ennis

Heroes:

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Bradbury Thompson
Paul Rand
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Bradbury Thompson
Walker Evans
Ansel Adams
David Carson
Chip Kidd

My Blog

iTunes Meme

iTunes Memestolen from Michael MayInstructions: Open up your iTunes and fill out this survey, no matter how embarrassing the responses might be. How many songs total: 13,138 How many hours or days of...
Posted by Jody on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:16:00 PST

NYC/NJ trip photos

I've posted some of the many photos from the trip I took up tp NYC/NJ last December. Just look under my photos, in the aptly titled set 'NYC/NJ trip [Dec 07].'If you want to see the full blown set, se...
Posted by Jody on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:10:00 PST

A Nikon D80 is mine!

Well, I finally got my camera. I went down to Thompson Photo at lunchtime the other day, and they just so happened to have a Nikon D80. I'm ready to start snapping some pics people!...
Posted by Jody on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:11:00 PST

Reading in 2007

Since everyone else is doing it, here's a list of what I read this year.Books of 2007Post Office - Charles BukowskiAtop An Underwood - Jack Kerouac [finished, started long ago]My Friend Leonard - Jame...
Posted by Jody on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:57:00 PST

I finally joined the 21st century...

... and bought an iPod. I got an 80 GB iPod Classic.
Posted by Jody on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:28:00 PST

Brewers’ Jam poster

I'm trying to work drawing into my design more often now. Now I'm no MC Escher, so the art ain't that damn great. I realize this. But anyways, here's my latest effort for a local Brewers' Jam....
Posted by Jody on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:43:00 PST

Words

I cannot spell the word definitely to save my life. If I were in some wild-haired situation where the lives of millions depended on the correct spelling of definitely, well they'd be screwed. Sorry. I...
Posted by Jody on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:27:00 PST

Top Five Fridays: Reader Suggestions

Alrighty folks, I'm taking a break this week, but have a challenge for each and every one of you that keeps up with my Top Five Fridays. Post your suggestions for what tantalizing subject you'd like t...
Posted by Jody on Sat, 19 May 2007 09:24:00 PST

Top Five Fridays - May 11, 2007

Top Five Fridays - May 11, 2007:Top five creatures found whilst cleaning the basement.5) Serpentus terrorizismThe poet Samuel L. Jackson once said "I'm tired of these mothaeffin' snakes on this mothae...
Posted by Jody on Sat, 12 May 2007 10:46:00 PST

Top Five Fridays - May 4, 2007

Top Five Fridays - May 4, 2007:Top five ways to relieve stress at work.5) Embed a scanner into the nearest wall.It helps if you can chuck it into the wall on the first throw. This may take some foreth...
Posted by Jody on Sat, 05 May 2007 09:02:00 PST