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Michael Jeffrey

This is pop! yeah, yeah!

About Me

I hate New York but I like my job, so I'm stuck.

My Interests

listening to pop music, cooking, looking at water, buying electronic stuff, reading sci-fi, noticing details

I'd like to meet:

you if tall people make you sleepy.I won't add you as a friend unless you're actually a friend of mine. Nothing personal. Also, I won't add you as a friend just so you can plug your shows to me.

Music:

Mostly I like Adult Alternative singer/songwriter-type stuff and classic rock, but my favorite band is XTC and I also like some indie-pop. Some artists I like are: Todd Rundgren, ELO, Elvis Costello, The Decemberists, Mary Lorson and Saint Low, Beru Revue, The Daves, The New Pornographers, The Heavy Blinkers, Laura Veirs, The Beatles, Hal, Wondermints, Suzanne Vega, Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks/Beach Boys, The Polyphonic Spree, Aimee Mann, Roy Wood, Azure Ray, Sandy Denny, Joni Mitchell, The Ladybug Transistor, Annie Hayden, The Waitresses/ Chris Butler/ Kilopop!/ Tin Huey, Beulah, Kim Fox, Richard Thompson, The Essex Green, Fiona Apple, Joe Jackson, The English Beat, Vienna Teng, Kami Lyle, Gilbert and Sullivan

Movies:

Chocolat, Amelie, White, Red, Before Sunrise, Radio Days, Annie Hall, Being John Malkovich (except the lame last 15 minutes), From Russia With Love, Adaptation, Monsters Inc., Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Chicken Run

Television:

Futurama, SCTV, Doctor Who, The Simpsons, Monty Python, NOVA, M*A*S*H, SNL 1975-80, BBC Office, NBC Office, The Avengers, 30Rock, The Story Of English, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, practically anything shown in high-definition

Books:

Atlas Shrugged, anything by Anne Tyler, anything by Connie Willis, The Diamond Age, anything by Kay Kenyon, The Innocents Abroad, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, The Vintage Mencken

Heroes:

Aristotle, Ben Franklin, Hank Rearden, my Chicago friends who followed their dreams and are now living their dreams, my Philadelphia friends who are living Real Grown-up Lives, maybe you

My Blog

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I don't know; what's a gollywog?
Posted by Michael Jeffrey on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:36:00 PST

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I poured some Drano, fixed a clog.
Posted by Michael Jeffrey on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 07:21:00 PST

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It's easy, falling off a log.
Posted by Michael Jeffrey on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:45:00 PST

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Gandalf had to fight a Balrog.
Posted by Michael Jeffrey on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:11:00 PST

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With an egg you can make nog.
Posted by Michael Jeffrey on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 07:05:00 PST

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You might get lost if there's fog.
Posted by Michael Jeffrey on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:44:00 PST

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At times I gape, agog.
Posted by Michael Jeffrey on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:20:00 PST

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In the mood to drink some grog.
Posted by Michael Jeffrey on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 02:41:00 PST