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My Interests

Music:

Elliott Smith, Jawbox, Tom Waits, Dismemberment Plan, Death Cab for Cutie, Q and not U, Jeff Buckley, Bloc Party, Bauhaus, Stereolab, The Cure, XTC, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Sufjan Stevens, Suicide, Blondie, B-52s, Burning Airlines, Juno, Shiner, The LIfe and Times, Cuneyt, Switch Bitch, Plot to BLow Up the Eiffel Tower, Xiu Xiu, Annie, M.I.A., The Smiths, New Order, Joy Division, Iron & Wine, Gang of Four, Wire, The Senate Arcade, Matt Pond PA, The Shins, Sleater-Kinney, Ryan Adams, Pernice Bros., thousands more I won't mention at this point in time.

Movies:

Spinal Tap, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, The Big Lebowski, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Television:

Arrested Development, The Simpsons, anything on Food TV, and yes, the freakin' Gilmore Girls.

Books:

stuff by Kafka, Pynchon, Calvino, Salinger, Faulkner, Camus, Murakami, Lethem, Zinn.

My Blog

when did liking bad music become fashionable?

I've always been willing to accept critical bandwagon-jumping on bands I don't like, if I can at least understand the appeal or appreciate the artistic integrity. And usually in cases such as these, i...
Posted by Jeff! Top of the Pops! on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:37:00 PST

The ironing is delicious

I can't help but laugh at the fact that I wrote a blog about how people criticize writing for being "bad" when it isn't. And my blog was poorly written! Man, reading over that, I cringed a little. But...
Posted by Jeff! Top of the Pops! on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:14:00 PST

Everyone's a Critic

I was thinking of posting something about how I've become very exhausted of having to actually talk to people, or about how much I hate republicans, but I've found something else that amuses/annoys me...
Posted by Jeff! Top of the Pops! on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:17:00 PST

Paris Bound

So Candice and I are going to Paris this weekend, and we're stoked. But it's funny, because a lot of people I mention it to respond with "Why are you going there?" OR "Italy's better" or something ign...
Posted by Jeff! Top of the Pops! on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:16:00 PST

Lovelessless

You read that right. My copy of "Loveless" died under the weight of parked cars... Sigh...such a good album. Lost. At least I was able to replace it. Thank God for things not going out of print. In t...
Posted by Jeff! Top of the Pops! on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:29:00 PST

motivation, anyone?

I think they're switching to decaf at work, and quite frankly, it's not helping my drive to be productive. Anyhoo, I need to get that media empire going. you know: www.treblezine.com...
Posted by Jeff! Top of the Pops! on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:28:00 PST

I didn't know I was so angry

So I found out how to make a Jeff Terich cocktail, and damn, it ain't what I thought it was, but hey, it sounds passionate, I suppose:
Posted by Jeff! Top of the Pops! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST