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About Me

In the words of Kevin Knibbs, 17yr old junior at St. Rita High School, circa 2003:"It was a terrible rush-like mad scramble out of the house May 11, 1985. The water had just broken and Little Jimmy already wanted out. The couple quickly got in their car and speed off the curb. They made in to the hospital in what had to be record time. All the while Little Jimmy was scratching to get out. They made in to the birth ward of the hospital the woman already in labor. Everyone â€“ the doctors, the nurses, even the man â€“ were running frantically around like a bunch of chickens with heads cut off. The couple had awoken the entire hospital and it had erupted into a fun house....Everyone thought the labor would be relatively short, seeing how the woman came into the hospital pretty well ahead. But Little Jimmy didnâ€™t like to do what other people thought he was going to do even at this young of an age. One push, then two, and another, Little Jimmyâ€™s whole face was out then WHOOSP! And there was nothing there. Little Jimmy had seen one glimpse of this so-called world and squeezed back into his homely womb. Seconds passed, turned to minutes, turned to hours; before long, six and a half hours had passed. And that was when the couple had enough, and the doctors told them they could perform the c-section.Following the c-section, after Little Jimmy was taken out of the woman, the nurse went to hand him to the doctor but there must have been too much blood or other gooey liquid on Little Jimmy because he slipped through their arms and landed awkwardly on the left hand. The doctor quickly scooped Little Jimmy up and placed him on the table to be cleaned. Little Jimmy was tall and kind of skinny for a newborn, a little dangly even. The couple was happy. To have a child or to just get it over with was still in question, but they were happy. The man noted and prided Little Jimmy for childlike gentlemanly stature. James Michael Vincent Joyce I is born."

My Interests

Fiction Writers, Studying literature and its components. Watercolors and Gouache, bad ideas, the Suspension of Disbelief, Milkshakes, Gender and Cultural Studies, Guitars and their Melodies, Film Noir, Horror, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, monsters and black stuff. Someday maybe a nice jacket.

I'd like to meet:

Pffff, oh I dunnow . . . Thoreau, Rimbaud, Camus, or you?

Movies:

Let's try and never talk about art, please.-Big Lebowski- -Night of the Living Dead- -Apacalypse Now- -Back to the Future- -Indiana Jones- -Return of the Jedi- -The 3rd Man- -Ed Wood- -Nosferatu

Television:

"Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too. If charnel-houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites."

Books:

I like the ones I can understand. William Blake and the loss of innocence. Ray Bradbury. Conrad and integrity. Chesterton and ethics studies. William Gibson. Zizek remembering Lacan. Aaron (Cometbus) Elliot. Philip K. Dick and paranoia. Freud. Hemingway and self-obsessed machismo. Graham Greene. Part of Descartes. Henry James has fun with commas. Herman Melville. Vonnegut and pessimism. Lorca. Neruda. Barthelme (Donald). Pynchon is still a bit beyond me. Sabato. Shakespeare is It, but mostly Christian self-help books.

Heroes:

there are mirrors/ that ought to have wept from shame and terror

My Blog

I Set My Own Table

Hello team!It's been a while, hasn't it? Since I last really wrote in this thing? With notes touching on the natural life of the James? I think it has. Maybe even spanning back to last summer. The dar...
Posted by Jim on Wed, 14 May 2008 11:11:00 PST

A Sort of Accomplishment

So, after some three years of thoughtful introspection and shrewd business meetings, we, the Hallow, have decided that the time has come to release our (allegedly) long awaited EP "Seven Liers in Wait...
Posted by Jim on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:00:00 PST

That Life Expatriate

I kept a sleepy, wine-soaked journal on my laptop of my brief stumble through Europe. Here's a page.11/19/07 Some notes on Rome. The plane ride to Zurich was fine, minimal turbulence and only slightl...
Posted by Jim on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:00:00 PST

Humulis

I can be such an idiot sometimes. I go through the days assuming so much. Like that just because I don't speak much or do foolish things in public (often, stress on this word often) that I'm a s...
Posted by Jim on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:08:00 PST

Bring your sleeping bags and leave your self-respect at home

Read it and weep, I'm inviting all of you to come and join me at the Third Annual Music Box Massacre 24hr Horror Fest.Starting at noon October 13th and going til noon the next day, this year's lineup ...
Posted by Jim on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:15:00 PST

Conrad was Right

When he, in the middle of one of his teetering fits, somewhere between retreating from his desk and going back to bed,or else continuing to push forward and eventually shooting a nice one right throu...
Posted by Jim on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:01:00 PST

I Have a Shovel; I Will Dig Holes

Now things are starting to get interesting. Now my major and studies and wrecked nights without sleep are starting to form something useable. All week I've been reading and organizing notes and texts ...
Posted by Jim on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:36:00 PST

Solitary? Solidary?

When I was younger I used to get in fights with my brother.Ok. Well, no, that's not entirely true, he'd get into fights with me -- start them even, if I can be so bold.So we'd be talking maybe, in our...
Posted by Jim on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:14:00 PST

Submission, Submerge

Really, I was expecting (hoping?) for this article to be a bit more, I don't know, slanderous? But still, fun to be mentioned in the school paper. Too bad we were so incoherent, so completely unquot...
Posted by Jim on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:52:00 PST

Light Without Heat (Or: "As Captain I Must Finally Give In")

"Vivas to those who have failed! And to those whose war vessels sank in the sea! And to those themselves who sank in the sea! And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes! An...
Posted by Jim on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:47:00 PST