Jazz, Coffee, Philosophy, Board Games, Siddhartha Gautama, Conversation, Psychology, Mountain Biking, Viewing Art, Food (Good Food), Listening to live music, Getting to know new people, Escaping to New Orleans, Avoiding the South Side of Lafayette, Spending time with the people I love - friends and family.
Music
Jazz - all types except smooth, if you haven't heard the jazz at Bisbano's on Thursday nights you're missing one of Lafayette's gems. Jazz vocals - Billie Holiday, Harry Connick Jr., Jamie Cullum. Creole, Cajun, & Zydeco. Folk Music. Blues - R.L. Burnside, Muddy Waters, Clapton, Keb' Mo', Robert Johnson. Ambient. Hip-Hop. World Music - Ravi Shankar, classical Indian, Latin, Techno/Electronica - Boards of Canada, BT. Music that Trancends Classification - Portishead, Good Music - anything done with passion and talent regardless of genre
Movies
RoboCop, Vanilla Sky, Crash, Eyes Wide Shut, Dune, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, anything by Kubric, The City of Lost Children, The Jacket, The Godfather Trilogy, Team America, Man on Fire, and this Kung-Fu movie that I appear in, not this clip, but another.
Television
Trailer Park Boys, Cops, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sopranos, Deadwood, Seinfeld, Family Guy, Nip/Tuck, PBS, random AOC craziness ------ most favorite: a blank screen.
Books
A Brief History of Everything - Wilber, No Boundary - Wilber, Up From Eden - Wilber, (I know these are all by the same author and that's pretty lame, but his work is so outstanding that I can't keep my hands off of it), Johny Got His Gun - Trumbo, A Million Little Pieces & My Friend Leonard - Frey, Life of Pi - Martel.
Heroes
Siddhartha Gautama, Ken Wilber, my parents, my dad's parents, Steve & Kristin Engelbrecht
Jerrod looks like little Chinese boys wishing for gingerbread men and tuna fish. That's what I got when I Googled "Jerrod looks like". You should try it some time.
Ask and you shall receive info.
I'm not much on socializing on the internet, but this seemed like a good way to do a little networking and maybe meet a few new interesting people I wouldn't have met otherwise. Feel free to contact me; I'm always up for a cup of coffee and a conversation. By the way, I'll blow your mind with my home roasted coffee. It's the nectar of the gods I tell you.
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You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.
I'm very interested in mental health and how people work. The following is a quote by Ken Wilber that I have found to be quite true for me: "The movement of descent and discovery begins at the moment you consciously become dissatisfied with life. Contrary to most professional opinion, this gnawing dissatisfaction with life is not a sign of 'mental illness,' nor an indication of poor social adjustment, nor a character disorder. For concealed within this basic unhappiness with life and existence is the embryo of a growing intelligence, a special intelligence usually buried under the immense weight of social shams. A person who is beginning to sense the suffering of life is, at the same time, beginning to awaken to deeper realities, truer realities. For suffering smashes to pieces the complacency of our normal fictions about reality, and forces us to become alive in a special sense – to see carefully, to feel deeply, to touch ourselves and our worlds in ways we have heretofore avoided. It has been said, and truly I think, that suffering is the first grace. In a special sense, suffering is almost a time of rejoicing, for it marks the birth of creative insight."
Who I'd like to meet: Open minded, adventurous souls.
David Lynch:
Great seeing you this week! Hope to see you around campus again sometime... We should grab some coffee and catch up if you have some time one day... Take care of you! Jamie
Frank is back to business again. Frank has started teaching lessons 3days a week. Frank has left the bluerunners. Frank has been playing jazz alot. Frank stopped smoking tobacco. Frank goes on hikes in the portable forest. Frank thinks bout his hiking buddies, curious to how they've been. Frank is getting a bike to whip his ass back into shape. Frank is in the planning stages of some major projects. Frank and Jerrod need to hang out for coffee sometime.
We might be able to arrange that. The only thing I have going on is that I have a photography gig in NOLA on Wednesday. If I can't catch you before I go (sunday), then we can do something maybe after I comeback :)
Not a whole lot sir. I've been on a cleaning spree for the last couple days....I'm trying to get my cleaning in before i leave for a few weeks. I'm really good at procrastinating.....
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