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Among things I've recently downloaded legally off the internet (wink, wink, nudge, nudge): Ghostface Killa, The Dixie Chicks, The Streets, Morningwood, Beyonce, The Arctic Monkeys, Death Cab for Cutie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Art Brut, Paul Anka, Bettye Lavette, DangerDoom, Giant Drag, Juelz Santana, Kathleen Edwards, Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah, Wolf Parade, Regina Spektor, Walk The Line Soundtrack, Pearl Jam, My Morning Jacket, Goldfrap, Lily Allen, Weird Al, and...ok I'm officially tired of clicking back and forth from ITunes.Movies
At the moment, the movie I’m most feeling in Unforgiven. I just saw it for the first time in ten years and this just has to be the best Clint movie ever made. The violence has a physicality; an ugliness to it that you just don’t normally see in Westerns. Like when the first casualty occurs, he doesn’t just die; it’s a slow, excruciating process. He’s crying and desperate for a drink of water, his friends feel helpless and angry, and the guilty party ashamed of what they did. It’s a hell of a thing to kill a man, and this movie makes sure you feel it.
But even with the antiviolence message, it still hasn’t the badest, Dirty Harry ending ever. Clint walks into the salon, and after spending the entire movie as the reserved, repentant protagonist, he just bursts in, no plan, no warning, just shooting everything that moves. Guilty, innocent, it didn’t matter because Morgan Freedman was dead, and deserve ain’t got nothing to do with it. Just totally pimp.
It’s also got something for the ladies; is there any more romantic dialogue than; “I don’t want a freebie, on account of my wife, but if I did, I’d want it with you.”
What can I say? A film for the entire family.Television
Shows I'm currently feeling include Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, which I just finished watching the ENTIRE series on DVD... yeah too much free time at the moment.
I also just got into Soap, which is older than dirt but new to me.
Rescue Me, Lost, The Daily Show, Gilmore Girl(when Amy Sherman-Palladino was involved), Veronica Mars, Freaks and Geeks, Boston Legal, ESPN, and all ten MTV's are all currently in the mix right now.
I'd also love to see the new Aaron Sorkin show, but still waiting unpatiently for Israel to import it.Books
You know, you probably can't be reunited with something you've never had before, I really should keep that in mind...I like books with pictures in 'em, i.e. comic books. I also just finished reading Thomas Friedman's "From Beirut to Jerusalem", four years after I started it. Slow reader, huh? I borrowed it from a friend who took it back before I finished it, and it took four years for me to get around to getting another copy..."getting another copy" meaning finding a different friend to borrow it from. Learned lesson: aside from the suicide attacks, car bombs, kidnappings, mortar shelling, and all around anarchy, Beirut seems like a nice place to visit. ..Heroes
I just saw the Chicago Bears-Arizona Cardinals, where the Bears came back from a 20 point deficit, so my hero at the moment is the Chicago defense. They won 24-23 despite the offense not being able to score a single offensive touchdown. Before the game they were talking up Rex Grossman like he was the best Bears quarterback in 50 years, so what does he do? Four interceptions and two fumbles. Is it even possible for one person to have six turnovers in a game without intentionally throwing the game?
I’m just saying.
Anyway, if the Bears Defense having Rex Grossman on their team and still winning isn’t an inspirational story of overcoming adversity, I don’t know what is.
Which isn’t to say Arizona wasn’t helping them out, that was a bigger choke job than Latrell Sprewell.
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.... I’m a cool, confident Adonis, a solid rock of a man whose body was chiseled by the Gods themselves; I carry around smelling salts to revive all the women who swoon in my wake; for I have the hyperbole that launched a thousand ships. My only Achilles’ Heel is I don’t have one. I’m doomed to walk this flawed earth absolutely perfect, for that is my cross to bare.Also if you believe that I’m also starting this cult I’d like you to join.
In my more lucid moments, my name is Jonathan, I’m a writer, both an American and a newly a newly minted Israeli living in Tel Aviv.
Also check out my blogs! Reverse psychology works on me, so if you pay enough attention, maybe you’ll finally get me to stop writing them.
Blog Table Of Contents
#1. New writing job
#2. Fake Viagra
#3. to J-Date or not J-Date...
#4. Random Pop Culture Thoughs...
#5. This is what I do!?!
#6. 2nd biggest Bulls story
#7. Me vs. socialized medicine (warning: EXTREMELY gross)
#8. Get your free tote bag!
#9. The fight with my roommate
#10. Gay Parades
#11. The Antichrist (Tom Cruise related post)
#12. My new favorite blogger!
#13. Proper etiquette for taking your underage cousin into a bar
#14. My brother was deported from England!
#15. Superman Returns: MY review
#16. Your favorite blogs you aren't reading: Melissa Okey Fan Club and Oracle
#17. Buffy Week: the Buffy script I got yelled at for.
#18. Buffy Week: Going to school on a Hollywood studio lot
#19. Damage: Living in an Israel at War
#20. Stuck at work too long
#21. Mel Gibson Home Theater
#22. The one night... (Tralfaz comment)
#23. I got Fired today
#24. Blog Removed
#25. New Roommate Window Shopping
#26. A Roundabout Apology
#27. TV or Job Search?
#28. My Trip to Jerusalem
#29. The Lieberman/Scott Boras Debacle
#30. A Not Roundabout Apology
#31. Want to Start a Race War?
#32. Why I Jumped in the Pool
#33. Blog Challenge: The Emmy Awards
#34. Preacher’s Kids Are Scary
#35. The Cemetery Club
#36. Movies, Movies, Movies
#37. Jonathan the Donkey Perv
#38. What, Too Forward?
#39. The 11th Plague
#40. Get It Right, Not First
#41. I just witnessed a car bomb
#42. Suicide Girls: Questions Dying to be Answered
#43. The Wedding That Wasn't
#44. Here She Is...
#45. Don't vote for Jon Stewart!
#46. A New Tag to be Had
#47. The Dog Ate My Homework: Part 1
#48. The Dog Ate My Homework Part 2: Chinatown
#49. Damon Wayans' Big Secret
#50. Why the Rest Of the World Hates America
#51. You aren't your possessions, but your possessions are you.
#52. Where Does The Departed Rank?
#53. Why putting Saddam Hussein on trial was wrong.
#54. Lost Phone/ Patience
#55. The Gay Parade That Won't Happen or Go Away
#2. Fake Viagra
#3. to J-Date or not J-Date...
#4. Random Pop Culture Thoughs...
#5. This is what I do!?!
#6. 2nd biggest Bulls story
#7. Me vs. socialized medicine (warning: EXTREMELY gross)
#8. Get your free tote bag!
#9. The fight with my roommate
#10. Gay Parades
#11. The Antichrist (Tom Cruise related post)
#12. My new favorite blogger!
#13. Proper etiquette for taking your underage cousin into a bar
#14. My brother was deported from England!
#15. Superman Returns: MY review
#16. Your favorite blogs you aren't reading: Melissa Okey Fan Club and Oracle
#17. Buffy Week: the Buffy script I got yelled at for.
#18. Buffy Week: Going to school on a Hollywood studio lot
#19. Damage: Living in an Israel at War
#20. Stuck at work too long
#21. Mel Gibson Home Theater
#22. The one night... (Tralfaz comment)
#23. I got Fired today
#24. Blog Removed
#25. New Roommate Window Shopping
#26. A Roundabout Apology
#27. TV or Job Search?
#28. My Trip to Jerusalem
#29. The Lieberman/Scott Boras Debacle
#30. A Not Roundabout Apology
#31. Want to Start a Race War?
#32. Why I Jumped in the Pool
#33. Blog Challenge: The Emmy Awards
#34. Preacher’s Kids Are Scary
#35. The Cemetery Club
#36. Movies, Movies, Movies
#37. Jonathan the Donkey Perv
#38. What, Too Forward?
#39. The 11th Plague
#40. Get It Right, Not First
#41. I just witnessed a car bomb
#42. Suicide Girls: Questions Dying to be Answered
#43. The Wedding That Wasn't
#44. Here She Is...
#45. Don't vote for Jon Stewart!
#46. A New Tag to be Had
#47. The Dog Ate My Homework: Part 1
#48. The Dog Ate My Homework Part 2: Chinatown
#49. Damon Wayans' Big Secret
#50. Why the Rest Of the World Hates America
#51. You aren't your possessions, but your possessions are you.
#52. Where Does The Departed Rank?
#53. Why putting Saddam Hussein on trial was wrong.
#54. Lost Phone/ Patience
#55. The Gay Parade That Won't Happen or Go Away
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- Status: Single
- Orientation: Straight
- Religion: Jewish
- Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
- Smoke: No
- Education: College graduate
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Columbia College Chicago
- Chicago, IL
- Graduated: 2003
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Major: Television Writing and Production
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10 of 83MoreHappy, happy birthday, Jonathan!!!
And many, many more.
cheers and much love,
Lo
No sharp looking add-ons or graphics for me, just a sincerely held conviction that this is INDEED your birthday, and I would like to do all I CAN for you to make it live up to its expectations. So, I guess I'd have to say "Mazel Tov", if that's indeed appropriate, and if that's not at all what you say at birthdays, and I'm just a deluded Anglican trying to sound cool, then I assure, I would like to be corrected on that one. I suppose I could just say "Cheers", as well, but that, sadly just doesn't have the same ring. Congratulations!
I hope you had good High Holidays this year Jonathan. I wish you very much in the way of happiness, peace, love 'n' sunshine.
-Andrew Alastair Robinson
P.S. My blog is taking on epic proportions (not quite approaching yours, though)...it's a serialized novel...check it out sometime. It's set in the wilds of northern British Columbia! Wild, eh? It's a treepanting love/crime saga.
HELLO BLAST FROM THE PAST
Where does the typical net user find your real blog now? Whollyprofitjonathan.com? That's where I'll look, as I do miss your incisive yet humourous looks at the world of celebrities, news and culture in general
Where does one find your pro blog? I'd like to give it a read, if it's available to all.
Why no blogs lately, Jonathan? Your reading public craves your incisive commentary on pop culture, Middle East life, and a "host" of other enticing topics.
Just Dropping By to Hello and to see how everything is going :)