everytime i get stuck in one of those akward job interviews they always ask the same question.. "so tell me about john" (thats me) and im never quite sure what to say. first off explaining yourself to a forty year old fat guy with a receding hairline isnt very easy when your ideas will most likely completely differ from his. i cant be like "well i spend most of my time listening to music and updating a few websites" nor can i explain that i would rather sit around watching 80's movies then go to some noisy club where a bunch of disease ridden sluts try aimlessly to find "mr. right" by trying to impress dudes with theyre small waists and theyre fucking gay looking tribal tatoos on the small of theyre back.

nor could i tell him that i never want to live like he does. id rather make a difference by being a teacher or even some sort of counselor then make a ton of money running some business or pushing buttons on a keyboard to keep track of the marketing reports of.. whatever the fuck. honestly id rather be ferris bueller than some dude with a hot car.

at the same time id have to explain to this gentleman that i do not intend to waste my life. i am by no means a loser. i have goals and ambitions, hard as they may be to understand, i have them. ill be dead before im stuck in the same city the rest of my life working some job stuck in a box for forty years with no freedom and no means to live. thats for the wanksters.

i usually lie and say something about my ambition to succeed in life and by "succeed" i mean make money. this of course is not my ambition in life, but it serves well enough to impress this man so i might work in his store to buy money for the overpriced books the college sells.


"tell me about john"

im twenty years old!
i like girls with glasses
i like books
i like going to the movies drunk
i like to swim
i love my friends
i love my family
i like my website
i love the scene
i love music

music: bright eyes, jets to brazil, death cab for cutie, stretch armstrong, the promise, stay gold, spark lights the friction, le tigre, the cars, modest mouse, the promise ring, cursive, the faint, killing heidi, long since forgotten, a perfect kiss, the funeral, ed gein, darkest hour, harvest, coheed and cambria, walls of jericho, hopesfall, eve6, the strokes, the white stripes, the suicide file, manhunt, disaster strikes, delahoya, standfast, marathon, the smashing pumpkins, the dillinger escape plan, green day, the donnas, marcy playground, keepsake, dashboard confessional, further seems forever, cake, the clash, the smiths, the murder city devils, the icarus line, skarmy of darkness, off minor, the assistant.. a ton more.



id list the stuff i hate, but that would take far too long and would probably be pretty deppressing.


johnnyd@emocuse.com