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"blugh politics"

At Tailgater's Sports Bar and Grill on Parks Highway, Palin supporters tried on "Palin and McCain" T-shirts and ate buffalo wings as they discussed the attributes that they said made Palin, the governor of Alaska and former Wasilla mayor, the ideal candidate for vice president.

"She's a regular, hard-working individual with integrity, honesty to her credit. That doesn't make her unique, but it makes qualified."

No, no it doesn't. not to be vice president it doesn't. If that's all it takes, i should be vice president, you should be vice president, almost anyone should be vice president. you shouldn't be a regular person if you want to be president or vice president, you should be an extraordinary person who has extraordinary intelligence and who can make extraordinary decisions. I wouldn't want a regular person to perform surgery on me, I wouldn't want a regular person to do my taxes - I would want the smartest people, the best of the best to do these things. It all goes back to people not liking the smartest kid in the class because they made them feel inferior. Well get over it. We need the most brilliant people we have in charge, not someone who reminds us of our neighbor.

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mood: weirded out

Today a woman came in and joyfully told me how her and her kids enjoyed AVP (alien vs predator). She said she was surprised that she ended up liking it, but that she would never show her kids the first Alien film because the scene where the Alien is staring and hissing at Sigourney Weaver was, and I quote, "too intimate".



THE END

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"panda panda"

I'm doing relay for life this weekend for the 4th time. If you feel so inclined, you can donate on my behalf:::HERE:::

I'm only at $50 and my goal was $100. I know times are tough for everyone but even a dollar or two helps, and it even if it's not the fifty dollars that will finish curing cancer it will still help me because I plan to donate the difference so I can get up to $100 so you donating money means I have to donate less. Sorry for pandering, I hate pander..ers.

I am down to one job, its nice to not be standing all the time.

My sister flipped her car and slid down and embankment yesterday. She's perfectly alright surprisingly, but she totaled her car. I get to see her when I fly out to Colorado in 2 weeks for her graduation. Colorado will be only 5th state I will have officially been too, 10 percent of the united states has been stood on by me.

Sharks playoffs soon! Rory, you should come up and watch some games at the grad with me like old times. First pitcher is on me. I've officially made Emilie a genuine Sharks fan which is both wonderful and a good sign for the future of our relationship (kidding...kinda :P). Will this be the year that we see Jake with Teal Hair ? (those are all separate links) Only time will tell.

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"Dimple"

music: In Rainbows

I've now worked at a music store for 6 months. Here is some of what I have learned:

People don't understand that there are things called artists, music genres, album titles, and song titles, and that these things are all not the same. Often times people will just come up and ask if we carry something with an extremely broad title like, "electric" without explanation if thats the name of an artist, album, song title, etc. and expect you to know exactly what the fuck they are talking about. When you explain to them you need to know more information, they are more often than not confused. Worse than that are the people who expect you to know the song based on the two words of the song they heard on the radio. Worse than those people are people who literally know nothing about the song (no title, artist, lyric, etc) save for a vague description of what one lyric in the song was about: "its that song where they talk about the woman who died."

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There is a secret coalition betweenn rap artists and rap enthusiasts that teams up to keep employees in record stores from ever knowing how the fuck to spell a rap group's name and therefore keep them from being able to look them up in the system. The rap artists do their part by not only by spelling words like "riders" as either "ridas, ridahs, or rydahs" and various other such nonsense, but also by having ten thousand other rap artists either featuring or presenting on on every fuck album thus taking an already riduculous name like Young Jeezy and making it "Vol 2 - West coast ridahs presents Young Jeezy featuring Jacka and AP-9" The rap enthusiasts do their part by being, on a whole, incredibly stupid: observe.

Customer: Do you have the new Jay Tee?
Me: What's the album called?
Customer: Its the one that just came out.
Me: How do I spell the artist's name?
Customer..idunno, its just Jay Tee.

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The concept of new and used is still foreign to people:

Customer: "Why are these used ones so cheap, are they broken?"

Yes you jackass, we charge you 1 - 9 dollars for broken merchandise. That's why we're able to run a successful business


Customer: "How do I tell what is used?"
Me: "Well, the new items are shrinkwraped and have tags that go horizontally, the used items usually arent shrinkwrapped and have vertical tags that say 'used' on them"
Customer: That's the only way?

Yes dipshit, how many other ways do you want? Do you require the used items to glow purple and yell "USSSSSEEEED!!!!" really loud when you approach them?

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The concept of free is also a bit of a tricky spot for some:

Me: "Do you want to sign up for our free rewards card today?"
Customer: "..uhhhh, well does it cost anything?"

Only my blood pressure rising.

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Some people are just crazy:

Customer :::after looking around the store for a good 5 minutes:::"can you tell me where the music section is?"

A customer comes in wearing sunglasses where the shades are outlined in mini guitars that stick a good 4 inches outward on each side;
Co-Worker: ::being friendly:::"I see you're rocking the shades today"
Customer:.::all business:::..."huh? I need you to look something up for me..."

Elderly white woman: "Do you have any music with black women singing?"
Me: ::giving her the benefit of the doubt::: "Do you mean like a choir, or gospel artists?"
Her: "...sure I guess"




Yes, a good record store really brings out the best in thieves, loons, angry moms, angrier drug addicts, rude teenagers, annoying small children, and the local bum population trying to sell back empty CD cases they found in the trash.

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music: the new iron & wine album

I finally got around to writing something for my daviswiki profile. I wrote this:

"Jake James is very tall, some might say that's his most defining physical attribute. They'd be right. He works at both Dimple Records and 49er Video, sometimes both the same day. He will gladly tell you why Pay it Forward is his least favorite movie of all time, and why The Shawshank Redemption and Magnolia are his favorites. He likes commas and uses them inapproriately. He's down to discuss artists like the shins, radiohead, stars, iron & wine, fiona apple, sigur ros, m.i.a., eisley, massive attack, arcade fire, wolf parade, elliot smith, and many others. He isn't indie enough to know what labels all the bands in the world are on, but he does know that subpop is his favorite label and he does wear converse all stars. He tries to be modest and accepting, but he will judge you if you rent movies like "Little Man" or hold up "Norbit" and "Wild Hogs" and ask "which one of these is better?" He prefers the stand up comedy of mitch hedberg, eddie izzard, and brian regan to dane cook, but he does laugh whenever he hears a car alarm go off or sees a cashew. He's also probably the least read english major of all time, but he has read the entirety of James Joyce's Ulysses and even understood select portions of it. And he's tall. I think we've established that."

I felt guilty not sharing with LJ.

Tomorrow Im attending a party in the Domes.

The more music I buy the more I love music and thus I buy more. If one day you walk into my house and I'm dead and buried under piles of CDs and Vinyl, you'll know that it was in due part to the ever escalating music-love cycle ive just described.

I've never been to the Domes, I keep wondering if I'll fit. Physically.

Im ok on the surface and even in love below. and yet life still has its problems and obstacles.

I want to be famous for the fame, not for the money.

Sometimes I wonder if Ive wasted too much time not having a well-paying job and a strong secure grounding on my life, or if contrary I should waste more time writing things like this and listening to ambient whisper-pop and wonder what it's like to be talented at something.

I'd take the money too.

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"summertime and the living is anything but easy"

Hi friends.

SO after working like 62 hours a week ago, I worked 69.5 hours this past week, 42 of which I worked fri-sun alone. Today is the first day since June 2 I havent had work at either dimple or 49er...it's june 18th. So what have I dont with today so far, you ask? I've slept. mmmmmmm. slept.

The new job is going ok. The store actually opened for business as of friday, so thats been a little nerve racking cause im still not familiar with a lot of the system. I mostly file DVDs and work the register and help customers find things (sound familiar?). Really, there are few people that have the DVD filing experience I have. If only there was a job of such caliber that paid more than 8 dollars an hour.

A whole bunch of my friends that I made during my RA era graduated yesterday. That kinda snuck up on me quite a bit. It's great for all them, but it just kinda adds to that whole "im old and still living in davis - what a loser I am" Plus this just means that even more people are going to be leaving soon. How long before I dont know more than a handful of people in this town? ::slanty face:::

Also davis, is, once again, ass fuck hot. Who decded to settle here? After the first summer of 105 degree weather didnt everyone just exclaim "well fuck this" and head towards the ocean?

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""bugger off!" says Leonardo DiCaprio"

So I'm in the middle of watching Blood Diamond and Leo's fake british accent is so funny to me cause all I can think of is his "Departed" boston accent. He's a man of a thousand mediocre voice talents, that one. But I actually like the guy. The movie is an interesting mix of disturbing emotional images like a father watching his son get his hand cut off by rebel troops and hollywood-esque witty banter between impossibly attractive white people meeting at a bar on the African coast. Blood Diamond: "Slighty above avergage film-making at its most slightly above average". I should watch more than 45 min of it before I make critical jokes about it, but I couldnt resist.

so yeah, hi. im alive. i swear. everythings the same. emilie is good. job is the job. still have no money. still work whenever you are free to do something (including friday (today), saturday, and sunday 6pm - 1am! Who needs a weekend??)

so yeah, if any of you would like help me FIND a job I'd really appreaciate it. 90 percent of finding jobs is about connections. 49er is gonna start cutting hours the week after picnic day so I soon wont even be able to make ends meet like ive just been barely able to do. so yeah thatd be nice. if all else fails i might have to paper-hat it at in n out til i find something else because I would have to work at 49er three more years to get the the starting pay that high school juniors make the first week at In N Out. BLAHH. I WENT TO COLLEGE. The other night at 49er I was punching holes in the blockbuster cards all night long and thats all I could think. I also thought that I should be the person to introduce the English major at UC Davis to prospective students:

"Let me tell you about the the UC Davis English Department!" :::THREE HOLE PUNCH:::

"You'll work with exciting faculty..." :::THREE HOLE PUNCH:::

etc. etc.

new life goal is becomming the old life goal: screenplay writing? I havent written anything in so long, its like a month between blog posts these days, how the hell can I write anything that long?

I wonder if Leo dies in this movie. He had fun dying in Romeo and Juliet, Titanic and the Departed...not so much Catch me if you Can I suppose. hm. lets find out.

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Anyone going out tonight?

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"quick oscar predictions before it goes to air:"

Oscar predictions:

Picture - Departed
Director: Scorsese
Actor - Forest Whit
Actress - Hellen Mirren
Screnplays: Departed and Little Miss Sunshine
Supporting Actor - Murphy
Supporting Actress - Hudson
Cinematography - Iwo Jima

What I want -

Picture - Babel
Director - Scorcese
Actor - Gosling
Acrtess - Mirren
Screenplays: Departed and Little Miss Sunshine
Supporting Actor - Arkin
Supporting Actress - Either of the two from Babel
Cinematography - Babel

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"exchange just now, at work"

Customer (walking in the door): Hey, do you guys sell like, equipment. I need that cord that goes from the vcr to the tv and albertsons didn't have them.

Me: No I'm sorry, you can try Longs in the marketplace.

Customer: (disappointed) Oh, nah, we dont have a car.

Me: Well the marketplace is only a block away if you want to walk, but i know its cold out.

Customer (walking out, in a scoffing tone): Uh no, the Marketplace is like 4 blocks.

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No. Its one block. One city block. I hope you never get your cord, you douchebag.

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"grinders? wicked."

Got into Hartford around 7 pm last night, then got driven through Springfield, Greenfield and Amherst to get to DEERFIELD MASSACHUCETTS. which is where I currently reside, in a red roof inn no less. I then slept for 13 hours (having not slept before all the flying and sleeping maybe 45 min on the plane. Today we went to Yankee Candle Village, the which is like the Disneyland for Candles. The store has a restaraunt, museum, waterfall, theater (where chuck-e-cheese style animatronic people come out and sing about candles), and a store equally as large as a Target filled withh kitchen stuff, decorative stuff, fancy food stuff, christmas stuff, candy stuff, and of course, candles stuff. its like a monstrous bed bath and beyond only the beyond is all candles. here's some proof:



Yeah, those are all candles. There are 3 more aisles like that just in this one little section. ridiculous.

Havent even seen the cousins yet except for Dylan briefly (he came to get my brother so they could go pick up his suit) but we are having dinner at my aunt and uncles in an hour. Ive been hanging out with my neice a lot, who is probably the best person in the world. proof:



see? I wasnt lying. best person ever

I just had a 12 inch grinder. A grinder is what they call sandwiches here. I dont know why, but it was delicious, so it let I go without making a fuss. Ill update this lattttterrrr. bye y'all (as our souther flight attendant would say)

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"massaschucccettttttts here we come"

I'm off for a week to the east coast. I'll probably update from their, perhaps with pictures. I fly out of here in 4 hours for vegas (ohhh the memories. again everybody?) and then make haste for hartford, and then get driven to mass. woot. i hear its cold there. its cold here too. im probably gonna sleep a lot on the plane considering i dont plan on sleeping before. im rambling, i can feel it. ill miss you all. ill do my best not to die while im gone. hold down the fort for me while im away.

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"windy"

Last night during the crazy Davis wind storm i was having trouble falling asleep, and the only comforting thing I could think of was walking out into the middle of the windswept davis fields, pushing a button on a spring-loaded parachute attached to my back, and being flown off away into the dark.

It reminded me of this:

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"On the subject of new years"

People: What are you doing for New Years Jake?

Me: Working.

People: No, but like, at night.

Me: working.

People: Well what about at like midnight?

Me: Working.

People: WHAT! Why are you even open.

Me: I dont know. I really dont know.

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