Jake
My blogs
| Industry | Student |
|---|---|
| Occupation | avant-garde press |
| Location | Columbia, Missouri, United States |
| Introduction | Jake is a dual degree major in psychology and journalism and worked as a reporter for a monthly publication in Flint Mich. for two years. Areas of reporting varied from gang violence, charity and support groups, neighborhood blight, riots and skate parks. Jake primarily leans in favor of visual mediums like film, photography and informational graphics, however, digital print and writing still remains a passion. After completing a masters degree in Social Psychology, Jake plans to move to New York to pursue a career in multimedia reporting and film with his wife Meg and dogs Dakota & Marley. |
| Interests | Photography, video, writing, basketball, brazilian jiu-jitsu, cigarettes in october, rum, documentary film, reading poetry out-load on rainy days, spare change on the ground, vanilla lattes, pro skate boarding (street), parkour, Venice (see it before its sinks!!), New York Times, Media Storm, The Flint Journal, My Dogs!, dusk & dawn, catch phrases from the 80's, youtube, running outdoors, reading, beer and good conversation, philosophy, filming, mac software, Final cut, kickin it old school, jump shots, tattoos, any detroit sports team (sadly yes...any!), hot tubs, Daily Show and of coarse Ben & Jerry's. |
| Favorite movies | History of the World ... Part I |
| Favorite music | well.. heres a short list: 311, A Dozen Furies, A perfect circle, A tribe called quest, Alexi Murdoch, Artic Monkey's, Atreyu, AudioSlave, Beastie Boys, Beatles, Ben Folds Five, Bob Schneider, Born Ruffians, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Newton Faulkner, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Better than Ezra, black crows, black sabbath, Black Label Society, Blue Oyster Cult, Bright Eyes, Bush, Catch 22, Collective Soul, Common, Cream, Dave mathews band, De La Soul, Death by Stereo, Deathcab for Cutie, Dilated Peoples, Dishwalla, Dizzy Gillespie, Eliot Smith, Eric Clapton, Everclear, Fastball, Flight of the Concords, Gnarles Barkley, Goo Goo Dolls, Grateful Dead, Joe Walsh, Jon Scofield, Jurrassic Five, Less than Jake, Lead Zepplin, Live, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mars Volta, Modest Mouse, Motion City Soundtrack, Muse, Neil Young, New Radicals, Nick Drake, Oasis, Peter Frampton, Pink Floyd, Placebo, Portis Head, Queen, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Reliant K, REM, REO Speedwagon, Rooney, Smashing Pumpkins, StereoPhonics, Stone Temple Pilots, Sublime, The Academy is, The Allman Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doors, The Eagles, the kinks, The Postal Service, The Verve, The Who, Tool, U2... for now |
| Favorite books | 1984, Breakfast of Champions, The Light that Failed, Lost in the Mirror, Watership Down, Hocus Pocus, Peace War and Terrorism, 3 Billion New Capitalists, Waiting for Godot, The Phoenix Guards, The lottery, Slaughter House Five...RIP Kurt, Hocus Pocus, The Canterbury Tales (still workin on it) and Spit In the Ocean #7, The Alchemist, Elements of Journalism, A Brave New World, The Pen dragon Trilogy, the rum diary, and The Way of the Artist, Old man and the sea, Any thing by David Hawthorne, Catcher in the Rye, Flight, the prophet by Kahlil Gibran ..( of coarse room for more).. |
The love potion you made tastes terrible. How will you drink it?
suppository? no. Mix it with Rum and cranberry juice, oh wait, that Is the love potion.