Jordan Scrivner

It came to me in a dream. The night swept in, through my bedroom window, and I swore I heard a voice calling… not for me, but for someone close to me. I stood up and I was naked. My body breathed the cool summer air from the open window. I looked out, the moonlight flow of the trees shined and danced on my eyes. I could feel a presence out there, cold and terrible, like dark secrets. A warm, tangible sensation filled my body, and I had a sudden, definite desire to run naked in the woods. To have animals scurry from my path. To hunt elk and bear. To sleep huddled inside an alcove of a hundred year old tree. To let the world see the beauty of my body. To know I was a part of it all.

I woke up. My window was shut. The curtains did not drift in the breeze. I looked out the window to the street below. A man was calling out a woman’s name underneath the lamplight. I went back to bed.

I just deleted a bunch of people from my livejournal friends' list. Can anyone out there recommend me some people to add?

I like Obama, and I'm going to vote for him. I'm even seriously thinking about giving him some hard earned cash. But his charisma and his message of HOPE(tm) make me at least a little wary.

Brian Gibson: "...We're not a classic rock band tho--"

Brian Chippendale: "I know we're not classic rock."

Plans are overrated.

ATTN: SLC friends! I'll be in town for a week starting tomorrow. Check yr local listings for time and station.

I'm excited for this. Test footage (not an actual movie clip) from Spike Jonze's new movie Where the Wild Things Are



This makes me filled with warm feelings.

EDIT: Except they may Re-edit the whole movie which does NOT fill me with warm feelings AT ALL.

Internet returns to my life, Jan. 22

I bet you thought I was going to post a lot more posts, didn't you?

Still no internet at the apartment. Looking more and more like a 2008 possibility. Until that time, I will continue to post on the only computer at work.

How has everyone been?

Goldaline (the Neutral Milk Hotel cover band I play bass and accordion for) got some ink on its very first show! The Alt. Weekly The Stranger wrote about us for their "Party Crashers" article, where members of The Stranger go to parties they'd heard about and write about about them. I don't think Mr. Paul Constant realized we were a cover band, but at least we (and he) had a good time.

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=223831

If you were trapped on a desert island and had access to one book, movie, tv show, and album, what would they be?

Movie: The Shawshank Redemption

Book: The Boy Scout Handbook (it would probably be essential to my survival.)

TV Show: Mystery Science Theater 3000

Album: Flemish Altruism by A Minor Forest

1. What bill do you hate paying the most?
Cellblow

2. Where was the last place you had a romantic dinner?
Some Chinese restaurant in downtown SLC.

3. Last time you puked from drinking?
Not in a long while. I used to puke all the time back when I was a heavy smoker.

4. When is the last time you got drunk and danced on a bar?
You mean AT a bar? Not since the last time I saw The Rodeo Boys play, probably.

5. Name of your first grade teacher?
Ms. Ashbacher. I remember she had long, jet black hair that came to down to her waist and she was absurdly skinny. Nice, though.

6. What do you really want to be doing right now?
This is it.

7. What did you want to be when you were growing up?
I was that kid who couldn't make up his mind and would change imaginary occupations every week. I'm still that kid, basically.

8. How many colleges did you attend?
One

9. Why did you choose the shirt that you have on right now?
It was clean and longsleeved

10. GAS PRICES?
N/A

11. Where would you move if you could move anywhere?
London, New York, Paris, Chicago, Sydney, Reykjavík

12. First thought when the alarm went off this morning?
Gotta pee.

13. Last thought before going to sleep last night?
I like this band (Espers)

14. Favorite style of underwear?
boxer-briefs

15. Favorite style of underwear for the opposite sex?
All of the above. I guess a diaper would be kind of creepy though

16. What errand/chore do you despise?
Taking out the trash. Cleaning the tent.

17. If you didn't have to work, would you volunteer?
I'll always have to work, but I'll do what I can.

18. Get up early or sleep in?
I work nights. The crack of noon is early-rising to me.

19. What is your favorite cartoon character?
Captain Murphy (R.I.P.)

20. Favorite thing to do at night with a girl/guy?
watch movies

21. Have you found real love yet?
Pass.

22. When did you first start feeling old?
The first time I had to check someone's ID at work.

23. Favorite 80's movie?
Back to the Future, natch

24. Your favorite lunch meat?
Chicken


25. What do you get everytime you shop at sam's club.
I haven't been in a Sam's Club in 15 years.

26. Beach or lake?
These days, lake

27. Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual?
Probably

29. Favorite guilty pleasure?
Friends (the tv show), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the tv show), "Nothing Compares 2 U" (the song)

30. Favorite movie you wouldn't want anyone to find out about?
The Rundown. The Rock is the most underrated actor of my generation

31. What's your favorite alcoholic drink?
Rotgut wine

32. Cowboys or Indians?
Injuns

33. Cops or Robbers?
Both

34. Who from high school would you like to run into?
Jordan Duff

35. What radio station is your car radio tuned to right now?
N/A

36. Movies or Documentaries?
Documentaries ARE movies, silly

37. The Cosby Show or the Simpsons?
Simpsons by a mile

38. Worst relationship mistake that you wish you could take back?
Never sleep with someone you're not attracted to.

39. Do you like the person who sits directly across from you at
work?

Does not compute

40. If you could get away with it, who would you kill?
Killing is wrong

41. What famous person would you like to have dinner with?
The bones of William Shakespeare

42. What famous person would you like to sleep with?
The bones of Emily Dickinson

43. Have you ever had to use a fire extinguisher for its intended

purpose?
nope.

44. Last book you read for real?
For real, though? The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

45. Do you have a teddy bear?
Nope

46. Strangest place you have ever brushed your teeth?
McDonald's bathroom

47. Somewhere in California you've never been and would like to:
San Bernadino

48. Do you go to church?
Nopers

49. At this point in your life would you rather start a new
career or a new relationship?

Ask me again in three months.

50. Just how OLD are you?
24

Woo! I got just the right amount of drunk last night. Lots of fun. Lots of friends. No making a fool out of myself (as far as I can tell.) No drinking and dialing besides a slight case of texting people J-Kwon lyrics for seemingly no reason. And I even got some new numbers in my cell. I may be singing a different tune when I see the photographs, but for now I'm just going to enjoy the blissful ignorance.

They try to make me go to rehab/ well I say 'no no no'

*Does the Jordan Scrivner dance*

1922 - 2007

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!"

The writer who had the most infulence on me both as a writer and as a human being has died.

So it goes.

It's impossible to not like this band.



Better stop dreaming of the quiet life -
Cos its the one we'll never know
And quit running for that runaway bus -
Cos those rosey days are few
And - stop apologising for the things youve never done,
Cos time is short and life is cruel -
But its up to us to change
This town called malice.



Waking up at 6 a.m. on a cool warm morning -
Opening the windows and breathing in petrol -
An amateur band rehearsing in a nearby yard -
Watching the tele and thinking about your holidays -

That's Entertainment.
That's Entertainment.

Waking up from bad dreams and smoking cigarettes -
Cuddling a warm girl and smelling stale perfume -
A hot summer's day and sticky black tarmac -
Feeding ducks in the park and wishing you were far away -

That's Entertainment.
That's Entertainment.

From now on, I'm not going to give an opinion on an album or band until I've listened to their album for, like, two weeks. This is the estimated time an album takes to grow on me. Here are the albums that I didn't like on the first listen but now I absolutely love.

Silver Jews "Tanglewood Numbers"
Woif Parade "Apologies to the Queen Mary"
The Knife "Silent Shout"
Modest Mouse "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank"

Can anybody else think of albums that fit in this description? What are some albums that you would consider an acquired taste?

( Skit #1: THE KNIFE SKIT )

It's been a whiiiiile.

Three weeks ago I was hanging with the roommates and an image of a man walking away from a car that had flowers and grass and living creatures sponatneously flowing from it popped into my head. The rest of the story I made up as I went along. It's 5,177 words long and the middle kind of drags but I like it and I'm going to try to publish it.

Soooo..... here's ( The Dust That Danced )