Jim
Bio Hometown: Gilbertsville, PA Occupation: Ad Executive Jim, 36, earned dual undergraduate degrees in graphic design and art history from Philadelphia's Tyler School of Art and spent his post-college years as a conceptual illustrator in Manhattan. He relocated to Philadelphia and started his own advertising and marketing company that targets overlooked regional venues within the city. The father of a five-year-old girl and newborn daughter, he lives with his wife in Gilbertsville, PA. Faves Music: I consider music one of my hobbies. I love what has always been termed "pop music", throughout cultural American history. I love the Big Band dance music of the WWII era. Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, The Dorsey Bros.... wow! That stuff was FANTASTIC! I admire experimental pop music created by tortured souls such as John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Perry Farrell, Beck, Gibby Haines...I especially crave the less attainable electronica, and trance/techno music that is around today. Outfits like Royksopp, Telepopmusik, Bent, Daft Punk, etc. As well as hot DJs like Paul Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyk, Armand Van Helden, DJ Tiesto and Mylo. I even enjoy the well produced, top 40 pop music of today like Justin Timberlake's new album, The Black Eyed Peas & Jay Z. Books: I am not a big non-fiction reader. I take my reading as I would take medicine, to make myself better. I read biographies of great War strategists like Churchill, MacArthur, and my favorite George S. Patton! I also read self-help books on sales and business strategies. Great classics like Dale Carnegie and Harry Beckwith, which, for the most part are still topical today. TV: I, of course, love the Apprentice series! I love Survivor. Mark Burnett's reality stable really focuses on the human relationship, and the psychology between disparate individuals. I eat that stuff up! (It makes a great launching point for my real life business relationships) I enjoy Lost, and Desperate Housewives on the couch with my wife in the evenings. Curiously, these shows, while not "reality" based, deal with similar interpersonal relationships. Finally, COMEDY!!! Conan O'Brien leads the pack for my taste in humor... Guys like Sasha Cohen (Da Ali G Show) AND Conan also use humor to reveal the "Human Condition", as it were, and force people to take a closer look at themselves, and maybe laugh a little at how ridiculous we all can be at times. Movies: Not too curiously, I find all of my favorite movies revolve around the struggles of what can only be termed the "anti-hero". Movies like Fight Club, The Matrix, A Clockwork Orange, Gladiator, Miller's Crossing, Batman. They all revolve around a man outside of "normal" society, acting in ways that only outsiders can. Often with dramatically heroic and/or tragic ends! Horror, obviously somewhat fits into this genre, and is a passion as well. Perhaps my all time favorites are The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Ring, The Exorcist, 28 Days Later, frankly just about anything by Kubrick, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket. After all, wasn't The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, films' first mainstream attempt at "Reality Filmmaking"? How could I not LOVE that!
Bio Hometown: Gilbertsville, PA Occupation: Ad Executive Jim, 36, earned dual undergraduate degrees in graphic design and art history from Philadelphia's Tyler School of Art and spent his post-college years as a conceptual illustrator in Manhattan. He relocated to Philadelphia and started his own advertising and marketing company that targets overlooked regional venues within the city. The father of a five-year-old girl and newborn daughter, he lives with his wife in Gilbertsville, PA. Faves Music: I consider music one of my hobbies. I love what has always been termed "pop music", throughout cultural American history. I love the Big Band dance music of the WWII era. Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, The Dorsey Bros.... wow! That stuff was FANTASTIC! I admire experimental pop music created by tortured souls such as John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Perry Farrell, Beck, Gibby Haines...I especially crave the less attainable electronica, and trance/techno music that is around today. Outfits like Royksopp, Telepopmusik, Bent, Daft Punk, etc. As well as hot DJs like Paul Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyk, Armand Van Helden, DJ Tiesto and Mylo. I even enjoy the well produced, top 40 pop music of today like Justin Timberlake's new album, The Black Eyed Peas & Jay Z. Books: I am not a big non-fiction reader. I take my reading as I would take medicine, to make myself better. I read biographies of great War strategists like Churchill, MacArthur, and my favorite George S. Patton! I also read self-help books on sales and business strategies. Great classics like Dale Carnegie and Harry Beckwith, which, for the most part are still topical today. TV: I, of course, love the Apprentice series! I love Survivor. Mark Burnett's reality stable really focuses on the human relationship, and the psychology between disparate individuals. I eat that stuff up! (It makes a great launching point for my real life business relationships) I enjoy Lost, and Desperate Housewives on the couch with my wife in the evenings. Curiously, these shows, while not "reality" based, deal with similar interpersonal relationships. Finally, COMEDY!!! Conan O'Brien leads the pack for my taste in humor... Guys like Sasha Cohen (Da Ali G Show) AND Conan also use humor to reveal the "Human Condition", as it were, and force people to take a closer look at themselves, and maybe laugh a little at how ridiculous we all can be at times. Movies: Not too curiously, I find all of my favorite movies revolve around the struggles of what can only be termed the "anti-hero". Movies like Fight Club, The Matrix, A Clockwork Orange, Gladiator, Miller's Crossing, Batman. They all revolve around a man outside of "normal" society, acting in ways that only outsiders can. Often with dramatically heroic and/or tragic ends! Horror, obviously somewhat fits into this genre, and is a passion as well. Perhaps my all time favorites are The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Ring, The Exorcist, 28 Days Later, frankly just about anything by Kubrick, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket. After all, wasn't The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, films' first mainstream attempt at "Reality Filmmaking"? How could I not LOVE that!