Jackson: The Unauthorized Autobiography

BBJ Memorial Slideshow

2006-05-09T14:33:38Z

Made by Tyler Cohen for jaredmorris.com in 2004.

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kjackson @ 2006-02-09T08:38:00

2006-02-09T13:38:10Z

If your thoughts somehow find all these crazy indirect ways back to a person you know or used to know, GET IN TOUCH WITH THEM.

I cannot express how important this is.

You probably won't think anything so outright as "Hey, I remember him. We should get back in touch." But you might find yourself reminiscing about a trip in eighth grade that he went on, too; or how you just talked to someone you know through him but haven't actually spoken with him in two years. Maybe you'll suddenly be really into these songs or artists that somehow remind you of a person, whether directly or indirectly.

It's all really vague, I know, but this has personally happened to me twice now: this sudden touching onto so many memories connected loosely by one particular friend -- just one reoccuring person who seems to insist on staying in your thoughts, but always in the background... and then losing him.

Newsday article: Mike Fallacaro, C.W. Post student, killed in crash

We impact the lives of the people we know (and vice versa) in ways we'll never know. A few weeks ago, I started to feel dramatically better about my life -- more productive, more content. I did feel I appreciated the people in my life substantially more. And I did, and I do.

Listen to me: I want you to discover how great it can be to appreciate those you know and have known. Make your own incarnation of "Carpe Diem," but please, I want you at least to learn what it's like to hold what's important to you and how best you can appreciate those you've been coexisting with.

I know the past can be embarassing, but the weight you feel when you think of weaker times is really just in the past. The friends you had in the past, they aren't weights; they're seemless parts that blend together and make you. Don't seek to avoid or forget them; just REALIZE FRIENDS -- make them and make them again. It's so simple, but it's so fulfilling.

And none of this is about regretting not talking to someone before I couldn't anymore or any "spare yourselves pain!" or "If only I could've changed the course of time" B.S. I just want to convey to you that, as high on some kind of crazy, crazy drug as I sound right now, keeping in touch when you can is seriously one of the best things you can do with your life.

I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way.

Get in touch with the people your memories insist are in your life.
This is some of the best advice I can offer.

Jared Fest

2005-12-19T00:26:57Z

Amazingness.

Jesse D., Josh 'n' I opened the whole 2-day event -- I was worried my leg would start shaking when I played my intro to the intro song that introduced the whole shebang, but it didn't. *pats leg* Good work.

SETLIST:
Obi-Wan Kenobi / No Woman No Cry (snippet)
Ted's Mom is My Girlfriend
My Heart Will Go On
Jared's Song (an original by Jesse)
King of Pain (first two verses) / Roseland Ballroom Homeless Guy

All the other bands were a-hard rockin' and, yeah, we were way, way out of our element, but we didn't really feel it. The set had a few mistakes here and there, but no major blunders. The songs translated well from 9-piece ska band to the new arrangements for guitar, trombone and organ... it was all just really resonant. People came up to us later to say they really appreciated that we played. Somewhere, Jared's smiling.

Didn't realize until Jesse indirectly pointed it out that it's been four years... almost to the day, come to think of it now... four years since I last played (non-classical / non-community band music) on stage. Before yesterday, it was the Sahara show TNL was in (the Village Pub Boxing Day disaster doesn't count).

Jared's Mom is coming to tonight's show. I'm writing papers and can't make it, but I hope she has a great time there, checks out the t-shirts and records they're selling in his memory, all the people there (word is that both nights are completely sold out)...

It was great. It was pretty tough, but I'm happy.

Jared Fest today and tomorrow

2005-12-16T22:02:04Z

Very short notice (it's 4:58 friday), but a notice nonetheless...

Tuesday Night's Leftovers is not actually playing, although Josh, Jesse D. and I (Jackson)'ll be performing a bit of a Storytellers-like set at the Saturday show.

I think you can buy tickets at the door. I don't see why you wouldn't be able to, but I'm not 100% on it. Contact the organizers (Give Back Records; phone is 687-3601) for more information.

Please come -- the money is going toward Jared's memorial scholarship fund.

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When:
Saturday and Sunday
December 17th and 18th (5 p.m. start both days)

Where:
TGIF SOUNDS AND SIGHTS
1075 Portion Road
Farmingville, NY

Ticket Info:
You can purchase tickets at Give Back Records in Medford, and at 4 In The Morning Studios in East Northport. If you buy a ticket for both days it will be $20, and if you buy tickets for either Saturday or Sunday it will be $12 for either day. If you need infomation on how to get to either of these places Give Back Records phone number is 687-3601 and 4 In The Mornings number is 858-1415.

Bands Playing:
Gabriel
Crime In Stereo
Dead Hearts
.....+ A Whole Lot More

To follow up my previous entry...

2005-11-17T21:18:13Z

The artwork for the Jared 7" is now set:

As JesSe said, Sam = awesome.

Jared Benefit 7"

2005-10-04T20:30:32Z

(Announcement from In Orbit Records)

Hey,
Jesse here,

Here's the dizzy...

This coming December, Give Back Records is sponsering Jaredfest. Members of Noshiponmysea, Filth Beast and Beowulf Jones (all former leftovers) plus friends are getting together for a one time Tuesday Night's Leftovers: Storytellers set.

The reason i'm writing - Jared wrote and sang a tune named "Roseland Ballroom Homeless Guy" which never had the chance to be professionally recorded. We want to get the August 8th 2001 Village Pub version of Roseland pressed to 100 copies of 7" vinyl, and are looking a probably a 500$ bill for it. Jared's legacy deserves this. It will be something concrete to represent Jared's lifelong love for music.

We wish it was cheaper. It would be nice to donate the proceeds entirely to the scholarship fund. But i don't really want to charge more than $5 each either. So i'm looking for a way to get some money to give it a release worthy of having Jared's name on it. Just to clarify, we are making no money off this and once we pay off whatever loans we end up with the rest of the money will be donated to Jared's scholarship fund.

So right now we are looking for donations. The track to needs to be ready for pressing by Halloween in order to get it in time. Think of this as a pledge drive... No celebrities, just music! The way Jared would have wanted it.

Any donations in excess of $5 entitles you to a copy of the record if you want it. Think of it as a pre-order. So talk to everyone you know that ever went to a TNL show or knew Jared about just donating a few bucks to the cause.

Every bit will help!!! We are seriously counting our pennies just to get this moving and anything you can do to help would be amazing.

Things have really taken off quickly and so many awesome gears are in motion.

As of now, the A side will feature Jared's Epic Ode "Roseland Ballroom Homeless Guy" and the B side will feature a patchwork of recordings of Jared laughing, joking around, calling girls sluts, etc.

So again,
TNL is accepting preorders for the limited number of 7"s. Any donation of $5 or more will guarantee you a copy, anything you donate over $5 will go towards defraying the cost of producing this record. The 7"s themselves will be $5 at JaredFest if any are left. Any and all money generated by the sale of these records will go to Jared's scholarship fund.

Contact either Josh ( http://www.myspace.com/filthbeast ) or my personal account ( http://www.myspace.com/jdhornz ) if you're interested in aiding this project.

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2005-09-30T21:19:12Z

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Antics with a bad aftertaste

2005-08-25T13:41:34Z

As much as I want to blame Rome, I really can't. I can only blame my klepto ways.

Well, that's not entirely true; I can't only be blaming.

Yeah.

So I walked out of LOEWS in Stony Brook last night with a standee as tall as myself for the History Channel's upcoming special on Rome. Got away with it once before (coincidentally, that cutout was for another History Channel documentary), but this attempt was just poorly executed: too much sketchy looking around, too noisy picking up the standee, too many people around, including an Arrow Security car whose officer radioed employees inside the building as we walked by.

It was just bad.

And then, having re-apprehended the standee, they took a picture-phone picture of my license plate (likely a scare tactic, but who knows).

So, the bottomline is: DON'T TAKE STANDEES FROM MOVIE THEATERS. WHEN THEY CATCH YOU, YOU FEEL LIKE A BIG POOP.

March of the Penguins, by the way, was quite good. Jesse was hoping that it would turn out to be an hour-and-a-half-long shot of penguins waddling across ice.

kjackson @ 2005-08-23T09:11:00

2005-08-23T13:12:42Z

I can't wait for the entire internet to stop pimping The Ring Two.

Guess who had a vegetable omlette yesterday!

2005-08-17T16:47:25Z

The kid who threw up in the sticker aisle!!

Worked 2 to closing yesterday and mopped up more than usual:

1) A mom came up to customer service to let us know one of her boys (who were shuffling idly behind her) had spilled a soda. Took a while to towel up, but the cup seems to have been only half full. Or empty.

2) An hour or so later, a, um... a reasonably attractive female walked by me and, as she passed, said, "Yum." I was confused, I was flattered -- but mostly just confused. Of course, moments later, another mother approached me, prefacing with "Now, not to be gross, but..."

Ah, vomit.

Anyone else notice how large Jessica Simpson's

2005-08-09T06:39:26Z

eyes become whenever something excites her?

Seriously.

What'd be interesting: a website that hosts highlights reels of movies currently in theaters... just a listing of downloadable clips that compile together all the enjoyable parts of a movie.

(I came home from Dukes of Hazzard a little while ago.) AND THAT's not a slight against that particular movie; I'm just thinking of what a logical "next step" in movie piracy would be.

Also: Eugene Levy and Samuel L. Jackson in a buddy cop movie. THAT should be interesting.

The highlight reel, I mean. Not the feature film itself.

Seriously, her eyes get huge.

Some guys on Blind Date are just so dumb-buh-buh

2005-08-06T10:57:48Z

Found my fall class schedule (circa June).
Found I was one class short of truly spiffy.
Found one class on political thought.
Found my way online.

The Imperial Toenail has been removed from power a second time. In a few weeks, I'm having a permanent procedure done to make the coup d'etoe a bit more lasting.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaad motherf***er of a storm barrelled through yesterday. My mom and sister were out and about; their report includes lightning galore, pounding rain, hail that clobbered, lowlowlow visibility, an impulse to not take the usual way home and a birch that, halved by lightning, came down on the power lines. (I was taking a nap, so I only heard intense thunder and saw lightning. Later, though, I did see the emergency flares at the end of the driveway, along with a fire truck -- which, I'm told, had just contained what had been a colorful fire -- and LIPA cherry-pickers.)

Bottomline: I'm classy, my toe hurts a little and I've been up all night, so don't try calling here. It's not that I don't like you, it's just that the phone's still out.

{7:12 EDIT: Alright, the phone's back on.]

Pictures from Ireland

2005-08-04T17:51:01Z

As promised, an update with plenty o' pitchers.

A bit of backstory: about two months ago now, one of my coworkers, Dan, found a toy dinosaur lying around. It wasn't a model that we sold (and had a rather signature bump on its head), so we held onto it for a day or two. Easily bored, we started playing hide and seek with the dinosaur, with finders being not keepers but re-hiders. Hilarity ensued. The game went on for weeks.

The weekend before Ireland, right about the time dinomania was reaching a loud and hot climax (seriously, this was all several tons of fun), Kim -- also an apron-clad wonder, also going on the trip -- found and hid the dinosaur. Two days passed; nobody could find it. My last day before leaving, I called her, found out the location of "The Dinosaur," and apprehended it.

Then I went to Ireland.

And took pictures.

Came back to find that the prevalent theories as to The Dinosaur's disappearance were A) thrown out during Inventory Week, and B) meteorites.

Put up pictures in the breakroom.

Got an awesome laugh/yell out of Dan when he saw the following:

Click for larger images.

(And if you want more information on the places in the pictures, just ask. And yes, the dinosaur did indeed give the Blarney Stone a smooch.)

Eventually, I'll post some more pictures from my trip, but in a separate journal -- the address of which I'll post when it's finished.

kjackson @ 2005-07-30T22:40:00

2005-07-31T02:41:01Z

FROZEN CANDY BARS ARE THE SHIZ, MOTH OR FUCKA!

kjackson @ 2005-07-27T23:40:00

2005-07-28T03:47:07Z

Busy day tomorrow... expect a big update (with approx. 25-30 pictures) friday morning-ish.

Fantastic Four was better than I'd thought it would be. Still weak, though, and Human "lookatmelookatmei'monfire" Torch is ANNOYING AS F***.

kjackson @ 2005-07-23T12:09:00

2005-07-23T16:11:33Z

It took me a week, but now I'm back to waking up at my abnormal hour of 12. ACk.

kjackson @ 2005-07-19T14:42:00

2005-07-19T18:51:19Z

A grasshopper couple now inhabits the upstairs bathroom.

Saw fireworks with Jesse, Trent, Joe and The Mullet saturday night -- they were expletive worthy, and Trent noted each time one was uttered.

Jesse likes to redecorate. He played "Zamboni" on his organNO,NOTTHATORGAN. A smile spread.

Willy Wonka's a strange one. Orange creamsicles are great, even moreso when one's nephew, bent on winning a prize from a toy crane for one's girlfriend, buys it. He's a good kid.

Clothing's all unpacked, washed and back in place. Everything else is still in my suitcase, including an address book I found in Ireland belonging to a San Franciscan named Orla.

Trent's rediscovered the upstairs. End Transmission.

Home again! Home again! Jiggity jig!

2005-07-16T14:24:32Z

Great, great trip. Plan on doing it again in 4-5 years.
Was out of London a day prior to bombings, don't worry.
Was all over Ireland and loved every bit of it. The term "breath-taking" is fully warranted.
Updates (with pictures! ZOWIE!!) to follow.

...I got ribbon, who could ask for anything more?

2005-06-30T22:01:10Z

Recently received a call from Katie, who was wondering if I had been a prankster earlier in the day.

Apparently, somebody took a dozen or so ribbon magnets from nearby cars and lined them up along the perimeter of her hood.

Allow me to illustrate:

BEFORE

AFTER

(I was going to make one in "Katie Vision" which translates "ribbon magnets leeching onto car" into "giant poop on car," but decided against it.)

And, not surprisingly, the first person she thought of was me.

kjackson @ 2005-06-30T16:24:00

2005-06-30T20:24:42Z

I didn't go bowling I went mini-golfing but then I went bowling another day but I still had a pizza and I think I'm going to have some more right now WHOOPIE!!!

kjackson @ 2005-06-28T13:14:00

2005-06-28T17:14:55Z

I went bowling last night and didn't injury myself! I ate a whole pizza instead! HOORAY!!

More from Work

2005-06-27T17:45:03Z

Two weeks from now is going to be "Inventory Week" for the store I work at -- in other words, insanely busy in the stockroom, where we'll be receiving a few waves of Fall and Christmas shipments. Two weeks from now, Kim and I'll be away in Ireland, and a few others have also requested time off (but for a just few days, not ten).

The store manager forgot that I was going to be away and asked me if I'd be interested in working in the Receiving department -- way, way in the back with all the boxes; from what I hear, it's an Inferno. Of course, the way he put it was, uh, "So, Mr. Jackson! I'm wondering what you're doing in the next two weeks here because, well, we need someone in Receiving and, ahh, I'd like to rape you for hours."

And usually I hear co-workers complain about how few hours they manage to get.

But anyway, I'm in no danger; I'll be in Ireland.
(Also: there aren't any stops in Northern Ireland; I won't be in any danger -- although I should point out that Northern Ireland really isn't all that dangerous anymore.)

kjackson @ 2005-06-24T13:30:00

2005-06-24T17:35:01Z

I'm wearing a travel pillow 'round m'neck!

kjackson @ 2005-06-08T14:21:00

2005-06-08T18:22:15Z

Still working on that Paris Hilton Sex Tape rock opera... ideally, I'd like a public performance of the whole bit sometime in August. We'll see, we'll see...

kjackson @ 2005-06-05T19:42:00

2005-06-05T23:43:56Z

And also, to clarify, the fellow who discarded his soiled, y'know, britches beneath? Not me.

The best compliment I received today: "And don't mind me staring, it's just you're so good-looking." (from a little old lady)