As a fellow Jon, I say go with Jon.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 5:27 PM on August 2, 2008

Some people consider anyone who looks vaguely countercultural to be a 'hippie.' Including punks or metal people, who often hate hippies themselves. Myself, when I use 'hippie' as a pejorative, I'm usually referring to the hopelessly naive, spoiled, good-vibes-will-solve-the-worlds-problems types, but they aren't neccessarily hippies in the classic definition, either.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 5:52 PM on July 31, 2008

Now, on the other hand, there's Manowar. There isn't an ounce of self-awareness there, just hard rock action.

Dude, the original lineup featured former Dictator Ross The Boss Friedman, a man who is well acquainted with the concept of humor. I guarantee you he's in on the joke.

Radiohead on the other hand, takes themselves way too seriously.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 4:46 PM on July 31, 2008

(if you want evidence of Manowar being in on the joke, I have an mp3 of them live in Paris covering 'Lady Marmalade.' I think it's safe to say they get it)
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 4:50 PM on July 31, 2008

Bonus points if they use their own name in a song.

Wouldn't Escape Club be the world champeens in that regard? (I'm a bit frightened that I remember them at all.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 5:12 PM on July 31, 2008

What's the point? How does anyone else get out of bed in the morning?

Beats the aternative. I've done the paid idleness thing, it makes you loopy after awhile. Quit whining and go to work.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 12:44 PM on July 27, 2008

What's the point?

There isn't one really. But you have a job or prospects for one, enough money for a place to live, food, and to have some fun. Go out and have a beer or two, go find a girl or watch a ballgame or something. Life could be worse.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 1:22 PM on July 27, 2008

Look, I get it. I understand that I'm pampered and I really don't know what a hard time is and everything. I GOT that one already. Don't worry, I already hate myself.

It's not even that, man. Just being out there, working, meeting people at any kind of job and any kind of people will get your juices flowing, get you engaged, get you out of your own head and you'll feel better. Even being frustrated at a shitty job is better than than beating yourself... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 1:44 PM on July 27, 2008

I open boxes at a used bookstore for people who want to sell them to us. ISome of them are homeless people who smell ripe from sleeping outdoors in the summer heat and not bathing. Some of them are people who are moving and need to prune their collections. Some are college kids unloading their textbooks (which we don't buy). Sometimes they're pleasant, sometimes they're annoying. The pay's OK but it could be better. I could be more ambitious, but doing that requires putting up with a lot of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 3:58 PM on July 21, 2008

"Save The Last Dance For Me" the Drifters
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 2:36 PM on July 20, 2008

Marty Robbins- Tumblin' Tumbleweeds

*cough* Tex Ritter.

I'd also reccomend Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 4:34 PM on July 15, 2008

"Geek" is the all-purpose term for someone who gets obsessive. about anything. My friend Scott watched me and my friend Rich discussing baseball cards and when we looked up sheepishly, said "Everybody's a geek for something."

That says it all.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 4:22 PM on July 7, 2008 marked best answer

I take umbrage over the terms Nerd or Geek being used to refer to those obviously deranged individuals. I am a proud Nerd-Geek

Taking umbrage over a term for a subculture is very un-geek. Part of being a geek is not caring what people think.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 4:27 PM on July 7, 2008

Roach Spray.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 8:23 AM on June 16, 2008

I'd be OK with it, but masculine pride would probably motivate me to try harder. And to echo the sentiments above, the bedroom is no place to mince words, tell him what you want.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 4:57 PM on June 14, 2008

Go find a girl (if that's what you prefer, of course). If you're feeling that confident, you'll do well picking people up, or so I'm told.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 4:55 PM on June 14, 2008

That's not odd at all, FJ@MN, check this out. I own it, it's fun.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 6:31 PM on June 11, 2008

Unless she admits to fanatsizing about your friends, keep it to yourself.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 9:27 AM on June 8, 2008

The Vandals cover of "Summer Lovin'" from Grease is a hoot.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 7:40 PM on June 5, 2008

I will not say the name of the band, but they are about as famous as the MC5 or Spirit, but they are emphatically not them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 8:45 PM on May 20, 2008

It's neither of them, UnSane. Wrong part of the country. And according to the box it's 1/4".
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 9:49 PM on May 20, 2008

Also, if I were the musician, I'd probably love it if some knowledgeable musichead such as yourself came up to me and said, "Hey, checkitout, I found this tape of you at Joe's Fart Salon on April 31 196F! What do you want me to do with it? You gonna eat that jello?" etc. Good luck whatever you do with the tapes.)

That would be about the size of it, not_on_display (except of course, I'd say 'can I have a copy of my own?'). dersins, I'll be... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 6:16 PM on May 21, 2008

Don't know why 'loves their family' is so important- a lot of great people have really shitty families.)

Just a guess, but maybe he wants to avoid marrying into a dysfunctional family and all the non-stop fun therein.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 3:24 PM on May 18, 2008

Word of advice from someone older than you who's had a relationship or two: abandon all 'checklists,' you're not shopping for a car. Just meet people and let things happen.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 5:25 PM on May 18, 2008

Kissing someone you don't want to marry or even date again is fine. It sends a teeny "I'm into you" message

I'd say it sends a big 'i'm into you' message, which might be why this is kind of delicate. Maybe a subtle apology for sending the wrong message might be worked into the email.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 3:04 PM on March 23, 2008

A contract? No. But it does send a signal to someone, and we need to think about the signals we send out. That's just consideration.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 3:09 PM on March 23, 2008

The comedienne Moms Mabley cut a song called 'It's Alright,' which for some unexplained reason always makes me feel positive. "Speedo" by the Cadillacs has the same effect.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 8:23 AM on March 23, 2008

I'd also add 'Quarter To Three' by Gary 'US' Bonds and 'Twist & Shout' (both the Isley Brothers and the Beatles versions). I find it nigh impossible to remain gloomy when I hear those.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 9:08 AM on March 23, 2008

There's also a song by Love Affair called 'Rainbow Valley,' that always cheers me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 11:52 AM on March 23, 2008

"TV Crazy" Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials
"TV is the Thing This Year" Dinah Washington

(for a dissenting opinion: "Television" - Snuffy Jenkins)
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 6:44 PM on March 22, 2008

Early Beatles. Stuff from the late '50's early 60's like 'The Wanderer' 'Every Time That You Walk In The Room' 'Get A Job,' Del Shannon, like that...
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 8:40 AM on March 16, 2008

Also the comedienne Moms Mabley did a song called "It's Alright," which is as goofy as you might expect, but for some reason never fails to lift my spirits. Also, Sly 7 the Family Stone's 'Everyday People,' and Joan Jett's version of 'I Need Someone'(self-link, streaming audio).
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 8:44 AM on March 16, 2008

To this (more or less) straight guys perception, gauging a guy's interest should be easy. Just think of what you'd do and act acodingly. And if the gay bars I've been in are any indication, these dudes are not shy about showing interest.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 5:46 PM on March 15, 2008

True cool and true anti-cool paradoxically are both about the same thing: rejecting trendiness and the approval of others.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 2:20 PM on March 11, 2008

parmanparman, I dig Brian May, but aside from Queen all he's done is some soundtrack work. Page played hundreds of sessions before joining the Yardbirds, making him a far more viable candidate for this position.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 11:27 AM on March 11, 2008

Brian Eno is your man.

OK. Connect Eno to the following people in six moves or less:

Handsome Dick Manitoba
Joan Jett
Steve Cropper
Eddie Van Halen
Chuck D

(we need somebody with reach here)
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 11:38 AM on March 11, 2008

How about Jim Keltner?

Definite possiblity.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 11:41 AM on March 11, 2008

Show your connections, people.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 11:53 AM on March 11, 2008

LionIndex: no prejudices here. I was simply looking for some unlikely candidates for a connection to Eno. and quite frankly, I'm impressed. But it still took 8 for Cropper (who's so ubiquitous that you figure the connection would've been easier, so we're looking for somebody other than Eno.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 11:59 AM on March 11, 2008

As far as places to go? just go to the local bar, and no matter where you are in NYC, there's a local bar.

As far as flirting? I've freely admitted to being dense when it comes to feminine signals of interest, but one hi-sign to me was the girl finding an excuse to make physicla contact. Whether it's a tousle of hair or a hand over a hand, the guy will take it as a clear signal of interest.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 5:55 PM on March 9, 2008

Only jonmc and people in old John Hughes movies ever got anything out of that "normal teenager-development stuff". Most of us got through our teens very awkwardly without learning too much.

Heh. For the record, I graduated high school a virgin, doohickie (and angry that all those teen flicks had lied to me). My main point was that guys can be kind of thick about signals of interest from women, and that women should be less subtle than they... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 8:50 PM on March 9, 2008

yeah. spazzy, gawky, homely child with a host of minor defects that pretty much shattered his self-confidence for a long time.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 10:30 AM on March 10, 2008

Don Covay
OV Wright
Betty Wright
Linda Lyndell
Ann Peebles
Johnny Copeland
I also highly recommend this compilation from Trikont. Good obscure raw southern soul.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 5:49 PM on February 23, 2008

I feel my libido is too high. How can I normalize it healthily and deal with it?

I'm 22,

Umm, you can't. You're a young man, you are going to have sex on the brain. Pretty much all the time. When you're fifty an watching Viagra ads with unexpected interest, you will miss these days. Just go have some sex, man. Trust me, you won't regeret the sex you had half as much as the sex you didn't have.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 6:19 PM on February 19, 2008

I'd also reccomend reading this novel. I've reccomeneded it a million times for enetrtainment value (and it's got plenty of that, no doubt), but it also gets directly at what you're talking about. But in the end it just means you're a young guy with ahealthy libido.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 6:23 PM on February 19, 2008

And when you find yourself thinking about naked cuties, work harder at that other activity instead of stopping to run into the bathroom for a solo quickie.

what are we, the Catholic Church all of a sudden? Go find yourself a girl (they like sex as much as we do and one of them's bound to like you). You are a normal young man with normal urges. Why you feel the need to sublimate them is beyond me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 6:34 PM on February 19, 2008

"I wish I could break free of this vicious cycle, I could have gotten a doctorate in the time I've been doing this" feeling.

Doctorates are great, but when you're an old man sitting in a wheelchair, you won't be thinking wistfully about your thesis, trust me. I'm not saying that sex should be the only thing in your life, but for a guy your age? Now is the time, my man...
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 6:54 PM on February 19, 2008

I used to work for the company vidiot's gf works for (I know both of them IRL). They're devious but really careful about legalities due to labor problems, so it's probably legally kosher, but I'd talk to a lawyer to be sure.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 6:37 PM on February 19, 2008

does anyone else feel comfortable acting silly around strangers?

one man's silly is another man's normal. at least you're coversing with strangers, which is how you make friends.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 6:32 PM on February 19, 2008

you'll occasionally hear 'skirtchaser' to describe a horny guy, but even that's usually conciously retro.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 12:49 AM on February 12, 2008