Jacob Shwirtz
- Age: 29
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Libra
- Zodiac Year: Sheep
- Industry: Internet
- Location: Tel Aviv : Israel
About Me
I get pissed off that we can't remember the future. I fear normality. I can't stand the idea that friends and lovers feel or once felt about others the way they do about me. I like cushions and sitting in restaurants so as to see the fewest number of other people. I don't acknowledge the existence of people who sit beside me on trains, buses or airplanes. I long for honesty yet don't know what it means. I challenge myself and all around me to find inspiration in the smallest, weirdest, least-expected places. I think too few people drink too little alcohol (especially Israelis). I long for the stars yet can't imagine ever living outside of a big city where I'll never see the stars. I'd give almost anything to know if we really are alone in the universe. I regret not having lived in Poland 100 years ago. I avoid pets or babies because they take attention away from me. I believe in taking a stand and not giving in. After running my own entertainment company, teaching entrepreneurship to high schoolers, performing improv comedy and flying through the air as a trapeze aerialist, I moved to Israel in Dec 2003 for the Zionist dream and served in the IDF's Homefront Command.
Interests
- Trapeze
- improv comedy
- travel
- film (attended the Cannes Film Festivals from '99-'03)
- buffalo wings
- indian-mexican-japanese food
- philosophy of time
- unknowables
- life-altering moments
- Tel Aviv.
Favorite Movies
- Vertigo
- The Graduate
- Marathon Man
- Casino
- Austin Powers
- Blue Crush
- Back to the Future
- Planet of the Apes
- Taxi Driver
- Spice World
- Dr. Strangelove
- anything with attractive people doing stupid things
- On the Waterfront (much better than Streetcar Named Desire)
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Big Lebowski
- Usual Suspects
- Radio Days
- Bananas
- Cradle Will Rock
Favorite Music
- White stripes
- The Raconteurs
- REM
- The Police
- The Doors
- S&G
- Gary Jules
- Old Madonna
- Old Michael Jackson
- Tenacious D
- Nirvana
- Dan Bern
- Tool
- Rage
- Pearl Jam
- Audioslave
- Franz Ferdinand
- Frankie (as in Sinatra)
- soundtracks
Favorite Books
- Einstein's Dreams
- Lost in the Funhouse
- Nothing Sacred
- Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- You Will Know Our Velocity
- What Should I Do With My Life?
- Faster
- Women (or anything else by Bukowsky)
- Encyclopedia of Mythology
- Warrior
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