About
who: Steven Jarvis
where: I live in Northwest Arkansas with my wife and young son.
when: I’m a native Arkansan, and I grew up in Batesville and Newport before heading for the hills in Fayetteville. I’ve also lived in Mississippi and (briefly) Alabama. I attended college at: Arkansas College (now Lyon College), Hendrix College, University of Arkansas, University of Arkansas - Little Rock, University of Mississippi, University of Arkansas School of Law. I’m an over-educated under-achiever (B.A. English/Creative Writing, graduate work in English and American Lit, M.A. Southern Studies, J.D. Law). I have worked as a: cook, disc jockey, dishwasher, fly tier, reporter, editor, lawyer, web designer, and editor again. I’m not sure what’s next.
interests.
- LEGO
- role playing games (e.g., Burning Wheel and D&D)
- Modern design and architecture
- Apple Computer and the Macintosh (and the iPhone)
- web and graphic design
- reading (fiction: esp. Science Fiction, spy/espionage thrillers, fantasy; non-fiction: science writing, etc.)
- comic books (esp. Queen & Country, Fables, Wasteland, Y: the Last Man, Mouse Guard, and a ton of others, esp. a lot of indie comics)
- making music: I play guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, laptop.
- food and cooking
food.
Japanese (esp. sushi). Chinese. Southern/Home Cookin’/Soul Food.
music.
Historically, I listen to lots of 80s and 90s alternative (back when it was called “College Rock”) and New Wave, electronic music, indie pop, soul, surf, and country, including but not limited to: Aimee Mann, Al Green, The Alarm, Aztec Camera, Bellwether, Boards of Canada, Booker T. and the MGs, Cepia, `The Church, Curtis Mayfield, Elvis Costello, The Grapes of Wrath, Guadalcanal Diary, Guster, Husker Du, Jack Johnson, The Jayhawks, Joe Jackson, Lyle Lovett, Marvin Gaye, Monolake, New Order, the Ocean Blue, the Orange Peels, Pantha du Prince, the Pernice Brothers, the Police, the Postal Service, phylum sinter, R.E.M., the Smithereens, the Smiths, the Sundays, They Might Be Giants, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Wallflowers, XTC, and lots of others on a random, rotating basis.
books/fiction.
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Make-Believe Ballrooms by Peter J. Smith, Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner, The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling, Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons, Neuromancer (and most of the others, too) by William Gibson, A Heart to the Hawks by Don Moser, The Watch: stories by Rick Bass, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle.
movies.
Blade Runner; Ronin; the Bourne trilogy; Lost in Translation; Jaws; Star Wars; That Thing You Do!; Blue Velvet; Sideways; Juno.
television.
Dexter, The Closer, My Boys, Battlestar Galactica, C.S.I., Burn Notice, Firefly (RIP), Alias (seasons 1,2,5).
five semi-interesting things about me:
- I can roll a kayak.
- I can make a cheesecake from scratch (and a good one, too).
- I taught myself to read at the age of three.
- I do everything left-handed except play golf (which I suck at).
- I once dined with a past president (Jimmy Carter) and a future president (Bill Clinton) at the same time.
updated: 2008.07.21
