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Brother James

Can Jimmy still run?

About Me

I'm an EMT. I'll be a paramedic soon.

My Interests

Stephanie Guss, Christian Parkess, Jim Nolley

I'd like to meet:

Yoko Ono, Ornette Coleman, Fidel Castro, Slash, Marcel Duchamp Positive folks who love Austin. Activists that don't stop. Campers that have tents and need company.

Music:

John Coltrane, Cash, and Lydon, Russell Jones, gogol bordello, Frank Black, Dexter Gordon, Lilium, Dwight Yoakam, Kenny Clarke, big lazy, Bill Callahan, Nas, Ella Fitzgerald, ramones, Earl Harvin trio, devotchka, ghostwriter, animal collective, Charlie Parker, varnaline, James P. Johnson, Elvin Jones, Woven Hand, John Darnielle, Sun Ra, Marshall Allen, the the, John Gilmore, the star room boys, Morrissey, Sonny Clark, Manu Chao, Ted Hawkins, M. Gira, Arnett Cobb, weary boys, Lucinda Williams, palace, Leonard Cohen, Nas, Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, bad seeds, dirty three, John Doe, Ori Kaplan, ministry, Chan Marshall, Slick Rick, pixies, Tom Waits, balkan beat box, Roger Miller, akron/family, Joaquín Sabina, Bob Dylan, Pepper Adams, sonic youth, Eric Dolphy, Thelonious Monk, low, the beatles

Movies:

A Hard Days Night, Don't Look Back, Waking Life, Ken Burns, Broken Flowers, Rude Boy, Samurai Assassin, Mallrats, The Proposition

Television:

MLB on the radio, Coast to Coast AM, NPR

Books:

Taber's, As Serious As Your Life, Junky, Space is the Place, England's Dreaming, No Irish No Blacks No Dogs, Bob Dylan Chronicles, The Rum Diaries

Heroes:

Buddy Bell, My Mom, Bill Hicks, Charles Mingus

My Blog

Knockin' On Joe

If I'd started drinkin' when I was 14, I'm half sober today 
Posted by Brother James on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:42:00 PST

meditating in the dirt

The torture is all because of you. Because I want it, I can until there's lusciousness. Your scene is to be released. My glance is a stare down. a story about me I finish genius I did the days becaus...
Posted by Brother James on Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:42:00 PST

It took one night

I swear I'm okay right hereThe woman thinks about it too hardShe feels for the cold steelbut I love the rain and the stars aboveI'm fine because it happens everydayAny rough spots are gone, worn downl...
Posted by Brother James on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:48:00 PST

My fallen few

Driving until there is more truthunspoken rainbows and screamsA jackrabbit stopped me deadIf your scruff can save me, can youWhen your dust tells me nothing is true So the drive was long and before to...
Posted by Brother James on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:22:00 PST

Gentle Man

It was the hottest day of my five yearsThose always come without warningso if anybody knewthey knew it was a secretHow the river was dry and the falls were all hotHow the fall wouldn't let spring bloo...
Posted by Brother James on Sun, 04 Dec 2005 06:09:00 PST

Extra firm

The things that we love. I love losing my breath, cept when the chain keeps slipping on my cycle. Things can be possessions. At least thats what the books would read. That damn cycle has been so good...
Posted by Brother James on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 06:42:00 PST

On a cold rubber seat

This world; I love it. My small accomplishments are gonna make me. I'm agonna cash em in and I'll be rich. Pops used to say that when he was a kid he said that what he wanted to be when he grew up was...
Posted by Brother James on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:16:00 PST

one that i remember

driving down cesar chavez east from lamar to about colorado  somebody's (lady) behind us in pickup but pointed the opposite direction  it's sunny in parade atmosphere  we're all stopped...
Posted by Brother James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST