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Jimmy James

If only these things could be contained. . . in the Twilight Zone.

About Me


They asked me how I found your planet.

I told them I walked.


You earthlings! Listen up! We have plans for you.

For examples, please visit this FULL COLOR website any time, night or day.

LOCO FOR LIZARDS is available on Amazon--but act fast readers, it's out of print.

My Interests

C A R S
G I R L S
F L Y I N G S A U C E R S

I'd like to meet:


Someone who likes to explore the cave of the unknown.
Seeker of truth and light? Party people say join us now.
And please note: the pinata gets smashed at 500 chums.

Music:

YARDBIRDS
Theremin leads.
Tambourine, bongo, electric sitar and whammy bar,
thank you.

JOE MEEK and besides him, The killer "Bs:" BOLAN Beatles, Bowie, Big Star, Beefheart, Barret, Brian Wilson, Baker (Chet), Byrds, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Kate Bush, Brian Eno, Bran Van 3000, Bobby Darrin, Bjork, Big Audio Dynamite, B-52s, Beck, Early Bee Gees when they were trying to be psychedelic Beatles. John Barry, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Blue Nile
And. . . The Dandy Warhols, perhaps greatest of all, Juan Garcia Esquivel. Plus, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The WHO along with. . . T-Rex, Donovan, Kraftwerk, Grandaddy, Hank Williams Sr., Everly Brothers, and X T C.
Groovy ALBUMS:
R.L. Burnside: Come On In , PULP: A Different Class, T-Rex: ELECTRIC WARRIOR, THE SLIDER, TANX,The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced?, Axis Bold as Love & Electric Ladyland Iggy & The Stooges: RAW POWER (Bowie mix) Paul McCartney's RAM , The Velvet Underground, VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO, Elvis Presley's SUN SESSIONS & ELVIS IN MEMPHIS, Elvis Costello's ARMED FORCES., Joe Meek's I Hear a New World, The Byrds' NOTORIOUS BYRD BROS., The Clash, LONDON CALLING., The WHO, THE WHO SELL OUT & WHO'S NEXT, The Streets' ORIGINAL PIRATE MATERIAL Donovan's Mellow Yellow, The Rolling Stones, AFTERMATH., The Beach Boys' PET SOUNDS., David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, Diamond Dogs , & LOW. Kate Bush's THE DREAMING. Pink Floyd's THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN. World Party's GOODBYE JUMBO. John Foxx's METAMATIC. Shoestrings' WISHING ON PLANES.. The Beatles, SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: TROUT MASK REPLICA, STRICTLY PERSONAL, LICK MY DECALS OFF, BABY and DOC AT THE RADAR STATION , Bram Van 3000, GLEE,TRICKY: MAXINQUAYE, Grandaddy: SOPHWARE SLUMP, Dandy Warhols: THIRTEEN TALES FROM URBAN BOHEMIA , Sons of the Pioneers: COOL WATER, Ultravox: VIENNA, Beach Boys: Original SMILE tracks (no official release in one place--you have to piece it together yourself)
Love: Forever Changes
Guitar hero?
Link Wray.
Unheralded genius friend: Vic Masters aka Serene Dominic,
BRIAN JONES' Rollin' Stones.
EDDIE MUERTE!
S P A R K S
Major Lance
That song Black Metallic by The Catherine Wheel.
Live act winner: Iggy Pop
Also, bands yet to be heard: Outlaw Bankers, Rude Lovers, Simpletones, Sons of Kookie, Spoiler, The Odd Squad. Gotta get that damn theremin to quit goin' all wobbly for a minute and we'll be off. Sky saw guitar over mysterioso mellotron. . . a little bongo and tambourine, throw in the odd lonesome harmonica solo, heavily reverbed. Wasn't all that hard, was it?

Movies:

Godzilla vs. Monster Zero, THIS ISLAND EARTH,
The Party (1968),
The Nutty Professor (Original Jerry Lewis version) and his nearly-equally great Ladies Man, Destination Moon (1950), BREATHLESS (À bout de souffle) 1960,
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Thunder Road,

Wild in The Streets, Beat Girl, Rear Window, The Road to Utopia, Mulholland Drive, The Parent Trap (both versions), It Happened One Night, Destry Rides Again, Fellini's Amarcord, Life is Beautiful, Blue Velvet, Sin City, The Constant Gardner, D.O.A. (original version), Hudsucker Proxy, The Year of Living Dangerously, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Brasil, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Mon Oncle, and Cabin Boy

Television:

The Twilight Zone

Books:

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Loco for Lizards,
The Rise And Fall of The Third Reich
House Industries, Plastic Man, Batman Collected, The Information, London Fields, Breakfast of Champions, A Seperate Reality, Breaking Open the Head, Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs, Ogilvy on Advertising, Parallel Worlds, Autobiography of a Yogi
REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT

Heroes:

Andy Rooney

My Blog

ABE LINCOLN ON AMERICA, 2008

" Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the peop...
Posted by Jimmy James on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:41:00 PST

WHEN I REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS, I WAS HOME

I wasn't going to the Pebble Beach Concours. I couldn't. I had deadlines on three different projects the next week. But Pebble Beach is the premier car show in America, maybe the world and this year G...
Posted by Jimmy James on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:51:00 PST

OUR MOTORING FUTURE

230 Miles Per GallonVolkswagen has announced they will begin selling a production version of their diesel powered L1 concept by 2010. Aerodynamic rating is .15 CD, approximately half the air drag of a...
Posted by Jimmy James on Tue, 27 May 2008 08:31:00 PST

THE GOOD OLD DAYS

Believe it or not, these are "the good old days" of cheap gasoline.Experts say we might enjoy paying four dollars per gallon if we focused on the ten dollar per gallon gas to come. Some of the current...
Posted by Jimmy James on Thu, 22 May 2008 08:47:00 PST

WHAT THE MAN SAID

..+2>>When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, an...
Posted by Jimmy James on Wed, 14 May 2008 09:40:00 PST

BEST FUTURISTIC COMMERCIAL EVER

WORTH WATCHING FULL SCREEN:5 GUM COMMERCIAL
Posted by Jimmy James on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:40:00 PST

MEET KING RAT

"Everybody's looking for a place to sleep. I ain't slept in a bed in twelve years. Cooked my dinner on the manifold of a Chrysler last night--hash! I'm King Rat of Culver City." A tall, skeletal man w...
Posted by Jimmy James on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:06:00 PST

INVISIBLE RAY BEAMS FROM VENUS

You made me feel like running the human raceBut I couldn't outrun electrons from spaceThey made me do what came between usThose invisible ray beams from VenusWe were down on the bayouI called out the ...
Posted by Jimmy James on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:05:00 PST

NOTES FROM ITALY

I’m working on a research trip to Italy. My editor said that "IT WOULD BE HIGHLY UNUSUAL" (her caps) that theyd fund it. I’ve only been to Italy once. I lucked out when an ex-girlfriend c...
Posted by Jimmy James on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:03:00 PST

DALI vs. MURAKAMI

"Hitchcock is the only person I have met lately who has any mystery."--Salvador DaliBecause I live a few blocks from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, I put off going to see the Dali: Painting & F...
Posted by Jimmy James on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:30:00 PST