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Jonzey

Your Favourite Martian

About Me

and in no particular order...part geek, part suit, part jock, part flakity-flake.

My Interests

Travel, live music, dive bar drinking, disco dancing, kick-ass karaoke, campfires, gutter art, indie theatre, vintage pinball, amusement parks, card games, scrounging through used/vintage shops, poking around in the darker corners of life. Oh yeah and then there's the big jock in me. I can watch a lot of sports - since I was a very young boy I've been a rabid Pittsburgh Steelers and Boston Bruins fanatic. And I do wish I was a bit more active, but the knees arent too good no more...

I'd like to meet:

Pandas, Chameleons and Cheetahs

Music:

Literally everything!!! (no bad country or bland pop though)!My favourite local bands here in Toronto are Magneta Lane, the Golden Dogs, Shitt Hottt, Lioness, Die Mannequin, Lipstick Machine, the Diableros and Hot Monogamy. RIP controller.controller and Republic of Safety, I miss grooving to you. There are lots of really good to amazing bands here right now, thanks so much to you all for the many hours of golden times I've experienced with you. As a kid growing up in small-town SW Ontario I was weened on the Beatles, Stones, 60's pop and folk (thanks Mom!). Detroit radio opened my eyes further...my other favourite artists ever are the Who, Love (and well all those great 60's garage bands), VU, MC5, Stooges, T-Rex, Eno-era Roxy Music, Ramones, Clash, Wire, Undertones, Joy Division, Husker Du, Minutemen, Redd Kross, Hoodoo Gurus, Plasticland, Replacements, Game Theory, Pixies, Dino Jr, Jane's, Nirvana, Throwing Muses, Breeders, PJ Harvey (whom I adore...she so flirted with me once upon a time in Boston), Superdrag, Cat Power, Elliot Smith, Sleater-Kinney, Dandy Warhols, White Stripes, YYYs, Scout Niblett, The Grates, CSS...gosh there are so many, many more.

Movies:

Tarantino, Burton, Hitchcock have made many of my favourite movies, but I mostly love indie flix. And I'm a sucker for campy-horror flix like Re-Animator. Favourite movie ever is Edward Scissorhands.

Television:

news, sci-fi (I lurrrv classic Twilight Zone and Outer Limits), docs, good sit-coms (the office is my current fave), good reality/game shows (yah, what can I say, I'm a competitor!). Currently soaking up the Popeye 1933-39 and BBC Blue Planet comps on HD...awesome!

Books:

I used to read a lot of novels, but not anymore. I read all day at work. It's too much.

Heroes:

Peter Parker, Polly Jean Harvey, George Harrison, Sue Johansen, Fox Mulder, Andrea Parducci, Phoebe Bouffet.Yah, I know.

My Blog

Uncle Rudy is not a Superdrag

haha, I havent posted anything in awhile (obs), so here's some stuff Tomorrow I take my first cousin and good friend on a memorial roadtrip to Manhattan then Boston then back home via the Catskills wi...
Posted by Jonzey on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:32:00 PST

Reflections on 2006

I'm not going into narcissistic descriptions, but here are my most treasured memories of 2006:   Favourite shows: Redd Kross / be your own Pet  July 1, Red Cat (LA) CSS / Bonde De Rol  July 1...
Posted by Jonzey on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:21:00 PST

C'mon Sloopy!

Warning - mostly dumb-guy sports post...proceed at your own risk! "Hang On Sloopy, Sloopy Hang On" "O-HI-O" Well that describes my weekend in a nutshell. I'm sure I heard that 200 times on Saturday &a...
Posted by Jonzey on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:24:00 PST

The West is the Best

Back from the west coast. Was spectacular in everyway. Things I loved: Dinosaur Provincial Park. Stranger than strange. Like being on the moon. If you go book the Badlands Tour ($10, book ahead) int...
Posted by Jonzey on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:59:00 PST

Cansei De Ser Sexy @ Mod Club, July 14th - My, My MY

so freakin' amazing! Great rockin dancy tunes, great stage presence, great crowd Interaction, great dancin' crowd. A And fuck the singer is the cutest and sexiest frontperson EVAH! She spent a good ...
Posted by Jonzey on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:13:00 PST

Redd Kross in La-La Land!!

So yeah, I went to la-la land for a few days, the main reason was to see the reunited Redd Kross, replete with the awesome Neurotica line-up, playing together at the Red Cat Theatre on July 1. Neurot...
Posted by Jonzey on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:52:00 PST

The Grates are the Greatest!

I saw Australia's Grates for the third time in the past year last night at Lee's Palace.  They have a great arsenal of dancy pop/rock songs and a singer (Patience) who has boundless energy a...
Posted by Jonzey on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:57:00 PST

NXNE Week!! GOOD TIMES!!!

I had a great time. Not everything was NXNE related, but I pretended it was regardless! Wednesday Be your own Pet @ Mod Club = A- Henri Faberge & The Adorables @ Embassy = A These 2 shows were fa...
Posted by Jonzey on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:35:00 PST