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Jimbodini

...swarthy, with a low forehead.

About Me



"When I was young I used to be, as fine a man as ever you'll see, and the Prince of Wales he says to me, 'Come and join the British Army.' Tooralooralooraloo, they're looking for monkeys up at the zoo, I says 'Well, if I had a face like you, I'd join the British Army!'"
- Dominic Behan

My Interests

Reading, listening to/watching music, vegan food, activism, theoretical physics...

Music:

Abe Vigoda, Aceyalone, Afrirampo, Mose Allison, Louis Armstrong, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Albert Ayler, BARR, Bauhaus, Bellow And Howl, Luciano Berio, Birthday Party, Black Flag, Blonde Redhead, Billy Bragg, Jacques Brel, Business Lady, John Cage, CAN, Captain Beefheart, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Nick Cave, Oscar Chavez, Child Pornography, The Clash, Coachwhips, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, The Contortions, Elvis Costello, Deerhoof, DNA, The Dubliners, Einsturzende Neubauten, Epsilons, The Fall, Fast Forward, Finally Punk, Friends Forever, Serge Gainsbourg, Get Hustle, Godzik Pink, Woody Guthrie, Petra Haden, Hawnay Troof, Health, Hello Astronaut Goodby Television, Joe Hill, Hips, Billie Holiday, Holy Buffaglow, The Housemartins, Ima Fucking Gymnist, The Jam, Victor Jara, Jesus Makes The Shotgun Sound, Joy Division, K!ll K!ll The Nurse, K.I.T., Lavender Diamond, Le Flange Du Mal, Le Joshua, Lotte Lenya, Lightning Bolt, The Locust, Love Boat, Shane MacGowan, The Mae Shi, Mars, MC5, Melt Banana, Mika Miko, Minor Threat, The Minutemen, My Little Red Toe, New Order, Nisennen Mondai, No Age, Phil Ochs, Charlie Parker, The Peppermints, Edith Piaf, Pink and Brown, Plague of Dandelions, Polar Goldie Cats, The Pope, PRS HLTN, MTHRFCKRS!!, Public Enemy, The Raincoats, The Ride, Paul Robeson, Rose For Bohdan, Pharoah Sanders, Scarnella, Seven Year Rabbit Cycle, The Sharp Ease, Silver Daggers, Nina Simone, The Slits, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Spooky Bomb SQUAD!, Karlheinz Stockhausen, The Stooges, Cecil Taylor, Teenage Jesus And The Jerks, This Mess, This Song Is A Mess But So Am I, Throbbing Gristle, Uphill Gardeners, Velvet Underground, Veronica Lipgloss And The Evil Eyes, Very Be Careful, Vomit Bomb, Scott Walker, Warbler, The Warlocks, The Who, Wives, Jen Wood, XBXRX, Young People...

Books:

Brendan Behan, Bertolt Brecht, Nikolai Gogol, Victor Hugo, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, George Orwell, Upton Sinclair, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats...also “The Master and Margarita,” “The Painted Bird”

My Blog

Clara Alice Robinson 1915-2007 R.I.P.

Recently, my beloved grandmother passed away at the age of 92.  Yesterday was the funeral.  It has been a very sad couple of weeks for me.  Here is a nice eulogy written by my brother t...
Posted by Jimbodini on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:18:00 PST

"...swarthy, with a low forehead."

So...I decided to do a little genealogical investigative work recently, and I have made some pretty amazing discoveries regarding one particular branch (my grandfather's mother's branch to be exact......
Posted by Jimbodini on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:30:00 PST

English and Irish friends...here I come!!!!!

I will be in England and Ireland from June 16th through July 1st to oversee the resignation of Tony Blair (...just kidding about that last part). Let's hang out! Here is my tentative schedule: June 16...
Posted by Jimbodini on Thu, 10 May 2007 03:12:00 PST

I took my 3 year old nephew Charlie to his first Dodger game...

 Take me out to the ballgame...   ...take me out with the crowd.   Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack...   ...I don't care if I never get back. Root, root, root for the Dodgers...
Posted by Jimbodini on Thu, 03 May 2007 01:07:00 PST

Apparently, I have Mad Cow Disease...

So I went to donate blood today at the Red Cross, and they wouldn't take it. Why, you ask? Because I have been to the UK for a total of 3 months during the period of 1980-1996 (i.e. the Thatcher/Major...
Posted by Jimbodini on Thu, 03 May 2007 01:27:00 PST