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tarnation

firm as red clay and constant as drinkin'

About Me


Work hard, drink hard, play fast, wear steel-toed boots, question authority, listen to your grandma.
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My Interests

Gretsch guitars and Telecasters, reverb, 6 and 9 chords, cigarettes, black coffee, dark beer and brown liquor, the beach, sausage gravy over biscuits, politics, dive bars, old-school honky tonk,torch singers, lounge, exotica, Wayne Hancock, Elvis, hillbilly jazz... Big Sandy, Biller and Wakefield, Bryant and West, Redd Volkaert, surf, Miles, Coltrane, Coleman, Ol' Dirty Bastard, 70's punk, Stax, Motown, stoner rock, Mötorhead, Thin Lizzy, girls with cowboy hats.

I'd like to meet:


Television:

TV doesn't make people stupid. People make people stupid.Entourage, Big Love, Adult Swim, Food Channel, IFC, Sundance Channel, war movies.

Books:

Hunter S. Thompson, Madison Smartt Bell, Milan Kundera, Paul Bowles, Katherine Dunn, Lynda Barry, Annie Proulx, Cormac McCarthy, Irvine Welsh, Martin Amis, Henry Miller, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, cookbooks, short stories.

My Blog

I am Bunny Slayer, hear me roar

Ted Nugent Kills And Guts Rabbit On Movie SetCountry singer Toby Keith held a press conference at BMI Thursday afternoon to talk about his new movie, Beer for My Horses. Due to hit theaters Aug. 8[.] ...
Posted by tarnation on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:59:00 PST

stuff white people like

You've probably seen that list. It's intended to poke fun at uptight, pretentious suburbanites, but then you read through it and realize there are about 20 things on there you like and the joke's on y...
Posted by tarnation on Wed, 28 May 2008 04:46:00 PST

drive bys and the cusp of imminent loserdom

Saw the Drive By Truckers last week... on 2nd Street of all places. Who would have thought? I've never managed to see them before, so I was looking forward to it. I dosed up on Benadryl thinking my al...
Posted by tarnation on Tue, 13 May 2008 05:29:00 PST

japan is weird

The other night I was reading the online hentai dictionary which is a fun way to kill time. I find it amusing seeing things like bukkake defined in clinical, scholarly terms. I've discovered that no m...
Posted by tarnation on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:50:00 PST

the subconscious landscape of the band geek

This morning I was reading a fellow musician’s blog about a music related dream. Although I didn’t get all the local references, I could relate on a more universal level. Dreams are often ...
Posted by tarnation on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:46:00 PST

Heima: sweaters, sheep & art rock

Last weekend I saw the Sigur Rós documentary Heima at the local iMax. It’s probably not something I would normally have seen, but someone had an extra ticket. I’ve never been to an iMax sh...
Posted by tarnation on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:43:00 PST

tradgedy, comedy or news... your call

Eliot Spitzer:What this really says to me is that being a deuchebag transcends partisan boundaries. No ideology has a monopoly on creeps. Gender boundaries might be a different story, but I won't go i...
Posted by tarnation on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:30:00 PST

a beer in the life

I like to complain about work. Everyone does. It doesn't matter what you do. Many days I look at a beer the way a gynecologist looks at a hoo ha. I wonder if I'll have the capacity to ever fully enjoy...
Posted by tarnation on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:43:00 PST

clever thinking by the defense

You can't make this stuff up....______________________________Big breasts help actress to get conviction overturned:Actress Serena Kozakura's conviction for willful destruction of property has been ov...
Posted by tarnation on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:22:00 PST

country and ink, two of my favorite things

First.... Wayne Hancock at the Chameleon Club on Friday, March 14th. You've probably heard me say a million times (I know I'm notorious for repeating myself) that I could spend the rest of my life on ...
Posted by tarnation on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:01:00 PST