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John

Rock 'n Roll hustle, all the time. And now I know baby, I got mine.

About Me


My Interests

In no particular order...Art, Music, Surfing, Foreign and Arthouse Films, My Goddaughters, Monkey knife-fighting, Guitars, Women with Accents, Tattoos, Imported Beer, My Band and My Bandmates, Facial Hair, Domestic Beer, Contemporary Art, Video Installation Art, Performance Art, Happy Hour, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Music Performance, Music Production, Singing, Comic books, Dancing, Kareoke, Art Museums and Galleries, Legos, Black T-shirts, Belt Buckles, Brass Knuckles, Tennis Shoes, Fresh-from-the-dryer Wife-Beaters, Interesting Smells, Writing, Road trips, Beaches, People Watching, Power Tools, The Local Art scene, Reality TV, Local Music, Texas and being Texan, Conversation, Pretty Girls, Yard Work, Bar-B-Q'ing, Grafitti, Time Travel, Cheap Tequila, Frisbee Golf, Jazz Music, Film-making, Graphic Design, Playing Guitar, Songwriting, Good Handwriting, NPR, Garage Sales, Thrift-Shopping, Flea Markets, Corpus Christi and Being Awesome.

Music:

Al Green, Ambulance Ltd., Art Brut, The Burden Brothers, The Black Keys, The Beta Band, The Bad Plus, Bobby Bare Jr., Bob Schneider, Beck, Badly Drawn Boy, Bob Marley, Calexico, Cee-Lo, The Clash, Coldplay, Color Me Badd, Coop, Damien Rice, The Dandy Warhols, Dave Brubeck, De La Soul, Death Cab for Cutie, The Drive By Truckers, The Evernauts, Ella Fitzgerald, The Eels, The Fiery Furnaces, The Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, The Faint, The French Kicks Garage a Trois, Gnarls Barkley, Grupo Fantasma, G Love and Special Sauce, Handsome Boy Modeling School, The Hives, Hot Hot Heat, Imperial Teen, Iron and Wine, Jamaroqui, John Coltrane, Jack Johnson, The Jinx, Jeff Buckley, John Mayer, Johnny Cash, Justin Timberlake, Kasabian, The Kaiser Cheifs, The Kings of Leon, The Killers, The Kinks, Louis XIV, Led Zeppelin, Lucinda Williams, Le Tigre, Loretta Lynn, Manu Chao, My Education, Mazzy Star, Mirah, Modest Mouse, Michael Jackson, Motorhead, Miles Davis, M Ward, Murder City Devils Nick Drake, Night Hour, Outkast, Owsley, Portishead, Probot, The Pixies, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Phantom Planet, Queen, Queens of the Stoneage, Radiohead, The Ravonettes, Reel Big Fish, Red Hot CHili Peppers, Reverand Horton Heat, The Rolling Stones, Sahara Hot Nights, Spoon, Scissor Sisters, The Shins, Snoop, Sparta, The Specials, Sublime, The Strokes, The Secret Machines, Ted Leo and the Pharmicists, The Toadies, Tenacious D, Tom Waits, The Von Bondies, Toots and the Maytals, The Walkmen, Weezer, The White Stripes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Zutons and of course...Black Market Revival

Check out my Band!

Movies:

The Legend of Billie Jean

Television:

LOST, The Office (UK edition), The News, Lucha Libre, Sabado Gigante, The Price is Right (The Bob Barker Years), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Adult Swim

Books:

100 Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Stranger, The Sun Also Rises, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Hobbit, The Phantom Tollbooth, Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing, High Fidelity, Long Way Down, The Worst Case Scenario Handbook

Heroes:

Frank Black, Vaden Todd Lewis, Caleb Fallowill, Mom and Dad

My Blog

Its Bizness time...

As you may or may not know, I've always secretly wanted to be a gangsta rapper.  Obviously I lack street cred and I only seem to be able to freestyle when I'm under the influence, which may not a...
Posted by John on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:44:00 PST

On Songwriting and Drowning

The thing about writing music is that I always start off with good intentions. I start out simple enough, putting together a few chords and a couple of simple lyrics.  I arrange notes and syllab...
Posted by John on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:42:00 PST

The truth about bad luck...

I don't believe in bad luck because bad luck is inevitable. You can be certain that bad things will happen to you in this lifetime. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. What I DO believe...
Posted by John on Thu, 22 May 2008 06:44:00 PST

Litmus test.

She sat there effortlessly, immersed in her day old newspaper while I awkwardly positioned myself in a seat nearby.  I knew good and well that there were many interesting arti...
Posted by John on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:34:00 PST

A night out at a mexican restaurant...

The restaurant is filled with its usual Friday night crowd.  Not that I would know, I've never actually hung out here on a Friday night or any other night for that matter, but I assume this is ho...
Posted by John on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:44:00 PST

Gangster.

(Okay, I was bored at work)   I'm fresh dressed, feeling like a million bucks. I wear my favorite blue jeans with my favorite black chucks. Shine the buckle on my belt, I'm getting ready to ride....
Posted by John on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:21:00 PST

How to become a social pariah

You know I have to say, my life has improved considerably since I moved to Austin.  Anyone who knew even half of what I was going through in Corpus can probably understand why.  It makes me feel bad t...
Posted by John on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:41:00 PST

I had a dream...

"What the fuck is going on?" I thought, as I hastily examined my surroundings.  It was early morning in the spring time of 1985 in Corpus Christi, Texas.  I knew this because ...
Posted by John on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:53:00 PST

An excercise in observation.

I saw a woman crying today at work.  It's not altogether surprising for me to witness a wide range of human emotions during the course of my work day.  My office is set in a twenty story bul...
Posted by John on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:07:00 PST

Sink or Swim

I hung up the phone in a panic, not because I was frightened of who was on the line or because I was surprised at what she said, but because I really couldn't bare to talk about it anymore.&...
Posted by John on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:43:00 PST