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Jonny Champagne

The Best lack all conviction, while the Worst are full of passionate intensity. - Yeats

About Me

i have too many shirts. i like twangy music. chances are, i'll lie to you.

My Interests

your mom, used clothes, record albums, vintage motorcycles

I'd like to meet:

Elvis Steve McQueen Ava Gardner Willie Nelson Tom Waits Evel Knievel Neal Cassady Eddie Van Halen Jack Bauer Cooley! Neko Case Sinatra Jack White Chasey Lain Chris Whitley Paul Westerberg your mom

Music:

Neko Case, The White Stripes, Tom Waits, Whiskeytown, Led Zeppelin, Willie Nelson, Rolling Stones, Chris Whitley, WEEN, buck owens, the drive-by truckers, Replacements, Scud Mountain Boys, the doors, "Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space," Swervedriver, dinah washington, Social D, GBV, GBH, tragically Hip, Chris Isaak, Uncle Tupelo, Old 97s, tool, Blind Melon, Soundgarden, "Love Spreads," Miles, Ella, Fear & Faith, Merle Haggard, Hall & Oates, DBT, Uncle Joe's Big Ol' Driver, your mom

Movies:

Wild At Heart The Lion in Winter Smokey and the Bandit City of God O Brother Where Art Thou? Logan's Run Easy Rider The Sweet Hereafter Cannonball Run The Girl Can't Help It The Killers Diary of a Mad Housewife Lord of the Rings To Have and Have Not Tonite Let's All Make Love in London your mom

Television:

Jeopardy, Turner Classic Movies, Flight of the Conchords, 24, Simpsons reruns, Fox Soccer Channel, Ugly betty, your mom

Books:

Tropic of Capricorn, The Sun Also Rises, Blood Meridian, Cold Days in Clichy, plainsong, All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers, Cat's Cradle, The Stand, American Tabloid, Skinny Legs & All, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Into Thin Air, anything w/ pictures, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, VAlley of the Dolls, your mom

Heroes:

Jack Bauer, jack White, Jack Flash, The Bandit (as in "Smokey and the ...), my cat, your mom

My Blog

Whatever happened to Chris Cornell?

I got an idea of something we can do with a gunSink load and fire till the empireReaps what theyve sownShoot shoot shoot till their minds are openShoot shoot shoot till their eyes are closedPush push ...
Posted by Jonny Champagne on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:40:00 PST

Thirty Years.

Wow. Long time. I still remember that day, thirty years ago. Dennis Vosler & I rode up his driveway on our BMX bikes (mine had shock absorbers). School was out; it was the middle of summer and I w...
Posted by Jonny Champagne on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:30:00 PST

Wilco Doesn't suck, after all

Holy crap, that new record's pretty good. Maybe Tweedy's not a Pussy, after all ...
Posted by Jonny Champagne on Wed, 23 May 2007 12:56:00 PST

Tragically Hip article in New York Press

I wrote a Pre on the Hip's shows at Irving Plaza, which was published recently in the New York Press. Check it here: http://www.nypress.com/20/16/music/Music3.cfm...
Posted by Jonny Champagne on Thu, 17 May 2007 01:47:00 PST

Van Halen Rock n Roll Hall of Fame

   Van Halen brought me to tears -- again, for the first time in a very long time -- last night.    Wire reports about the whole Van Halen/DLR falling out, Eddie's-going-to-rehab ...
Posted by Jonny Champagne on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:24:00 PST

amazing macheen

this machine rocks.
Posted by Jonny Champagne on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:28:00 PST

you people suck.

you people suck.
Posted by Jonny Champagne on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:08:00 PST