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Jason James Johnson

About Me

Jason James Johnson is a Surrealist Folk-Superhero who was born elsewhere. He is a multi-instrumentalist and wandering minstrel; a circus freak that can sometimes see into your soul. His artistic accomplishments range from live theatre and California poetry zines to television puppetry and video game theme songs. And though Jason can play anything that resembles a piano or a saxophone, his instruments of choice are the accordion and the resonator guitar. Just listen to what former Vice President Dick Cheney has to say about him: "Jason's Post-Revolutionary music just totally BLOWS MY MIND."

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 01/04/2007
Band Website: You're on it.
Influences: the moon & tahini and sometimes insects
Sounds Like: Wait A Minute:

Me an' the Shovelman bangin' out something...

At the Technomania Circus:

Record Label: unsigned, all songs ™ & © Jason James 2007

My Blog

the task of the artist

From Henry Miller's, "Tropic Of Cancer"When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos about him an order which is his own, ...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:51:00 GMT

Maybe

Maybe the Mayans were wrong, and we're merely here living in the middle of a deep-thinking raindrop who has the conscious ability to designate it's own velocity. Meaning this: Our sense of Time, our t...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:36:00 GMT

A few days ago

COSTA RICAN HILLBILLY PIG-FRYwail and whistleright into the microphoneeat boiled bananas & yuccatry not to look like you’re watching the16-year-old girlsin bikinis in the riverdon’t st...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:03:00 GMT

New Song

I posted a new song. It is important to note that the lyrics are not mine, but everything else is. The song, "Benedict," was written for the Devils to sing to the birthday boy at an Angels/Devils part...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:39:00 GMT

Mountain Face

So, in the mountains around the lake here, there is a well-formed, Mayan man's face. He's lying down. It is quite surprising to behold every day, and I find myself wondering what it must be like for t...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:47:00 GMT

Rumi

Written in the 1200s by Rumi, this poem elucidates so clearly what I feel every day.Who Says Words With My Mouth?All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I ...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:23:00 GMT

El Mayor

I knew because I'd kept up on it -though incorrectly for some time- that Guatemala's president would be inaugurated soon. I had become aware also, that the following day would bring a coronation of Sa...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:05:00 GMT