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John

we need a light on top to chase the planes away, but the birds can stay forever

About Me

really bad at analogies

My Interests

drums, skateboarding, chess, photography, dinosaurs, psychology, phenomenology, koestler, painting, drawing, astronomy, the collective unconscious, slang, physics, lucha libre masks

I'd like to meet:

Drumbo, George Martin, Jack Ashford, and Mike Burnett from Thrasher magazine

Music:

Falken's Maze, Man Factory, Tha Bracelets, Mermaid Police, Poison Control Center, Patience Please, Lazer, The Beatles, CigaR, Aloha, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Dave Brubeck, the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, anything James Jamerson played on, the Hellions, the Locust, Dillinger Escape Plan, RKL (with Bomber on drums), Fvgazi, Bella Lea, Vandals, Hagfish, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Stones, Primus, Weezer (blue & Pinkerton), Quasi, Sing the Body Electric, Ozma, Devo, King Crimson, Brahman, Death By Stereo, The Police, Goon Moon, Mahavishnu Orchestra, New Age Steppers, The Mars Volta, QOTSA, Minor Threat, Captain Beefheart, Interpol, the Who, Black fuckin' Flag, T. Rex, Led Zeppelin, the Advantage, Only Crime, Nerve Agents, Kinsella projects, The Stooges, Cex, Air, David Bowie, The Misfits, NOFX, Fantomas, GWAR, Entombed, Slayer, the Undoing of David Wright, Faceless Werewolves, Record Hop, Future Boy,

Movies:

Kill Bill, Ed Wood, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Reservoir Dogs, Donnie Darko, SLC Punk, Mallrats, Predator, The Big Lebowski, This Is Spinal Tap, A League of Their Own, The Crawling Eye, House of Wax (the Vincent Price one!), Almost Famous, Good Night & Good Luck, Fiends Without a Face, AVP, Pirates of the Carribean, Love Actually, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Sandlot, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, RKL: Still Flailing After All These Beers, Lightning Bolt: The Power of Salad, Fvgazi: Instrument, Jimi Plays Monterrey

Television:

Freaks & Geeks, Conan, Heroes, NY Rangers games

Books:

Destroying Yourself is Too Accessible, Bobby Fischer Goes To War, Junky, Perfume, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Jurassic Park, Johnny Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, John Bonham: A Thunder of Drums

Heroes:


The Tempster, Ian MacKaye, Liam Wilson, Jeff Herr, Bobby Fischer (before he went totally schizo)

My Blog

Tour update II

I am sitting here on the 4th floor at the massive Salt Lake City Public Library, with a few minutes left on my internet session.  This library is seriously insane, (read about it h...
Posted by John on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:15:00 PST

tour blog

I am writing from mr. Joe Terry's basement in Des Moines, Iowa.  The tour has been going pretty well so far, lots of cold weather but we've been seeing more sunlight than when we first left. ...
Posted by John on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:03:00 PST

Languages

I just got in last night from 10 days in Europe, which was very incredible (I might detail it and all of the various Euro-barges that I encountered later).  It made me realize the power of knowin...
Posted by John on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:18:00 PST

Song meanings

I'm driving my dad's suburban for the week, which has Sirius satellite radio in it.  I was listening to Howard Stern today and caught a rad segment where they were talking about song meanings.&nb...
Posted by John on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:19:00 PST

The midwest is pretty rad...

Tonight was the night you have to expect at least once on a diy tour... the night you play to the other band and the bartender.  But, other than that it's been pretty rad so I'll focus on the pos...
Posted by John on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:34:00 PST

ISOSAM/Tvs.S Outta control in San Antonio

Last night It Smells of Sex & Mannequins and Thorn vs. Side pounded San Antonio into submission.  Not really but we played a fun show and had a fun trip.  I think both bands lost money o...
Posted by John on Tue, 16 May 2006 09:12:00 PST

We too get hungry

Recording with Stuart Sikes is incredible.  He's amazing.  Super fun and really straight shootin'.  Mike's music is really great, he and Aaron rip.  I hit things.
Posted by John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Practice Shenanigans

So tonight was Skin Trade rehearsal, and during the last song of the night, I saw this roach crawl out of the corner and run towards the center of the room, really fast as roaches do.  So as I'm ...
Posted by John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST