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ModernJim

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My Interests

History, especially the American Revolutionary War and WWII, 1940's & 50's vintage clothes, Kustom Kulture & low brow art, Polish culture, progressive politics, animal rights.

I'd like to meet:

A sneak peek into cleanup time at our house:By special request for my son:

Music:

The first album I ever bought with my own money was a Chuck Berry greatest hits collection; since then, it's been Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Stray Cats, Polecats, Buzz & the Flyers, Blue Suede Bombers, Tombs Tones, Stargazers, Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, Susquehana Industrial Tool & Die Co., Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, Indigo Swing, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy,The Clash, Dead Kennedys (the one with Jello), Subhumans, Billy Bragg, The Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Roger Miret & the Disasters, Social Distortion, X, Meteors, Guana Batz, The Quakes, Amazing Royal Crowns (still Loyal to the Royal), Horrorpops, Nekromantix, Kings of Nuthin', sea chanteys, Tom Waits, Hank Williams, Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, George Jones, Johnny Cash, Bill Monroe, Madness, English Beat, The Selecter, The Busters, Pietasters, The Tossers, Redskins, Steve Earle, Jack Rabbit Slim.

Movies:

Avalon, Taxi Driver, 1776, A Bridge Too Far, Dolemite, Twelve Angry Men, Inherit the Wind, The Story of G.I. Joe, Ball of Fire, The Glenn Miller Story, The Hudsucker Proxy, Tucker, A Clockwork Orange, Anchorman, Talledega Nights, Pulp Fiction, Brassed Off.

Television:

Scrubs, The Daily Show. Whatever became of Dave Attel's "Insomniac"?

Books:

Any history, politics or other non-fiction. Currently reading _The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution_ by Barnet Schecter.

Heroes:

US service members and their families, Eugene V. Debs, Lech Walesa, Casimir Pulaski, Joe Strummer.