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About Me

A native of the Hudson Delta, J.J. Hayes was born and raised in around the former town of Castleton. His earliest musical memories are standing in the showers at the local pool after swimming lessons, or free swim, and joining in the endless group singing of Herman's Hermits "Henry VIII" over and over again. He also recalls in the mid to late sixties becoming aware at a very young age of the ephemeral nature of pop music. This led to his declaration to a friend as they walked from the aforesaid shower/lockerroom: "Yeah well look at your friends the Beatles, what ever happened to them, huh?" This pronouncement was greeted with silence that all similar oracles throughout history have received, followed by inevitable protestations of the speakers ignorance. Go figga. Hayes was approximately 12 miles away from Woodstock in boy scout camp and heard rumors that the Who were playing nearby. He lacked the guts to hike over to see what was happening, although he and the other scouts enjoyed a free run of the camp when all the counselors left to direct traffic. Putting aside his musical ambitions before they even actually arose- he learned over the course of decades to vaguely strum a guitar.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/30/2005
Influences: In no particular order: Albert Camus, Al Cooper (who doesn't know French) Thomas Merton, Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, JM in the AM, Soren Kierkegaard, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Harry Smith, THE GRAND PEPPER OF REALITY, Wil Wynn, A.D. Coleman, Marguerite Maria Rivas, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Therese of Lisieux, Michael Darby Hayes, Melanie Dawn Hayes, Bernard King, Dan Penta, Hearth, Toby Goodshank, Led Zeppelin, the Who, Hot Tuna, the Grateful Dead, Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Langston Hughes, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Carl Sagan, Karl Popper, John Dewey, Jean Shepherd, Vin Scelsa, the Clash, the Ramones, Hunter S. Thompson, Walker Percy, Greil Marcus, the Band, Staten Island, Manhattan, Karl Rahner, Hans Urs Balthasar, Mark Weinstein, the English Analytics, the European Existentialists, Nat Hentoff, Allison Steele, Jefferson Airplane, Joseph Spence, Melanie, Incredible String Band, Silly Wizard, Stephen King, this morning, last night, yesterday afternoon, yesterday morning, the day before yesterday and all preceding units of time.
Sounds Like: A bad Catholic at a time near the end of the world; an old guy sitting on a porch.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Grace

I was house and cat sitting in Brooklyn this week. I was sans cash, but Jeannie had provided me with two cans of chick peas and some spaghetti, that she had received from her mother...
Posted by J.J. Hayes on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:18:00 PST

Kitchen Sink I: Karl Rahner, Daniel Bernstein, Death (Is A Charm) and How a Patriot Acts

I am sitting on the stage at ETG taking part in the Richmond County Vortex Sutra, listening to Daniel Bernstein sing "Death is A Charm." It is too powerful for me to add any poetic ...
Posted by J.J. Hayes on Fri, 09 May 2008 10:51:00 PST

Let Us Agree

That on a given day as many people as possible draw hopscotch boards at random places, and that the rest of us agree to properly hop and skip on those boards if we happen upon them.
Posted by J.J. Hayes on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:28:00 PST

2012

My driver's license expires in 2012.
Posted by J.J. Hayes on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:57:00 PST

Wait A Second!

Gilligan's Island wasn't a desert island at all.How could I have missed that?
Posted by J.J. Hayes on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:38:00 PST

All I'm saying is

E.'s memory at 78 is failing. She gazes out the window and child-like is excited by the birdies, as they flock to a tree, fly away, fly back, or tussle over the pieces of morning rolls she has tossed ...
Posted by J.J. Hayes on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 05:56:00 PST

Calling Bertrand Russell

I typed the phrase "this phrase gets no hits on google" and I got no hits. But now that I've blogged this it should get hits, shouldn't it?
Posted by J.J. Hayes on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 05:16:00 PST

Theologians please note!

Your christology needs Camus Your mariology needs Sartre There's a reason Lourdes is in France you know.
Posted by J.J. Hayes on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:14:00 PST

Our Lady of the Absurd Part I

That there is something rather than nothing. That there could have been nothing rather than what is. That from the point of view of human reason even the fact of the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob,...
Posted by J.J. Hayes on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:13:00 PST

I Need A Mathematician

to confirm the validity of a metaphor. It involves an arc, Darwin, and the Fall, limited information, as if we sat and watched in quadrant I but were blinded by the Y-axis as to the path laid out...
Posted by J.J. Hayes on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:06:00 PST