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Jay

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About Me

Older. Wiser. Balder. Thinner. Grayer. Healthier. Happier. I run No Effort Productions and I book (mostly) all ages shows in Los Angeles. Hit me up if you are coming to town. I believe Dio era-Sabbath to be superior, and don't care if you agree with me or not.

My Interests

Music (making it, listening to it, talking about it, etc), zombie movies, indie/foreign films, working out, radio stations on the left end of the dial, the girl, coffee and lots of it, politics, Americana, booking shows, 90's DIY, things that are lime flavored, mythology and folklore, MMA, my band Ready the Jet, and Jonathan Silverman.

I'd like to meet:

Old friends, new friends, good bands, bad bands made up of good people...

Music:

Fugazi, Pink Floyd, Elvis Costello, The Descendents, The Clash, Jawbreaker, The Smiths, Iron Maiden, Devo, Husker Du, Black Sabbath, Jawbox, R.E.M., Slayer, The Police, Danzig & The Misfits, Clutch, Avail, anything Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon, etc), J Church, Black Flag, Neurosis, Op Ivy, Bad Brains, Unwound, Samiam, ISIS, Lifetime, Lucero, Municipal Waste, Hot Water Music, Fifteen, Born Against, Limbeck, Tom Petty, 108, Alkaline Trio, Opeth, Social Distortion, Quicksand, Bad Religion, and so on and so forth... .

Movies:

The Day the Earth Stood Still, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Flash Gordon, all the "Living Dead" Romero flicks, Shaun of the Dead, anything Gamera, Blade Runner, Better off Dead, Repo Man, Brain Candy, The Big Lebowski, Harold and Maude, Fantastic Planet, Annie Hall, Amelie, Night on Earth, The Graduate.

Television:

Original Twilight Zone, Kids in the Hall, Lost, and The Golden Girls.

Books:

I have and will continue to enjoy the works of such folks as Nick Hornby, Oscar Wilde, Henry Rollins, Leon Trotsky, Maile Meloy, Che Guevara, Robert Graysmith, Michael Moore, HP Lovecraft, Aaron Cometbus, Noam Chomsky, and so on...

Heroes:

My Dad. And Ian MacKaye.

My Blog

No Effort Productions Update!

This weekend has been quite significant on a couple different levels. First, on Friday I went to Kinko's and made some flyers for all my upcoming shows. It was my first time making flyers in Kinko's s...
Posted by Jay on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:03:00 PST

No Effort Productions swings into action this summer!

Some time ago I mentioned that I was ready to get back into the booking game. Well, that time is now I am thrilled to be able to announce my first two shows!All shows will be at the Alternknit Lo...
Posted by Jay on Wed, 21 May 2008 10:47:00 PST

The New England Metal and Hardcore Festival 2008.

This was my third year heading out to Worcester, Massachusetts for the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival. Now in its tenth year, the festival is at the Palladium in downtown Worcester and is boo...
Posted by Jay on Tue, 06 May 2008 02:57:00 PST

Are you a punk rock band looking for a show in Los Angeles?

    After a 7 year hiatus from booking shows, I am back in biz as of June! Looks like I will be doing some stuff at the Alternknit Lounge in the Knitting Factory in Hollywood. Looking t...
Posted by Jay on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:52:00 PST

Punk Rock Photos and Flyers Round 2

Check them out! I added 10 new flyers and 35 new photos today. One more massive update to come in a few weeks maybe. I still have a TON of stuff that isn't up, hard as it is to believe. Enjoy the trip...
Posted by Jay on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:28:00 PST

A really long story of a time long, long ago...like the mid 90s.

Heading into the summer of 1993, life was looking rosy. We had managed to get a new DIY space open in North Windham, Studio 158, and both of my bands were firing on all cylinders. I was assimilating n...
Posted by Jay on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:15:00 PST

Punk Rock Photos & Flyers

As some of you may have noticed, I have begun putting up tons of old punk rock photos and flyers in a photo album here on My Space. It's something I have been meaning to do for some time now, but over...
Posted by Jay on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:46:00 PST

Holy crap, I think I found a candidate!

OK, some or most or none of you might know that in the past I've been a pretty political oriented fellow. I worked pretty mightily on campaigns from high school through college, in fact my degree is i...
Posted by Jay on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:10:00 PST

Top 10 of 2007

OK, I don't think there are any more significant releases coming out this year so it's that time once again! Time for the my Top 10 of 2007. The rules are-no greatest hits albums, no reissues, no sing...
Posted by Jay on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:28:00 PST

Giving Up the Ghost

I am no longer a Yankees fan. It's not that Boston won the World Series. I mean, no doubt that sucks and it gives much ammo to people who need it least, but that's really the whole reason right there....
Posted by Jay on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:57:00 PST