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JSJ

Chicago's Finest Rock.

About Me

You may tell them whatever you like.

My Interests

It.

I'd like to meet:

Two Of Us, The Deccas, Styx.

Music:

Meco.

Movies:

Clueless.

Television:

An inexpensive babysitter.

Books:

Cat Speak by Bash Dibra.

Heroes:

Mostly cats.

My Blog

My big day!

It was a day just like any other. Nothing to separate it from the one before.   Or so I thought.   Had I not logged into MySpace, I'd have never noticed the magic milestone, the coveted and ...
Posted by JSJ on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:03:00 PST

In memory of a dear friend

I awoke this morning to a MySpace message alerting me to the very sudden loss of a much beloved friend (to leukemia). I don't know that many of you knew her, but Evie (Evette Carrano) was one of the s...
Posted by JSJ on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:45:00 PST

"MARLON!?!?!?!?"

I remember sitting backstage at some awful venue in Bedford (seemingly the arsehole of the UK - though I hadn't yet been to other places like...well, you get the point) nearly a decade ago at the anti...
Posted by JSJ on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:19:00 PST

Lets talk about the boy.

JB is 2 years and nearly 3 months old now.He is - as his age would dictate - the perfect combination of stubborn/rebellious/increasingly autonomous and 100% ADORABLE.You can't even begin to imagine th...
Posted by JSJ on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:30:00 PST

Steve

We went Monday night. In the pouring rain. It was pissing down.Outdoor venue.After a half hour, the great man himself came out onstage and announced that we were all going to have to come back the fol...
Posted by JSJ on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:22:00 PST

I got tagged, and now you can too.

  So my friend Sarah tagged me with this blog. Not my "bag", necessarily - but I like Sarah, and it seems a bit churlish not to cooperate.   There's bound to be rules: 1. We have to po...
Posted by JSJ on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:04:00 PST

Oh, I like music, me!

(Yeah, Eric tagged me with this. I'll burn his fucking house down.)Total number of records I own on CD (or vinyl or cassette): How on earth should I know? A shitload! You may be shocked to discover t...
Posted by JSJ on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:18:00 PST

Jim

I once had a friend named Jim. He took his own life around ten years ago. That really sucked. But...we learn to let go. Today I thought of him for the most random reason - I drove past a Maxwell Stre...
Posted by JSJ on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:37:00 PST

"I can't wait to get stoned and watch Tom Petty..."

CHICAGO GOT TEEPEED   Had someone told me in the summer of 2001 that I would someday see the then "hottest" band on the planet, and that I would find them dull as dishwater, I'd have been skeptic...
Posted by JSJ on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:38:00 PST

PLEASE. AGAIN PLEASE!!

(The following was recently found taped to the inside door of the basement/office of my workplace. All punctuation and style - underlining, capitalisation, etc. - have remained true to the author's/ar...
Posted by JSJ on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:33:00 PST