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Brother James

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About Me

Musician, writer, film buff, love good books, sarcastic nut & trivia wiz. Good beer, Asian & Italian cuisine, '60s Mod and Maximum R&B - Yeah! Say it loud! I'm Red Irish and Proud! Picked my way through Ulysses for my senior thesis. Have been known to dance while intoxicated. I play guitar and sing in a little garage band called The Bug Nasties. I used to be a grungy kid when I played in Catbutt. Not no more. No siree. I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

60's culture, cult/foreign/classic films, record collecting, DJing, train rides, bike rides, spending money, vintage clothes, art exhibits, ethnic food, travel, rock shows, basketball, friendly debates, writing and playing music.

What The Who song are you?
You are The Who song: My Generation!!!
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You Belong in 1965
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1950 - 1959: You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in!

1960 - 1969: You are a free spirit with a huge heart. Love, peace, and happiness rule - oh, and drugs too.

1970 - 1979: Bold and brash, you take life by the horns. Whether you're partying or protesting, you give it your all!

1980 - 1989: Wild, over the top, and just a little bit cheesy. You're colorful at night - and successful during the day.

1990 - 1999: With you anything goes! You're grunge one day, ghetto fabulous the next. It's all good! What Year Do You Belong In?

I'd like to meet:

My maker, Booker T. Jones, Faye Dunaway, Diana Rigg, Jean-Luc Godard and all you crazy diamonds. I nearly met Nancy Sinatra and Paul Weller. I need to work on that.

Music:

60's soul, UK mod beat, garage rock, psych, 70's funk, 77 punk, etc. The Beatles, (Motown - Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Smokey and The Miracles, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Marvelettes, Martha and the Vandellas, Edwin Starr, The Velvelettes, Brenda Holloway, Mary Wells), James Brown, The Jam, (Stax - Otis Redding, Booker T. and the MG's, Johnnie Taylor, Sam and Dave, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, The Barkays, Issac Hayes, Jean Knight, The Dramatics), The Who, MC5, The Yardbirds, David Bowie, Spencer Davis Group, The Small Faces, Faces, Humble Pie, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Buzzcocks, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Kinks, The Easybeats, Shocking Blue, The Outsiders (Neatherlands), Q65, The Move, The Smoke, Lou Reed, The Clash, The Pogues, Husker Du, The Cynics, Billy Childish, and lots more. I got lots of records that take up lots of wall space.

Soul Brother #1 - RIP (1933-2006)

Movies:

So many to mention, so little time. Here's a few: 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, A Hard Day's Night, The Graduate, A Streetcar Named Desire, Bonnie and Clyde, Planet of the Apes (Charleton Heston), Solyent Green, Foxy Brown, Seven Samurai, 400 Blows, Woman in the Dunes, 2001 A Space Oddysey, Barbarella, Riot on Sunset Strip, Gimme Shelter, Wild In The Streets, Weekend, Nights of Cabiria, Spirits of the Dead, Rosemary's Baby, A Clockwork Orange, Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, Vertigo, The Trial, Alphaville, The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard, Kwaidan, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Treasure of Sierra Madre, Dracula AD '72.

Television:

All those crazy 60's sci-fi shows like Outer Limits, The Invaders, Lost in Space, Time Tunnel. Plus I still love old episodes of The Honeymooners. Jackie Gleason was the man! And any old clips of Ed Sullivan, I Dream of Jennie, Bewitched. I watched too much tube in the 70's, so I'm trying to ween off of it.

Books:

Authors: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, William Faulkner, W.B. Yeats, Flannery O'Conner, George Orwell, James Baldwin, Jean Toomer, Bram Stoker, Stephen Crane, Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Mellville, Emily Dickenson, Mark Twain, Ken Kesey, Ralph Ellison, Michael Foucault, Albert Camus, Ray Bradbury. Books: Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, W.B. Yeats Complete Poems, Invisible Man, 1984, Farenheit 451, The Plague, Moby Dick, Cain, Dracula, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, any good 60's rock bio.

Heroes:

John Lennon, George Harrison, Pete Townsend, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Cropper, James Brown, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Steve Marriott, Abby Hoffman, John Sinclair, Rob Tyner, Fred "Sonic" Smith, Martin Luther King, Paul Weller, Pete Shelley, David Bowie, John Huston, James Joyce, Albert Camus, Stanley Kubrick, Humphrey Bogart, and mom.

My Blog

Hangin' with G-Wolf

Hey kids,I am still hangin' in Japan. I had a wild encounter with none other than Guitar Wolf last Tuesday in Kyoto. I was hangin' with The Woggles and this great Japanese band Goggle-A. G-Wolf invite...
Posted by Brother James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Studio 66 - Love-Me-Nots & DJ Brother James

In early October I'll be spending the whole weekend with one of the best bands in the USA - The Love-Me-Nots from Phoenix, AZ!  Their 60's fuzz-guitar & farfisa organ sound is not to be ...
Posted by Brother James on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:17:00 PST

Last Guitar Wolf Interview

I don't know if it's the very last interview, but it's close. Less than three weeks before Billy died, I interviewed the guys at their Seattle show at Chop Suey for Tablet Magazine. I hope you dig t...
Posted by Brother James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hal Hartley

So Y'all know Hal Hartley, right? Maybe not. He directed Trust, Unbelievable Truth, Amateur & The Book of Life. Tonight in Seattle he is in town to promote his new film The Girl From Monday. It's ...
Posted by Brother James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Tokyo Typhoon

I am in Tokyo and I've been drowning in the torrential rain.  The worst typhoon since WWII is about to hit town.  I am holed up in my hotel room and playing on the internet.  Wow! ...
Posted by Brother James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Nancy Sinatra - Wow!

Like, I am stoked about seeing the one and only - Ms. Nancy Sinatra this weekend.  Lots of people love her old man.  Mr. Chairman of the Board and king of the old time swingers.  But for my money, his...
Posted by Brother James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST