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Jonathan

Jehovah's Witnesses should pick up trash when they're out walking around.

About Me

(((Click here to take a look at all of my photos))). About me:
SEE MY PHOTOS on Flickr and recent PHOTOS OF OUR MOTORCYCLE TOUR down across Vietnam. CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL OUR VIDEOS on YouTube of life in Japan, our travels in Vietnam, Bulgaria, Greece, Moscow, Turkey, Japan and more.
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Get this video and more at MySpace.comNot long ago, I found was walking with my then-betrothed from the monorail station. Across the street I saw the headstock of a Les Paul sticking up out of some trashed mattresses and assorted offal. The stench was awful. I ran across the street, right into veering grilles and headlights and laid a stranglehold to the neck of a funky old '78 Greco Les Paul Custom ripoff. Brought it home and launched in with discarded toothbrushes, used-up underwear, kerosene drippings, and emerged with a gleaming beauty: dubbed The Love Gun, she's 42lbs of raw faux Gibson. If you think about it--it all balances out: I lost The Norma--a very cool hollowbody ES335-shaped guitar that I found somewhere in Tumwater, WA back in the mid-90's for $7. When I took off for Japan, I must have lent, given, or sold it to somebody. You'd think a fella would remember something like that. You see, a man's guitar is like a fine pork sausage... no, wait. No it isn't. A man's guitar is like his first car (in my case a Sea-Foam Green 1962 Chevy Impala acquired in minty cond. for 160$)--wait. Hold it, I'm rambling.


My Interests

Engrish, Ringuistics, Prank Calling, Concert Taping, Archival sounds, fixing stuff, taking stuff apart to see how it work(ed), Amateur Radio [I'm alternately known as KC7FYS (US) 7J1AWL (Japan)

I'd like to meet:

Pete Seeger, Neil Young, Fred Rogers, Robert Crumb ---------and my grandfather, Harry G. Haynes.

Music:

Bluegrass, Oldtime, Doo-Wop, Punk, Hardcore, Gospel, Lo-fi, weirdness, The Smothers Brothers

Movies:

Pulp Fiction, Music Man, Mr. Saturday Night, Wizard of Oz, Paint Your Wagon, The Sound of Music, My Life as a Dog

Television:

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Looney Toons, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Gilligan's Island, Hogan's Heroes, The Brady Bunch, Andy Griffith, The Twilight Zone, The Spud Goodman Show, Hammy The Hamster, Tom Teriffic

Books:

I keep saying I don't read much, but I do read. I just don't take much to fiction unless it's Flannery O'Connor. I love survival stories and biographies. I recently have really enjoyed WW2 stuff. I love to read owner's manuals for radios and other equipment. I take that back. I read a lot, but I joke that I don't read. I tend toward thinner books with larger print and pictures, however.

Heroes:

Pete Seeger, Fred Rogers, Jake Hyer, Neil Young, ...and Ted Nugent for reasons I can't explain. Oh, also Mrs. Stokesberry, the Special Ed teacher at Lambert Elementary School in Manchester, Iowa. I once overheard her say, "Kids! Settle down! You remember our motto: 'Be nice.'" That made a big impression on my whole family, I'd say.

My Blog

Apache (Improved Audio 2008)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Burpv0ZM9gw ...
Posted by Jonathan on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:42:00 PST

A Twill Revolution

1. I love... my darling wife Sarah who is quite bulbous with a wildchild at this moment.2. Right now I want... something crunchy and spicy for lunc...
Posted by Jonathan on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:34:00 PST

Its the Jehovahs Witnesses!

So on Saturday I was in the side room there, sorting through a box of wires and stuff, looking for a plug thingy or something--and I heard Sarah say, "I'm not getting it. It's them." I hadn't heard th...
Posted by Jonathan on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:13:00 PST

Gone with the hogshead, cask and demijohn!

So I'm taking this amateur radio test that Grandpa and Mom both took years ago--Mom about 15 years ago, and Grandpa something like 60 or more years ago. Things have changed a lot on the test, but the...
Posted by Jonathan on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:11:00 PST

I went to Sicko the other day.

Sarah and I stumbled into Michael Moore's newest film the other day, "Sicko." Michael Moore--I might as well not bother after saying his name. He's such a buffoon who manages to louse up everything he...
Posted by Jonathan on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:06:00 PST

September Morning

When I put my hand on Sarah's baby-belly and wait--there's inevitably a kick, roll, shove, karate chop... something big. That's exciting, and weird. I mean, you'd think, "Well, if you're doing all tha...
Posted by Jonathan on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:04:00 PST

"No Anchovies, Please"

So it's penultimate night here in The States. I'm crashing on my buddy Jake's couch, loving American life, feeling free, and the crazy thought strikes me: "I'm here in the Ol' USA. I'm gonna order me ...
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:10:00 PST

A Blast of Hot Llama Vomit

It's been a mellow time back in the US. I found out I don't have a lot to do in Minneapolis/St. Paul anymore. I have been out of town long enough that there are no loose ends to speak of, and I stay i...
Posted by Jonathan on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:28:00 PST

Post-Traumatic-Data-Loss-Stress-Disorder

(The contents of this blog are sort of leaning heavily toward the geek in me, so less geeky geeks be forewarned.)I was talking to one of the teachers this morning, and he told of his data loss woes. S...
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:49:00 PST

The Greatest Dead-End Job I've Ever Loved

Let's face it, I'm in a dead-end job. No prospects for advancement; that's just built out of it.Assistant-teaching at a girls' high school outside Tokyo. I'm a contracted worker, hired to be on-site a...
Posted by Jonathan on Thu, 31 May 2007 11:39:00 PST