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About Me

writer, D.J., and social throwback. I have a "real" job , but my passions are writing and digging good music, on disc or in the flesh. I know 3 chords at most and we haven't spoken for a while, so I am content to listen and let the real guys do it. I play their records on my show, "Radio Americain" on KABF 88.3 FM every Friday afternoon 1-3. We're online at kabf883.com too.I love music. Jazz, blues, rockabilly, country before it became crap, mambo/rumba/Afro Cuban, and good ol' Cajun two step. Also a big Tom Waits fan. My favorite jazz is the early bebop stuff, cats who came up through swing but had this new sound in their heads and hearts. Kansas City in the heyday was one scene I'd like to have made, man.

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My Interests

music, books, writing, and hangin' around with like-minded folks.

I'd like to meet:

Most of the folks I really want to meet are dead, but hell, that ain't gonna stop me from diggin' 'em.

Music:

Hank Sr, Bird, Big Joe Turner, Robert Johnson, the whole Kansas City scene, the birth of bebop in New York's joints, Mississippi juke joints and dance halls.

Movies:

yes I have read the book, too

Television:

Dragnet, Batman:The Animated Series, and The Honeymooners. Family Guy and the old seasons of The Simpsons, with Phil Hartman.

Books:

Bukowski (prose and poetry), Hemingway, Fitzgerald; noir masters Hammett, Chandler, Jim Thompson, James M Cain, James Ellroy and even a bit of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. Raymond Carver's short fiction, Steinbeck, John Fante, "Motel Life" by Willy Vlautin, Dr Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats. whew, a mouthful. Recently hepped to Nelson Algren and William Saroyan, too.

Heroes:

Frankie Miller. A vet of the old honky tonk circuit who is a fine friend to a young guy like me. Guys who fought in WW2...and Bettie Page. She stirred the blood of Eisenhower-era America like no-one else. At least the guys ;)

My Blog

one more new one

one from the archives. I'm not so sure of anything anymore. If you are, enjoy it. Jack &nbs...
Posted by ol Jack on Sat, 03 May 2008 08:56:00 PST

lyrics

okay, here's the thing...I haven't written a song in years...I gave up the silly idea of me playing rhythm guitar a while back, but the ideas for hillbilly songs still hit sometimes. To get an idea of...
Posted by ol Jack on Sat, 03 May 2008 08:50:00 PST

poem from old US 52

diesel smoke projector oil and sweat the constant hum ...
Posted by ol Jack on Fri, 02 May 2008 02:28:00 PST

part one of more bar fiction

Luther and I hadn't seen each other in a week when the phone rang. "Hey Jack, how you holdin' up?" he asked. My old man had just died and things were rough to say the least."I've been better, pal, jus...
Posted by ol Jack on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:33:00 PST

new poem 2

final wisdom from Apt 209I prob'ly won't bein theseroomsmuch longerthe dollars just aren't thereso one moreset of wordsat this deskwith the tir...
Posted by ol Jack on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:13:00 PST

new poem 1

gone 2-1-08it's timetohit the Roadall the reasonsto stayare dyingor urgingme to goI lay on my bedin ...
Posted by ol Jack on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:10:00 PST

more prose, beginning of a series?

Dirty Rotten Jobs ...
Posted by ol Jack on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:31:00 PST

some bar prose...not the best

I sat on the inside because I had the bigger bladder. Sure, I was the biggest of the three of us, it stood to reason I could go longer between leaks. At least Luther saw it that way, and hell, I didn'...
Posted by ol Jack on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:42:00 PST

one from the note book

early watch blues 1-3-08 it's early in the &...
Posted by ol Jack on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:32:00 PST

anxious poem of road dreams

the road waits with open black arms 12-29-07almost two hours wandering the aisles of a chain bookstore tie flapping seeking out the words of the dead but which onetheir voices mix with the...
Posted by ol Jack on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:12:00 PST