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Jasper the 1st

Is Santa really in ZZ top?

About Me

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My Interests

Old cars, buicks and chryslers mainly. My own car - 1953 Chevy. I like reading, playing guitar, playing double bass, mandolin, joined me first psychobilly band when I was 15 and never looked back, well maybe once or twice. I like girls who don't depend on the help of photoshop to be attractive - it comes from within kids! I teach a lot of guitar students, a few double bass students, play country/jazz/rockabilly and study audio engineering. Fun times.

Music:

Flatt & Scruggs, The Big O, the Sharp, New Grass Revival, the Cruel Sea, the Meteors, Alison Krauss - Union Station, King Kurt, the Rev Horton Heat, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Merle Travis, Carl Perkins, Los Straitjackets, Mondo Rock, Demented are Go, the Quakes, Big & Rich, Brian Setzer, SixftHick, KD Lang, Crowded House, Split Enz, Merle Haggard, the Paladins, the Nervous Wreckers, Bob Log 111, Crazy Joe Tritschler, Keith Urban, Chris Isaak, Hank Williams, Hank 111, Nick Cave, Morrissey/Smiths, ZZ Top, David Allen Coe, New York Dolls, the Detonators, Bill Monroe, Deke Dickerson, TISM, those Legendary Shack Shakers, the Beasts of Bourbon, Brad Paisley, Jerry Douglas, Keith Urban, Tex Perkins, Royal Crown Revue, Robert Gordon, Tom Waits, Darrel Higham, the Fireballs, the Living End, Bruce Springsteen, the Stray Cats, Adam and the Ants..hmm it gets like that.

Movies:

Blues Bros, Snatch, Lock Stock, Jailhouse Rock, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Young Einstein, Two Hands.

Books:

Tarantula - Bob Dylan, To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee, Paper Paradise - Glenn Wheatley

My Blog

And on the seventh day he was arrested

Great I just deleted the opening line of this blog a bunch of times, not knowing what to write. Now you poor sods gotta read this bitter representation of an introduction. I'm tired, I just gave mysel...
Posted by Jasper the 1st on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:10:00 PST

5 am

Heya kids, how you all doin. Thought I should post a blog because no one has looked at my myspace in 3 days, not that it matters. I really should commend you all for actually having a life. God I've...
Posted by Jasper the 1st on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:41:00 PST

January 5 - 06

Today has to be on record as the most bad luck day of my life. In note form I will summarise the days events: 1) woke up, hung over with messages of people pissed off at me waking them up by drunken t...
Posted by Jasper the 1st on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:21:00 PST

crazy parents

Just had a huge fight with the folks, the kind that make you wish you could just bludgeon them with a frying pan, but not have to worry about the consequences. It all started with my car, I went out t...
Posted by Jasper the 1st on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:20:00 PST

My dream last nite

From my dream what I remember is this. I was in a large group of people crossing the desert. Very BC style with the roman sandles and what not. We were all very hungry, and while we were crossing a s...
Posted by Jasper the 1st on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 04:21:00 PST

Billy Thorpe

It's 1am folks, I feel greasy, like I should be ordered buy a drunk guy at 3 am on his way home to try sneak into bed without waking up the missus. It's a bummer, really. That modern age makes it so e...
Posted by Jasper the 1st on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 06:06:00 PST

but it feels that way

I don't reeealy wanna tell you this but I will... Sometimes I  feel feel heaps bad about myself after a night at the pub. I mean I go there with some form of dignity and the view of finding my fu...
Posted by Jasper the 1st on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 06:13:00 PST