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jerichothedrifter

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Married 17 years to a great woman who's the love of my life.I play guitar with about 3 or 4 country bands around Central TX...that's after my time in a psychotic-sounding speedmetal band, a drunk-punk band and a revved-up roots-rock outfit. Things change.

My Interests

Telecasters, pre-1980 American iron, obsolete electronic junk, American history, political drama, various ephemera, flotsam and jetsam of pop cultureguitars and gear, I can talk all night...

I'd like to meet:

Umm, people who don't bore the ever-lovin bejesus out of me? What th' hell kind of question is that, anyway?

Music:

Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Hank Williams, George Jones, Buck Owens, Wynn Stewart, Bob Wills, Milton Brown, Howard Roberts, Charlie Christian, Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Waylon Jennings, Nine Pound Hammer, Reigning Sound, Detroit Cobras, fuzzed-out 60s garage rock in general, Booker T and the MG's, the Mar-Keys, James Brown, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Dwight Yoakam, Faron Young, Johnny Paycheck, I could go on and on..but you probably get the idea

Movies:

Directors, not movies:Don Siegel Sam Peckinpah Sam Fuller Phil Karlsson Welles H. G. Lewis George Romero Billy Wilder Fritz Langguys like that

Television:

Law & Order (all flavors), Curb Your Enthusiasm, fucking History Channel, Cops, Simpsons, Rockford Files, Dragnet

Books:

Jim Thompson, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Raymond Chandler, the incomporable Dashiell Hammett, Joe R. Lansdale, Carl Hiaasen, Arthur Miller, Kerouac, Mencken, tons of other stuff

Heroes:

I try not to have any

My Blog

Back up on the horse

Good thing I had an easy day today, because I feel like crap.  Nothing like a lazy 4 day weekend to sap your will to go back to work.  Today was the equivalent of a glass of flat room-t...
Posted by jerichothedrifter on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:10:00 PST

"Murder Can Hurt You"

Let me 'splain. Awhile back I was looking on IMDb to find out if Buck Owens had any other TV credits other than Hee Haw and a couple of other music shows.  Turns out he was in a TV movie in '80 o...
Posted by jerichothedrifter on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:40:00 PST

101 Things Removed From The Human Body

Watched that with my better half last night.  Oh.  My.  God. All of these people survived. 1) Pocketknife between the middle of the eyes, all the way up to the shank and embedded in the...
Posted by jerichothedrifter on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:28:00 PST

Heh heh

I seldom have a customer that I have a problem with.  Most of the people I see day in and day out, I get along with pretty well, actually.  But there's one design firm that I have to go to n...
Posted by jerichothedrifter on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:46:00 PST

Why is it not Friday yet???

So first thing yesterday I go to deliver a storage cabinet.  They're big, but they're only 111 pounds, so it's not such a big deal.  I get it off the truck and get it by one end with my doll...
Posted by jerichothedrifter on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:15:00 PST

Adventures in catland, part I

I say "part I" because I'm sure there'll be part II, III and IV soon enough. We're still sleepin with the AC on and the door shut, so our bedroom is a no-cat zone.  But last night we decided to p...
Posted by jerichothedrifter on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:59:00 PST

"All I want is to enter my house justified"

That's a quote from Sam Peckinpah's Ride The High Country (1962).  I had it DVR'd and watched it after I got back from last night's gig.  How did I not see this movie before now? Joel McRae...
Posted by jerichothedrifter on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:44:00 PST

"I AM NOT GAY!!"

  Suuuuure you're not, Sen. Craig. But you gotta admit, it looks kinda bad.  See, here's the thing, I don't care if somebody's gay or not, and there are gonna be gay senators just like ther...
Posted by jerichothedrifter on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:50:00 PST

Man, do I hate classic rock

Not all of it.  I still love my Sabbath, Who, Stones, Deep Purple,  Thin Lizzy, CCR (one of the best bands ever), Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Zeppelin and a whole lot of other stuff.&nb...
Posted by jerichothedrifter on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:22:00 PST

Do-gooder neighbors, and my visit from the authorities

So I spent the early part of yesterday afternoon draining the pool and cleaning it out, then filling it back up again.  It rained so much in July that it overflowed the pool a couple of times, wa...
Posted by jerichothedrifter on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:14:00 PST