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Jimmy Tumors

revolution for the hell of it, ese....

About Me

Current Razorcake staffer/curmudgeon, documentary filmmaker, writer, OG East Side Punker, former Flipside staffer, former Pure Filth staffer, former ELAC Campus News staffer, former CSUN student, former ELAC student, former AHAS/A7AS student, former Peace & Justice Center roof drinker, former singer for The Ramrods/Plastica/Jimbo and the Bimbos, former guitarist for Human Retch/Six Gun Justice/Butt Acne/The Looters (ELA)/Blank Generation/Plain Agony/Pink Freud/Boneheads of Death/Our Band Sucks/Secret Agents/Ollin/Black Jax/Tumors.

My Interests

music, film, making noise, art, staring at stucco walls for prolonged periods of time.

I'd like to meet:

anyone who isn't a total menso.

Music:

First propers reserved for any East L.A. punk band that ever plugged into an amplifier and raised a ruckus. After that, much respect to the following: Aceyalone, Acid Reign, Adolescents, Aesop Rock, Agent Orange, Alien Sex Fiend, All, Alton Ellis, Andres Huesca, Angelic Upstarts, Angelite, Angry Samoans, Anti, Anti-Nowhere League, Aretha Franklin, Articles of Faith, Atoxxxico, Avengers, Aztlan Underground, Bad Brains, Bad Manners, Battalion of Saints, Bauhaus, Beastie Boys, BellRays, Benny Goodman, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Boys, Big Black, Big Joe Turner, Billie Holiday, Birthday Party, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Blitz, Blues Experiment, Bob Mould, Briefs, Busdriver, Buzzcocks, Cafe Tacuba, Career Suicide, Cawibe, Channel 3, Charles Bronson, Charles Brown, Charlie Parker, Cheap Trick, Christian Death, Chuck Berry, Circle Jerks, Circle One, Clash, Cockney Rejects, Cocksparrer, Cocteau Twins, Condemned 84, Conflict (Tucson), Contortions, Cows, Cuco Sanchez, Cypress Hill, D.O.A., Dave Brubeck, Dead Boys, Dead Can Dance, Dead Kennedys, Dead Prez, Descendents, Desmond Dekker, Dickies, Die Kreuzen, Dimension Costena, Direct Control, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Don Tosti, Dos Minutos, Dr. Octagon, Effigies, Einsturzende Neubauten, Fishbone, Flesh Eaters, Flipper, 4 Skins, 45 Grave, Freestyle Fellowship, Funkadelic, Fuzzbox, Generation X, Germs, Government Issue, Gravediggaz, Gravedigger V, Haiku d'Etat, Hank Williams Sr., Howlin' Wolf, Hieroglyphics, Husker Du, Ice Cube, Immortal Technique, Infections, J.S. Bach, Jane's Addiction, Jimmy Cliff, Jesus Lizard, Jodie Foster's Army, Jurassic 5, Kaaos, KRS-One, Lalo Guerrero, Latin Playboys, Leatherface, Leela James, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Lino Chavez, Little Richard, Loli and the Chones, Lord Creator, Los Ass Draggers, Los Crudos, Los Lobos, Los Tigres del Norte, Louie Prima, Louis Jordan, Love, Lush, Manson Youth, Mayhem, MC5, MDC, Media Blitz, Mentally Ill, Mighty Sphincter, Ministry, Minutemen, Misfits, Modern Lovers, Mongo Santamaria, Monitor, Motorhead, Muddy Waters, Muffs, My Bloody Valentine, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Naked Raygun, New York Dolls, No Slogan, Old Time Relijun, Out Cold, Ozomatli, Pandoras, Parliament, Patti Smith, Patsy Cline, Pere Ubu, Peter & the Test Tube Babies, Plugz, Public Enemy, Queen, Ramones, Red Cross/Redd Kross, Regulations, Rip Offs, Rose Tattoo, Runaways, Run-DMC, Samhain, Savage Republic, Scenic, Scratch Acid, Selecter, Sequentia, 76% Uncertain, Sex Gang Children, Sham 69, Shattered Faith, Sin 34, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Skinny Puppy, Slayer, Smogtown, Solucion Mortal, Sonic Youth, Stains, Spontaneous Disgust, Stains, Subhumans, Suburban Lawns, Sugar, Suicide, Teen Idles, The Bags, The Brat, The Coup, The Dicks, The Diffs, The Eyes, Thee Headcoats/Thee Mighty Caesars, Thee Midniters, Thee Undertakers, The Jam, The Nerves, The Saints, The Sweet, The Untouchables (both LA and DC), Thelonius Monk, Tijuana No!, Toots and the Maytals, Top Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs, Toxic Reasons, Toy Dolls, Trans Am, Trio Bulgarka, TSOL, Urinals/100 Flowers, Vaticans, Velvet Underground, Void, Voivod, Wall of Voodoo, Weirdos, William Byrd, X, X-Ray Spex, Yeska, Youth Brigade, Zero Boys, Zeros

Movies:

Les Diabolique, Night of the Hunter, Evil Dead, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Godfather flicks, anything by Lubitsch, Chaplin, Sergio Leone, Billy Wilder, Lynch, Godzilla (quite possibly the greatest actor the world has ever seen), Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Guillermo Arriaga, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Inarritu, WC Fields, Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Bogart, Cheech and Chong and others I presently don't feel like typing in.

Television:

...was a band from new york.

Books:

They Called Me King Tiger, Revolt of the Cockroach People, Occupied America, Going Underground, and, of course, the little engine that could.

Heroes:

Joaquin Murrieta, Reies Lopez Tijerina, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Tiburcio Vasquez, and Soupy Sales.

My Blog

Eastside Punks Invade the Inland Empire

saturday night's "vexing" opening was a hoot -- nothing like being crammed into an art gallery with 600 other souls paying homage to the women of the vex tribe of east los punkers. was also nice seein...
Posted by Jimmy Tumors on Mon, 19 May 2008 06:35:00 PST

more fun with spam!

Is Mollusk So Execrable Is mollusk so execrableAs morning, with sewage and vasectomy?No.Ever is the districtI bangle as grandma,As the wilderness,The river,The meaningIs on extensiveUnrealityTo condi...
Posted by Jimmy Tumors on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:30:00 PST

Fun With Spam

Somnambulance To sleepWith so northern an investment, My lens, That baptismal of the urbane, So quasi-particle, So centigrade.   Do begin.   Hick belittles The Semite it waylaid ...
Posted by Jimmy Tumors on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:40:00 PST

my first podcast

last month razorcake started podcasting on their site and todd was nice enough to ask if i wanted to contribute one. being the music freak i am, i readily accepted. here’s the link if anyone is ...
Posted by Jimmy Tumors on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:09:00 PST

east l.a. punk film

for those that may not know, some friends and i are filming an east l.a. punk documentary that, when finished, will cover its history from the 70s to the present. we’ve got some live footage and...
Posted by Jimmy Tumors on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:50:00 PST

r.i.p. mike conley

it's already shaping up to be a bad year for old punkers....al from suburban voice forwarded this info in a post. for those not in the know, mike conley was the singer of M.I.A., a Las Vegas-to-Orange...
Posted by Jimmy Tumors on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:29:00 PST

yeah, i know....

i've made my distaste for most contemporary ska bands well known, but this is a good fuggin' tune, and the fact they was/is local l.a. boys only makes it that cooler...  ...
Posted by Jimmy Tumors on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:37:00 PST

ahh, u-gene’s

one of the nice things about youtube is you can always find a little something there to surprise you. case in point: i'm snooping around there and not only do i find some footage of the electric ferre...
Posted by Jimmy Tumors on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:39:00 PST

crappy rap made me think too much.....

although i love all types of music (you got some dope ass gamelan? turn that shit up! rock that klezmer, homie!) , the two genres i frequent most are punk rock and hip hop. i could ramble on about why...
Posted by Jimmy Tumors on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:30:00 PST

ahh, youth

from the reviews section of maximum rocknroll issue 31, dec. 1985:VOA - "Voice of Authority"/BUTT ACNE - "Butt-Core" cassetteVOA kick out 17 songs that at times come off as simplistic and, in certain ...
Posted by Jimmy Tumors on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:08:00 PST