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jason

I hate Illinois nazis

About Me


Hey sickos. I'm Jason Potter. Sometimes I'm "donny dont". Mostly I'm just bored.
I'm an art director at an advertising agency in St. Louis. I make, eat, live, breathe, and sleep rock posters. You can see the art/poster/other stuff I've made at imadethisstuff.com .
I play the drums. Mostly in LEFT ARM . Also, I'm developing my one man band, Leeroy "Tubby" Tubman .Kelly and I have an amazing little girl named Katie. We play.
You might know me from such films as:
garagepunk.com
my youtube.com vids
Left Arm
Shows (I hope) I'm going to if you wanna stalk me:
[08/27] The Detroit Cobras at Creepy Crawl
[09/05] Riverboat Gamblers / Valient Thorr at Creepy Crawl
[09/24] CoCoComa / The Hipshakes / Left Arm at Way Out Club
E-mail me here or at southbentonjason at yahoo dot com
AIM me: southbentonjason
Check it out! A video of Left Arm in LO-FI SAINT LOUIS !

My Interests

st. louis, chicago, memphis, edwardsville, smarties candy, social responsibility, ignoring people, ford tempos, soccer, sleeping, drinking, silence, girls, fishnet stockings, making shitty people mad, things that are dirty, things that make no sense, things most people don't like, falling down, bruises, nipples, art, food, farts, talking, motorboating, making fun of people, complaining, listening to people complain, working, painting, gearhead, crypt, alive, estrus, in the red, goner, booking bands, making fun of crappy bands, driving fast and fighting

I'd like to meet:

other freedom haters

Music:

This week: Left Arm, New Bomb Turks, The King Khan & BBQ Show, Lost Sounds, The Cripplers, Skulltime, Reigning Sound, The Hellacopters

Fav St. Louis bands: Operation Rock, SkareKrau Radio, Kentucky Knife Fight, Benedict Arnold, Long John Thomas and the Duffs, The Vultures, The Gentleman Callers, Ded Bugs, B&E, The Vickroids, Dana Anderson and Flatwheel, The Conformists, Bunnygrunt, Sex Robots, Dear Calamity, Thee Dirty South, Jesse Irwin, Ghost In Light, The Hail Marys, Bitch Slap Barbie, The Humanoids, The Monads

Movies:

Back to the Future, The Wedding Singer, SLC Punk, 24 Hour Party People, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, Mickey Blue Eyes, Tommy Boy, Jawbreaker, Josie and the Pussycats, Mars Attacks!, Shaun of the Dead, Brazil, Stranger Than Fiction

Television:

I really don't watch much TV. I hate bad commercials but...DVR has changed my (TV viewing) life! The Office, Futurama, How I Met Your Mother, My Name Is Earl, $40 A Day, Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels, King of the Hill, King of Queens, The Apprentice, The Class, Real World, Rock of Love, Pimp My Ride, (some stuff on) FUSE, most anything on the History Channel, IMF, IFC, or the Documentary Channel

Books:

1984, Please Kill Me, Brave New World, Animal Farm.I read a ton of magazines like Razorcake, MRR, Horizontal Action, Skyscraper, Archive, HOW, Communication Arts, Swindle, Tape Op, Flaunt, WAD, Anthem, Rolling Stone, Copper Press, Seventeen, etc.

Heroes:

Art Chantry, Jay Ryan, Andy Mueller, Eduardo Recife, Alexander Rodchenko, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Sullivan, Charles and Ray Eames, Alexander Calder, Winston Smith, Tara McPherson, Jim Diamond, Jack White, Jack Black, Christreater, Richard Serra, Geoff McFetridge, Scrojo, Fernando Botero, Guy Burwell, Gary Baseman, Jeff Soto, Lonny Unitus, Jesse LeDoux, Izzy Stradlin, Kieth Moon, Gene Krupa, Tre Cool, Bill Stevenson, Buddy Rich, Brooks Wackerman, Phil Rudd, Chris Slade (hey, he played on "Razor's Edge"!), drummers that play (less than or equal to) a 4-piece drum set

My Blog

Listen to my TIRC podcast!

Check it out, my first podcast - TIRC (Trouble In River City) Episode 3 - is now online ans ready for you to put it on and crank that shit up! In general I'm going to try to highlight St. Louis' fines...
Posted by jason on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:19:00 PST

I won't stop until you're dead

Tonight I: - Got to hang out with dear friends I hardly ever get to see anymore - Worked on and finished my first podcast ever - Farted - Played with k8epo - Went for a walk - Saw my first falli...
Posted by jason on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:34:00 PST

What's made Milwaukee famous

Hasn't exactly made a loser out of me...but...KPo and I went to Milwaukee for a little weekend trip a few weeks ago. Nice city. Absolutely insane drivers. Some cool things. St. Louis is better :) Thou...
Posted by jason on Wed, 09 May 2007 08:39:00 PST

You think I'm fat, but its an optical illusion

How many Turbonegro lines can I use as blog titles?! A whole bunch!Went to DeKalb with Jamie last night to see our beloved Riverboat Gamblers. Damn they good! Best RBG show I've seen in a while. Sound...
Posted by jason on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:54:00 PST

Vote on your favorite new LEFT ARM t-shirt design!

Hey everybody, we need your help. I'm getting ready to run some brand new LEFT ARM t-shirts and we need your help deciding which design to use. I may end up doing a second design in the near future, b...
Posted by jason on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:15:00 PST

My new years resolution

It's taken me a few days, but I've finally decided on something good. It's not losing weight. I'm a fat kid and there's not a thing eating crackers all day long is going to do to change that. So, what...
Posted by jason on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:45:00 PST

Jimmy Buffet, I think I love you. But, I wanna know for sure.

Well, I survived my first week at my new job. I love it! The first job they put me on was to do a poster for a Jimmy Buffet concert. Do I like Jimmy Buffet? Um, no. Would I rather make a concert poste...
Posted by jason on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:45:00 PST

Do these wooly mammoth underdrawers make me look fat?

I was born without that thing in your brain that tells you, "um, that's ridiculous - don't do that." So, here's me and super home made He-Man halloween costume at the Jim & Kristi's party Saturday nig...
Posted by jason on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:27:00 PST

Hey, here's an awesome idea!

Why doesn't everyone just set their stupid myspace profiles to PRIVATE thereby negating the whole purpose of putting our lame asses on the internet. Also, let's all set our profile pictures to some 50...
Posted by jason on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:25:00 PST

Gonerfest 3

Ok, so here it is! I've finally gotten around to posting a blog about Gonerfest 3...so totally amazing. Another great trip to Memphis - we had a killer time. It goes like this:** DAY 1 **Starting off ...
Posted by jason on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:28:00 PST