Jefferson

I'd like to meet:

Pretty good for now...but shoot me a message if you like. I might respond on one of the rare occassions I actually open this thing.

Music:

This is a long one....hold your breath if you really want to know...

You'll notice...if you are still reading...that I listen to a ton of really eclectic styles of music. For my attitudes and ideas about music...and a lot of other parts of life though...you only need to know that I did a lot of my growing up in the parking lots, small dirty all-ages joints, and back alleys of the hardcore punk scene....so punk is always a special thing for me above all others...read Greg Graffin's Punk Manifesto if you get time....got it in a blog right here...brhc.

Modern Stuff:
This is really just a sampler....the actual list is WAY longer....Gobblehoof, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Husker Du, Body Count, Soulfly, System of a Down, Bad Religion, Minor Threat, Dropkick Murphys, Fugazi, 1000 Homo DJs, The Buzzcocks, The Damned, Automatics, Mastadon, Bad Brains, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, Napalm Death, Skindred, Deftones, Soul Brains, Strung Out, Sacred Reich, Audioslave, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, In Winter, Enigma, Infectious Grooves, Enya, Poe, US3, Macy Gray, Dido, Devil Driver, Fantomas, Fu Manchu, Fireball Ministry, Sasquatch, The Mars Volta, My Ruin, Reel Big Fish, Tomahawk, Bauhaus, Underoath, Lockjaw, Killswitch Engage, Cradle of Filth, Sisters of Mercy, Portishead, Christian Death, Ani Defranco, Jack Off Jill, Anti-Flag, Tori Amos, Primus, Sage Francis, At The Drive In, The Urge, Scapegoat Wax, The Melvins, Possesed, Kyuss, Clutch, Speed Dealer, Tad, Dredg, Tool, A Perfect Circle, King's X, 24-7 Spyz, Killing Joke, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Sarah Mclaughlin, The Sex Pistols, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Blue October, Killswitch Engage, Corrosion of Conformity, Kittie, Social Distortion, Jesus and the Mary Chain, The Ramones, The Exploited, Siouxsie Sioux, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Nina Hagen, Wendy O Williams, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Bikini Kill, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Crucifux, Living Color, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Sister Machine Gun, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Flogging Molly, Blaggard, The Toadies, Eric Johnson, Enigma, The Dead Kennedys, Lard, Agnostic Front, Meshugah, Dream Theater, Jesus and The Mary Chain, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Nitzer Ebb, Pigface, The Cro Mags, KMFDM, Wumpscut, Prodigy, NIN, Electric Hellfire Club, Switchblade Symphony, Jimmy Eat World, Sick of It All, TSOL, The Wait, GBH, Sublime, Portishead, Rage Against The Machine, Bob Marley, The White Stripes, Discharge, Northside Kings, Misfits, Samhain, Danzig, The Cramps, Suicidal Tendencies, Atheist, Judas Preist, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Ministry, Skinny Puppy,The Rent Boys, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Napalm Death, Nitzer Ebb, Korn, The Scaries, Samhain, Revend Horton Heat, The Subhumans, Crass, The Germs, The Beastie Buys, Front 242, Nashville Pussy, Squarepusher, Manneheim Steamroller, Sodom, Coroner, Kreator, Black Flag, Switchblade Symphony, Black Rebel Motocycle Club, Delirium, The Cramps, Type O Negative, Alabama Thunderpussy, The Descendants, Deicide, NOFX, The Distillers, Death, Obituary, GBH, Discharge, Iron Maiden, Sepultura, Sacred Reich, Hank Williams III, old Metallica, Slayer, Testament, Exodus, Megadeth, Anthrax, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam, Buzzcocks, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Jesus Lizard, Janes Addiction, The Genitorturers, Kitty, Blue Man Group, HIM...sad...I know, ...and Pantera - R.I.P.

Older stuff:
Again....just a sampler....Black Sabbath, Ivan Rebroff, John Coltraine, George Washington, Miles davis, Thelonius Monk, Jaco Pastorius, Carlos Santana, Wagner...he was a facist bastard I know....just the music, Tchaikovsky, Moussorgsky, Genesis, Beethoven, Mozart, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Cream, Pink Floyd, Blue Oyster Cult, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tom T Hall, C W McCall, The MC5, Iron Butterfly, Carlos Santana, C W McCall, Led Zepplin, Gloria Gainer, Devo, Men at Work, Blue Cheer, Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Jefferson Airlplane, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Neil Young, Louis Armstrong, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Hawkwind, Tygers of Pan Tang, Diamondhead, Budgie, Led Zepplin, Etta James, Kiss, Johnny Cash, The Moody Blues, Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Simon and Garfunkel, The Mommas and The Poppas, Roger Miller, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Sr, B B King, Bob Marley, Paliament Funkadelic, Earth Wind & Fire, The Ventures, The Tornados, Dick Dale, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, Z Z Top.

Local + Regional Bands:This one is the nearest to my heart....Misanthrope, Insanetuary, Chizel, K-Flux, Horseshoes and Handgrenades, The Anteeks, Echelon, Judge Genius, 3 Ring Circus, Delta Crutch, Nogood Boyo, Mr. Jivebucket & The Pegleg Groove, Exhorder, Acid Bath, Agents of Oblivion, Dead Boy and The Elephant Men, 68 Rouge, Gangsta Folk, Amos Moses, The Joel Cooper Rock Show, The Cam Pyle Band, Debbie Landry, Stompin' Ground, Catholicon, Merriweather, Maven, Mona Lisa Grind, Hate's Grace, The Headless Marines, Distant Silence, Chaos Horde, Mutant Speed, Crucial Change, Catch 22, Thoughtcrime, The Droogz, Dead Horse, The Scaries, God Drives A Galaxy, The American Tragedy, Near Life Experience, Two Banger, Jot, Swoon, No Fuego, The Shack Daddies, The Bromaines, Anna Byers, Emily Branton, Krank, The Zen Bastards, The Slugs, Crowbar, Shell Shock, Woodenhorse, The Shit Dogs, Master Sleestak and the Power Crystals, After Shock, Dissent, Poor Harvey, Breakout, The Kenmores, Project 146, Zenbilly, Tribal Dissent, Southern Whiskey Rebellion, Goatwhore, Soilent Green, Torrent Vaccine, Chemosabe, King's Square, Kali Yuga, 9 Slug, Tabu, Demonium, Black Market Halos, 4 Mag Nitrous, New Sky Black, Faceplant, Billy Goat, Section 8, Righteous Buddha, Beer Pressure, Last Chance Dave, Stressball, Consortium of Genius.

Stuff that makes me laugh:
Weird Al Yankovic, Dr. Demento, Monty Python, Tom Lehrer, Arlo Guthrie, George Carlin, Joe Dolce, Barnes & Barnes (wrote "Fisheads" baby...as in "Fuck'em and feed 'em..."), The Firm, Freddie Blassie, The Chipmunks...yeah bitch...I said it....the shit is f'n funny, and whoever wrote the song about the trucker who eats the Martian French Fries and trips out....that shit is hilarious....if you know the song I mean PLEASE send me a message...need a copy of that...

Guitarists:
3:55am wakeup from post-post-gig-crash-and-burn and we have badass hurricane ..2 for us this season hitting right now...and I've got some time so here goes....a few at least....

Johnny Trosclair (RIP 1982-2003), Steve Albritton, Shelley Plaizance, Paul Catledge, Jimmy Alt, drew Solin, Cory Butler, Cam Pyle, Russell Seal, Chris Leblanc, Brad Van Oss, Jett, Vinnie Labella, Jay Ceravello, Anna Byars, Paul Johnson, The Bo, Frank Blackfire, Dave Mustaine, CHris Poland, Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman, Gry Holt, Chris Hunolt, Chuck Schuldiner (RIP), David Gilmour, Toni Iommi, Billy Gibbons, Carlos Santana, Kirk Hammet, James Hetfield, Eric Clapton, Brian Setzer, Erik Braunn, Neil Young, Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughn, Andres Segovia, Tim Aaron and , J Mascis, Bob Mould, Mike McReady, George Washington, Alex Skolnic, Jeff Young, B B King, Thomas Vetterli, George Lynch, Steve Jones, Greg Ginn, Fast Eddie Clark...there's a starter....getting tired again now...

Bassists:
Stuff Knowledge, Johnny Wilson, Marc Eliiot, Ryan Roy, Jim Fairchild, Patrick Johnson, Cliff Burton, Geezer Butler, Mike B, Stanley Clark, Jack Bruce, Ron Royce, Roger Waters, Victor Wooten, Jaco Pastorius, Lemme Kilmeister, Sid Vicious...

Singers:
Keegan Macy, Kelli Herrod, Sam Terito, Greg Graffin, Raymundo Castillo, Johnny Constant, Dave Spicer, Scott Parker, Angelina Tautz, Paul Johnson, Slim/Pidg/Skyze/Trell from Tabu, Emily Branton, More to come sooner or later...

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Movies:

Individual Movies = The Professional, Falling Down, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, Educated Horses, Shawn of The Dead, AI, Naked Lunch, Brazil, Moulon Rouge, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Hamlet, Troy, The Notebook, Silent Running, Blade Runner, A Boy and His Dog,Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon, 1984, Harold and Maude, A Clockwork Orange, Wild at Heart, The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle, Bad News, More Bad News, Love and a .45, Leaving Las Vegas, Barfly, Out of Africa, The Secret of Nihm, Fight Club, Braveheart, True Romance, The Wall, Heathers, Second Hand Lions, Dangerous Liasions, Caligula, Eraser Head, Repo Man, The Crow, Grosse Pointe Blank, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Gone With The Wind, Apocalypse Now, 2001, 2010, Stargate, Fiddler on The Roof, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk Til Dawn, Blue Velvet, The Shining, Impromtu, 4 Rooms, Slackers, My Own Private Idaho, Schindler's List, The Misfits, Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Dr. Strangelove, Enemy at The Gates, Blazing Saddles, Underworld, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead, Decline of Western Civilization Part One, Rebel Without A Cause, This is Spinal Tap, Heavy Metal, The Wall, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, The Usual Suspects, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shawshank Redemtion, The Green Mile, The Breakfast CLub, and Saving Private Ryan.
I also enjoy a lot of foreign films...The color of Paradise, City of God, and others. Definitely reach out past Hollywood if you want to be moved...
Series = Road Warrior, Star Wars, Lord of The Rings, Star Trek, Matrix, The Godfather, Dr. Doolittle, Alien.
Directors = anything by Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Kevin Smith, George Lucas, or Quentin Tarantino.
Soundtracks = anything by Danny Elfman or John Williams.
Anything with Sean Connery or Patrick Stewart in it.
....and this as well.

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Television:

The idiot box....the electronic friend...kill your television...
Television is such a dichotomous thing...it can bring information...or cause vegetation....provide entertainment....or frustrate. Mainly I despise reality television...and Fox News. But I don't watch much else either really...I prefer my wife, my dogs, my band, my friends...and television definitley can rot your brain....while poisoning your social skills at the same time....what a great one two punch that is....although I did work tech support at Cox Communications ...primarily internet and voip telephony support though (not anymore - Huzzah!!!). Pretty amusing, actually. When I do watch, it is news, documentaries, and non-fiction programming mostly, CNN, PBS, Science, History, Discovery, Animal Planet, DIY, channels like those. I have also watched fuse on occassion....and I did used to dig on a few shows like The X-Files, The Young Ones, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Buffy, Angel, and MST3K...but nothing intelligent or truly entertaining can last too long on TV.
Special Note:
MTV gets the big 1 finger salute....worst fucking thing that ever happened to music. Suck a dick. Corporate prefabber fucks using money to suffocate art for greed. Fuck you and eat your fishheads...

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Books:

Read, Read, Read, Read More and Read, Read, Read....find the time when you can....fuck the idiot box....ignore it as much as possible...or take in a good documentary....science show....something that feeds your intellect or your emotions....but mainly read.
Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them - Al Franken
From "Nueromancer" by William Gibson:
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. Below is Night City, a 'deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button'. You will find a lot of the origins of ideas most people know only from newer Science Fiction in there...including everyone's favorite alternate cyber-reality, "The Matrix"...check it out...
I like a lot of specific works of fiction or philosophy....many of which are heavily message-oriented such as Cyber Punk, Nueromancer, A Scanner Darkly, Animal Farm, Watership Down, Alas Babylon, Lord of The Flies, Dune, The Stand, 1984, Where The Wild Things Are, Lord Jim, The Canteburry Tales, A Clockwork Orange, Arabian Nights, God Of Small Things, The Dark Half, The Scream, Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka, Heart of Darkness, A Modest Proposal, The World That Jones Made, Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Better Times Than These to name just a very, very few.
I also read a great deal of social commentaries as well as politcal and scientific non-fiction.....The Poverty of Philosophy, The Communist Manifesto, The Kama Sutra, Beyond Good and Evil...altogether an eclectic mix.
As far as entire bodies of work by specific authors are concerned I like pretty much anything written by the following geniuses and freaks...among others.
Henry David Thoreau, Phillip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Frederick Pohl, Edgar Allen Poe, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, H. R. R. Tolkien, Mary Shelly, Michael Moorcock, Stephen Hawkings, Carl Sagan, Johnathon Swift, Lord Byron, Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Aldous Huxley, Dr. Suess, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Stanislaw Lem, Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Adams, Franz Kafka, William Gibson, Emily Dickinson, Willam Shakespeare, Ernest Hemmingway, Anias Nin, most of the classical philosophers, and any and all of the authors who wrote for the Sanctuary series....like I said before...among others...
Oh yeah...and never forget...
"Flying is easy. All you have to do is throw yourself at the ground and miss."
- Douglas adams, from Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy.
Let's not forget COMIC BOOKS and the creative geniuses who make the best of them...like John Byrne, Frank Miller, Wendy Pini, Howard Chaykin, gotta mention Stan Lee, and so many others....Love a lot of classics like old Daredevil, X-Men (esp. Age of Apocalypse, the graphic novels, and the Wolverine miniseries), Alpha Flight, Iron Man, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, Spider Man...and even more lesser known and independent books like Warlock, American Flagg, E-Man, grimjack, John Sable Freelance, Iron Wolf, Cody Starbuck, Hellboy, Painkiller, Crossgen, Witchblade, The Darkness, TMNT when it was a cool book instead of a bad kids show, Cynical Man, Tank Girl, Elfquest, Spawn, New and Golden age Captain America (yes really...).
I also especially love graphic novels like Ronin, Batman - The Dark Knight Returns and The Dark night strikes again, Elric of Melnibone, Magneto - Rogue Nation, and others.

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Heroes:

Todd Jarrett, Jerry Miculek, Doug Koenig, Rob Leatham, Bill Wilson, Ed Brown, Jeff Cooper, etc...

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