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About Me

I'm a scorpio. Despite devilish ways, I try to use my powers for good. I love to learn new things and travel. Traveling keeps me sane. And less evil. And I am a musician, not typical, but be forewarned...still a good man. I used to write educational children's songs. That was subversive and fun. I tune pianos for money. My dream is to travel through South America by motorcycle. Was part of the only American rock group to tour Paraguay and rode through the jungles there. I also want to create some lasting works of art that express my views on love, loss, hope, and spirituality. i don't take myself too seriously as society falls apart. I'm currently touring with my group The Summer Wardrobe. I also play guitar with Roky Erickson on occasion. ..

My Interests

electricity, music, vintage motorcycles, cryptozoology, EVP, diy electronics, coast-to-coast, mexican and russian history, coffee, pianos and organs, guitars. tuning pianos in cuba

I'd like to meet:

insomniacs, mensa candidates, music buffs. someone that plays the piano? big plus if you ride a motorbike or scooter. i like writers, artists, painters, ect....creative people in general.

Music:

sun kil moon, gene clark, the Three O'Clock, brian jonestown massacre, mbv, janissary music, wilco, 13th floor elevators, cajun, dancehall, mehter music, interpol, brian eno, mojave 3, glen campbell, kool keith, gold chains, scott walker, eric satie, burt bacharach, love-forever changes, THE SUMMER WARDROBE

Movies:

aguirre:the wrath of god, bye-bye brazil, historical documentaries, amores perros, anything by warner herzog, rockers, third world cop. the harder they come, bring me the head of alfredo garcia, the cockfighter, payday, two lane blacktop, anything with klaus kinski, and lately, a beautiful mind

Television:

ch 3 or six feet under

Books:

conquest of new spain, autobiography of malcolm x, phone calls from the dead, cosmic trigger, grapes of wrath, outcry in the barrio, the killer angels

Heroes:

art bell, clarence white, rainer maria rilke, vincent van gogh, zora neale hurston, abraham lincoln, bill wilson, roky erickson, hildegard of bingen, william blake, alan lomax

My Blog

Playing guitar with Roky Erickson

Some of you that know me will know that this has been a dream of mine since I was a wee teenager. I've been playing guitar now for 30 years, but I must say that the last week of gigs with Roky were a ...
Posted by jonny on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:59:00 PST

Frightening quote from H.L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)On July 26, 1920, the acerbic and cranky scribe wrote in The Baltimore Sun:" . . . all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre the man wh...
Posted by jonny on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:09:00 PST

Renaissance Throwdown

Michelangelo or Leonardo? Which one is your favorite? I'll wiegh in for Michelangelo in a bit...
Posted by jonny on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:31:00 PST

Southern Death Culture on the Skids

I received a strange phone call today. As some of you know, my parents had a fit of paranoia about my youthful life style and purchased a grave for me in Baton Rouge. They had good reason at the time....
Posted by jonny on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:39:00 PST

The Falun Gong Show.

Feng Shaobao, who was crazy for "Falun Gong," had illusions. He considered a small racoon pasted on a mirror by his daughter as a demon, and tore it off. He used an abrasive paper to rub his daughter'...
Posted by jonny on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:12:00 PST

A new telling of the country standard "Teddy Bear".

here's my latest....a cold war re-telling of "teddy bear", recited by a soviet cosmonaut. It would be called "stalin koba", or "little bear of steel".a russian cosmonaut communicates with a wheelchair...
Posted by jonny on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:54:00 PST

Stolen cell phones and veiled threats

James had his cell phone stolen out of his car this afternoon. A few hours later he received a call at his home.... "Brah, tell your friend he need to stop writin bout George on the internets". Click....
Posted by jonny on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:37:00 PST

Stabbing Investigation Outline

Here's a brief outline of the events that transpired in the lead-up and aftermath of the Baton Rouge stabbing... 1. At 19 years of age, George P. begins dealing cocaine and marijuana in Baton Rouge, L...
Posted by jonny on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:06:00 PST

A side-note on my continuing investigation (into the tragic stabbing of Basil Pollizopolis)

So far my efforts to investing this stabbing are turning up little to no information. Persons involved either don't remember, don't know much, or consider the events so insignificant that talking of t...
Posted by jonny on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:22:00 PST

Baton Rouge, Drugs, and the strange and tragic stabbing of Basil Pollizopolis. pt1

As most of my friends know, I grew up in the small industrial port-town of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It's a very polluted and bleak landscape, known mostly for it's petrochemical plants and as site of p...
Posted by jonny on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:56:00 PST