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¿Johnny?

midnight cowboy

About Me

My Bands

"Highway 61 Revisited" by Electric Black

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THE DIRTY PEARLS LIVE AT THE MERCURY LOUNG
"LuvSikLuv"

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My Interests


The New Tom Waits Album ROCKSSSSS!!!!!!
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I'd like to meet:

Don't ask me to be your friend unless we've met,
you will get a nasty response. bands are ok, but I wont take you if I think you suck,
and most probably you do...

Oh, if a tree could wander
and move with foot and wings!
It would not suffer the axe blows
and not the pain of saws!
For would the sun not wander
away in every night ?
How could at every morning
the world be lighted up?
And if the oceans water
would not rise to the sky,
How would the plants be quickened
by streams and gentle rain?
The drop that left its homeland,
the sea, and then returned ?
It found an oyster waiting
and grew into a pearl.
Did Yusaf not leave his father,
in grief and tears and despair?
Did he not, by such a journey,
gain kingdom and fortune wide?
Did not the Prophet travel
to far Medina, friend?
And there he found a new kingdom
and ruled a hundred lands.
You lack a foot to travel?
Then journey into yourself!
And like a mine of rubies
receive the sunbeams? print!
Out of yourself such a journey
will lead you to your self,
It leads to transformation
of dust into pure gold!

-Rumi

this is what happens when Snitch gives you a free bottle after your show

THIS IS FOR NON SMOKERS
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A damb !% year old punk can do it, words of wisdom

Music:

there's always a space in my parking lot when you need a little coke and sympathy

"Stay With Me" - The Faces

Movies:

Dr. StrangeLove and others...

Television:

no

Books:

yes

Heroes:


On the DeathbedGo, rest your head on a pillow, leave me alone;
leave me ruined, exhausted from the journey of this night,
writhing in a wave of passion till the dawn.
Either stay and be forgiving,
or, if you like, be cruel and leave.
Flee from me, away from trouble;
take the path of safety, far from this danger.
We have crept into this corner of grief,
turning the water wheel with a flow of tears.
While a tyrant with a heart of flint slays,
and no one says, "Prepare to pay the blood money."
Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times,
but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.
No cure exists for this pain but to die,
So why should I say, "Cure this pain"?
In a dream last night I saw
an ancient one in the garden of love,
beckoning with his hand, saying, "Come here."
On this path, Love is the emerald,
the beautiful green that wards off dragonsnough, I am losing myself.
If you are a man of learning,
read something classic,
a history of the human struggle
and don't settle for mediocre verse
-Rumi
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My Blog

To All The Dirty Pearls Fans

Last Sat night was amazing!!!! Best night of my life for sure. A sold out Bowery Ballroom and all of you there cheering the show on. This is what they mean when speaking of dreams, love, and friends....
Posted by ¿Johnny? on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:41:00 PST

due to the high response

... of people offended by my piece on AA i would like to make this statement. Below is a portion of a correspondence I have had with a man i never met before, Bob, on myspace who added me as a friend ...
Posted by ¿Johnny? on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:43:00 PST

An Odyssey through Tennessee to see Mr. Tom Waits

Glitter and DoomAn Odyssey through Tennessee to see Mr. Tom Waits Ten years of waiting, now a golden ticket sat at a will-call window eight hundred mile away from New York City under the southern sun ...
Posted by ¿Johnny? on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:47:00 PST

AA made me want a beer

Today marks six weeks of my being sober and I have to say it's been a hoot, seriously, I have been digging it. But I was waiting for the blues to come, and they came... so I went to a midnight Alcoho...
Posted by ¿Johnny? on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:51:00 PST

an ode to NYC morning

To those of you who dance the way I doTiered feet, soles of your shoes worn thin.Ah forgetting what caused this great beginning,Let go and join me in the amassing of strange pins.The lamp light useles...
Posted by ¿Johnny? on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:00:00 PST

A Leader Is Born

A Leader Is BornBy Behrang AzariHe once said to me"Maybe it is our good fortune we don't get the things we whatand when we do, we lose them"I just looked at himHe went on and recited some poetry by Fe...
Posted by ¿Johnny? on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:30:00 PST

two and a half years in the wanting, now it's made

Well kids the date has been set, the venue booked, and all my strings changed.I even quit smoking and drinking for two weeks to get my voice in shape.The grand unveiling of my brand new band, Johnny B...
Posted by ¿Johnny? on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:49:00 PST

a new poem i wrote long ago

An Extinguished Kissby Johnny B.All my keys look the same in this light,I can't find the tone to say it right,I wish I could sing like you man,I wish I had that perfect spiritual tanBut I lie, and I c...
Posted by ¿Johnny? on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:27:00 PST

The Little Engine Needs Not Cocaine, but He Sure Could

Aye! Incase you haven't herd we sold out our debut show. The Ethereal Phenix is spreading it's nicoten stained wings.The evening of wasted sleep upon the shore of Strung-out Dishonor, has passed. Rock...
Posted by ¿Johnny? on Fri, 25 May 2007 01:29:00 PST

What A Fucking Sell Out

My brand new band, The Dirty Pearls, that is. and by that I mean we SOLD OUT ARLENE'S GROCERY! Yep, they turned away 40 people. To all my friends who couldn't get in: 10pm Sat. June 2nd (open bar 9-11...
Posted by ¿Johnny? on Fri, 18 May 2007 02:24:00 PST