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J Neo Marvin

I am concerned about idiots posing as kings

About Me

These days, I do most of my writing as a contributor to the Ear Candle blog.
My digs on the internets.
I used to play in a band called X-tal . Here is a brief history. And here are some old pictures of us. (more to be added eventually.) And here you can buy a new CD of vintage X-tal material at CD Baby.
More recently, I released 3 CDs, Slowly I Turned , What Is Truth? , and Freedom Fried , with a group called J Neo Marvin & the Content Providers . Here are some shots of us in action from the collection of our former guitarist, Glenn Stevens .
Wally Sound made this video for a song we recorded together in 1980, "The Guns Of Pleasure Point". It sounds better than I remembered it. Thanks Wally!
My wife Davis has a site called Noodle Brain Productions. Visit it. She's got some good stuff to say.
We have not one, but two new bands, the Experimental Bunnies, who do improvisational instrumental music, and the Blame, a husband-and-wife duo with a point of view. (links coming soon!)
We have created a company, Ear Candle Productions , to release our music and our videos, and to support other artists. (Under construction...have a look!)
We have an online radio station, Ear Candle Radio . Give it a listen.

My Interests

Club Mekon , your one-stop source for all your Mekon needs.

The Typical Girls list. Learn about the other history of punk.

My old colleagues at Verse Chorus Press . Buy some books from them.

Essential cartoons from Tom Tomorrow

A very cool Robert Wyatt fan page.

Crooks And Liars , best political video links on the net.

Pandagon , not only an astute, funny political blog, but also the home of the oracle who guides us all, the Insufferable Music Snob.

ITMFA!

More links to come. I could go on and on and on, and trust me, I will.

I'd like to meet:

Friendly honest people without any creepy agendas.

Music:

The Velvet Underground The Mekons The Fall Lee Scratch Perry The Mountain Goats Sleater-Kinney Robert Wyatt Arthur Lee Leonard Cohen The Quails The Cannanes Quasi She Mob Link Wray The Raincoats Augustus Pablo The Aislers Set Barbara Manning The Bonzo Dog Band Bo Diddley Flipper Os Mutantes Nina Simone Neil Young Tall Dwarfs The Incredible String Band Wire

All styles served here!

Movies:

Idiocracy: the best documentary I've seen in years
Bedazzled (the real one)
Little Big Man
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God
Down By Law
Goodfellas
Elmer Gantry
A Fish Called Wanda
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Performance
Eraserhead
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
El Norte
Don't Look Back

Television:

Whatever just arrived in the mail from Netflix.

Books:

We have thousands on our shelves. One day I'll get around to finishing one.

My Blog

Ear Candle Radios Top 20: July 2008

July was an exciting, inspiring, and exhausting month for us. We moved to a new home, plus I found the time to accompany Meri St. Mary in her first San Francisco performance in almost a decade and beg...
Posted by J Neo Marvin on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:32:00 PST

Ear Candle Radios Top 20: June 2008

Catching up on blogging our charts here! We have been moving, and life has been frantic.Another diverse and intriguing collection of thumbs ups from our public here. The last couple of months have bro...
Posted by J Neo Marvin on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:17:00 PST

Ear Candle Radios Top 20: May 2008

This month brought us double doses of Terese Taylor and the Experimental Bunnies (both Bunnies tracks are from our in-the-works digital release), plus vinyl-only classics from old friends Housecoat Pr...
Posted by J Neo Marvin on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:37:00 PST

Ear Candle Radios Top 20: April 2008

Playing catch-up yet again!1. Sara Jaffe - Port Authority - Salt & Water2. Clarence Frogman Henry - Ain't Got No Home - The Best Of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues, Vol. 23. T.Rex - Rip Off (Remast...
Posted by J Neo Marvin on Wed, 07 May 2008 07:10:00 PST

Ear Candle Radio’s Top 20, February 2008

THREE Experimental Bunnies tracks top the charts in one month? You honor us, you really do.Watch this space for news about the upcoming Ear Candle digital releases in the works. Yes, it is a time of c...
Posted by J Neo Marvin on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:32:00 PST

Ear Candle Radio’s Top 20: January 2008

Omly now am I catching up on posting our radio charts! It’s been busy. Stay tuned for February (now that March is half over!) 1. Roger Ruskin Spear - I Love To Bumpity Bump On A Bumpy Road Wit...
Posted by J Neo Marvin on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:28:00 PST

Ear Candle Radio’s Top 20: December 2007

As we transition into a new year, a new playlist, and a new USB turntable (expect more vintage vinyl in our future!), Ear Candle Radio wishes our listeners old and new a smashing new year, filled with...
Posted by J Neo Marvin on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:08:00 PST

A letter to Nancy

Call it a concerned citizen performing his civic duty, or a Quixotic dreamer shouting headlong into a December gale, but I recently mailed the following to my representative in Congress, who also happ...
Posted by J Neo Marvin on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:04:00 PST

Ear Candle Radio’s Top 20: November 2007

We're in the process of creating our new playlist, parts of which we've been test-driving on the air for the last couple weeks. Already, our listeners have voted some of our new additions into this mo...
Posted by J Neo Marvin on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:34:00 PST

Ear Candle Radios Top 20: October 2007

A lot of repeat appearances this month (Irma Thomas, Bay Area Funk, Beat Of The Traps), and an abundance of MAGI(C)K from two great and entirely different bands: 1) The Magick Daggers from Portland, w...
Posted by J Neo Marvin on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:10:00 PST