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About Me

I'm twenty nine years old. Jesus. How did I allow that to happen? .. width="425" height="350"This is still the best music in the world. .. About me: I write stuff. To pay the bills until writing does that for me, I teach various kinds of English to various kinds of people. I publish a zine, play in a band, DJ occasionally on community radio in Montreal, promote the occasional show in a basement, loft, or living room, and ride a bicycle most of the year. I enjoy punk rock and I predict that I will still enjoy punk rock in ten years when most people think it makes me look like an overgrown child. My politics are socialist, I have patience for neither the rich nor the ignorant, and I don't believe in drinking, drugs, God, or TV. Against all odds, however, I still believe in May of '68. All power to the imagination.

My Interests

I notice you can't enter 'less than $15k' as your income. My key interest is living cheap so I don't have to be tied to the servitude of work and can devote my life to the friends I love and the things I love to do.

I'd like to meet:

.. width="425" height="350" .. D BOON FOREVER.

Music:

Punk rock, early hardcore, deep soul, pre-70s R&B, country blues, honky tonk, whatever. Key Figures: The Minutemen, Billy Bragg, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, New Bomb Turks, Television, Ted Leo, Leonard Cohen, Hickey, Team Dresch, Bikini Kill, Screeching Weasel, Flesh Eaters, Aretha, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Little Fucking Richard, Tina (and Ike), Wynnonie Harris, Etta James, Big Joe Turner, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee, Son House, Hasil Dickens, Hasil Adkins, Hank Snow, Hank Williams, Toots & the Maytals, Desmond Dekker, Camper Van Beethoven... ... ... uh,

Movies:

Books:

Modernist poetry, war poetry, pacifist poetry, beat poetry, good poetry. Paul Goodman, Neil Postman, Chekhov, Melville, Martin Amis, Kundera, Joyce, Woolf, Didion, Frankl, etc etc etc.

Heroes:

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Abbie Hoffman. Lenny Bruce. Susan Sontag. Ian MacKaye. Chuck D. Thomas Frank. Mike Watt. D. Boon. Phranc. Joe Hill. Emma Goldman. Norman Thomas. Paul Fussell. P.K. Page.

My Blog

I've started a new blog for music writing

I'm not too interested in MySpace blogging, but I have just started a blog in which I intend to write only about music-- all kinds of music, whatever's striking my fancy. There will be longer pieces, ...
Posted by J.B. on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:57:00 PST