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John

PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER!

About Me

Happily married and father of three. I've been involved in the retail book industry since the late 80's, and the owner of Books Galore, an independent bookstore since 1997.

My Interests

Music, reading.

I'd like to meet:

Tom Waits, Jack Nicholson, David Lynch.

Music:

The Beatles, 50's Rockabilly, 60's ska, west African guitar, White Stripes, Tom Waits, British invasion groups.

Movies:

Wizard of Oz, any Marx Brothers, Lord of the Rings, any summer-released superhero movie!

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Futurama, Simpsons, Mr. Show, Seinfeld, Twin Peaks, Earl, the Office, T&EASGJ.

Books:

In no particular order: Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez, Confederacy of Dunces by Toole (the true measure of a reader's sense of humor, I only recommend this to VIP's), A Year with Swollen Appendices by Brian Eno (journal keeping the old-fashioned way, pre-blogging!), The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Sherlock Holmes stories by Doyle, Jeeves series by P. G. Wodehouse, Gentleman bookseller series by D. "Gunslinger" Schwent (Read it, hell, I've lived it!), Here There and Everywhere by Geoff Emerick (great Beatles book), Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (should've won the National Book Award), Pulps (The Shadow, Doc Savage, Fu Manchu), People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (pick up and put down at various times), classic literature, Tolkien, Michael Moorcock, Fritz Leiber, many more.

Heroes:

Groucho Marx, Harry Houdini, Orson Welles, David Lynch, W. C. Fields, Ry Cooder, KFG, the 3 MEG's.

My Blog

antics

Crazy bike guy was in twice 2 days ago.  1st, to get a receipt for the PS2 he bought from us, games, etc.  This in order to press charges against his "girlfriend" who has stolen or commandee...
Posted by John on Thu, 24 May 2007 07:33:00 PST

One down, one to go...

Well, after a rousing round of wiffleball with the kids, I'm inside and feeling much better than most of the week.  Got 1/2 the "mothers' day gifts" fixed.  Whew! Nice thing when people trav...
Posted by John on Sat, 19 May 2007 07:14:00 PST

What's Spinning in my head

Recent music finds:  Ali Farka Toure's son, Vieux, has just released his 1st disc on World Circuit.  Got it, and after the initial listing, it's very good.  Ali actually played on a co...
Posted by John on Thu, 17 May 2007 10:45:00 PST

recent reads

Ok, some stuff I've liked recently:  The Historian - evocative of areas of Europe I can only imagine. Time Traveller's Wife - not at all what you'd expect. Red Dwarf Series - definite guilty ple...
Posted by John on Sun, 13 May 2007 11:30:00 PST

Talent Show at DHS 2007!

Well, I'm thrilled!  My daughter Maddie took 1st place in the DHS talent show.  She sang The Pretenders' "I'll Stand By You" accompanied by Whitney and w/ help from Cody (page turning/ moral...
Posted by John on Tue, 01 May 2007 03:49:00 PST

Added some pics!

Added some photos, both to personal Myspace, as well as the Books Galore page.  Some pics are from my son's school field day trip to the wonderful St. Louis City Museum, one of the city's hidden ...
Posted by John on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:41:00 PST