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Jack Rice

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About Me

This is not me, although his eyebrows are similarly arched, and he does have a lush, full head of hair like I do. Totally different guy. Please make a note of this, particularly if you are trying to locate him for purposes of, say, revenge for some sort of slight from his CIA days.
I decided recently that my favorite kind of cow is the Brown Swiss.
I like spaghetti.
I pluck the thunder broom in The Carolinas, The Pugilists, The Mighty Deerlick and in Madison, Goat Radio. Used to pluck it in The Lackloves (before they traded me along with a case of Buckhorn beer and two boxes of baseballs to the Pugilists for Kevin Ponec and a 6th round compensatory draft pick) and before that, the Blow Pops, Simpleton, the L.A. Explosion!, the Travel Agents, Root Cellar, Exploded View and probably a few more I can't remember.
I'm a musician of course, and I love music and love supporting bands. That said, if you are one of my MySpace friends and you don't live within an easy drive of Madison or Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and you send out bulletins every 5 minutes telling me what you're doing (I'm talking to you, Sean Ryder Williams), I will probably delete you. Unless you're Mike Watt. Or your bulletins are really funny.

My Interests

Tomatoes. UFO's. Anything related to the words base and/or bass. (____ boat, ____ball, largemouth ____, Fender ____ guitar, etc.)

I'd like to meet:

Bill Clinton, George Clinton, Clint Howard, Vicki Peterson, Kelly Clarkson, Emmylou Harris, the Dalai Lama.

Music:

Currently enjoying in no particular order: Frisbie, Robyn Hitchcock, Okkervil River, the Silos, Alejandro Escovedo, Jon Dee Graham, Centro-matic, Drive-by Truckers, Fountains of Wayne, The Hold Steady, Maplewood, Neil Young, the Pogues, Robbie Fulks, Steve Earle, Neko Case, Minutemen, X, Sex Pistols, Husker Du, Dead Kennedys, Ramones, and have been listening to an awful lot of Zeppelin lately.

Movies:

Big Trouble in Little China, Fargo, Three Kings, Star Wars (order of preference: IV, V, III, VI, II, I), Escape From New York, the Godfathers, Airplane!, Lord of the Rings, the Three Amigos, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, most Bond films. Bonds in order of preference: Connery, the new kid (genius, still thinking about putting him ahead of Connery -- heresy, I know), Dalton (totally underrated), Lazenby (not a great Bond but awesomeness of OHMSS bumps him up a notch or two), Moore (totally overrated), Remington Steele (can suck it).

Television:

I don't really watch TV. Except when I'm watching Mad Men, Deadwood, The Simpsons, The Sopranos, Rome, The Office, the Brak Show, Survivor, Band of Brothers, Futurama, Big Love, the Amazing Race, NewsRadio, Brewers baseball, Packers football, open-wheel racing, Lost, Alias, the Colbert Report, the Daily Show, Seinfeld, Project UFO, Letterman, Battlestar Galactica, Desperate Housewives, Scrubs, Get Smart, the Game Show Network, the Weather Channel, Austin City Limits, any random show about UFOs, Bigfoot, ghosts, Chubacabras or the Loch Ness Monster, American Casino, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Real Time with Bill Maher, the Andy Griffith Show, Pink Lady and Jeff.

Books:

Haven't had much time to read lately. Too busy watching TV.

Heroes:

Hammerin' Hank Aaron. Stephen Colbert.

My Blog

Dancing on a Friday night (tonight!)

Friends, That worldwide power pop festival International Pop Overthrow is coming to Milwaukee, and the Pugilists are playing it. In the true spirit of IPO, we're going to do Side 2 of Rush's 1981 clas...
Posted by Jack Rice on Fri, 02 May 2008 07:09:00 PST

I am famous

...because I'm on YouTube. I bet none of you are on YouTube.The Lackloves, video for "The Radio's Mine" (or "Hey, That's My Radio" if you prefer)The Lackloves, "Nowhere Near Here" live from Spain on T...
Posted by Jack Rice on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:22:00 PST

Jesus. 39.

Apparently I need to write more blogs. 
Posted by Jack Rice on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:47:00 PST

Bull Fiddlers Rejoice!

Although I'm a little put off that my invite seems to have been lost in the mail. http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=VJchUEz9IgE
Posted by Jack Rice on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:00:00 PST

Whoa nelly! I have pimped my MySpace page!

Yep. Sure did. Fuckin' a. 
Posted by Jack Rice on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:22:00 PST

Christ. 38.

That's fairly old, I guess. Oh well, what are you gonna do?
Posted by Jack Rice on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:31:00 PST

The greatest website in the history of the Internet.

I just want to spread the love. Make sure your sound is on. www.shaveeverywhere.com  
Posted by Jack Rice on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 02:42:00 PST