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Jason Thornberry

Author of (Untitled).

About Me

Writer.

My Interests



I'd like to meet:



Music:



Avalanches
Black Heart Procession
Catherine Wheel
Double Dee & Steinski
EPMD
Filmstar
GBV
Hüsker Dü
Interpol
The Jam
KMD
Low
MF Doom
Napalm Death
ODB
The Pharcyde
Quasimoto
Rudimentary Peni
Swans
A Tribe Called Quest
Ultramagnetic MCs
Viktor Vaughn
Tom Waits
XTC
Young Gods
John Zorn

Movies:


Television:


Books:



Paul Auster
Jorge Luis Borges
Albert Camus
Don Delillo
John Fante
Michel Houellebecq
Franz Kafka
W. Somerset Maugham
Vladimir Nabokov
George Orwell
Alan Sillitoe
John Updike
Kurt Vonnegut

My Blog

SAVE MYSPACE: Kill the band comments.

Why does everyone's profile nowadays look like a telephone pole in Venice Beach (California)? If you've ever seen one you know what I mean: thousands of flyers and random detritus stapled to the poles...
Posted by Jason Thornberry on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:34:00 PST

NAPALM DEATH & ME

Barney Greenway became Godzilla. The audience loved it, but he didn't appear to notice them. He was intent on flinging himself into the song. The song I had been bothering them to play. The song I...
Posted by Jason Thornberry on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:54:00 PST

SUSAN

Susan was asking me something, but it was in Chinese. I don't speak Chinese. I speak Pig-Latin and English. Itsyay easway andyay onfusescay eoplepay umtimessay, especiallyyay owadaysnay, insay igP...
Posted by Jason Thornberry on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:27:00 PST

THE FIRST DRAFT IS COMPLETE

It was my only New Year's resolution of December 31, 2005, and I made it: the first draft of my book (a memoir) is finished!! 75,291 words. And now I edit......
Posted by Jason Thornberry on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:19:00 PST

THE INCREDIBLE HULK ON AISLE FIVE

** This is from my journal on 2.25.05  I walked to Stater Brothers a few moments ago to get a few things and wound up being randomly hassled by someone with a little man complex. I was looking t...
Posted by Jason Thornberry on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:52:00 PST

TWIST THE KNIFE (SLOWLY)

December brings with it all sorts of fun extra expenses, like Xmas shopping and Xmas shopping. This year was tougher though, because one of my favorite bands in the world, NAPALM DEATH, were scheduled...
Posted by Jason Thornberry on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:41:00 PST

MUZAK

11.26.06, 9:30pmI'm home early from work for a change, and work right now is the usual for this time of year: an orgy of Xma$ spending that seems to make people simultaneously triumphant and grumpy. I...
Posted by Jason Thornberry on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:54:00 PST

YOUR FOLLOWERS ARE REDNECKS

Why is it about David Gray fans that makes them get matching police academy haircuts, wear shorts and flipflops in November and loudly inhale their own snot in public?...
Posted by Jason Thornberry on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:06:00 PST

VISA TO NOWHERE

This is from my journal, December, 1992...My drum teacher raved about his brother's traveling Top 40 band, which had just returned from a month long residency at a nightclub in Tai Pei. When Jerry put...
Posted by Jason Thornberry on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:14:00 PST

MY FAVORITE BULLY

Doesn't everyone remember their first bully? Like my first kiss from Jennifer Merrill, my girlfriend when I was seven, I remember my first bully plain as day. I can still remember the sun reflecting i...
Posted by Jason Thornberry on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:06:00 PST