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Jack

'Often I am still listening when the song is over.'--Marquis de Saint-Lambert

About Me

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Get this Action ButtonI'm first and foremost a fulltime, stay at home Daddy, raised my boy Esau pretty much on my own since he was four months old...he just turned 6 (do the math). Tho' he and i lost my Mom & Dad early in 2004, a loss i've yet to fully understand, we have been blessed with some of the most beautiful, heroic, compassionate friends/angels one could ever dream-for. They know who they are, but I'm not sure they know their incredible impact on us.But life is not all heavy...so much beauty to be found, in music (i listen to it, love it, go see it live AND play & write & sing it), in words, in the world we find ourselves in. Easy at times to feel crushed by the weight of it all, but equally easy to just be "given to fly."

My Interests

My son, my circle-within-circles of friends (a/k/a, Our Found Family), music, music, music, annoying my kid, films, music, playin' all those damn guitars litterin' my room...on a good day, LIFE....on a GOOD day.......oh, and music!...

I'd like to meet:

the Dalai Lama, Jimmy Carter, Christopher Walken, Neil Young, Walter Cronkite and some more TreeTrunkPunkRockers!.. width="425" height="350" ..

Music:


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Add to My Profile | More Videoswhere to start? a List!!! terese taylor, Radiohead, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Robyn Hitchcock, surrounded, the Handsome Family, Thelonius Monk, Iggy Pop, Sparklehorse, Lucinda Williams, the Faraway Brothers, Neko Case, Liar, Muse, Spike Jones & His City Slickers, Super Furry Animals, Portishead, Miles Davis, Pearl Jam, Tristan Prettyman, Grandaddy, PIXIES, Catherine Wheel (why-oh-why didn't i go see them?), Smoke City, John Coltrane, Blue Rooster, Massive Attack, Tocotronic, Edith Frost, Billie Holiday, P.J. Harvey, XTC, The Psychedelic Furs, Chrissie Hynde, Sigur Ros, Leaves, Die Sterne, Damien Rice, Kenni & Co., Lisa Germano, John Hartford, The Byrds, Rammstein, Mogwai, Bjork, Richmond Fontaine, Andrew Freeman, Jim White, Bettie Serveert, Die Fantastischen Vier, Ramones, The Who, Jacob Golden, Hanzel und Gretyl, DJ Heather, Tom Petty, Jolie Holland, The Rutles, (heard enough yet?), Die Toten Hosen, Colette, Rasputina, Bongwater, Cracker, Mojo Nixon, Victoria Williams, Johnny Cash, absolutely ANYthing "Bollywood"....you get the idea...[and to hear more of my NEW favorites, look through my friends list]...

Movies:

(off the top of my head) Network, Big Fish, Ju-On, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Eraserhead (or really ANYthing David Lynch has done or will do), Bride of Frankenstein, the first four or five Marx Brothers movies, Creature from the Black Lagoon, anything remotely involving Christopher Walken, Farenheit 9/11, The Fog of War, Lady in the Water, House of Wax (the Vincent Price one), Dead Man, Wings of Desire, planet of the apes (original, duh), Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Kill Bill, It's a Wonderful Life, Harry Potter, Waiting for Guffman, Touch, Lord of the Rings, Wizards, Tarantula, Heavy Metal, ANYthing Terry Gilliam, Starstruck (the australian one from the 80s), Made in Heaven, Star Wars episodes 3-6, Where the Buffalo Roam.....etc. Pretty much any post 1990-J horror (Tartan Asia Extreme RULES)...(i've left out so many)...

Television:

MythBusters, Dirty Jobs, How It's Made, The Simpsons (best...show...ever!), The Lawrence Welk Show (when i need to get my funk on), Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Iron Chef, Sportscenter (yyyeah, rrrright!), TWIN PEAKS!!!, NEWS RADIO, Space Ghost (original & coast-to-coast), the Brak Show, X-Files, MST 3000, SpongeBob....and if i get to use my WayBack machine, Captain Kangaroo, New Wave Theater & NightFlight.

Books:

anything by William S. Burroughs, Edward Gorey, Charles Addams, Jack Kerouac, H.P. Lovecraft, and J.D. Whitney & M. Mihalyi(my old-days poetry mentors).....

Heroes:

My Mom & Dad, Rest In Peace! All the good i have in this world is because of your Love & Guidance!My son, Esau...Carrie Buchholz, Terese Taylor, Talia Schilling, Laura Stahman, Dina Macedo, Miss Dee-Lovely, Victoria Grant, JQ (where the HELL are you?)..oh, you mean heroes YOU'VE heard of? The Dalai Lama, Walter Cronkite, Jimmy Carter, Pete Townshend, Neil Young, Theda Bara, Daffy Duck....(ahhh, Daffy, you're WAY too much like me!)

My Blog

Meer liederen over weg en doornstruik...(more songs about Roads & brambles)

Jeder macht die Straße zusammen. Alle lager veien sammen. Tutti fa la strada insieme. Iedereen maakt de weg samen. Everyone makes the Road together. Like an enormous, writhing organism, the people,...
Posted by Jack on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:16:00 PST

the Quickening...? (or "Dancing in the Land of the Weird")

...magic, music, friends, the coming of autumn, changes (positive & negative)...it almost feels like, what was it they called it in the movie Highlander, um, "the Quickening"? something like that,...
Posted by Jack on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:45:00 PST

...to Mom...

Today, august 30th, would have been my Mom's 71st birthday, tho', what?, 3 years ago you never would've known she was nearing 70 by looking at her...and certainly not if you ever talked with her. Some...
Posted by Jack on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:54:00 PST

Gettin' It Right!!

When you're fueled by music, films, literature--let's just say art--like I am, it gets terribly frustrating wading through all the crap floatin' about in the hopes of maybe stumbling upon something su...
Posted by Jack on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:26:00 PST

quick thoughts about the wicked witch of the west

Rainin' like crazy right now & we just got back from the store...Esau posed a question that brought up something I wondered about when i was 5...he asked "since the wicked witch got melted by wate...
Posted by Jack on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:58:00 PST