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James

"Get yer ass out there and register to VOTE!"-F.Z., 1988 tour

About Me

First off, Zappa is the best! I've got a complete collection, fromFreak Out! to MOFO.While Zappa is a big part of my life, my family comes first. I have aterrific wife, Anita, a gorgeous daughter, Crystal. My whole lifeconcerns spending time with them. They are everything to me.What else? Well, I love movies. Anything by Tarantino or Kubricktrips my trigger.I'm a factory worker, a regular blue collar working joe.


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My Interests

Here's an e-card site a couple of friends of mine cooked up. Check it, pretty cool.

I'd like to meet:

Any and all Frank Zappa fans.

Music:

The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Cramps, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Seeds, The Sonics, 13th Floor Elevators, Jeff Beck, The Shaggs, The Chocolate Watchband, The Standells, R.L. Burnside, Muddy Waters, The Jets, The White Stripes, The Black Keys, Journey, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Vanilla Fudge, Elvis Presley, Aerosmith, Robert Johnson, The Shangri-Las, The Mothers Of Invention, The Fugs, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, "Weird Al" Yankovic, The Trashmen, The Third Bardo, First Crow To The Moon, and many many others you might hear on Little Steven's Underground Garage.

Movies:

True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill 1&2, 200 Motels, Uncle Meat, Farenheit 9/11, Bowling For Columbine, Roger & Me, Standing In The Shadow Of Motown, Coffy, Foxy Brown ("She's my sister and she's awhole lot of woman!"), Night Of The Living Dead (1968 version), Dawn Of The Dead (both versions), The Killing, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001:A Space Odyssey, A clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut, Mondo Trasho, Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Serial Mom, The Shawshank Redemption, and about 100 more.

Television:

The Office, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Countdown with Keith Olberman, Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Best Week Ever, Real Time With Bill Maher, old Sesame Street episodes from the Sesame Street Old School dvd, The Best Of The Electric Company dvd, The Simpsons

Books:

The Real Frank Zappa Book, Cosmik Debris: The Collected History And Improvisations Of Frank Zappa by Greg Russo, Zappa by Barry Miles

Heroes:

Frank Zappa (we really need another voice like his now).

My Blog

R.I.P. Jeff Smith

My step-father died yesterday.  He was a diabetic since he was a teenager, but that's not what did it.  He had an organ transplant about 15 years ago.  After which he was constantly in ...
Posted by James on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:57:00 PST

Everything’s OK!

My wife went to the doctor today to get a biopsy.  She had two mammograms.  They said they found two spots they weren’t sure about.  They sent her to get a sonogram, which found n...
Posted by James on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:26:00 PST

My birthday

OK, so my birthday was yesterday.  I originally planned on taking vacation Friday and have a killer three day weekend, right?  Wrong!I got my vacation day for Feb. 22.  Then we got an o...
Posted by James on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:25:00 PST

Me on VH1

OK, here's what happened.  Back in 1999, I went to the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis (I highly recommend if you ever get the chance, the first weekend every May).  That year VH1 was...
Posted by James on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:49:00 PST

Blues Fest

Well, I went to the 22nd annual Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival in Wynne, AR, Saturday (formally The King Biscuit Blues Festival, but that's another story).  Unfotunately I only had a so-so ...
Posted by James on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:07:00 PST

Daaaammmmnnnn!

IT'S FUCKING HOTTTT!!!!!!
Posted by James on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:30:00 PST

TV

Anyone know where I can get a flat screen TV cheap (legally, I mean)?  My 27" CRT TV went out over the weekend and I need a new one.
Posted by James on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:23:00 PST

Comforter

Ok, so I come home from work the other night and my wife says she was Overstock.com and found a new comforter set 75% off.  Usually before we make perchases online we tell each other, but since i...
Posted by James on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:01:00 PST

10 years!

Today is my 10th wedding anniversary to the greatest woman in the world, Anita.  We're going to Pizza Hut tonight (YAY!)
Posted by James on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:16:00 PST

New Weird Al video

Do I Creep You Out | Send To Friends | Funny Animations at JibJab...
Posted by James on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:28:00 PST