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Jack's Interests
General
Making Stuff. Mohawk Austin Texas. El Cosmico. Lance Armstrong Bikeway.
Treehouses. Earthworms (Austin Wormiculture). The Brazil Studio Design Build. Yoga. Dog Walking. Gardens. Mail. Travel. Collecting Stuff. Tools. Maps. Tie Down Straps. Mexican Beer. Brazilian Beer. Lobster. Oysters. Crawfish. Garlic. Butter. Salt.
Music
Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, The Holy Modal Rounders, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Alejandro Escovedo, Daniel Johnston, Drive By Truckers, Sam Wainwright Douglas, Quit the Cigarettes (Music Man, Douglas, Gay, Fussell, Boone,JWLKR, others), T Model Ford and The Mohawk Austin Texas
Movies
Bound To Lose (Sam W. Douglas) The Blues According to Lightning Hopkins (Les Blank) Les Blank Collection, Richard Linklater Films, The Last Days of the San Jose (Liz Lambert) The Devil Vs. Daniel Johnston. Everything about The Alamo Drafthouse.
Television
Yes. and US magazine.
Books
Sketchbooks (Big).
Mexican Food in Austin: The Guide (Nelson/Walsh)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (James Agee)
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (Carlos Castaneda)
Baseball Playbook (Ron Polk)
Banned in DC (Connolly, Clague, and Cheslow)
Carry My Bones (Jay Wes Yoder)
It Wasnt All Dancing: and other stories (Mary Ward Brown)
Art Forms in Nature
Cabinet of Natural Curiousities (Seba)
Rural Studio Books (A.O. Dean / T. Hursley)
Heroes
Willie, Waylon, Merle, Johnny, Sambo Mockbee, Les Blank, Natalie Chanin, Butch Anthony, Jimmy Lee Matthews (Music Man), Ray and Chalres Eames, Hunter Thompson, William Christenberry, Cynthia Connolly, Charlie Tin Man Lucas, Ian Mackaye
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"If you dont love life you cant enjoy and oyster;
there is a shock of freshness to it
and intimations of the ages of man,
some piercing intuition of the sea
and all its weeds and breezes
[They] shiver you for a split second."
DERTYBIRD will be performing live in Austin this Saturday, Feb 16th at The Parish on 6th street @ 10 PM
With Jeff Plakenhorn
Come prepared to see a Rock show!!!
$8 cover
DAMN! I SO just got busted trying to rip off a Gutenberg image of a flat hand. I mean, you'd think the copyright on this guy wouldn't be valid after say...I don't know...500 years! What the hell.
Technical difficulties delayed this version of east coast / west coast shout out. I was very inspired by the cyclone folks. So you should celebrate for the whole month - like I do. Hope to make it to Texas before the next birthday.
HELP PUT THE STANLEY BROTHERS IN THE COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME!
Ralph Stanley has received many well-deserved honors in the last few years, yet one honor eludes him. While many of their fellow musicians and singers have been recognized by The Country Music Hall of Fame, THE STANLEY BROTHERS have been sadly -- some say criminally -- overlooked.
Jeanie Stanley, youngest daugher of Carter, and fan Kaye Hill have organized an on-going petition to change all that.
"The Country Music Hall of Fame recognizes those persons who have made a significant contribution to the country music field," says Hill. "The Stanley Brothers helped lay the foundation for what we have today. Their names deserve to be listed among greats like Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs, who have already be recognized."
You can join their efforts in one of the following ways:
Contact the CMHoF directly:
Mr. Kyle Young, President
Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum
222 Fifth Avenue South
Nashville TN 37203
Or, if you prefer, you can send a letter to Kaye Hill, who will forward them to the HoF.
D. Kaye Hill
PO Box 2553
Harrisonsonburg VA 22801
Kay says, "a simple one-line note is all that would be required, but please remember to supply your name and address, and an email address if applicable. I will be collecting all letters and forwarding them to the Country Music Hall of Fame."
waddup jay... the Rural Studio is not the same without u. lindsay and i were talking about u at Ca Johns today. oh, i bumped into sam in houston over the holidays. he said u were back in austin. beats Hale County
The Witty one gives the movie a thumbs-up ... "a bittersweet, often hilarious, ode to a motley cadre of delusional has-beens and never-weres who, nonetheless, inspire with their antics, addictions, and love of music."
More to come from the Pioneer. My hunch is that her critique might involve the phrase "two pathetic fraggles."
Hey Jack, our CD Release Party is on Friday, January 26th at the Mohawk in Austin (w/Crawling with Kings and Spain Colored Orange). We'd be honored if you could make it!
"How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more prosperous, peaceful & happy in the future, it's because of our aspira
