jenny page
My blogs
| Industry | Maritime |
|---|---|
| Occupation | edificator, musician, bibliophile, trudger |
| Location | stonehenge, where the demons dwell, United States |
| Introduction | "what... me worry?" "what matters most is how well you walk through the fire" "we're gonna have some fun tonight, everything's all right" "no [wo]man is an island" |
| Interests | piano, unusual movies, reading, teaching, exercise, cleaning up the yard, making stuff out of junk, drawing, writing, meditation, nut butter, exploring, driving, animals (including homo sapiens), nyt puzzles, coffee, drunks, bargains, cryptograms, rootbeer, NPR, eccentrics, family & friendships, funny people & things, oddball places, volunteering, outsiders, jogging long distances, ba duan jin, trains, rockabilly, boogie-woogie, honky-tonk, LA, austin, memphis, NOLA, manhattan, central park, hot springs, wide open spaces, frankenstein, peewee and penny - pets of the pages, 12 steps, religion and spirituality, breathing, primitive folk art, climate, wind speed and direction, elevation, cognates, home recording, live music, tai chi, yoga, road food, heroes, public libraries, iconoclasts, keeping foot out of mouth & head out of behind, old buildings, walking at night, foraging, public parks, visionaries, roscoe & gusgus (the beloved dog children of my past), patterns, neoteny, calming the infernal coconut, self-improvement, blablabla |
| Favorite movies | bride of frankenstein, night of the hunter, touch of evil, island of lost souls, the third man, repo man, it's a gift, young frankenstein, mystery train, miracle mile, the yakuza, monster, the hidden, ed wood, dr. strangelove, marx brothers, the princess and the frog, chinatown, the stranger, hail hail rock n roll, grand budapest hotel, monster, eating raoul, piano players rarely ever play together, men in black (1st 3 movies), the bear (1998), mic-macs, tomboy, american folk blues festival, the counterfeiters (die fälscher), sexy beast, targets, wall-e, we are the best!, dr jekyll & mr hyde (fredric march), volver, zombi, hairspray (waters), polyester, a christmas story, gun crazy, freeway, lovely & amazing, my man godfrey, station agent, don't knock the rock (granada tv), wild zero, kiss me deadly, addams family, up, silver city, tarzan & his mate, monsoon wedding, green card, the abominable dr phibes, the last picture show, home movie (2001), far from heaven, fast cheap & out of control, the blues brothers (movie only), off the grid: life on the mesa, sunshine state, peewee's big adventure, dance with the devil (perdita durango), skins, raising arizona, smoke signals, lone star, the fisher king, monsieur ibrahim, faster pussycat kill! kill!, world's greatest sinner, african queen, happy times (yimou zhang), the master, peewee's big adventure, amadeus, barfly, american splendor, fight club, the lives of others, columbo, rick & morty, mo, antiques road show, the simpsons, better call saul |
| Favorite music | the "5" royales, chuck berry, the blasters, hank ballard & the midnighters, clifton chenier, professor longhair, fats domino, piano red, big manny, little richard, louis prima, whiteboy james, the cramps, roy brown, howlin' wolf, bo diddley, gene vincent, zydeco, the collins kids, ronnie dawson, cab calloway, wanda jackson, louis jordan, jerry lee lewis, elvis, charlie rich, carl perkins, little walter, big joe turner, hank williams, the coasters, the gun club, earl palmer, charlie feathers, flat duo jets, boogie-woogie, sonny boy williamson II, big maybelle, bob wills, spike jones, canned heat, junior wells, buena vista social club, the platters, etta james, dolly parton, honky-tonk, the mummies, gene taylor, bill haley, the a-bones, moon mullican, the mavericks, carl sonny leyland, johnny johnson, marcia ball, sue palmer, trailer bride, the paladins, big mama thornton, jason d. williams, spade cooley, exotica, carla thomas, jump blues, candye kane, maddox bros & rose, carolina cotton, al hendrix, primitive/vernacular american, western, link wray, esquerita, norton records, earl thomas, thehound.net, rockin 50s, ray price, the sadies, freddie king, champion jack dupree, ruth brown, otis rush, willie dixon, memphis slim, floyd dixon, chopin, tchaikovsky, debussy, fats waller, gershwin, slim harpo, world, rollin' rock records, the sonics, the stooges, the animals, x, the dusk devils |
| Favorite books | man's search for meaning, go cat go, wise blood, moanin' at midnight, a son of the circus, affliction, joan didion, the new yorker, man in black, earth poems from around the world, the bridge of san luis rey, childhood's end, archy & mehitabel, the man who walked through time, LA musical history tour, psychotronic videoguide, eccentric america, mambo kings play songs of love, gardens of revelation, holy man, catalog of cool, robert louis stevenson, meditations of marcus aurelius, living a life that matters, chas addams, barry gifford, water for elephants, the one and only ivan, cecil adams, raymond carver, ross macdonald, molly ivins, peter guralnick, lynda barry, philip k. dick, john waters, bukowski, sherman alexie, sandra cisneros, nick tosches, russell banks, hunchback of notre dame, ways of seeing, metaphors we live by, a christmas carol, the far side, reid fleming world's toughest milkman, mad magazine, francesca lia block, pain free (egoscue), folk remedies that work, the sun also rises, the onion, hernandez bros, arm in arm, bedtime for frances, babar, peanuts, little nemo in slumberland, tintin, conan doyle, edgar rice burroughs, chandler and hammett, roadside america, vox, john le carre, william saroyan, REsearch, colin escott, lies my teacher told me, the demon in the freezer, caveman's valentine, oliver sacks, the killer inside me, los angeles stories, born to run: a hidden tribe of superathletes and the greatest race no one has ever seen, rumi, natural born heroes, every man for himself and god against all |
You've broken up with your old band and are about to release your first solo album. Please write the liner notes:
i've always loved the 1-4-5 & narrow-focused i may seem but never will i waver when i know what good tunes be burma shave