Jason P. Woodbury
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer, musician, record store goon |
| Location | Tempe, Arizona, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a freelance writer, currently doing work for Phoenix New Times (Village Voice Media), mostly. I'm a staff writer at Tiny Mix Tapes. I played guitar and sang in Hands on Fire, played bass and guitar in Porches, played bass in Cardiac Party. I currently play bass and sing in a band called Soft Drink (softdrinkmusic.com). I am the assistant manager at Zia Records in Tempe, a brick and mortar store that sells films, CDs, video games and records, in addition to managing the local band in-store performances for the Phoenix-area stores in the chain. |
| Interests | Music, pizza, words. |
| Favorite movies | Star Trek films, Wayne's World, Sergio Leone. Goddard, most especially Band of Outsiders. Galaxy Express 999, Dirty Harry, Charley Varrick, Ehi amico ... c'è Sabata, hai chiuso!, Fletch, Buffalo '66, but NOT the Brown Bunny, stuff with Pam Grier in it, Cool Hand Luke, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, things Quentin Tarantino makes, Cassavettes in general, Alejandro Jodorowsky 'cos he diddles my poor mind, Woody Allen films, Two-Lane Blacktop, Easy Rider, stuff by Wes Anderson, Igmar Bergman, Bullit, the French Connection, all things Jim Jarmusch, the Coen Brothers, I Heart Huckabees, most things by Martin Scorsese, PT Anderson, movies based on Nick Hornby books, Almost Famous, and David Lynch deals. |
| Favorite music | Yo La Tengo, Yoko Ono, Lindsey Buckingham, Los Yetis, Afghan Whigs, Betty Davis, Big Star, Six Organs of Admittance, Margie Joseph, Benji Hughes, Eric Dolphy, Law of the Least Effort, Warren Zevon, Donny Hathaway, The Ramones, Pernice Brothers, John & Alice Coltrane, The Dream Syndicate, Arthur Russell, The Hold Steady, Kevin Ayers & the Whole World, Bill Frisell, Laura Nyro, Jim Carroll, Kurt Vile, Harvey Milk, Al Green, other things, too. |
| Favorite books | Nelson Algren, Chuck Bukowski, Rick Moody, Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Chuck Klosterman, John Hodgeman, Douglas Coupland, John Wray, Nick Hornby, Jack Kerouac, George Saunders, Frank Herbert, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Stan Lee, Frank Miller, C.S. Lewis, Craig Thompson, Adam Voith, Alan Moore, Ayn Rand, Dave Eggers, Franz Kafka, Hunter S. Thompson, Johnathon Goldstein, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Salvador Plascencia. Loads of music rags and various lad lit publications. |