Brian Jay Jones
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Writer, political hack |
| Location | Maryland, United States |
| Introduction | Writer. Biographer. Pop culture junkie. |
| Interests | writing, Washington Irving, The Beatles, film, Batman, theater, Alan Moore, books, jazz, blues, biographies, histories, comic books, John Steinbeck, The Marx Brothers, politics, Charlie Chaplin, Jim Henson, banjo, Sirius satellite radio, Howard Stern, bad TV infomercials, Lewis Carroll, Charles Schulz, The Simpsons |
| Favorite movies | Amadeus, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Crumb, Ed Wood, A Night at the Opera, Grapes of Wrath, Swingers, The Circus, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Boogie Nights, A Hard Day's Night, Modern Times, Sleepy Hollow, Duck Soup, Goodfellas, That Thing You Do!, City Lights, Deathtrap, Rope, The Shawshank Redemption |
| Favorite music | The Beatles, Jazz and blues of the 1940s and 50s, Broadway musicals, Louis Armstrong, B-52s, Barenaked Ladies, Count Basie, Chuck Berry, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Big Maceo, Blind Willie Johnson, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Elvis Costello, Bing Crosby, Miles Davis, Eddie From Ohio, Duke Ellington, Donald Fagen, Ella Fitzgerald, Ben Folds, Fountains of Wayne, Stan Getz, Buddy Guy, Buddy Holly, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James, Billy Joel, Dr. John, Elton John, Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Freddie King, Lightnin' Hopkins, Little Charlie & The Nightcats, Little Milton, Lyle Lovett, Wynton Marsalis, Memphis Slim, Men at Work, Glenn Miller, Thelonious Monk, Mozart, Roy Orbison, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, Pink Floyd, Pink Martini, The Ramones, Reverend Horton Heat, The Rutles, Jimmy Scott, Brian Setzer, Frank Sinatra, Squeeze, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Tampa Red, Art Tatum, They Might Be Giants, Sarah Vaughan, Tom Waits, T-Bone Walker, Dinah Washington, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson |
| Favorite books | The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), A History of New York (Irving), Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate (Caro), Watchmen (Moore), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), The Sketch Book (Irving), John Adams (McCullough), On Writing (King), Sandman (Gaiman), The Lives of John Lennon (Goldman), Careless Love (Guralnick), Beatles: Recording Sessions (Lewisohn), Of Muppets and Men (Finch), In Cold Blood (Capote), Dante's Inferno (Pinsky Translation), The Beatles (Spitz), Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), Truman (McCullough), The Stand (King) |