tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33569172011-04-21T16:26:23.531-07:00Preacher John's blogger - Fresh Headguts!Updates on my music, gigs, recordings, CDs, poems, books, websites, comics and merch. ... Somewhere for me to !sound off! on anything &amp; everything... especially against the Misery Industries!! ;) ... <a href="http://wwww.preacherjohn.co.uk">Main site</a> - <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/preacherjohn">My shop</a> - <a href="mailto:preacher@preacherjohn.co.uk">Email</a>jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comBlogger741100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-46285066665488211192009-06-10T06:49:00.001-07:002009-06-10T06:49:29.702-07:00MMail Message(Change2).. discredit him, however, and his cause may crumble with him.. Preacher Johnjonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-83659070040028972882009-06-10T06:47:00.001-07:002009-06-10T06:47:15.461-07:00MMail Message(Change).. no surer way to transform a man with feet of clay into a stainless martyr for his cause than to assassinate him..jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-78980690695550395592009-05-23T06:59:00.000-07:002009-05-23T07:00:00.427-07:00MMail Message(Wise words #4: ... )"Those who sacrifice freedom for security shall have neither" Benjamin Franklinjonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-64030216722120818742009-05-08T11:29:00.001-07:002009-05-08T11:39:51.917-07:00"Most people would rather die than think. And in fact many do." Bertrand Russell"If you want these boys to kill people, you don't want them to think about it TOO hard" Andy McNab (ex-SAS)"Most people would rather kill than think. And in fact many do." Preacher Johnjonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-58744273517138641252009-05-02T11:52:00.000-07:002009-05-02T11:53:29.328-07:00On the upside I'm cracking on typing up my next book of poetry! :)jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-91547867165908166642009-05-02T11:51:00.001-07:002009-05-02T11:51:05.068-07:00I see arseholes... I was walkin' down by the Thames next to Sonning a minute ago.. It's beautiful down here.. Now clearly some folks have been along earlier for a bbq.. I'll bet they had a lovely time in sun.. And then they left a massive pile of rancid rubbish behind.. Wankers! What is it with people? They go somewhere beautiful and straightaway fuck it up! When I was out in Mexico I'd go out tojonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-20030843918117049572009-04-10T04:27:00.000-07:002009-04-10T04:32:21.646-07:00"I just plugged it (wifi) in and it worked.." am I the only person left on the planet who this doesn't happen for? Why? WHY! WHY does everything computers always take hours and bloody hours of frustrating faff before it bloody works!? Or doesn't.. arse!jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-43432165352012467012009-04-06T16:18:00.000-07:002009-04-06T16:32:30.383-07:00Fresh new T-shirts for sale at http://www.cafepress.com/preacherjohnWoop!jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-77349445073951557202009-03-09T14:58:00.005-07:002009-03-09T15:22:16.670-07:00Buy my books and CDs plz thnks! ;PWoo! You can now buy online from my cafepress shop at:http://www.cafepress.com/preacherjohnmy CD album "Word" - 25tracks = 1hr 6mins of preachin' - can you stand it?ANDmy book of performance poetry The Thoughts of Preacher John - Book 1(yes, it is kind of a threat, Book 2 is brewing as we speak!)and there's merch as well, badges (not badgers, sorry) and "Satan jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-66723820530135369062009-03-08T15:48:00.000-07:002009-03-08T16:01:55.517-07:00Hey! Yes I'm back! yay! have revamped the website with new pics, videos etc.. And there's ashowcase gig coming up at the Deja Vu Bar on Friday 13th March 2009!jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-30819402123287924412008-02-18T16:08:00.001-08:002008-02-18T16:12:05.031-08:0018 Feb 2008Preacher John's Open Floor Night is no more!It is over! it is an ex-night! it is deceased! it 'as passed away! it is no more! etc. etc. etc.Too few folks showing up to play over too many months I'm afraid! so I'm gonna do something else with my third Friday of the month night!It happened before years back with the "Sunday Sermon"- these things seem to have a life span (about two years jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-88693552310509222482007-09-02T15:26:00.000-07:002007-09-02T15:28:56.462-07:00New(ish) picsWell I finally got round to sticking up some new (ish) pics - click and scroll down to check 'em out! There's a few from a gig back in August '04 at Colorz Bar taken by Alex Cooke - ace photgrapher! and you can see Katie Took playing djembe too! :)jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-43844592808471471672007-08-30T17:26:00.000-07:002007-08-30T17:28:50.499-07:00Hey - cross posting stuff from my myspace blog 'cos I just realised it has no archive facility! and scrolls off after a half dozen posts! So here is stuff:30 Aug 2007A good night tonight and changed gig dates! Current mood: happyWell the Up In swapped around their band vs. open mic nights so I ended up down the 3Bs tonight where an ace night was had by all some great artists played!And I got to jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-77170061077874135532007-07-26T17:52:00.001-07:002007-07-26T17:52:33.305-07:00Helloooo!Much news since last posting... But the big thing today is:My Album is DONE! It is READY! WooHoo! Current mood: exhaustedYes, it's only taken a YEAR! But at last the "best of" (or "you can just just about stand it of") Preacher John is DONE! DONE I say! My creation lives! ...I'm soooo sleep deprived!...It's called WORD (1998 - 2007) on account of it being a retrospective...25 tracks - jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1100629002660277512004-11-16T10:14:00.000-08:002004-11-16T10:16:42.660-08:00Well, Army of Pygmies have been rocking out! We got a good live recording from the gig at Colorz on Nov. 4th and we'll be sticking that on a CD which you'll be able to buythrough the website (and prob'ly at gigs) fairly soon: www.armyofpygmies.co.ukYou can already buy our T-shirts with the "Stomping Pygmy" logo on them online! If you're interested I'll be playing a solo acoustic Preacher John jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1092054569309221352004-08-09T05:27:00.000-07:002004-08-09T05:29:29.310-07:00Gigs, Band news and Busking! Hey guys Just to let you know i'll be playing a full Preacher John set down at Colorz (Bar Oz), in Reading, opposite the train station, on Thursday 26th of August... I'm first on so best get there around 8pm if you want to see me play! Katy Took (drummer from my band Army of Pygmies) may be providing rythmns depending on if we can ever sort a time for practice... jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1092054452110879382004-08-09T05:23:00.000-07:002004-08-09T05:27:32.110-07:00Right I've sorted new hosting with Totalise and put up a back up of the site there - unfortunately the 3rd issue of Tosienin is missing from this... I'll reload that when Jay gets the files back from his host.... Meantime I took the oppurtunity to fix all te dead mp3.com links so now you'll find that all the main page links to my music, Desdemona, afharrold, Matt Westwood, Andy Raven and Broken jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1091619054187827662004-08-04T04:29:00.000-07:002004-08-04T04:30:54.186-07:00Oh and don't forget my forum is still up at: http://forums.delphiforums.com/preacherjohn/ jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1091618866402931472004-08-04T04:21:00.000-07:002004-08-04T04:27:46.403-07:00Trying to cobble together new home site out of the flotsam and jetsam left after hosting problems... most of my remaining stuff is at: http://preacherjohn.iuma.com there's some more mp3s of mine you can stream from here: http://www.garageband.com/artist/preacherjohn This it seems is where my stuff went after mp3.com went pffffffft... but these guys only give you free hosting for 3 tracks whichjonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1080536415225997632004-03-28T21:00:00.000-08:002004-03-28T21:02:49.996-08:00Things I'll miss Today marks 8months out from the UK for me on this trip... and I only have 8 full days left in La Paz before I set off to head home.... Oddly (well maybe not so odd) having been homesick off and on for months I know I'm going to miss La Paz... There's a lot of good aspects to the place... for instance for the last couple of weeks pretty much every sunset over the bay has been ajonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-107949954144402812004-03-16T20:59:00.000-08:002004-03-16T21:02:32.610-08:00Belated update, earliest entry first: From 27th Jan 04 Good news! Today, in the near record time of 11 days from starting process I got my FM3= Mexican residence/work permit! So now I'm entitled to stay here in La Paz and do my english teaching job at the Tech - which starts on Saturday and runs through 'til end of March! Woo-hoo!!! From 4th Feb 04 ...an interesting afternoon... I wentjonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1073432301743888522004-01-06T15:38:00.000-08:002004-01-06T15:39:34.060-08:00Escape from Flash Flood by Preacher John - a true story from my travels from 3/10/03 (Some of my friends wanted hear the full story of this so I've spent a couple of hours typing it in full, the long version is just below and for those with little time or attention deficit disorder a very short version (1 paragraph!) at the bottom!) It was only my second day in Arizona and I had got up at the jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1073430420821242842004-01-06T15:07:00.000-08:002004-01-06T15:08:42.186-08:00Woo ha! Went swimming and body surfing at Balandra in crystal clear waters yesterday, had a whole beach to myself, while Mexicans shivered in their coats around the corner of the bay... pfft, must have been at least 18'C and sunny just 'cos the wind was a wee bit nippy! ,)jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1073369775431792342004-01-05T22:16:00.000-08:002004-01-05T22:17:27.186-08:00You know it's a buyers market when the Taxi drivers shout "Taxi" at you as you walk past in the street!jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1073369745489053322004-01-05T22:15:00.000-08:002004-01-05T22:16:57.250-08:00Playing the Japanese product naming game in Mexico, we have: "Ponce" bananas "Bimbo" bread the fact that Bimbo is a small white bear who wears a chefs hat makes this odder still...jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1073264729374111422004-01-04T17:05:00.000-08:002004-01-04T17:06:40.076-08:00¡Ay! I have sand in my EARS from practising ukemi* on the beach! (*breakfalls, rolls, handsprings etc. for the martial art I train in - Bujinkan budo Taijutsu)jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1072853910067669772003-12-30T22:58:00.000-08:002003-12-30T22:59:35.343-08:00I'm so tired! Bloody dogs! Malditos perros en mi barrio! - the bastards were up all night barking constantly! I didn't get to kip 'til 3am and even then needed ear plugs and the radio on to drown the sods out! Oh, if only I had a wee .22 and a burger van, I'd have my own little vengeance&catering business! Vendetta&Dogribs Inc. Sweeeeeet! Still I made it all the way over to Todos Santos on thejonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1072764497442664682003-12-29T22:08:00.000-08:002003-12-29T22:10:29.250-08:00The name of that band I mentioned a couple of weeks back - it's not Los Martillos, it's Los Molotovs! Easy mistake to make eh?jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1072579830174819702003-12-27T18:50:00.000-08:002003-12-27T18:51:33.186-08:00Spent Xmas afternoon swimming in the clean warm turquoise waters of the Sea of Cortez/Gulf of California off gorgeous Tecolote beach while pelicans dived into the water around me and the sun set behind the cactus covered mountains. Sweeeeeeeeet. ;)jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1072320793283361982003-12-24T18:53:00.000-08:002003-12-24T18:54:12.530-08:00oh and the lizard's back - stupid thing!jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1072320751447017942003-12-24T18:52:00.000-08:002003-12-24T18:53:30.700-08:00Well it's been an odd few days here in La Paz. My birthday was alright thanks in the main to hanging out with my drinking buds Dan and Corey and no thanks at all to net2phone whose dicking around and failing to verify my visa card meant I could only call home for 2mins! and even less thanks to an unpleasant chick by the name of "Meredith" (v. strange name for a Mexican girl) in Las Varitas who jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1071438488678133682003-12-14T13:48:00.000-08:002003-12-14T13:48:57.873-08:00There was a little lizard scurrying up the wall in my flat today...I went to catch it by its tail and throw it out...and the tail came off in my hand - I was left with a much shorter lizard and a tail held between finger and thumb - still twitching!!! I managed to shoo the poor wee sod out the door eventually... jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1071263284830877722003-12-12T13:08:00.000-08:002003-12-12T13:08:52.593-08:00So far I've introduced myself and my CV to 4 universities (out of the 5 or 6 in this wee city of 200,000peeps), 3 language centres and one airline (air hostesses and pilots need english see!). Favourable noises made at 4 of those, so fingers crossed I'm hoping to get a few hours work a week starting Jan which should at least cover the rent so I'd be able to afford to stay here in La Paz through jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1070838200096143822003-12-07T15:03:00.000-08:002003-12-14T13:47:33.046-08:00By now I've worked out that only Americans from the USA really count as "gringos" and that term is very far from complementary... pretty much like the chinese "gweilo" and japanese "gaijin" i.e. foreign devils! It's technically high tourist season here in Baja but still v. few "white" peeps around in La Paz (there's an economic slump on apparently) and clearly if you're not Mexican here you're jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1070412269319741612003-12-02T16:44:00.000-08:002003-12-02T16:46:46.340-08:00Well it looks like mp3.com has sold itself to CNET and the new owners have screwed the pooch by suspending and/or possibly wiping all the artists like me and my mates who've laboriously uploaded their songs and poems over the years. To be honest I'm well pissed off with this, my own mp3.com page alone had around 5 years of off and on work on it, not to mention 5 downloadable / buyable albums jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1070247112621213292003-11-30T18:51:00.000-08:002003-11-30T18:52:28.200-08:00Still writing up my last couple of months adventures - watch this space!jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1070246959743565762003-11-30T18:49:00.000-08:002003-11-30T18:51:12.576-08:00Well I made it to Mexico and all the way down the Baja Peninsula to La Paz! It was 4 months to the day two days ago since I left the UK on this trip.... Things are moving along down here - I moved into my new apartment three days ago! at last a place of my own (that isn´t a caravan or one tiny room) and it´s only setting me back 2200 pesos = 150quid a month (cheaper than the hostel) And it´s jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1067727822408717972003-11-01T15:03:00.000-08:002003-11-01T15:03:41.413-08:00Long time no post. Many adventures since my last post here, including escape from a flash flood in a helicopter! I promise to put these stories up here once I get time and a reliable internet connection!!!! (Not this one!) I've spent the last two weeks recovering from sinusitus and tomorrow I'm heading into Mexico! Fingers crossed I can avoid the wildfires by crossing at Mexicali.... ;)jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1063313858206189252003-09-11T13:49:00.000-07:002003-09-11T13:57:38.056-07:00Location: Fort Bragg California coast Status: a little queasy from beers last night After 4 days of camping out under huge redwoods in the back of the car as I travelled down the coast I gave in to the need for a bath (rather than a grotty campsite shower) a haircut and a few beers and i stopped off in this little town about a third of the way down the Cali coast.... they even have their own jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1062882363817223792003-09-06T14:06:00.000-07:002003-09-06T14:06:03.853-07:00Updating from Eugene, Oregon: I've been on the road now for nearly two weeks since I said good bye to Carine (who I met all too briefly) and Seattle.... I've driven about 1400 miles up around Washington's Olympic Penninsula, back East into volcano country, down into Oregon, along the coastline and a "quick" detour (3 days, 500miles) inland... During this time I've crossed the Puget Sound on thejonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1061757177876227152003-08-24T13:32:00.000-07:002003-08-24T13:32:57.850-07:00I'm in Seattle, USA now, and it's possibly been the most expensive 5 days of my life to date! - I just bought myself a 1990 Ford Taurus stationwagon (that's "estate" to Brits) for just $1130... off a geezer called Don, who hails from the Bronx, but is very gald to have "escaped from New York"... - mind you reg and insurance was another $900! ouch! Still it seems to be sound and the air con jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1061349151750790642003-08-19T20:12:00.000-07:002003-08-24T13:04:55.716-07:00Some thoughts on Vancouver and the island... Soup and a sandwich - clam chowder + salmon salad = trad Vancouver lunch, v. fine. Glittering glass ziggurats, "old" colonial houses, the odd green street just like England and the post apocalypse zone of East Hastings Street... On climbing the "Grouse Grind" on Grouse mountain, a haiku (feel free to point and laugh) Hot sun, falling rain Steam jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1061267965016879062003-08-18T21:39:00.000-07:002003-08-18T21:39:24.930-07:00Just got back from Vancouver Island... so much that I need to put up here - I've fallen behind with my online diary... It's difficult to convey just how fuckin' beautiful this place is: the sea and the mountains are glory itself....jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1060493150149269472003-08-09T22:25:00.000-07:002003-08-24T13:21:38.136-07:00Now I'm in Vancouver in Canada, I'll be out here a couple of weeks, I just got here yeseterday after being over in Kingston Ontario for a while for my cousin Jenni's wedding.... So far I've partied, canoed, swum, shot a real rifle for the first time, seen the waters of the Pacific and the mountains of the Rockies, made a very fast u turn after walking into the scum district of Vancouver lookingjonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1060399779606905892003-08-08T20:29:00.000-07:002003-08-24T13:13:44.360-07:00And now... there'll be a bit of a change in my use of this here blogger - in addition to letting you know about changes / updates to the site I'll be using it to keep interested folks up to speed on my travels also know as the "Preacher John World Tour" ;) .... Back in April / May I went out to Barcelona to retrain as a Teacher of English as a Foreign Language to Adults (i.e. I got my CELTA jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-1060398889596841472003-08-08T20:14:00.000-07:002003-08-08T20:15:18.003-07:00Finally! I know it's been a long, long, LONG time but I finally completed the third issue of Toseinin - the comic that features the 6' tall 260lb ass kicking supercurvy superkinky anti-heroine! And despite having flitted off around the world (am currently in vancouver and will be heading down into the west coast usa in a couple of weeks) I managed to get it online with a little help from my jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-857327082002-12-09T08:33:00.000-08:002002-12-09T08:33:29.180-08:00well, I've been sickly lately with the cold/flu etc. but I've managed to pencil another couple of pages for Issue 3 of toseinin and I have time off over Xmas - so keep coming back it'll be up soon!jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-857324832002-12-09T08:28:00.000-08:002002-12-09T08:31:44.000-08:00Check out my mp3.com page there's a new, free track up for your aural enjoyment - a funky hip-hop re-mix of my poem "Ganja" with music by Jason Field (aka djDJ - dj Disgusting Jason) http://www.mp3.com/PreacherJohn Enjoy!jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-841111052002-11-06T03:35:00.000-08:002002-11-06T03:36:15.000-08:00*sigh* once more ntl (my 'phone "provider") sucks! my phone line went down on 24th October - I tried to contact their customer "service" people today only to have their automated menu system hang up on me twice! I can't stand no more! Not after the last farce with them - so if you're wondering about the lack of updates on the site - there you have it - blame ntl... This letter pretty much jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-817661532002-09-18T03:23:00.000-07:002002-09-18T03:25:27.000-07:00Thoughts of Preacher John #5 The imposition of limits may force the opening of new horizons - freedom may be attained despite restraint.Where there are no limits care must be taken not to construct your own comfortable prisons - out of laziness or fear 'Was talking to Rich from Desdemona last night and he was saying how a lot of the creative drive in Desdemona comes from his efforts to unlearn jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-815467382002-09-13T02:36:00.000-07:002002-09-13T03:47:51.000-07:00Live gigs: Yes, I'm still playing Bohemian open mic night down at the 3Bs bar (under the Town Hall) in Reading pretty much every Wednesday when I can get a slot (depends on how many people show up to play/ what time I get there)... generally alternating between poetry one week and tunes the next... And there should be a full set gig playing tunes at Pavlov's Dog in Reading in October - exact jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-815120882002-09-12T09:40:00.000-07:002002-09-12T09:41:50.000-07:00For those that are interested - I'm pencilling the third issue of Toseinin at the moment and I've already done the first few pages... I am back in action! Watch this space!jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-815100902002-09-12T08:51:00.000-07:002002-09-12T08:55:37.000-07:00I'm giving away 150 copies of Broken Brow's 7" vinyl A/AA single A - "Vagrant" This is Jazz-punk Weirdcore! Think the Muppets meets Metallica. Or indeed the "bastard offspring of King Kurt shagging Nick Cave..." AA - "Bite Back" .... A song of fury and defiance, screaming out at everything that's ever hurt you or anyone you cared for.... This storming piece of vinyl goes to the first 150 jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-815091322002-09-12T08:27:00.000-07:002002-09-12T08:46:56.000-07:00The Thoughts of Preacher John - Book 1 - a collection of poems is now in print! It's a pocket size red book with 40+ pages of poems - pretty much 3 years worth of performance poetry, which I was inspired to put into print 'cos people kept nicking my notepad to read and then wanting a copy..... And now they're actually buying it! Woo-ha! To order the book click here for the Channel Idris shop jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-802843082002-08-15T10:58:00.000-07:002002-08-15T10:58:04.030-07:00Go check out the Forum! I've done a write-up of the Last Sermon! jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-797714012002-08-03T05:36:00.000-07:002002-08-03T05:36:07.733-07:00Andy Raven is now part of Channel Idris! Yay! Go here for blurb about the Rave and link to his mp3 page - for FREE TUNES! jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-795506112002-07-29T08:09:00.000-07:002002-07-29T08:12:28.000-07:00You can now listen to my radio show online! Woo-ha! Go here and hit the play button (it'll ask you about your mp3 player - Winamp works fine, or download Live365's player, which is both small (KBs wise) and good) http://www.reading-college.ac.uk/ReadingCollegeRadio/index.htm "The Breakout" !escaping from the playlist! from 5 - 6pm on Mondays playing punk, rock, old soul classics, concious hip jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-788138392002-07-11T03:31:00.000-07:002002-07-11T03:38:33.000-07:00AT LAST! I've updated the site! Two new things for your pleasure: Hit any of the the links to my site (it's mirrored y'see, as I think I've mentioned here before... pick whichever one is easiest to remember or gives fastest response) http://www.preacherjohn.co.uk or http://www.channelidris.co.uk or http://www.idris.freewire.co.uk Then To read a shed load of my own poems and song lyrics jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-787286702002-07-09T05:57:00.000-07:002002-07-09T05:58:30.000-07:00Dispatch form the coal face: Tonsils gone... Scars healing... Back in training... Back to work.... 2 new songs on Idris Radio at http://www.preacherjohn.co.uk ..... by the Supreme Beings and Goldblade... a shedload of poems and a links nexus of webcomics to come.... Watch this space!jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-765370742002-05-14T08:34:00.000-07:002002-05-14T08:38:28.000-07:00Some of you may have wondered what the hell I've been up to lately... Well apart from dreaming of escaping work / pisspoor rainy grey country.... I'm working on typing up all my poems to put 'em all up on the web & stick 'em in a book for sale.... I'm about half way through that project... I've sketched out the the third issue of Toseinin too, so will start work on that in earnest this week...jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-109724582002-03-21T08:17:00.000-08:002002-03-26T02:25:26.000-08:00Thoughts of Preacher John #4: A Zen koan from 1930s Brooklyn (ref Schroedinger's Cat by Robert Anton Wilson) Pretty little birdies Picking in the turdies Called out by children at the sight of birds pecking in the horseshit for oats. Today this koan evokes this in me: The vast majority of religions are, on the whole, systems for the command, control and exploitation of one group of humans, jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-107594402002-03-15T03:38:00.000-08:002002-03-15T03:38:20.270-08:00Desdemona's new CD, Greysacle is now available! Just $9.98 to have it delivered to your door!jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-107593702002-03-15T03:32:00.000-08:002002-03-15T03:33:08.000-08:00Thoughts of Preacher John #3: A strong meme may live eternal In the hearts and minds of men The medium changes but the work may endure if it is strong enough. Homer's "Iliad" and "Odessey" both began as oral works (which is why when you read the original translation there are so many refrains - they both have a poetic / song structure) and were transfered to hard media by the Romans (I think) jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-105243132002-03-08T07:40:00.000-08:002002-03-08T07:41:37.000-08:00Keep an eye on Desdemona's mp3 page - there's 4 new tracks up there now and you will soon be able to buy their new CD ep "Greyscale"... Also keep watch on afharrold and Matt Westwood's mp3 pages, 'cos soon (hopefully within a week) there will be 6 or 7 new poems up on each! See, I am kind - I give you many things. ;)jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-105237832002-03-08T07:24:00.000-08:002002-03-08T07:24:06.793-08:00Ahahahahahahaha!!!! At LAST! My phone line is fixed! YES! So the mirror site at: http://www.idris.freewire.co.uk http://www.sodiumproductions.co.uk is FINALLY updated! I stand triumphant!!! Moo hoo ha ha! EEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvviiiiiiilllll Mini-me charge the frickken laser! :Djonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-104867392002-03-07T04:54:00.000-08:002002-03-07T04:54:52.940-08:00Yardcore! Ragga metal! From the ashes of Dubwar rises the glorious Skindred! http://www.skindred.org/ Fuckin' A!jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-104864532002-03-07T04:39:00.000-08:002002-03-08T07:21:18.000-08:00Thoughts of Preacher John #2: It ain't all "yes" or "no", baby. The trap of yes/no, black/white, on/off, good/evil, god/satan, dichotomous thinking can suck people down in many ways. Linear 0 vs 1 logic is a powerful tool for modelling certain aspects of the world, but people become obsessed into believing it's the be-all and end-all. Very dangerous. This thinking permeates many levels ofjonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-104094442002-03-05T07:43:00.000-08:002002-03-05T08:03:58.000-08:00Redundancy of Channelidris site(s). Alternative links for you to use if all else fails. ;) I've built Channelidris using a variety of free hosting services and cheap / free dial up ISPs. Firstly, I built redundancy into Channelidris by mirroring the main site onto two servers. There are two URLs per main site server as well. Secondly, the main site itself is a "meta-site" - it pulls togetherjonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-104015122002-03-05T01:48:00.000-08:002002-03-05T01:50:01.000-08:00Here's a grass roots, direct action news site - just as partisan in its own way as any of the big news rags, but if you're trying to develop an informed and balanced idea of what the hell is going on then this well worth checking out: http://www.schnews.org.uk/ Especially good for alternative viewpoint on those "rentamob protestors" big meedja love to demonize and also for having some sense ofjonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-103697082002-03-04T09:21:00.000-08:002002-03-04T09:30:28.000-08:00Thoughts of Preacher John #1: The price of your life Your perceptions begin and end with your life, without it you have nothing - and from your personal point of view - there is nothing. Your life is finite. It has a beginning. It will have an end. No amount of money will ever buy you more life. Every hour you sell to someone else is a piece of your sole and unique life lost to you forever.jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-102236522002-02-28T06:03:00.000-08:002002-02-28T06:12:24.000-08:00Jeysaz! mi eyes mi eyes are BURNIN'! Dunno why they do this, but they do sometimes burn after too long front of the PC.... There's loads on at work at the moment, but I've still managed to take a few minutes to fix the mp3.com pages that used to link out to the old mirror sites, the ones that I don't seem to be able to update any further now...( http://www.sodiumproductions.co.uk http://jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-101407032002-02-26T04:20:00.000-08:002002-02-26T04:24:31.000-08:00Moo hoo ha ha Shite phone companies shall not stand between me and my websites! At LAST I got the rest of Issue 2 Toseinin uploaded to http://www.preacherjohn.co.uk http://www.channelidris.co.uk GO! Hit the site, then "Comics/Cartoons", then "Toseinin" Read the adventures of a supercurvy, kickass Yakuza girl! Mature readers only! Don't go reading Issue 1 if you're at work and prudish people jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-101001952002-02-25T05:15:00.000-08:002002-02-26T04:25:13.000-08:00One of the many things I'm working on is my ongoing mini-comic - "Toseinin"... which gets published on my site and also in paper... I finished up issue Two recently and set to trying to FTP it to the web... Only to find that my 'phone line is royally screwed... To cut a long story short a "certain UK phone company" *coughntlcough* sucks the big one, and so to date I've been borrowing a friend's jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356917.post-100998672002-02-25T04:59:00.000-08:002002-02-25T05:03:16.000-08:00If you are asking yourself - "Who the hell is Preacher John?" Then, check out: http://www.preacherjohn.co.uk or mirror sites / URLs at: http://www.channelidris.co.uk http://www.sodiumproductions.co.uk http://www.idris.freewire.co.uk jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832690483336577809noreply@blogger.com