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follow my Twitter profile at http://twitter.com/jamesdamnbrown • If it's all good then it's not all relative. • A friend once told me that I reminded him of the protagonist of the Walker Percy novel The Moviegoer. • My resolve finally undone by angsty lovestruck French teenagers, I ended my two year boycott of the Kabuki Cinema to see La Belle Personne. • Reading Dizzy Gillespie's autobiography To Be Or Not To Bop. The cat was almost as handy with a knife as with a trumpet. Ask Cab Calloway. • I don't feel old, I feel like a young guy who has something wrong with him. • Warm night in Berkeley lying on the lawn outside PFA with a crowd of college kids watching a free outdoor movie projected onto the building. • Live jazz and a groovy crowd in Union Square on an actual warm San Francisco night. Must be what Eric Burden was talking about. • Read the autobiography of @joancbaez who is sweetly unabashedly boy crazy. The Baez sisters anti-draft poster is a howl: http://bit.ly/R8mEc • I've decided that I am too idiosyncratic to arrive at any universal truths. • Had a really fun 47th birthday party, eating and drinking and playing songs with my favorite musician buddies at my apartment. • iPhoning teenagers discussing private school in a cafe in Pacific Heights make me think about my poverty ridden childhood in Tennessee. • In European films men emasculated by society take out their frustration on sympathetic women. In American films they shoot lots of people. • Smoke from House Of Prime Rib around the corner drifts in my window. They always give me seconds for free and I'm not even Anthony Bourdain. • The rockabilly bands around here, and a lot of the country music players too, need to worry less about clothes and more about musicianship. • Thirst, the new film by Korean director Park Chan-wook, is wildly original, inventive, and uproariously funny. Best vampire movie in years. • Me, Carolyn and Billy's rendition of "It Makes No Difference" was a hit at The Band tribute concert. Billy's dobro sounded great with harp. • Been looking for a black fur felt fedora with a three inch brim and a crown with a pinched center dent. The winner: the Dexter by Stetson. • Naia Gelato on Castro near 18th has a flavor made with St. George whiskey. Single malt whiskey ice cream, now that's what I'm talking about. • PFA 6/25: Oshima's 3 Resurrected Drunkards: Help! meets Godard in Japan starring 60s Tokyo pop group The Folk Crusaders http://bit.ly/7ZP96 • SF Opera's production of Porgy And Bess was lovely. Even though it's in English you still need subtitles to interpret the operatic phrasing. • Played some swing with friends at the SF Folk Festival. Learned the changes to Miles Davis' "Four" which I hadn't played before, nice tune. • Ticked off at throwing two cool battery powered portable television sets in the trash today because all they get now is static. • U.S. press will report that statistical irregularities point to election fraud overseas but when it happens here (Ohio 2004) mum's the word. • It's strange erasing someone's entry in your address book after they die. • Autumn King oldies show Sunday nights on 89.5 KPOO. Monday nights KPOO airs Grinders Grooveyard, another killer oldies show. http://kpoo.com • Leisure at Paradise Lounge, had more fun jamming with the elderly black blues guitarist busking out in front of the club than I did dancing. • Anyone else think Dick Cheney is making those Bin Laden tapes in his basement? • A bike messenger hocks a loogie into a garbage can at Market and Montgomery and his buddy says to him, Hey people eat out of there you know. • Bought an awesome 100% black rabbit fur bowler/derby hat made by Parisian chapelier http://anthonypeto.com at Berkeley Hat on Telegraph. • My tailor put a black velvet collar, velvet cuffs and velvet buttons on my black pinstripe Ben Sherman suit. Ready for any mod eventuality. • Roxie 5/30: All Night Long, 60s film version of Shakespeare's Othello set in London's swinging jazz scene with Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck. • New York Dolls at the Regency, shitty sound, fun crowd, unfamiliar new songs, played along on my harp with cool reggae version of "Trash." • NY Dolls: during "Pills" a big girl in a rock and roll nurse outfit jumped on me and I dropped her because of my fucked up back. I felt bad. • My place was built entirely of redwood after the 1906 earthquake. The walls, floors, windows, and doors are solid redwood. Those poor trees. • Listening to MP3s of Bob Dylan's radio show. Never heard it? Check out the cool records he spins: http://jamesdamnbrown.com/dylanshow • Why 1925 Gough is the only privately owned building in a public park in San Francisco, maybe the U.S. http://sfnpc.org/lafayetteparkhistory • Saw two rare 70s films at the Castro: Puzzle Of A Downfall Child with Faye Dunaway and Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays with Tuesday Weld. • The How Weird Street Fair is alot like LoveFest except smaller, mellower, less nudity and you can buy a full body kangaroo suit on the spot. • 140 characters is about as interesting as I get these days. • My tailor replaced the peak lapels on my shiny silver Zara suit with a narrow shawl collar. Very 60s look, everyone at Kaleidoscope flipped. • Bought bootleg DVDs of the entire 60s Batman TV show. 50 hours of Batman episodes. Will I watch them all? Tune in tomorrow, same bat-time... • Just watched all Truffaut's Antoine Doniel films. Boy, French guys can be total jerks and cute French girls will still swoon over them. • Terrence Malick's The New World is one of the most beautiful films ever made.
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