fpw 03-19-2004, 04:55 PM
Once again my Netflix cue is running low. Time for my irregular request for film suggestions. (Obviously they have to be available on DVD.)

FPW
Richard Kendrick 03-18-2004, 11:17 PM
03.18.2004 4:40 PM EST

J.J. Jackson says hello on MTV for the first time on August 1, 1981
Photo: MTV

"It's worse than a family member dying. It's hard to comprehend. None of us would have expected it." — former VJ Mark Goodman


J.J. Jackson, remembered as one of the first faces of MTV, died Wednesday night in Los Angeles of an apparent heart attack, according to friends and former business associates. He was 62.

Jackson helped define the term "VJ" as one of the first on-air personalities on MTV when the channel launched in 1981. During his five-year tenure with the network, Jackson interviewed some of the top names of the day and was part of some key music milestones. Jackson covered the 1985 Live Aid benefit concert in London and helped to "unmask" Kiss during a 1982 interview. He also hosted the debut episode of MTV's long-running "120 Minutes" in 1986, and brought music titans like Robert Plant and Pete Townshend to the then-fledgling channel.

MTV released a statement Thursday (March 18), mourning the loss of one of its beloved alumni and reflecting on his immense contribution to the station.

"J.J. Jackson's deep passion for music, his ease and good humor on air, and his welcoming style really set the tone for the early days of MTV. He was a big part of the channel's success and we are sure he is in the music section of heaven, with lots of his friends and heroes. We are fortunate to have had him as a part of the MTV family. He will be greatly missed."

Mark Goodman, another of the original VJs who helped blaze trails with Jackson in the '80s, said he was floored when he heard the news. "I was at home, I actually got a call from Martha Quinn," Goodman said Thursday from his home in Los Angeles. "I almost couldn't understand what she was saying, she was so upset."

Goodman said that even though the on-air tenure of MTV's original fab five ended almost two decades ago, they remained a tight-knit group.

"I think the kind of bond I had with J.J., the original five of us, it's kind of like soldiers who share a foxhole," Goodman said. "It's a bond that has only gotten deeper through the years. It's worse than a family member dying. It's hard to comprehend. None of us would have expected it. It's too soon. It wasn't supposed to happen now. He's too young. It's kind of scary.

"I knew he a had a bad heart," Goodman added. "He had heart surgery a couple of years ago, but he was in great shape, he'd lost weight. He was in a great state of mind, feeling really positive about what was going on. I just saw him last week."

Goodman said the two were about to be co-workers again, at Sirius satellite radio. Goodman already has a position there and was looking forward to his friend J.J. starting soon. He said according to the information he received, Jackson was traveling home Wednesday night after having dinner with a friend when he suffered the heart attack.

"He was driving. Typical of J.J., he didn't even hurt anybody," Goodman said. "He was somehow able to ease his foot off the gas. He eased his car over to the side of the road. By the time the paramedics got there, they could not revive him there or the hospital either."

Goodman still has great memories of the man he says used to be the butt of some practical jokes on air, but who always laughed and loved to have a good time.

"J.J. was really a gentle man," he remembered. "He was smart. As I think of him, I think of him laughing. The guy had this huge laugh. He was a rabid music fan. Rod Stewart was a friend of his, guys in Led Zeppelin were friends of his. He championed these bands early on when they were kind of just getting going. He did Bruce Springsteen's first television interview. J.J. was a great guy. For the five of us, he was the wise DJ. He was the guy who had been through it all and was able to always put a mature perspective to things. He wound up handling the spotlight that was thrust on us better than any of us."

Besides his endeavors in television, Jackson also logged a thick résumé in radio. Prior to his MTV days, Jackson was a rock-radio staple, first at WBCN-FM in Boston, and later at a few stations in Los Angeles. His voice even made it to the big screen, as a DJ in the 1976 movie "Car Wash." After his VJ days, Jackson returned to radio in the Los Angeles area.

On Thursday (March 18), Paul Goldstein, program director of L.A.'s KTWV-FM, said "J.J.'s tenure with the station ended just six months ago. He was a wonderful man and will be very missed."
Marc 03-18-2004, 12:31 PM
Okay... here are the people I know have more then enough of FPW books. So, who do you think has the most FPW books? You choose!
Animagess 03-17-2004, 09:49 PM
Okay, these I actually DID draw. I did them today, and since the only copies of the RJ books that have descriptions of these things are at my library (my fifteen-year-old's budget doesn't allow me to splurge on Amazon), my memory might be a little fuzzy. So if the rakosh has the wrong number of fingers or whatever, you'll know why.

http://users.pandora.be/cmb/animagess/ra..._small.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/cmb/animagess/ch..._small.jpg
at
http://users.pandora.be/cmb/animagess/

or

http://www.wormbaby.biz/i/160426.jpg
http://www.wormbaby.biz/i/160425.jpg

In my mind, the designs need tightening up; I'm not sure why. Probably an artist's obsession with getting the details right (the chew wasp's body should be smaller, arrrgh). Anyway, hope you enjoy my little sketches.

P.S. If the links don't work, try again later.
jpwynn 03-17-2004, 04:25 PM
As I'm trying to collect anything that F. Paul Wilson has worked on, I'm trying to track down a copy of Virgin. But I always get hardcover copies of everything, but can't find any in HC. Was it only published in paperback? Am I just wasting my time?

Jason
Mike Hanson 03-17-2004, 11:22 AM
Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!!

No man is an Ireland.

-- Chicago Mayor Richard Daley

In dreams begins responsibility.

-- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet

If the whole human race lay in one grave,
the epitaph on its headstone might well be:
`It seemed a good idea at the time.'

-- Dame Rebecca West (1892-1983)
Irish-born author and journalist

You've got to do your own growing,
no matter how tall your grandfather was.

-- Irish Proverb

Why should you never iron a 4-leaf clover?
You don't want to press your luck.

-- Daryl Stout

May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow,
and may trouble avoid you wherever you go.

-- Irish Blessing

As you slide down the banister of life,
may the splinters never point in the wrong direction!

-- Irish Blessing

You never miss the water till the well has run dry.

-- Irish Proverb

Half a loaf of bread is better than no bread at all.

-- Irish Proverb

Remember even if you loose all,
keep your good name;
for if you loose that you are worthless.

-- Irish Proverb

Saint Patrick was a gentleman...Who through strategy and stealth...
Drove all the snakes from Ireland...Here's a drinkee to his health!
But not too many drinkees...Lest we lose ourselves and then...
Forget the good Saint Patrick...And see them snakes again!

-- Unknown

GOD KEEP MY JEWEL THIS DAY FROM DANGER
From tinker and pooka and black-hearted stranger
From harm of the water and hurt of the fire
From the horns of the cows going home to the byre
From teasing the ass when he's tied to the manger
From stones that would bruise and from thorns of the briar
From evil red berries that waken desire
From hunting the gander and vexing the goat
From depths o' seawater by Danny's old boat
From cut and from tumble --- from sickness and weeping
MAY GOD have my jewel this day in his keeping.

-- Unknown

THE FIDDLER OF DOONEY by W.B. Yeats

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney,
Folk dance like a wave of the sea;
My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet,
My brother in Moharubuiee.

I passed my brother and cousin,
They read in their books of prayer;
I read in my book of songs
I bought at the Sligo fair.

When we come at the end of time,
To Peter sitting in state,
He will smile on the three old spirits,
But call me first through the gate.

For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle
And the merry love to dance;

And when the folk there spy me,
They will all come up to me,
With "Here is the fiddler of Dooney!"
And dance like a wave of the sea."

An Irishman is never drunk
as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass
to keep from falling off the earth.

-- Irish Saying

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman
goes out to find another Irishman
to make a speech to.

-- Shane Leslie

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields and,
Until we meet again

-- An Irish Blessing

May you have warm words on a cold evening,
a full moon on a dark night,
and the road downhill all the way to your door.

-- An Irish blessing

A good laugh and a long sleep
are the best cures in the doctor's book

-- Irish proverb

In order to find his equal,
an Irishman is forced to talk to God.

-- Stephen Braveheart

The most beautiful music of all
is the music of what happens.

-- Irish proverb

When I realized what I had turned out to be was a lousy,
two-bit pool hustler and a drunk,
I wasn't depressed at all.
I was glad to have a profession.

-- Danny McGoorty Irish Pool Player

I have never liked working.
To me a job is an invasion of privacy

-- Danny McGoorty Irish Pool Player

One of the worst things that can happen in life
is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.

-- Danny McGoorty Irish Pool Player

To please himself only the cat purrs.

--Irish Proverb

May those who love us love us
And those who don't love us
May God turn their hearts,
And if He doesn't turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles,
So we'll know them by their limping.

--Irish Prayer Big Grin
Animagess 03-16-2004, 10:59 PM
This is a silly question that has been bothering me. Is Leo Weinstein (the unfortunate lawyer from Legacies, who was pretty much killed on the same page as his arrival) related to Howard Weinstein (from the short story Feelings)?

Or is it just a name FPW decided to give these two characters, seeing as how they both have similar jobs?
Animagess 03-15-2004, 11:35 PM
Well, after lurking around the old forum and being too confused by the layout to post anything relevant, I have finally decided to... uh... do just that.

Seeing as there is no 'newbie-friendly' introduction board here (when was the last time the Repairman Jack forums had any lasting new members, by the way?), and newbies tend to disturb the Natural Order of the Universe, I'll just pop right in...

Possibly I have no life, but I was very curious to see if anyone had DARED attempted to render Jack as anything other than a black silhouette (as depicted on some of the covers of RJ). In other words, had anyone drawn any fanart of him?

I have no idea if any of you have seen this already, but oh well...
http://members.fortunecity.com/meagen/ar...kstrip.jpg

Here's the original site:
http://members.fortunecity.com/meagen/ar...01-08.html

And, more importantly, has anyone ever tried drawing their own interpretation of everyone's favorite 'repairman'?

*raises hand sheepishly and awaits to be struck down by some unimaginable force*
fpw 03-15-2004, 09:33 AM
Saw this yesterday. I'm not much of a Val Kilmer fan but I like much of Mamet's work, so I went to see this. Kilmer is excellent, the script is tight and terse, leaving lots unsaid but with enough information to allow you to connect dots and draw inferences.

The first 80-or-so minutes are riveting. Then it starts to unravel. I don't think Mamet knew how to end it but, being Mamet, got away with it.

Those first 80 minutes, though, make the limp ending tolerable. Worth seeing.

FPW
Marc 03-13-2004, 08:08 PM
There is a discussion on NPR' Talk of the Nation that might be of interest to those that watch "cult" television. They talk to an author who just published a book on the subject, and there are interviews with Joss Whedon and Bruce Campbell. Click here and scroll down to "Cult TV".
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