JON GINOLI bio

Name: Jon Latimer Ginoli
Instrument: Guitar
Birthday: December 4, 1959
Birthplace: Peoria, Illinois
Current residence: San Francisco
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 145
Boxers or briefs? boxer briefs!
Past jobs: bagging groceries, movie theater, copy shop, record stores, record distributors
First band (& year): The Outnumbered, 1982
Came out at (list age): 20, in 1980
Hobbies: reading, politics, music, movies, sex
favorite recent read: Robert Fisk's "The Great War For Civilisation"
Favorite color: purple
Favorite foods: Thai, Mexican, Italian. Lotsa fruit too!
Favorite clothes: t-shirts & jeans
Miscellaneous likes: good gas mileage, being out in nature, finding things where I left them
Miscellaneous dislikes: facial hair, stupid drivers, sexist men, social conservatives, bigots, hot weather, corporate media, rap metal, nu metal, anything remotely emo
Favorite song: Today I'll say "The Upper Classes" by The Auteurs. Or maybe "North By North" by The Bats.
Favorite bands (all-time): The Kinks, Velvet Underground, Go-Betweens, The Fall, Gun Club, Ramones, Buzzcocks. Among others. Plus lots of great one-shots by obscure rock & soul artists
Favorite bands (current listening): The Fall, Pulp, Wire, Los Campesinos!, The Monkees, Public Nuisance, T-Bone Burnett, LCD Soundsystem, Hole, John Fogerty, British Sea Power, The Zombies
A band you like that you feel alone in liking: The Only Ones
A band everyone seems to like but you don't: Scott Walker, Sufjan Stevens, Radiohead
A band you love to hate: Primal Scream
I admire: Amy Goodman, the Billbaord Liberation Front, the Barbie Liberation Army
I'm so tired of: religion, corrupt politics/politicians, our overly deferential US media, tweekers
Causes you support: Amnesty International, People For The American Way, Planned Parenthood, National Center For Lesbian Rights, California Rural Legal Assistance, Public Citizen, American Civil Liberties Union, National Organization For Women, NARAL, Southern Poverty Law Center
Favorite films: Network, Annie Hall, His Girl Friday (1940), Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Chinatown, Manufacturing Consent. I watch a lot of documentaries these days.
Other bands I play in: in the early '00s I also played in The Planning Commission
Best thing about being in Pansy Division: playing shows, traveling, recording, and meeting people
Worst thing about being in Pansy Division: the bureaucratic/business side of it
Predictions: My last prediction was that Michael Jackson would commit suicide by age 40, so I'm not making any more.
Quote: "We now inhabit an era of such extreme corporate control and government censorship of the media that books have become the new journalism and documentaries have become the modern news programs."

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