about jj
Okay, so I'm deliberately obscure. I've gone by the handle "just john" since 1989, when I joined Compuserve. There, I was a SysOp of various flavors on RockNet. I moderated events (that would now be called chats) with Neil Gaiman, John Doe and Exene of X, and Webb Wilder.
I also ran some text-based games on RPGAMES.
And I did a thing or two on other venues using that ID.
I moved to concentric.net in the late 1990s. Here's a Google Groups Archive of some posts.
Here's some of my music. In the past, I've had stuff on mp3.com, amp3.net and ampcast.com. Those things are now dead, or in the case of mp3.com, undead.
I've hung around in electronic music fora. It was me who came up with the slogan IF NOT MUSIKA, THEN WHEN!? and I submitted graphics and a bunch of my CDs for Sonic Wallpaper's first Electronic Lounge show.
jjLinks
Radio Free Entropy -- (jjmusic!)Talking to the Collective
Corporate entities vs. individuals.
Ye Gods! -- A cooperatively-written creation myth! Everything is connected ...
Zam! -- A world for sword & sorcery RPGing.
jj's Live Journal -- As bloggy as I want to be.
Who I'm Not (not a comprehensive list)
Among the many other people I am not:
I'm not justj0hn, a subterranean scenester from New Jersey.
I'm not the Just John who used to post in rec.gambling.poker.
I'm not the Just John who recorded Rock'n'Roll in the 1950s and who now lives in Australia.
I'm not John Schneider, who snagged just-john.net, after I dropped ownership, along with just-john.org.
I'm neither this Myspace user nor this one.
I'm not this DJ from Kansas, but I really should send him some of my music.
I'm not John Dunkle of SKYP who I only heard of because somebody from a DoJ IP address searched this site for "dunkle" and "SKYP" ... perhaps to keep tabs on ex-Operation Rescue types. (I have also never been associated with Operation Rescue, and generally support womens' rights.)
Oh, and I never watched the TV show Will & Grace, though I hear it was good.
What's going on here?
Welcome! Here's my official home page, ingeniously designed to lure you into listening to my music and looking at my graphics, and maybe even reading something. I'm gradually moving my stuff from my old main page and website structure to a content management system. Give it a ride and see how it handles. (Note that I've turned the aggregator back off, due to abuse by bots.)
12/20/08: I sent out EPs titled Living Room Covers, compiled from twenty year old tapes. Since all the songs are cover versions of other peoples' stuff, I'm not posting it on SoundClick or the other normal places.
Check out Windhandle, a spiffy new track. This one, I'm classifying as "film music," even though the movie has been playing only in my head and in the markets over the past few months. It's the best tune about commodity trading I've ever produced. -- just john, 12/24/8