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Jonny B. Goode
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  • Lancaster, CA
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This logo http://www.dieselpunks.org/photo/dieselpunks-art-deco?context=album&albumId=3366493%3AAlbum%3A533 would be really cool on a pin... I'd buy one! (though not sure if it would work in pewter though... I'm thinking maybe a gel pin?)
18 hours ago
All hail Dr. Steel! To a Utopian Playland!
on Thursday
Jonny B. Goode added 2 discussions
March 3
Fortunately, not that sort of embarrassing. :p I also found most of my relatives that i had lost contact with over the years on FB
March 3
Blues (especially Chicago blues) Classic 40's Swing Lounge (Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin/Bobby Darin/Michael Buble/Robbie Williams/Harry Connick Jr./et. al.) Swingpunk/Swing revival 80's music Soundtracks Steampunk The Poxy Boggards (which I gue…
March 3
I ran into the girl I had a crush on as a sophomore a couple of days ago on FB. How embarrassing.
March 2
That's quite impressive. Could be steamie or diesel. I'd buy something like this.
March 1
Wow. Good find..
February 28
I added Weird War; I'll flesh it out later. :)
February 28
nice find. Though I don't find my personal fave take on dieselpunk (the whole weird war stuff and imaginery) really mentioned there, I think the categories cover a good range. According to the categories here I find my pers. view best in mixing Noir…
February 28
Fascinating article. That was a great find Johnny.
February 28
Jonny B. Goode added a discussion
I just noticed that TV Tropes has a very good article on the subject of dieselpunk. They also break up the definition of what dieselpunk is into four categories, instead of our two (Ottensian and Piecraftian):Diesel Deco This is the most optimistic…
February 28
Thanks
February 25
I was in a B-17 at Edwards at the last air show. Those things were incredibly claustrophobic. I've been in a B-52, they're not a whole lot better (though they probably once were but now are so stuffed with high tech avionics...
February 24
The video? 2001.
February 24
When was this made?
February 24

It was a dark and stormy night...

He sat on a bar stool in the middle of the stage, a harsh spot beaming down on him, and for once he was glad for the extra-wide brim on his fedora. He had a drink in one hand and a microphone in the other as he squinted to see through the smoky haze that hung in the air of this two-bit dive like a London fog. Then the dame walked in, in that red dress - all hourglass and gams - and sat at a table right up front, giving him a wink. "Alright then, this next one's for you, doll," he thought, as the band started to play...

I go by Jonny B. to most of my friends. The stage name I took when I started singing. I'm a website designer by day, but by night... I sing a lot of karaoke, I sing blues and swing, and I play the trumpet and a mean blues harp, and am currently between bands. Most weekends you'll find me at a karaoke bar with a mic in my hand, or sitting in with a local band jamming it up.

How'd I get into dieselpunk? Well, I've always been a fan of big city swing and blues - a swingpunk, if you will - but I suppose you can thank Joss Whedon for that last part. You see, I was a fan of Firefly/Serenity, although a latecomer to the fandom, after the show had already gone off the air. Actually even after the movie had come and gone. And then one day I saw this little production he put on called Dr. Horrible.

Well, after that, one thing sort of led to another. I started checking out this controversy online, about how Dr. Horrible had supposedly ripped off another online media star named Dr. Steel. I started watching some of Dr. Steel's videos, and found them amusing, so I got involved in his fan club. A lot of his fans are steampunks, so I started getting into that a little. Then someone pointed me to the Clockwork Cabaret and said I should give them a listen. I gave a listen, and interacted with them a few times... and then Emmett and Klaude invited me to join up here, apparently recalling I had told them I was into swing and blues and thinking I'd like the place...

And so... here I am. With the smell of the city in my nostrils, the sounds of the traffic and machinery playing a soft lullaby in the distance. Leaving the club by the back door, I toss the toothpick I'd been chewing on for the past half hour into the rainsoaked gutter, grab a fresh one from the brim of my fedora and put it between my teeth as I breath in slowly, taking in the lights of the skyline. Yea, a guy could learn to like this place...

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