Other John Davises

  • Dirty Harry Does Diversity.1: Magnum Tucked In Tweed

    One of the weirder phenomena of early 21st century cinema has been the emergence of Clint Eastwood as would-be spokesman for various groups marginalized by the white male power structure his famed ’70’s character Dirty Harry once defended with a famously long phallic symbol.  Million Dollar Baby (2004) concerned itself with issues of gender and…

  • Other John Davises.6: John Davis, Shrimper

    Disambiguation:  the issue haunts all John Davises, musical and otherwise. How to reach today’s web surfing music consumer when your name is ubiquitous?  In the record store era, folks had only had to know enough about the alphabet to figure out that John Davis would come shortly before John Denver in the D section.  Know enough…

  • Other John Davises.5: The Day the Dream Died

    Dreams.  We all have them.  We all want to live them.  We all suffer from this misguided aspiration when we wake up to the reality of lived experience. Green Day can sing about the Boulevard of Broken Dreams all they want, but they’ve never tasted anything like the intense disappointment I have recently experienced after…

  • Other John Davises.4: My Life as a Painter on the Plains

    It’s hard to keep track of all of your parallel lives when you have a ubiquitous name.  They criss cross the English speaking world like railroad tracks.  Fortunately, I have spies.  Agents.  Tentacles.  Informants.  Eyes and ears, everywhere. Like in thrift stores in Nebraska. Megan Siebe is one of these.  Her surveillance skills factored heavily…

  • Other John Davises.2: Practice Space Music

    In a parallel lifetime, I moonlight as the lead singer of Korn.  If you haven’t seen me recently, the ‘locks may seem like a bit of a stylistic departure from the shorter look you can see below at left: Chris from Refrigerator wrestled me to the ground until I promised to grow my hair out…

  • Other John Davises.1: My life as an 18th century batsman

    It can be a bit strange having a ubiquitous name.  But it can also be kinda fun.  This post is the first in a series of characters I found on the net that have the same name as me.  If you believe in previous lifetimes, you may even believe I could have lived some of…