jim chandler
McKenzie, TN.
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Jim Chandler's work has appeared in numerous literary and college magazines and newspapers during the last 35 years. His latest chapbook, The Word Is All There is from Mt. Aukum Press. Chandler's poetry appears in the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, a 685-page anthology published by Thunder's Mouth Press in October, 1999. Chandler lives in Mckenzie, Tennessee and works in journalism and web development. He was editor and publisher of Thunder Sandwich magazine in the eighties and currently operates an online version of that magazine. |
• What do you do for a living?
I sneak around and pry into people's private affairs. I use subterfuge to gain access to information and issue threats of exposure to get my way. I lie, cheat and steal. In short, I'm a news reporter. • Who are your favorite artists?
Haze McElhenny and myself. And maybe Leon Russell, if pressed for more. • What influences you to write about/how you do?
Caffeine and nicotine at the moment. It used to be lots of booze and various chemicals, most of them illegal. Now, as a born-again Evangelical Christian minister, I had to forego the dope. I shoot up the Bible now and it gets me off better than crank ever did. • Where do you see the underground writing scene in 25 years?
I expect by then to have been taken up to Heaven in the Rapture, so it's sort of a moot point. But, I suppose people will still be worshipping the god-like beings Androla and Nimmo--although they'll have to wheel them up to the mic and watch as they gum and slobber all over it. That will be the extend of the Undergound Scene. Most of the rest will be underground, where they belong. In fact, I'm wondering what the hell many of them are doing on this side of the dirt to begin with. Lots of them should have been dead years ago, Yours Truly included. And maybe we are and just don't know it yet. • from cait - it’s a tremendous responsibility and time consuming obligation as editor/publisher/web guru of the colossal ezine Thunder Sandwich along with journalist, writer, poet extraordinaire, artist…well, forget all of those duties for one day and tell us what one crazy thing that you’ve never done or attempted to do before would you do for that one day, and does anybody in your family sing!?
I want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane before I die and/or ride an elephant. As for the singing, no. But I had a great grandfather who could hum a bit. I think he was my greatest musical influence--outside of Leon Russell, that is. And also a guy who lives out in the bottom and play a jug. Can't remember his name, but that motherfucker had rhythm! |
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