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• Escape From New York

  

  In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent. The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country. A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem River, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline. It completely surrounds Manhattan […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  June 20, 2020

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  “Call Me Snake”, “The Name’s Plisken”, #staythefuckhome, 9/11, A#1, A-Number One, A-NUMBER-1, Adrien Barbeau, Adrienne Barbeau, America Burning, America Divided, Anarchy, Animals, ANTIFA, Atticus Ross, Circling The Drain, Coronapocalypse, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Crime, Cult Classic, Debra Hill, Democrat Party, Depression, Destruction, Divided America, Divided States of America, Divided we fall, Domestic Terrorism, Donald Pleasance, Down The Tubes, Drugs, Dystopia, Electronic Soundtrack, Enemies in our midst, Ernest Borgnine, Escape From Alcatraz, Escape From L.A., Escape From New York, General Election 2020, Going Up River, GOP, Harry Dean Stanton, Hate, Hatred, Home Invasions, House of Bad Decisions, John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, Law & Order?, Lee Van Cleef, Looting, Marauders, Mask Up, New York, No Way Back, No Way OUt, NRA, NYC, Our Own Worst Enemy, Pandemic, Pillage, Pissing in the Wind, President Donald J. Trump, Prison, Protests, Punk, Punks, Racism, Raid, Raiders, Ransack, Rape, Recession, September 11 2001, Shit hits the fan, Sick Culture, Sick Society, Sir Isaac Hayes, Stealing, Summer Solstice 2020, Terrorism, The 5th Column, The Clink, The Duke of New York, The enemies within, The Pokey, Thievery, Trent Reznor, Twin Towers, U.S. Militia, U.S. Police Force, Urban Collapse, Urban Decay, USA, USPF, Vice President Joe Biden, Violence, We Support our Police, World Trade Center, WTC 1, WTC 2

• Quarantine Spotlight: The Hot Spot

  

  Ripe for a Quarantine Viewing, here is a hidden cinematic gem turning 30 years old in 2020. Released in 1990, The Hot Spot features a fantastic cast of actors in their prime. This is a sexy, atmospheric tale, and the movie has aged very well, thanks to Dennis Hopper‘s restrained and timeless direction. The Hot […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  May 13, 2020

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  “Perhaps another time…”, #staythefuckhome, A Beautiful Mind, Apocalypse Now, Bank, Barry Corbin, Betrayal, Bill & Ted Face The Music, Binge Viewing, Blackmail, Blue Velvet, Bluesy Jams, Booze, Bottom Feeders, Bradford Ellis, Bravery, CA$H, Caper, Cards, Charles Martin Smith, Charles Williams, Cigarettes, Coffin Nails, Country, Creeps, Cuckold, Dark City, Dennis Hopper, Desert, Digging Holes, Don Johnson, Doppleganger, Double Cross, Earl Palmer, Easy Rider, Eroticism, Fake Innocence, Femme Fatale, Film Noir, Frank Booth, Fuego, Got a Light?, guns-guns-guns, HillBillies, Infidelity, Innocence, It’s a fire, Jack Nance, Jack Nitzsche, Jalopy, Jealousy, Jennifer Connelly, John Lee Hooker, Look before you Leap, Low Lifes, M-O-N-E-Y, Margaret Bowman, Meat Puppets, Miami Vice, Miles Davis, Mirage, My Dad Digs it Too, Neo-Noir, Nona Tyson, Oral Sex, Peelers, Pulling the Strings, Pulp, Pulpy, Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-I-N-E, Quarantine, Quarantine Spotlight, Rednecks, Repo, Robbery, S-E-X, Sad Sack, Scum, Scuzzy, Seedy, Self Isolate, Sex, Sexy Shoes, Shady, Shaft, Sideways, Skinny Dipping, Sleazy, Smoking, Stalker, Stalkers, Strippers, Studebaker, Swimming Ground, Taj Mahal, Tejanos, Tejas, Temptation, Texas, The Blues, The Hot Spot, The Law, Tim Drummond, Trash, Trashy, Unfaithful, Used Car Salesman, Virginia Madsen, Vixen, White Trash, William Sadler

• Done Did The Dogie

  

  Hallucinatory dreams of Sedona covered in 2′ to 3′ feet of a white sand storm…Reveille at 0400. Fu(e)el UP 0500. “Hit them streets a running“ 0600. Do the Dogie 0700. Solitary hiking = Great Medicine. As the late great Rush drummer & lyricist Neil Peart wrote, “Everybody need a Mood Lifter…Everybody needs reverse polarity.” Ain’t […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  April 28, 2020

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  #staythefuckhome, …just a bump…or two…, Aliens, Ambient, April Beer, April Booze, April Gin, April Hooch, April Mezcal, April Wine, Avoid Crowds, Avoid the Hordes, Away, Be Prepared, Bigfoot, Bird Box, Bring Lots of Water, Cheap Sunglasses, Coconino National Forest, coke, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Disappear, Dogie Trail, Done Did The Dogie, Earn it, Earn that motherfucker, Eerie Hikes, El Sol, Empty bottle of Canadian Whiskey, Endurance, Entities, Flask it Babycakes, Float, Freak Yourself Out, Freaks, Get Lost, Ghosts, Hallucinatory, Hooch for the Trail Yes-Sir, in the moment, In the Zone, Is someone there?, Is that a?, Is that the way?, Is there something back there?, It Follows, Just a Nip, Kooks, Languid, Legend, Listen to music, Look At Me!, Losing It, Low and Slow, Melt Down, Mezcal, Mezcal Quarantine, Mind Tricks, Mood Lifter, Moving Pictures, Myth, Nature, Neil Peart, Off the Beaten Path, Pack a Lunch, Pandemic Dreams, Psychic, Push Yourself, Reverse Polarity, Rod Serling, rush, Russ Ballard, Sasquatch, Secret Government Bases, Secret Wilderness, Sedona, Sense of Direction, Shape Shifters, Skin Walkers, Slowdona, Smooth Sailing, Social Distancing, Something else is here, Speeding!, Spirits, Spooky, Spooky Silence, Stick it Out, Surreal Days, Sycamore Canyon, The Black Crowes, The Blair Witch Project, The Hills Have Eyes, The sounds of the world, Top Shelf, Trance, Transport, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Trip, Twilight Zone, UFO’s, Underground Tunnels, Undisturbed, Up on the Sun, Vital Signs, voices – i hear voices, Vortex, Walk believer walk, Wander Off, Wash-Your-HANDS, Weirdos, What was That?, White Lady, White Sands, Who Knows?, Ya Wanna Freak Out, Yay Yo, Zen, Zen Hiking, ZZ Top

• RESET

  

  Read Time: 2 minutes, 23 seconds. Renew ~ Evolve ~ Start Over ~ Expand ~ Take a Chance re-set: 1. To set again or anew. 2. To change the reading of often to zero. Everyone deserves a sabbatical, time away from the usual to bring about a Reset in your life. Time to undo bad habits and begin new and […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  January 18, 2020

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  7, Abandon Ship, Analyze, Animal, Another bite of the apple, Arizona, Atomic Habits, Axl Rose, Bad Habits, Bail, Bail it, Beers, Begin, Begin Again, Climb, Climbing, Cold Fire, Colorado, Commitment, Crank It, Dead End Government Jobs, Dead End Jobs, Deny, Deny Yourself, Desert, Desert Sands, Dig Out, Discipline, Down in a Hole, Evolve, Examine, Existence, Expand, Experience, Eyedropper, Fearless, Fight, Focus, Fuck, G n’ R, Get into something new!, Ghost of a Chance, Ghost Rider, Go Away, Go For It!, Good Habits, Great Sand Dunes, Ground Zero, Guns N’ Rose, Habit, Habits, Habituations, Halfway there, Henry Rollins, Here’s your hole, High Time, Integrity, It’s cool to be so tough, It’s tough to be so cool, James Clear, Kid Gloves, Kill, Let the chips fall, Life is short, Locomotive, Locomotive (Complicity), Long Haul, Make it Happen, May as well go for it, Meat Puppets, Mindfulness, More than Halfway There, Neil Peart, Never look back, No U-Turn, Nothing begets nothing, Or run away, Phoenix, Phoenix rising from the ashes, Pink Floyd, Play a bad hand well, Precious Time, Pull the ejection handles!, Push comes to shove, Real Estate, Renew, Renewal, Reset, Reset your life, Resilient, Ride that Rockin’ Chair, Roll the Bones, Rollins Band, Run Away, Run Like Hell, rush, Sabbatical, Say Goodbye, Se7en, Sedona, Self Aware, Seven, Stan Ridgway, Start over, Take a chance, Take a Sabbatical, Take Another Shot, Take it on the chin, Take the hit, Take your licks, Tenancious, The Void, Time, Uphill, Use Your Illusion, Void, Walk Away, What the fuck, When push comes to shove, Wilderness, Wilderness Days, Wilderness Years, Years, Years and Beers, Zero

• Time Stand Still

  

  Reading Time: 1 minute, 7 seconds. I’m not looking back but I want to look around me now…See more of the people and the places that surround me now. ~ Rush, Time Stand Still ~ 1987 Having begun my 51st year in 2019, time grows ever more precious for this writer. Steve Jobs once intoned, “Time is […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  January 1, 2020

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  10 beers, 10 years, 2020, Afterlife, Ahora, Ahorita, Apple, Beck, Beers, Begin Again, Christmastime, Chronos, City of Light, Cosmos, Creator, Decada, Decade, Destiny, Earth, Everything Counts, Family, Fate, Father Time, Feliz Ano Nuevo, Fidelity, Flagstaff, France, Gargoyles, Go For It!, Goal, Goals, God, Happy New Year, Happy New Year 2020, Health, Heaven, Hiking, Hold Your Fire, IMAX, Joy, Laughter, Life, Love, Make it Happen, Neil Peart, New Beginnings, New Year’s Day, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Resolution, New Year’s Resolutions, No Coincidence, No Coincidences, No going back, No time like the present, Nothing changes on new year’s day, Now, Now is what counts, Oblivion, Ocean, Oceans, Outerspace, Paris, Peace, Point of no return, Prosperity, Reboot, Recommit, Renewal, Reset, Ron Fricke, rush, Seasons Greetings, Sedona, Simple Pleasures, Slowing Down, Specks of dust, Stars, Start over, Starting Over, Steve Jobs, Stratosphere, Sunset Crater, The Moon, The Sea, The Sun, The Unknown, The Void, Time, Time is Money, Time Stand Still, Time waits for no one, Togetherness, Truth, U2, Universe, Year, Years, Yesterday Poof, Zero, Zeros

• Hey Man, I’m a real machine.

  

  Read Time: 2 minutes, 20 seconds. Some people talk too much. This writer included. Nearing a new decade in 2020 there seems to be excessive noise everywhere. A lot of souls, bots and spammers are striving to be heard above the din. We all want to be heard, yes? Social Media has compounded and amplified […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  December 10, 2019

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  Are you serious?, Biden 2020, Bots, Can you hear me?, Did you hear what I said?, Drain The Swamp, Dyslexicon, Filler Words, Freedom of Speech, Hawk Soaring Over, Hey Man, I burn this dictionary, I’m Like, Jeff Bridges, Keep America Great, Lexicon, Like, Listening, Machine, Man, Man Machine Poem, Meetings!, Missing Persons, No Worries, Noctourniquet, Nope, Pay Attention, President Donald J. Trump, Robocalls, Self Monitoring, So, Social Media is Bullshit, Souls, Spam, Spammers, Speech, Telemarketers, The Big Lebowski, The Dude, The Dude Abides, The Mars Volta, The Tragically Hip, Trump 2020, Verbal Disfluency, Vice President Joe Biden, What are words for, What did you say?, Woman, Words, Wordsmith, Yep, You cannot be asking me that, You Know

• The Lighthouse

  

  Read Time: 2 minutes, 17 seconds. You said I shouldn’t have gone I don’t know I went ahead on anyway Night time wore to dawn I found my free will had gone away from me Behind the masks that pass for faces Hours are lost in forbidden places -Meat Puppets, Forbidden Places Whew, now here […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  November 10, 2019

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  35mm film, A Tad Tipsy Laddies, Alfred Hitchcock, Authority, Axes, Axes to grind, Balls Out, Batshit Crazy, Beacon, Binge Drinking, Black & White, Blasted, Blinding, Blotto, Bombed, Bonkers, Booze, Boozers, Boss from hell, Chow, Cinema, Citizen Kane, Claustrophobia, Creepers, Creepshow, Creepy, Crusty, Curt Kirkwood, Deafening, Demons, Devolve, Digital, Directing, Direction, Don’t go there bud, Doom, Down the hatch, Down The Tubes, Downward Spiral, Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and Love the Bomb, Ed Wood, Eerie, Farting, Farts, Fog, Foghorn, Forbidden Places, Freakshow, Fuck It, Genuine, Go the the mat, Go to the Mat, Gonna Spin Out, Gothic, Hallucinations, Hear Ye, Hell exists on earth, Hell is another person, Hypnotic, Inclement Weather, Insane, Insanity, Irish, It’s Bush’s Fault, Jakub Rozalski, Joel & Ethan Coen, John Ford, Kafka, Keeper of the Light, Kerosene, Knives, Kooks, Lamps, Light, Lighthouse Keeper, Lightning, Loaded, Loaded and Bloated, Look into the Light, Loony Tunes, Losing your mables, Losing your Marbles, Losing your shit, Lunacy, Madness, Masks, Meat Puppets, Meat Puppets Forbidden Places, Meltdown, Mermaids, Mesmerize, Moody, Neptune, New England, No Compromise, No Let Up, Octopus, Orson Welles, OU812, Outpost, Paranoia, Pedal to the Metal, Poseidon, Psycho, Robert Eggers, Robert Pattinson, Salty, Salty Dogs, Sea Dogs, Sea Shanty, Sea Squall, Seagulls, See what you want to see, Shanty, Shoreline, Sick, Sirens, Spill the beans, Spin Out, Spooky, Spun, Squall, Stagecoach, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Soderbergh’s Kafka, Strange, Superstition, Surrealism, Tempest, The Abyss, The Drink, The Light, The Lighthouse, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Man Who Wasn’t There, The Point of No Return, The Real Deal, The Real McCoy, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Sea, The Sea Will Always Win, The Truth Hurts, The Truth Shall Set You Free, The VVitch, The Witch, Tim Burton, Too much too much, Trident, Trust, Twisted, Unhinged, Vision, Wacko, Weather, What, What does the light behold?, What is that hiding there?, Whirpool, Whoops, Wickie, Willem Dafoe, Wind and Rain, Wipe Out, Work, Yer not the Ocean

• An ode to early morning strolls…

  

  Reveille The rooster crows…Reveille…Rise ‘n Shine. During a trying period 3 years ago, early morning walks became a refuge, a form of salvation habituation. Rising in the darkness and striking out into it sharpens all your senses. Alone with your thoughts in the pre-dawn, a clarity reveals itself. 311 Stealing Happy Hours Adrenaline surges as […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  November 3, 2019

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• The Hoax

  

  Read Time: 1 minute, 37 seconds. With all the talk on our national stage about hoaxes and fake news, Johnnyo ~ Hideaway spotlights a true 20th Century Hoax worth viewing in a very entertaining movie: The Hoax (2006) unspools a crooked tale of one American Novelist, Clifford Irving, who in the early 1970’s fooled and […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  October 4, 2019

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  Age of the Hoax, Alfred Molina, Audacity, Autobiography of Howard Hughes, Balderdash, Billionaire, Blag, Bluff, Boxed In, Bravado, Caught, Charlatan, Cheat, chutzpah, Clifford Irving, Con Artists, Con Man, Corruption, Counterfeit, Cunning Stunts, Daring, Deception, Deep Fake, Delusional, Digital Age, Dishonest, Extramarital Temptation, Fake News, Falsehood, Fantasy, Fool, Fools, Forgery, Fruad, Ghostwrite, Groucho Marx, H.R. Hughes, Hallucinatory, Handwriting Expert, He gave me a prune, Heist, High-Profile Hoax, High-Wire Act, Hoax, Hope Davis, House of Cards, Howard Hughes, Hustle, Hustler, Imposter, Infidelity, Internet, Jet-Set, Lasse Hallstrom, Liar, Lie-Detector Test, Lies, Life Magazine, Literary Fraud, Literary Scam, Long Shot, Madcap, Mail Fraud, Make Believe, McGraw-Hill, Media Scam, Naivete, On the come, Paranoia, Philanderer, Phony, Phony as a 3 Dollar Bill, Phony Manuscript, Pilfer, Power, Prankster, President Richard Nixon, Publishing, Pull it off, Reality Check, Reckless, Recluse, Richard Gere, Say Anything, Scam, Scam Artist, Scammer, Scheme, Self Delusion, Ship of Fools, Small Fry, Sociopath, Sold a Bill of Goods, Steal, Stunt, Swindle, Swiss Bank Account, The Hoax, The Jig is Up, The Truth, The Truth Shall Set You Free, Treachery, Trickster, Truth, Verve, Viral, Watergate, White Lies, World Wide Web, Yarn

• Cold Showers.

  

  Read Time: 53 Seconds. There is no better wake-up call than a cold shower. Forget coffee. This writer stumbled upon “cold shower therapy” a few years ago. Mr. Joel Runyon’s Tedx talk convinced me to give it a go, at least for 30 days. 30 days turned into a whole year of cold showers. As Mr. […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  September 21, 2019

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  30 day cold shower challenge, Be Uncomfortable, Cold, Cold Shower Therapy, Cold Showers, Commitment, Concentration, Discipline, Endurance, Focus, Fortitude, Good Habits, Hit the bricks, Immunity Improvement, Joel Runyan, Mood Booster, Nippy, Overcome, Perseverance, Personal Improvement, Physical Recovery, Positivity, Presence, Rejuvenation, Renewal, Resilience, Resolve, Sleep Maintenance, Soldier on, Start over, Ted Talks, Tedx Talks, Wake Up!, Well Being

• Hideaway(s)…

  

  Read Time: 1 minute, 47 seconds. Been hiding out and laying low, it’s nothing new to me…well you can always find a place to go ~ if you can keep your sanity.  -Guns N’ Roses, Out Ta Get Me, 1987 Sometimes in life you reach your limit, need a reprieve and gotta get away to […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  September 7, 2019

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  311, 311 Space and Time, 3rd Eye, Arizona, Arizona Skies, Attention Span, Axl Rose, Back to the earth, Blue Skies, Buy, Camping, Check Out, Circles, Climb the mountain, Consume, Consumer, Curt Kirkwood, Desert, Desert Southwest, Despacio, Dick’s Hideaway, Digital Domain, Digital World, Dining, Disappear, Earth, Enjoy Life, Family, Friends, Fun, G n’ R, Get Away, Get Lost, Go Outside, God, Guns N’ Roses, Hideaway, Hiking, Howard Hughes, I Foley’d It, Iggy Pop, in the moment, Joshua Homme, Leave your phone behind, Life, Marketing, Mental Health, Mindfulness, New Beginnings, Nick Hexum, Notifications, Outside, Phoenix, Positivity, Presence, Promotions, QOTSA, Queens of the Stone Age, Real World, Recluse, Reclusive, Refuge, Rejuvenation, Renewal, Retreat, Richardson Browne, Richardson’s New Mexican Cuisine, Screens, Sell, Slow Down, Slow Movement, Slowdona, Smartphone Addiction, Social Media, Solar System, Starting Over, Stay Positive and Love your Life, Sun, The Great Outdoors, The HIP, The Last Recluse, The Matrix, The Tragically Hip, Them Crooked Vultures, Third Eye, Time, Time Suck, Turn off Notifications, Vacation, Valley of the Sun, Virtual World, Vistas, Walkin’ Boss, Wander, Wandering

• 50 Years? 50 Beers!

  

  Read Time: 2 minutes, 41 seconds. Perhaps Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets exclaimed it best when he wrote and crooned, “Each year is a minute only full of the leaves in it.” Leaves Or as a colleague and great friend once remarked while working at a Phoenician Charles Schwab call center in the mid […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  August 17, 2019

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  50 Beers, 50 Years, 99 Bottles of Beer, A-10, AARP, Airman First Class, AJ’s Market, Arizona, Austin, Beer, Big 5-O, Billy F. Gibbons, Blue Velvet, Brahma, Brasil, Brazil, Cannonball, Capitol Grille, Cava, Charles Schwab & Co, Christ the Redeemer, Coffee, Coors, Corcovado, Curt Kirkwood, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Del Maguey Mescal, Dennis Hopper, DMAFB, Dusty Hill, Family, Flagstaff, Frank Beard, Great Friends, Henry Rollins, Houston, Hurricane Alicia, Jack Nicholson, Joshua Tree National Park, La Choulette, Love, Make that a Double, Meat Puppets, Mojo Nixon, More than Halfway There, Myth, Mythology, Navy, Negra Modelo, Neil Peart, Patron, Phoenix, Pietra Wexstun, Rio De Janiero, rush, Samuel Adams, Schlitz, Scotch & Soda, Scottsdale, Sedona, Segura Viuduas, Shiner Bock, Sparkling Wine, St. Bernardus, Stan Ridgway, Stan Ridway & Drywall, Surf & Turf, Tank Killer, Ten Beers, Texas, The AARP Is After Me, The Drywall Incident, The Last Detail, The Rokerij, The Top, Tucson, United States Air Force, US Armed Forces, USAF, Vino, Warthog, White Sands National Monument, Wine & Dine, ZZ Top, ZZ Top Eliminator

• Bass Rigging

  

  Read Time: 1 minute, 53 Seconds. For those of us who play guitar or bass, how fun is it to seek out “The One,” that near perfect instrument & rig that captures your sound? Almost like dating, it’s a numbers game – instruments, amps and effects pedals come and go. Eventually we learn what works […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  August 1, 2019

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  20 Beers, 311, AKG Headphones, Bass, Bass Guitar, Basswitch, Cafe Walter HA-1, Conrad Lozano, Cris Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood Art, Cris Kirkwood Booted Orange Tongue, Dusty Hill, Feel, Gord Sinclair, Groove, It might get Loud, Jam, Lehle, Lehle Sonic Spark, Los Lobos, Meat Puppets, Music, Nylon Flat Bass Strings, P-Nut, Practice, Steinberger, Steinberger Synapse Bass, The HIP, The Tragically Hip, ZZ Top