"Last night I came in at two with a ten but at ten I woke up with a two" -Willie Nelson     

  Personal inspiration: Steve Allen

"What a powerful president. In office just one day and he already has his wife's picture on the dollar bill." -Johnny Carson, on the night of Bush Sr's inauguration

Recent news coverage -- and here

Thanks for dropping by. See below for various websites.

JT quoted in Gregg Easterbrook
ESPN column 9-25-07.

"USE ME" - for songwriting and performing for events and advertising!!
See YouTube videos ONE  TWO and THREE    (References available)

Greetings from Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA!

Blue Canyon Productions is a vehicle for various entertainment and media projects produced by Jim Terr -- a New Mexico native who is an occasional commentator in local and national media, an actor, singer-songwriter, video producer & author.

"In his letters and articles, Jim Terr makes too much sense. In any other country he would have long since been locked up."
 - Jonathan Alter,
    Senior Editor, Newsweek

"Jim Terr's spirit shows through consistently in the essays, songs and other projects he creates. It's the droll, sardonic, 'cut the B.S.' outlook that is known around the world as 'American.' His tone is especially valuable in an election year."
       - James Fallows

Hear Jim Terr interview with ARIANNA HUFFINGTON re her book, "On Becoming Fearless" ( 6 min., MP3)

(Photo by Judy Lipsett)

JIM TERR: "A gentle agitator...who's come up with a way to lower the country's political temperature."   -Paul Greenberg, syndicated columnist

(These quotes do not indicate support of any or all Jim Terr projects or pronouncements)

“I am totally satisfied with your first class approach to my video project.” --Matt Kuhn
(Matt Kuhn Collection).

    JT, "sleeper"
           star film maker?
"Production value and budget always counts less than a great "script"  If I had money for a flutter on one  NM filmmaker (or disposable income for a speculative investment ) then Jim's my guy."
   --Jon Hendry, IATSE


"Jim Terr’s creativity and versatility are unmatched. Well, almost unmatched."
         - Hodding Carter


"One of the true creative geniuses of our time. ...This guy does some of the best satire in the business. One of the great comedic and auditory geniuses of our day."
    - Thom Hartmann


"A highly creative, satirical Outlander and asskicking comedian without parallel; an excellent writer...reminds me of Calvin Trillin...Jim Terr has too damn many websites"
-Mike Malloy

Commentary & reviews    *   Radio Jingles   *     Decidedly leftie Satire   *   BuDDy's Old Fashioned Podcast

Jim Terr Actor headshots - résumé - video clips

"The Home of Katie Archer" screenplay / radio drama

EPKs (Electronic Press Kits) Kevin Pollak talks about"Mother Ghost". Kirk Ellis on his HBO "John Adams" series.

    First CD, "Demos & Diamonds"   *  The World War II Veterans' video   *   The Holocaust Survivors' video

"Plant tour" "How-it's-made" Manufacturing videos

LIVE PERFORMANCES Corporate and anti- corporate entertainment << One       Another one >>

(Performance preview): It’s not often that an artist who recognizes himself gets recognized. Wild and reckless Jim Terr knocks ’em dead with his original one-man, beer-spitting, lady-killing, Brechtian-obfuscationist performance-art masterpieces that shock grandparents everywhere. (Santa Fe Reporter 1-30-08)

Ninja Boy learns at an early age
to disappear into the background

Filming the State
Santa Fe Filmmaker Will Produce Radio Drama

By Emily Esterson, 11-28-06

Is the film industry really as good as it seems in New Mexico? With announcements of Steven Seagal movies being shot downtown (today's Albuquerque Journal), and the Department of Labor saying the information sector's improvement in job growth is partly due to the film industry, nary a negative word can be spoken. And hey, it's pretty fun.

Local filmmaker Jim Terr has been a tenacious, if sometimes strange, force in the locally-grown entertainment media market. Now Jim reports that one of his short films - the one he says is his best - will be produced as a two-hour radio drama for local and national broadcast on KUNM, Albuquerque's NPR affiliate, in the summer of 2007. Casting sessions were held last week, bringing in over 100 actors to auditions in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. "The Home of Katie Archer" has a familiar ring; it started life as a story about an actor struggling to make it as a full-time carpenter and part-time actor in a small New Mexico town visited often by Hollywood movies and settled by Hollywood actors.

It has since morphed into a larger tale with a historical back story. Terr writes on his website that he's already spoken to several "well-known celebrities" about cameo voices in his radio play. He's also hoping to produce the script as a full-length feature film. [see project website ]

"The Seventeen Traditions" - BEAUTIFUL talk about how his parents equipped and inspired him to be an activist, inadvertently or otherwise, by Ralph Nader. Whatever you think about Ralph's presidential runs, this isn't about that. Very funny, thoughtful and rich. Explores how people gain a "civic sense," and why so many think that's so unusual.
AUDIO 45 minutes: Real 28 (7MB)   MP3 (42MB)   Taken from this video, regarding this book

Web info "favorites"

I use some more than others (like only once, in some cases), but I was just going through my "favorites" and selected a few that some of my eclectic friends might find useful. In addition to Wikipedia, etc., of course.

SONG FACTS
RHYMING DICTIONARY
DICTIONARY
SOURCE WATCH - TRUE NATURE OF ORGANIZATIONS
TRANSLATE WORDS
TRANSLATE TEXT
ANOTHER TRANSLATE TEXT
WORD ORIGIN
ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS
SLANG DICTIONARY
MEDICAL INFO
INFLATION CALCULATOR (VALUE IN PREVIOUS YEARS)
AREA CODE & PREFIXES
YEARS IN HISTORY
SONG HITS FOR VARIOUS YEARS

Santa Fe New Mexican, January 20, 2008

Santa Fe filmmaker passes 100,000 YouTube mark

Santa Fe, NM documentary and short-film maker Jim Terr has racked up over 100,000 views of his videos on YouTube.com, and has posted a video called "A Hundred Thousand YouTube Views" to tout that accomplishment.

While there are individual videos on YouTube which have gained millions of views, Terr is proud to have built his viewership by posting a wide variety of videos -- 62 to date -- beginning 16 months ago with a video called "Santa Fe Stops," showing vehicles speeding through a Santa Fe stop sign.

Terr videos produced as far back as 1992 are included on his YouTube "channel."

The "Hundred Thousand" video features a hot boogie-woogie piano background track by former Santa Fe resident Clay Cotton, now stricken with Multiple Sclerosis. Terr hopes that exposure of the new video will increase CD sales for Cotton, and says he never tired of Cotton's piano playing in the hundreds of times he heard it while editing. "In fact, it got better and better."

37 of Terr's shorts - including previews of two forthcoming videos -- are excerpted for the "Hundred Thousand" collection, ranging from actor and comedy sketches, political satire and commentary, crafts and trades, documentary excerpts, proposed feature film "trailers," advertising parodies, local cultural events and restaurant visits, interviews, live performance excerpts and musician portraits.

Little sound was included on the music clips excerpted in the new video, however, due to clashes with the background piano track. In fact, Terr's most-viewed video, "One Year Old Child Prodigy Piano Genius" , with over 50,000 views, was not even included in the new collection.

Such celebrities as authors Tony Hillerman and Douglas Preston, humorist Dave Barry, actor Kevin Pollak and NPR broadcaster Scott Simon are included in the videos, as well as stills of and references to President Bush, Valerie Plame Wilson and others.

Videos added to Terr's YouTube repertoire in the past week alone include "J.Lo, MD" , "Jimbug: Folk Artist" , "A Hundred Thousand YouTube Views" , "Author Douglas Preston discusses his novel, BLASPHEMY" , "My Dad, the Republican" , and "Jim Terr interview re Santa Fe Farmers Market video ".

In the latter piece , Terr admits that the production of short videos has gotten to be a bit of an obsession, but he credits and thanks YouTube for making it so easy for videomakers to post and to find videos. Terr has mostly not taken advantage of other video-posting sites thus far.

He has also posted the Santa Fe-related videos on his own www.SantaFeShorts.com site, which links to the YouTube videos.

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NOW THAT I'M 64
Parody lyrics and vocal by Jim Terr www.JimTerr.com

…(McCartney's) awareness of aging and loss as he approaches his sixty-fourth birthday…a milestone that he admits he finds difficult to contemplate. "The thought is somewhat horrifying… It's like 'Well, no, this can't be me."
   -"When I'm Sixty-Four: Paul McCartney then and now." New Yorker, June 4, 2007)

Now that I'm older, I still got me hair,
But there's still things 'bout which,
If I were sufficiently a pessimist,
I might still be willing to bitch.

Sittin and standin', movin' me bowels,
Trying to unlock the damn door.
Life is a more static, less automatic,
Now that I'm 64.

It's only the new 54, that's what they say,
But that's a load of bull and it's hard to take.
And no doubt when I am 85,
I'll know me attitude was a mistake. -But meanwhile…

Send me postcard telling me please,
Where I left that note
Reminding meself where I left the auto keys,
And where I put that linament to rub on me knees.

If I stay out til eleven or twelve, dial 944. (or is it 991?)
Life is more static, less automatic,
Now that I'm 64.

Celebrities pictured in video: (YouTube)

Richard Belzer
Jacqueline Bisset
Gary Busey
Cathy Lee Crosby
Stockard Channing
Geraldine Chaplin
Roger Daltry
Angela Davis
Jonathan Demme
Danny DeVito
Christopher Dodd
Michael Douglas
Sam Elliott
Shelley Fabares
Joe Frazier
Rudy Giuliani
Rutger Hauer
Gladys Knight
Patti LaBelle
Sherry Lansing
George Lucas
Ian McKellen (Sorry - mistake - he was born in 1939!)
Lorne Michaels
Craig T. Nelson
Jimmy Page
Michelle Phillips
Harold Ramis
Lou Reed
Diana Ross
Jerry Springer
Ben Stein
Alice Walker
Barry White
Johnny Winter

GOTTA PEE

Two women friends had gone for a girls' night out. Both were very faithful and loving wives, however they had gotten over-enthusiastic on the Bacardi Breezers.

Incredibly drunk and walking home they needed to pee, so they stopped in the cemetery.

One of them had nothing to wipe with so she thought she would take off her panties and use them.

Her friend however was wearing a rather expensive pair of panties and did not want to ruin them.

She was lucky enough to squat down next to a grave that had a wreath with a ribbon on it, so she proceeded to wipe with that.

After the girls did their business, they proceeded to go home.

The next day, the husband of one of the women was concerned that his normally sweet and innocent wife was still in bed hung over, so he phoned the other husband and said:
"These girl nights have got to stop! I'm starting to suspect the worst. My wife came home with no panties!!"

"That's nothing," said the other husband,
"Mine came back with a card stuck to her ass that said.....

'From all of us at the Fire Station.
We'll never forget you.' "

Bonded for life.

A guy starts talking to two women in a bar; they turn out to be Siamese twins, and they wind up back at his apartment.

He makes love to one, and then starts to work on the other.

He realizes that the first one might get bored watching, so he asks her what she'd like to do.

She says, "Is that a trombone in the corner? I'd love to play your trombone."

So she plays it while he screws her sister.

A few weeks later, the girls are walking past the guy's apartment building.

One of the girls says, "Let's stop up and see that guy."

The other girl says, "Gee...do you think he'd remember us?"