when Jonathan moved into his little apartment over 10 years ago, he had dozens of boxes of LPs stacked in the middle of a side room..surrounded by his amazing collection of strange musical instruments from all over the world. He knew I was still working in a cabinet shop, and proceeded to hound me to build him a wall of record shelf/cabinets...so the last thing I did at that shop was to get those done!

When I installed them, (after moving them dozens of boxes of records..*grin*) I asked if he'd like to put a few ceremonial records out...so we opened a box...first record out was something like "Javanese jazz played on Calliope" (well, you get the idea)..and Jon said "oh, wow..the 3 track on side 2 of that is amazing...it..."...record 2 was Greek dance tunes, and Jon said.."that one was recorded live in a bistro in Paris, and featured an old...".....and so on.....Jonathan knew EVERY track on every record and could hum you the tunes! His breadth of interests cannot be exaggerated.

(if, as Fortunato mentions, there IS anything on the other side, Jonathan will bully the management into a trip to Mars before he settles into the music scene, so he can SEE the places he wrote about to in "Lament for a Red Planet"....a song you need to hear...)