Now
a quarter-million YouTube
views ! (Come
celebrate!)
See the famous "Santa Fe Stops" video --
and other glimpses of the most strangely beautiful city in
the US, at
www.SantaFeShorts.com
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JIM
TERR - Communications -
video - writing - jingles - marketing - Web - voice - Creative
services
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WIND
ENERGY Tiny
Turbines May Have a Bright Future
They are small and look more like art than innovation. But the mini-windmills
built by a British company could soon be on roofs across Europe and
the US -- if German energy giant RWE has its way. more...
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"Jim Terr's YouTube
videos topped 100,000
views in 2008 [now over 250,000],
so why shouldn't he self-celebrate? Ego and genius self-perpetuate.
You gotta hand it to Jim. If there's a reason to whip out a camera,
a subject out there to be shot, Jim's been there, going there or there
right now. Or sitting at home manipulating stock footage into some rudimentary
animation. And when there ain't nothing else to do, hell, he'll just
write a song and film himself playing it. I tease and needle, because
that's the vital role he plays in Americana."
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Artistic Overdose
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JimTerr.com
Alternate
pronunciation:
Referral
website for
Jim Terr projects
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Thanks
for dropping by. See below
for
various websites.
JT quoted in Gregg
Easterbrook
ESPN column 9-25-07.
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Song
& video licensed for
worldwide
advertising!!-->>
"Inventive
R Us"
video
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View
A recent JT interview (click image)
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New: parody of "Brokeback
Mountain"
News
Coverage: New
Mexico Producer Posts
Local Actor Resource Page, Video Clips
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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)
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(Photo
by Judy Lipsett)
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JIM TERR:
"A gentle agitator...who's come up with a way to lower the country's
political temperature."
-Paul Greenberg,
syndicated columnist
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(These
quotes do not indicate support
of any or all Jim Terr projects
or pronouncements)
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Read about
the new CD,
"Please Cut My Song, Mr. Travis"
by Jim Terr & friends
including "Public Radio"
"Mornings
Considered" "review"
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"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
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LINKS
TO OTHER SITES OF MINE
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Le
perfect gift--->
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(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)
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Contact
* Google
Jim Terr minus podcasting references. Recent stories below.
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 ]
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Santa Fe
New Mexican, March 25, 2007
Santa Fe New Mexican, March 25, 2007 
Here's the Plame
video on YouTube. And see Las
Vegas, New Mexico film site sort-of referred to (or on
YouTube).
"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
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HUGGING IS NOT A CRIME
Marisa Crockett talks to an Albuquerque police officer at the University
of New Mexico on Tuesday about her "free hugs" project. Crockett,
a Canadian, is traveling across the United States in her bio-fueled
car. She offers hugs to attract people so she can talk to them and get
the word out about her recycling program. The officer was responding
to a complaint about her offering hugs but left after discussing with
her what she was doing.
Shaminder Dulai Albuquerque
Journal
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Please consider
whether comedy may not be the only way to get through this life alive.
caption by Jim Terr
Contact
Baby
George Macdonald (1824–1905)
WHERE did you come from, baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into the here.
Where did
you get those eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.
What makes the light in them sparkle and spin?
Some of the starry spikes left in.
Where did
you get that little tear?
I found it waiting when I got here.
What makes your forehead so smooth and high?
A soft hand strok’d it as I went by.
What makes your cheek like a warm white rose?
I saw something better than any one knows.
Whence that
three-corner’d smile of bliss?
Three angels gave me at once a kiss.
Where did you get this pearly ear?
God spoke, and it came out to hear.
Where did you get those arms and hands?
Love made itself into bonds and bands.
Feet, whence did you come, you darling things?
From the same box as the cherubs’ wings.
20 How did
they all just come to be you?
God thought about me, and so I grew.
But how did
you come to us, you dear?
God thought about you, and so I am here.
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
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AS SEEN
ON OPRAH
(phrase appears almost 300,000x on Google)
Jim Terr © 2007 ( ~ "Girl on the Billboard")
Well maybe I) Was a little sheltered from what goes on
Among normal folks in the real world
emotionally.
Maybe that's why I used to spend half the afternoon
And the mornin' too in front of the TV.
Watchin the) lives in flames and they'd be namin' names
As they spoke of their sweet little world
come tumblin' down.
It was like learnin' all about life without leavin the house
Or havin' to drive (go) all
the way down town.
Well now my baby's left me and I don't know why, It's like a fresh meadow pie
hit me right between the eyes.
And she's tellin' folks that I was dumber than she thought, that I oughta not
awoke so late and been so surprised.
Yeah I'm learnin) All about fear and grief and pain like they've known for years
from Maine to North Dakota,
And as seen on Oprah.
Now in the
cold light of day, what can I say, I'll admit there was a few things that coulda
made the girl go off.
Like the way I'd stay out way too late and when I didn't want to answer them
questions I'd start to cough. (cough) -like that-
I didn't) realize that a quick divorce (though I should, of course) Is just
part of la vida loca.
As seen on Oprah.
CHORUS:
Now my pain is real but really no big deal, Dr. Phil wouldn't have me, and besides
it's no mystery.
It wouldn't make much of a novel (movie) or a story, nothin' weird or gory,
Nothin' there for afternoon TV.
I brought it on myself, feel like one of them kids who burned down the house
'Cuz they had to eat their prunes and okra.
(you know, those bizarre juvenile crime stories) As seen on Oprah.
So now I'm
on the street, it's a whole new beat, I get to see what goes on downtown after
all. (beep beep - hey, you too Buddy!)
I'm outa gear, I'm coastin' clear, tryin' not to realize I'm in a mile-high
free fall.
I'll have to find) another honey bee but at least I'm free, And I love 'em all
from black (brown) to white to mocha,
As seen on Oprah.
Yeah I'm introspectin'
at the intersection (miracle-expectin'),
Doin' the gettin'-it-together-any-time-now polka. (polka/accordion)
As seen on Oprah.
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Hardcastle - DOLPHINS KBAC
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