jim dinou

Jerry Harrison, along with Adrian Belew and Bernie Worrell, is played by Jim Dinou.

Other Projects:

Impossible Recording Machine — impossiblerecordingmachine.com

Otherwise known as: Jim Dinou
Birthday: September 10, 1967

Hometown: Lake Forest, Il.

e-mail: ifitolduthenidhavetokillu@gmail.com

Current home: Chicago, Il.

Side Projects: Parenting, Inventing a car that’s powered by love

I stay home to watch: Curb Your Enthusiasm, my wife’s cat barff on my headphones

Worst childhood memory: Getting thrown from a rock bridge and falling 5000 ft. into a river of scalding hot lava, with Ed McMahon and Ruth Buzzy standing on the side laughing hysterically. Oh wait- that was a nightmare.

Personal heroes: My wife, MLK, Matt Walker (yes, that one was serious)

You may have seen or heard me: poop on your lawn (and we’re back!)

Nobody knows I’m: A Jerry-rigger

I’ve never been able to: Eat ‘Flan’, listen to The Pixies, learn a foreign language

My fantasy is: To start a cover band of This Must be The Band, and call it Remain In Spite.

If I could change one thing about myself: I would have an auxillary finger protruding from my left elbow.

People who knew me in high school thought I was: Mute

My most irrational act: Throwing a pear in Kurt Klingenburg’s baritone in the middle of his solo during the Christmas concert.

Pigout food: Dark chocolate

When I’m not working, I’m: I’m not working?

If I’ve learned one thing in life: Walk softly, and carry a big, bloody pig everywhere you go.

The three words that best describe me: cheap/lazy/drunk