OK . . . I listen to weird music now. Living near NYC will do that to you. Included in my MP3 collection would be The Kills, Jamie Liddell, Josh Ritter, anything that Jack White does, Wyclef's experiments, Jurassic 5, Zero 7, Beck and Goldfrapp. My girlfriend HATES my music and says that I should just move to New York and get it over with. But this is something nearly every Jersey person, North or South, could agree on: Bon Jovi. Here they are on 60 Minutes:
And I'm mentioning music because we're spending the next couple months going through HOURS of music to find the perfect NJ bands and songs to fit our soundtrack. If you have any recommendations - please email or comment. I'll probably post a couple of our favorites on here in later posts . . .
Showing posts with label Jon Bon Jovi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jon Bon Jovi. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
What unites us?
We should ask the question if North Jersey people have more in common with New Yorkers and South Jerseyeans have more in common with Philadelphians than they do each other.
So this prompted us to write our book chapter on, what unites us in Jersey? Many things came to mind; check out two of them below:
Most people think The Boss did this (he does cover it live), but it was actually written by Tom Waits. Here is Bon Jovi's cover:
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Take our survey . . .
Jon Bon Jovi from Sayreville is from North Jersey. Read this excerpt he gave in a Playboy magazine interview:
“The roadside diner right off the circle in Wall Township is a fabulous greasy spoon, one of the real silver-bullet diners. Taylor ham—a pork roll—is a Jersey fixture. Taylor ham with cheese on a hard roll is love. The big question is: ketchup or mustard? Everyone in north Jersey puts on mustard, everyone in the south, ketchup. I’m a mustard guy myself. A cherry Coke is wonderful with chipped ice. Diners are made for Sunday mornings or the day after when you need grease to soak up everything you did the night before. Then you order breakfast and lunch at the same time. That’s the greatest. It cures a hangover.”
It certainly challenges the Raritan River/ Driscoll Bridge theory . . which states that everything south of the Bridge is South Jersey. But Bon Jovi used both terms: Taylor Ham AND Pork Roll . . . but he used Taylor Ham twice. NORTH JERSEY!
Take our survery on whether you put ketchup or mustard on your Taylor Ham or Pork Roll.
Taylor Ham or Pork Roll?
“The roadside diner right off the circle in Wall Township is a fabulous greasy spoon, one of the real silver-bullet diners. Taylor ham—a pork roll—is a Jersey fixture. Taylor ham with cheese on a hard roll is love. The big question is: ketchup or mustard? Everyone in north Jersey puts on mustard, everyone in the south, ketchup. I’m a mustard guy myself. A cherry Coke is wonderful with chipped ice. Diners are made for Sunday mornings or the day after when you need grease to soak up everything you did the night before. Then you order breakfast and lunch at the same time. That’s the greatest. It cures a hangover.”
It certainly challenges the Raritan River/ Driscoll Bridge theory . . which states that everything south of the Bridge is South Jersey. But Bon Jovi used both terms: Taylor Ham AND Pork Roll . . . but he used Taylor Ham twice. NORTH JERSEY!
Take our survery on whether you put ketchup or mustard on your Taylor Ham or Pork Roll.
Taylor Ham or Pork Roll?
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