It all began back in the halcyon days of mp3.com, that great indy music site that has been recently gaining proportions of legend among unsigned musicians on the 'net. Mp3.com was a great site with a lot of great musicians. It also had a rich assortment of tools so that the listener could find the music that he or she was looking for. Since the demise of mp3.com I've discovered that finding indy music and musicians on the net is like finding a needle in a haystack. Mp3.com had tools that made finding the needles fairly easy.

I had quite a bit of my music on the site. I even had a CD on the mp3.com "label." Within a couple of months I started getting included on other people's play lists and pretty soon folks out there in internet land were actually listening to my music.

Then Vivendi bought mp3.com.

To make a long story short, Vivendi commercialized the site. Since commercialization is antithetic to what Mp3.com was all about, the site failed. (Actually, site was doing fine, but Vivendi wasn't making as much profit as they wanted. Vivendi (now Vivendi/Universal) shut down the site and the mp3.com domain name was sold to C/Net. They are using the domain name to push corporate music, so the mp3.com site has become precisely what the original site was trying to counteract. Other sites have tried to fill the void, but none of the other options offered the resources that were once available on mp3.com.

Enter my brother, T.K., an internet industry insider.

T.K. proposed setting up a a site under the name justanotherjim.com. When I dragged my feet, he went out, got the domain name and arranged the storage space. Suddenly I had a place for all my music.

I knew virtually nothing about html when this project started. That's a lot of the reason the design of the site has changed so many times: I keep experimenting trying to get it right. In the process of designing a site, I decided I should try some other things along with just posting mp3's. I decided to post some of my poetry and also thought I'd start writing essays, because I love the art of the essay.

All of those varied interests have led to the current web site. I also have a music presence on SoundClick.com and SongPlanet.com. A few of my watercolors, etc, are on DeviantArt.com. I also published a poetry collection on lulu.com and two music CDs at CafePress.com. This site is the clearinghouse for all those other places.