The Journal of Jeffrey Vernon Matucha
It was with profound sadness that earlier this week I learned that Hannelore Elsner had passed on. More than a few of my fellow Americans might think to themselves “Who?” The truth is, if you aren’t German or a Germanophile, you have probably never heard of Hannelore Elsner. Elsner has appeared in many of my …
On Friday March 29th 2019, at 8 PM, a 24 Hour Fitness in downtown Berkeley, California, will shut down for good. The owner of the building where that branch of 24 Hour Fitness resides is not renewing their lease, apparently. I am a 24 Hour Fitness member, and my membership was at that club. I …
Most of my friends are musicians, whether they’re doing it for fun or are professionals or made it big. Here’s a compilation of my friends rockin’, jammin’ or just strummin’ at various locales. All of these are videos I personally recorded at various shows and events. Heartless Folk at 924 Gilman, shredding in December of …
A snippet From my novel-in-progress What The Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko? She heard music again as she was coming back from the corner store. The far off sounds of punk music. It was old school thrash. It was most likely coming from the same apartment that had been playing The Misfits …
The Falling Circle was my first novel, but I’ve only recently published it. I went through it and cleaned up many of the “first novelist” idiosyncrasies of the work and put it up on Amazon. The Falling Circle is a novel about being down and out in the concrete jungle. Many books address this issue, …
This is an excerpt from my recently published novel The Falling Circle, available for Kindle and in paperback on Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Falling-Circle-Jeffrey-Matucha-ebook/dp/B07K7NVKBW/ Graffiti Preston stood in the hallway, contemplating his new home. He stood by his bedroom door, studying the front door. The front door actually had a working doorbell that rang in the kitchen. Functioning …
“I have that stupid White Zombie song stuck in my head”. That’s the very first line of my short story The Vehicle of Damnation. It’s said by a crusty punk who walks up to the main character, a woman she has not seen in more than a year. I like that line, and I like …
This is an excerpt from my recently published novel The Falling Circle, available for Kindle on Amazon.coom https://www.amazon.com/Falling-Circle-Jeffrey-Matucha-ebook/dp/B07K7NVKBW/ Pest Clink, clink! Preston’s head stirred. He heard the muffled mumblings of someone in the hallway. Clink, clink! Thump! What th’ fuck? The voices would rise and pitch, getting louder and then quieter. Clink, clink! Preston raised …
This is an excerpt from my recently published novel The Falling Circle, available for Kindle and in good ol’ paper book form on Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Falling-Circle-Jeffrey-Matucha-ebook/dp/B07K7NVKBW/ A Job It was with some reluctance that Preston agreed to meet Miss Griffith. The only thing he knew about Miss Griffith was that she had, as Tam put it, …
When I was a tween I had a lot of friends who were really into World War II. They really liked looking over the battles and tanks and weapons, but when I asked them about the war’s history they couldn’t tell me much. So, when I was thirteen years old, I forced myself to read …