Dennis Jerome (D.J. the D.J.)
Birthplace: Sparta, Wisconsin
Home Now: Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Family: Wife-Paulette, Son-Josh, Daughter-In-Law-Jeanna
Profession: Librarian
Biggest Influence: U.S. Army
Heroes: Abe Lincoln, Norm Schwartzkopf, Vincent van Gogh
Best Childhood Memory: My Grandfathers farm, no electricity
or running water. He farmed with horses and in the Winter we would ride in a cutter pulled
by a horse
Best Adult Memory: Becoming a Grandfather
Favorite Foods: Chicken Fried Steak and Turtle Pie for
dessert
Most Embarrassing Moment: In the 7th grade some prick named
Steve hung my jockstrap on a pencil sharpener (of course my name was written on it in
magic marker) and the teacher said "Mr. Jerome … will you retrieve your
apparatus." And I had to get up in front of the whole class. I fixed him … I
married his girlfriend!!
Favorite Song: I Can’t Get No Satisfaction, Rolling
Stones
Favorite Album: Disintegration, The Cure
Favorite Musician: Woodie Guthrie because he gave us Bob
Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, and many others
Best Concert Ever Attended: Rolling Stones "Exile On
Main Street" at Met Center with the Tear Gas rolling in from outside where people
without tickets were trying to get in
Dreams: Go the length of the Mississippi by boat
Pet Peeves: Network news shows like 20/20, 60 Minutes, etc.
KAXE: Real Radio-The way it should be-For the people
Favorite Book: The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
Biggest Fear: I’ll forget to turn off the studio mic
and people will hear me singing along with the music
Message To The World: Being attacked by a Laughing Hyena
may not be as funny as it sounds |
