THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JIMMY REJECT THE PUNK'S SPIRIT ROCKS ON IN THE PEOPLE - AND WORDS - HE LEFT BEHIND

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: October 7, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

MARSHFIELD - Three weeks after the punk rock writer and drummer known as Jimmy Reject jumped off the Tobin Bridge, his apartment still smelled of cigarettes.

His CDs and tapes and records were gone, and so were his stereo and most of his furniture. But the coffee stain on the kitchen counter and the lingering scent of tobacco, and, in the bedroom closet, the black jackets meticulously adorned with metal studs and safety pins and buttons from bands like the Dead Kennedys and Blondie, lent a ghostly aura to the nearly empty unit.

James Harrington died Aug. 14 at age 35. Diagnosed in his early ...

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