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Will-ness

You've just given me $20, please

About Me

A Shameless Plug
I run a couple of online clothing/stuff shops: Grassroots Bohemianwear and One-Ton Merchandise . Do yourself a solid and spend a minute or two perusing what they have to offer a discerning online consumer such as yourself. Big thanks!
I'm a recent graduate with a meager BA and a crippling love of music: I play guitar/bass in some bands, enjoy recording/mixing as a hobby, and am currently co-producing an album for Left Of Here - a band I'm in that has given me the opportunity and the desire to explore all aspects of music since 2000. I must also give proper respect to Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief for giving me the tools to do so, in addition to being one of my main inspirations and influences.

I work doing architectural illustration for Claudio Oppedisano and helped design his website (I do graphic, audio, and web design under the title Azken.Media). As a kid I used to draw like a crazy, so that may explain all the artsy inclinations.
--* please check out my monthly article soundBox at GroovetoolRecords (in the Our Word section!) *--

I have a small habit of making goofy faces when there's a camera around, I guess that's just the inner-child I'll always be carrying around inside (although now I sound like I'm pregnant). I love being around friends and food, laughter is a better medicine than leeches, and you CAN always get what you want.. if what you want is to want things. I think.


My Interests

Creativity! Music, appreciation of photography (but not like standing around with martinis discussing a photograph..), audio recording, web design, drawing.. the list goes on.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with a love of recording that is willing to sit down and chat about what others have described as "a sickness" or "what's a microphone".



*please feel free to check out my music page at www.myspace.com/kilburnmusic - a few songs/pics, a little more about where/how I record, and an overall waste of most people's time :)

Music:

Anything and everything. Some preference to jazz, non-cheesy rock, 'world' musics (south american, african, european).

Bands I play in (free mp3s!): Left Of Here - Invasion of the Blues Persuasion - J&W - Kilburn (my solo project)

Movies:

Godfather trilogy, anything with Peter Sellers or Charlie Chaplin, Rocky (don't ask), and any movie I've seen with Samuel L. Jackson has not steered me wrong yet.

Television:

not much these days, mainly Futurama, Colbert Report, definitely hockey and olympics.

Books:

Haruki Murakami and Tom Robbins. There are no other authors. You heard me!

Heroes:

People who are working in a field they love (lucky bastards). Other than that, anyone who can beat me at Dr. Mario deserves the utmost respect.

My Blog

What's a birthday?

Thanks to those who posted bday wishes - I hain't forgotten boutcha! I just moved into a new place and internet has not been set up yet. Frankly, I'm starting to wonder why I have an internet computer...
Posted by Will-ness on Fri, 04 May 2007 10:44:00 PST

What's an apartment?

Yes, another big step..Torrens is taking the plunge and moving in with Pat sometime during the month of May.We are anxiously awaiting the (hopefully) good news from our application to live in Montcres...
Posted by Will-ness on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:34:00 PST

What's an LG 245?

.. oh yeah.. it's my new cell phone. Finally!Not the best, but miles ahead of any I'd ever had before. Flashbacks of calculator displays, oversized batteries, and the like. I tried to get one without ...
Posted by Will-ness on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:18:00 PST

Snow!!

Wheeeee it's so fluffy out there! And yet beneath the fluff resides a sheet of icy slipperiness I have to attend to.Yesterday found me not working for a day, and no sooner had I relished the thought o...
Posted by Will-ness on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:04:00 PST

Feeling better now, Gucci sweater now

The 'down' spell is over. Life is good!Spent some quality time re-acquainting myself with pizza this last week/weekend, and hopefully I will not be paying the price for it over the next few weeks.Just...
Posted by Will-ness on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:08:00 PST

Fawrk!

That's it.Well no that would be a horrible waste of your time..Things is busy. Longer work hours, less time with the gf, and seriously needing something to make me smile (more than I usually do anyway...
Posted by Will-ness on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:14:00 PST

My shoulder... agh!

This past Saturday I pulled a muscle in my shoulder apparently. Or something involving nerves and sinew, as I can't go 2 seconds in a day since then without a sharp stabbing pain. I'm trying to take i...
Posted by Will-ness on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:53:00 PST

Cold Sunday..

..warm thoughts :)My friend Tara just introduced me to this site called Facebook, where networking is based on geographical region, schools, Trade Wade Belak, basically anything you can think of. I po...
Posted by Will-ness on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:43:00 PST

"I hate zem bos!"

Ah Yoshi..So despite all the construction outside, I managed to whip out a neat version of an old Super Nintendo game tune. I imagine the fella who composed this wasn't paid amazingly for the job back...
Posted by Will-ness on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:49:00 PST

Why.. it's a blogstravaganza!

Back to the late nights!A few things of note that have happened. The band I was jamming with, I am no longer jamming with. The shows planned for LOH require more time and energy than I can deliver wit...
Posted by Will-ness on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:00:00 PST