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Evan

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

performer. music junky. trumpet player. book reader. sketch comedian (semi-retired). voice-maker. good coffee/fancy beer/cheap bourbon drinker. water lover. uw office boy. midwestern refugee. mac user. erstwhile indie theatre artist. fremont resident. watcher of the skies. omnivore. comsumer of entertainment. vocabulist. fitter. happier. excellent driver. freelance theist. ipod owner. vitamin taker. pastor's kid. sunday rester. lazy shaver. lover, not a fighter. vintage suit wearer. good person.

My Interests

manifold.

I'd like to meet:

makers, lovers. specifically: laugh makers/lovers. music makers/lovers. film makers/lovers. art makers/lovers. good ones.

Music:

i will probably never update this again because it makes my teeth itch, honestly. i enjoy at the good music and will listen to anything you share with me. but for quick reference, i'm in this band "Awesome" , and some of the folks i regularly listen to are: the beatles, the shins, the decemberists, the books, arcade fire, midlake, wilco, smog, will oldham, papa m, neutral milk hotel, tom waits, sonic youth, beck, radiohead, dj shadow, bjork, neko case, john zorn's various projects (particularly the masada), ylt, tmbg, flaming lips, king crimson and yes and can and faust and other classic art-rockers (tell me your favorite!), led zeppelin, lee morgan, coltrane, monk, and sometimes kexp.org and the usual rainy northwest rock. also four tet, manitoba, tortoise, gastr del sol, sea and cake, jim o'rourke and friends, pretty much the whole chicago rock/jazz fraternity, jeff buckley, elephant 6 and friends, all those nuggets folks, sigur ros, mum, sparklehorse, dungen, van morrison + joni mitchell + cat stevens +rickie lee jones (thanks, mom & dad), the stones, elvis costello, burt bacharach, magnetic fields, mountain goats, sufjan stevens, harvey danger , and twenty thousand million more.

Movies:

lists, lists, lists.

Television:

DVD.

Books:

now: oblivion by david foster wallace. next: hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world by haruki murakami.

Heroes:

are just people.

My Blog

oh, blog.

i hereby release myself from all previous posts. check this out instead. "AWESOME" - The Band. or this "BLOGSOME" - The Bandlog. Good day. I SAID GOOD DAY, SIR....
Posted by Evan on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 11:07:00 PST

in the interest of self-promotion

Feel free to listen to "Awesome"'s public radio debut here: http://www.kuow.org/thebeat.asp?Archive=02-24 Start playback at 22:30. Keep in mind that we had 15 minutes to sound check. This ...
Posted by Evan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

natural disasters, slivered tongue

four "head-sees"* to share. three in the last 45 days: two about rainier exploding; one in which it launched the world into an alternate plane of reality, one in which everyone lived in 6 foot squar...
Posted by Evan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the magic of the withered thumb

a dream, by this guy i was something like satan's adminassist. in NYC, moving from one record store to another, assisting in the performance of horrible but somehow mundane human sacrifice. i was t...
Posted by Evan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

old fashioned mash-em-up

today i had 'smells like teen spirit' and the theme song from laverne and shirley stuck in my head at the same time. interesting harmonics occurred. would that i had the technology! sadly, afte...
Posted by Evan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST