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Chip

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About Me

Where to begin ... call me Chip; how’s that for a start? My given name is Warren; there’s nothing wrong with it but I’ve been “Chip” my entire life and it’s comfortable.
I’ve been in the US Army for over 22 years now and have spent most of that time as a Guitar Player in various US Army bands in several countries. I have three very bright and talented children from a previous marriage and am currently married to a wonderfully engaging, highly intelligent, and undeniably beautiful woman and we are hoping to have some children of our own.
I am a musician by both profession and temperament; my primary instrument is the guitar (although I have played bass on numerous occasions and sometimes dabble with keys and percussion) but my focus for the past few years has been on composition and arranging.
Please go to "Quicksilver Night Productions" in my top friends below to check it out. This page is my personal space and I use it to share philosophical musings, lampoon random bits of pop culture, reflect upon my life, whatever ... you're welcome here but don't expect a lot of interaction on my part from this profile unless you have something worthwhile to add. Please reserve any comments about my music for my music page. Feel free to read and comment upon my blogs here.
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My Interests

I live/eat/breathe music. I really enjoy racquetball. I used be into Keichu-do but I've fallen out of practice. I need to get back into it. I love to read when I have the time. I really enjoy cooking as well.

I'd like to meet:

Steve Vai. I had a dream once in which Steve Vai showed me everything there was to know about guitar. I was enlightened ... I was One with the guitar universe ... then I woke up and I was late for work. Ask me about my Aerosmith dream sometime.
David Horowitz. Check out http://www.frontpagemag.com (Thanks for this, Brad.)
Geoff Tate. My muse sings to me in his voice.
Senator John McCain, a true American hero.
Prince, The man is a musical genius.
Kevin Eubanks. I love his musical flexibility and his laid-back sense of humor. I also think I want his job. :-)
Richard Dawkins, a human intelligence beyond the pale.

Having said all that, let me use this space to bring something to the fore: Let me take you back to 1995 ... This is "Carry On Wayward Son" as performed by the 98th Army Band's rock band "Crossfire", an ensemble I led when stationed there. We were playing in the Youth Services gym at Fort Rucker and I had the camcorder running (as usual) but the recording came out well and the machine was eating the VHS so a friend of mine saved this clip as an MPG. So enjoy a decent performance of a moderately difficult song and feel free to go ahead and laugh at how old we all have gotten. Please bear in mind that we weren't making a music video, this is just a home movie of us making a living. Cory Pettiford - Guitar and Vocals / Tory Keefer - Keys and Vocals / Me - Guitar, Vocals, and Control Freak / Eric Rodriguez - Drums / Cliff Oliver – Bass

Kansas in Alabama
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Michelle Nichols' haunting "What's Your Name?"

Music:

There's not nearly enough space here and anyway I doubt have the strength. Pick five, you say? Okay ... Queensryche, Dream Theater, Kamelot, Tool/APC, Steve Vai ... Seriously, good music is good music and I listen to just about anything that doesn't suck. If I kept going with the list I'd have to add some pop, country, R&B, ... but, above all, tons of classic rock.

Lavaman - "Back to Earth"

Back to Earth Promo
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Kaura - "One Becomes Two"
One Becomes Two Video
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Magdalen Graal – “There’s No End”
there's no end
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Kamelot – “The Human Stain”

Dream Theater – “Constant Motion”

Growing Feeling video from the album Dawn on Pyther
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Tangent Universe - Souljourners
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Banned by Rainbow Bridge
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Twinspirits - Fire
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Yours by Estrum
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Movies:

Favorites: Above all and forever, "Fight Club", "Clerks", "American Beauty", "Being John Malkovich",and "Death to Smoochy" (yes, seriously) ... along with way too many more to bother listing here.

Two of my more-recent favorites are "Eastern Promises" and "Vantage Point"

Television:

24!! Lost. House. I love Scrubs and Frasier ... (Thank you, O! mighty Syndication!) Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Futurama, The Boondocks...
...and I have to add, above all at the moment, "Battlestar Galactica" ... not your usual sci-fi formula stuff and great storytelling. Frakkin' Awesome!

Books:

I am currently reading:
Everything You Know About God is Wrong - "The Disinformation Guide to Religion", edited by Russ Kick. I have just finished Michael Cricton's Next and recently re-read Beggars and Choosers" by Nancy Kress and 2010:Odyssey Two by Sir Arthur C. Clarke (RIP)

My Blog

Adds, Invites, and Etiquette

Every weekend I find myself playing catch-up with friend requests at my QNP page ... I have a life and a career and, in addition to that, I have genuine MySpace friends (sounds like an oxymoron, doesn...
Posted by Chip on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:03:00 PST

Synergy and Criticism

I've got twenty seven minutes before I have to begin a series of ablations and whatnot necessary for me to face the workday ... "Oh wait", he says, switching to plain English, "I gotta get in the show...
Posted by Chip on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:57:00 PST

Mind Control

One of my favorite bands, Souljourners*, posted a blog in which I found myself intensely interested containing the following video: The playlist in my head began playing one of my own tune...
Posted by Chip on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:13:00 PST

Baiting...

I feel so foolish now ... because I'd typed all these stupid little keywords when I wrote that last blog I am now inundated with spam. Have any of you ever blogged some some random rant about th...
Posted by Chip on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:40:00 PST

Random... Just Like the Net.

I never thought about it before, but now I wonder if I'm "hotter than Miley Cyrus".   Why would I want to locate "single wealthy men in my area"?   What in the hell is an "interracial singl...
Posted by Chip on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:37:00 PST

Eternity Might Indeed "Happen" ...

...but not, apparently, in this case. I took this picture at a local shopping center. Look at it: how could I resist? ...and no ill will meant for the owner, I just found it to be ironic. - Chip QNP...
Posted by Chip on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:44:00 PST

Sleep Paralysis

I had a very strange experience last night. Shortly after falling fully asleep ... maybe 45 minutes or so into it ... I "awoke" inside my body, fully-aware internally but unable to move a muscle, not ...
Posted by Chip on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:14:00 PST

"Camera Obscura - Tales of a Life Beyond Me"

"Camera Obscura" is a three-section piece of work consisting of an instrumental overture and two follow-on sections, each leading directly into the next without pause but very definitely delineat...
Posted by Chip on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:46:00 PST

If the shoe fits...

Listen.   I write this in response to commentary that I found at another blog & I would tell you if it were one of yours; it's not & I am merely venting in a cathartic vein, following Rassan's le...
Posted by Chip on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:43:00 PST

"Headlong"

Perhaps more uplifting than my previous offering  ... the as of yet unremarked "Leviathan" ... yet drawn from the same wellspring:   "Headlong"   Surface ripples form and fade as the sk...
Posted by Chip on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:26:00 PST