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William

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I am currently doing time in Cincinnati, Ohio finishing up one degree in Cooperative Business Studies (AKA my hippy business degree) and another in Fine Arts. I play banjo in the folk group, the Blue Rock Boys, picking out Irish and Appalachian tunes. I live and play in Northside (it IS all good in the 'hood) and work downtown (ug.). And I have a notorious sibling....SATURDAY AUGUST 12TH AT THE COMET!

My Interests


Which Pirates of the Caribbean character are you?Economics, recently I'm really into the supply-side quallities internet technology offers inforamtion industries. That and social capital management (hello, MySpace). I'm an anarchist for lack of a better term (hello friendly government agent) and I study Cooperative Business Studies because I think we can build a more efficient system, utilizing the free market, if group ownership anddemocracy were more involved, instead of shareholder capitalism, and the impossible small and powerful group of CEO that direct this capital. Bored yet? Most governement and Corporate services and products could be delivered far more efficiently, and with a more realistic price (which serves to better budget expenses), if they were done utilizing consumer or producer cooperatives. I also like yoga, cats, tai chi, and Lynnrd Skynnrd.

I'd like to meet:

People into Co-op stuff. Artists. Human-Animal Hybrids. Banjo Players (it's the next guitar, man). In the end, I've met a lot of good people, and I'm hoping to continue this run.And By the By, come to the Williams Family Band & God Damn Doo Wop Band show: Monday July 17th.

Music:

Okay... I can get my head around this. I am a musician. I like music. However, I gotta warn you... I usually like irritating music. If everything about a band is wretched, but the snares got a real great sound, or the vocalist is shrill and off key in an interesting way, I will listen to it until I puke. I tried to pick up the fiddle once, but my ex-wife spelled "fiddle", "D-I-V-O-R-C-E". I play the tenor banjo, it is a fabulous wreck of a sound. Nearly impossible to tune. I play a ludwig from the 1930's, it's got a long American neck, not a short Irish one, which gives it a darker wierder tone. BANDS: Pogues, Clash, Zounds, New Model Armey, DJ Shadow, Devotchka, Tossers, Mutiny, King Tubby, Devil in a Wood Pile, the Anti-Nowhere League, Steeleye Span everyone... seriously we are spoiled shitless in Cincinnati: The Comet Blue Grass All-Stars, Le Techno Pussies, the Rumpke Mountain Boys, Pernicious Knifs, Staggering Statistics, TimIanandSarah's band... the SOMETHING flowers, too freakin' many: Dj's Brian Decision, Grover, Chris, and the other Brian. For a small ass town, that's slipping closer to detroit everyday, we got it going on. Music is the only thing that ever makes any sense to me, really. Without music people would just wonder why i was making so much noise and throw things at me.

Movies:

I used to like art house films and then I worked as a grip on a couple. Now I only rate movies on how much nudity was involved and how big were the explosion. The only two things that were wrong with Reign of Fire (which kept it from being the best movie of all time) was the lack of female nudity, and the redneck general from America didn't say "YeeHAW" when he jumped off the tower to try to sink a battle axe in the king dragon's head. You can't really view movies on plot, or meaning... their just too expensive. If you want something neat to talk about, take the 300,000 dollars it takes to make a cheap art house film and start a coffee house with it. You can have a conversation there. Although, what excites me about movies now a days, is the massive drop in cost due to all this fancy technology we got us here in the future. Yeah 21st century livin', woo. So I'm excited about the kind of movies we'll see oosing out of the internet and all that.

Television:

Is the devil. Screw TV. I don't have time for it. A great series like the Soppranos, 6 feet Under, or Battlestar Galactica, I can wait for the DVD. I don't have time for adds (and they freak me out anyway), or the boring plot, bad writing and mediocre acting. If I want moderate-conservative agitprop I'll go talk to the nuns who teach at St. Boniface down the block.

Books:

Dyslexia plus the printed page make Bill unhappy. I enjoy books, but it takes me a long while to read them. If you loan me a book I promise to 1. Possibly loose it (gNat I think I found that William Gibson novel you loaned me in '97) 2. Ruin it (gNat... nevermind). 3. Probably not finish it (gNat... as soon as this semester is done, I will read ALL of it..) 4. And if I really like it, I won't give it back. DO NOT GIVE THE DYSLEXIC A BOOK. It's like giving a rabid dog a small child to play with. I like books that are big, with big print and pretty pictures and come with supervision.

Heroes:

L Murray Lincoln, whose book (haha), "Vice President in Charge of Revolution". He was the president of the Ohio Farm Board, a farm cooperative, when it was electrifying all of rural Ohio. My dad, he's made it this far and he's also a banjo player. Joe Strummer, but then who doesn't have Joe Strummer as a hero (no one worth talking to that's who). Buddha, yeah buddy!

My Blog

Uhg!

So I am in my least favorite mode of life: single. I hate being single. I'm not completely sure why but I'm beginning to think a lot of it has to do with low level depression. I have NOTHING to be dep...
Posted by William on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:53:00 PST

Tired

Allright... my life is just way too interesting and rewarding for school work. I should just drop out and enjoy it all. My day was spent first getting up to Daniel's house for home schooling. Yep, I'm...
Posted by William on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:54:00 PST

I've turned into Dr. Phill

So along with all this craziness and bitterness that just recently happened I've been trying to channel more of my bullshit into figuring things out. And, wow, it's working. Mostly, it has to do with ...
Posted by William on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:18:00 PST

With all the subtlety of a hand grenade...

Christmas time six years ago was not as enjoyable as it could've been. Mom's brother had just died the day before her brithday on December 14th, and Christmas day we all noticed that the bruises all o...
Posted by William on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:48:00 PST

A Christmas Story

Well, I haven't written a whole bunch lately. Been busy and had little I wanted to share with the world. But this is pretty funny, at least I think so. So about 11 years ago my sister asked my mom for...
Posted by William on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:03:00 PST

Christian Anarchist?

You scored as Christian Anarchist. Christian anarchism is one of the oldest anarchist philosophies, arguably dating back to the early Christian church. Christian anarchists emphasise non-violence and...
Posted by William on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 05:18:00 PST

Gay Pride Parade

Every year I literally run into the Gay Pride Parade in Northside. This might be trying to tell me something if I hadn't already had the great idea, last time I was single, that bisexuallity was the k...
Posted by William on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:36:00 PST

Oh my God I'm back!

I finally got around to putting tab A in slot B and now I have the internet again! It's like a dream come true, I was beginning to feel isolated. I didn't know if anyone was trying to get a hold of me...
Posted by William on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 05:35:00 PST

Freedom...

I've had a lot of opportunities to do some serious soul searching: breaking up with my girlfriend, moving, being threatened with imaginary weaponry (but it's Cincy, who does that NOT happen to), and a...
Posted by William on Fri, 05 May 2006 07:54:00 PST

There is no justice on Short Vine...

and never has been. So, the Blue Rock Boys found out the Tossers were playing at Top Cat's on the 19th. And we thought to ourselves... hey, a national touring Irish punk act, well heck this is like pe...
Posted by William on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:12:00 PST