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About Me

I live in LA and I play the viola and write music. And sometimes I dig holes in the desert for geological companies. If I didn't play viola and write music so much, I would also paint and read and write books. And sometimes if you ask really nicely I'll play the violin. And I have a new motto for life. It's 'less coffee, more sake'. And particularity brings me pleasure.

My Interests

Music: music-making, music exploring, music listening, music composition, music innovation, and music improvisation. Seeing the world: people watching, traveling, camping, hiking, being in cities, seeing mountains from afar, seeing far from mountain-tops, enjoying and observing the location which I am in, wherever that happens to be. People: meeting them, having known them for a very long time, having them over as guests, watching them as a spectator, watching them as a participant, and interacting with them. Drinking: tea, espresso, juice, and alcohol (especially wine). Sitting: reading, listening, watching, existing, talking, smelling, and being still. Constructing: lists, paintings, compositions, decorating, cooking, making things look nicer than they did. Thinking: just thinking.

I'd like to meet:

people and cats, and maybe others too.

Music:

currently: Franco Donatoni Morton Feldman Helmut Lachenmann Steve Reich Alban Berg and Miscellaneous hip-hop

Movies:

The Royal Tennenbaums and Sans Soleil and The Princess and the Warrior and Amelie

Television:

nope

Books:

Italo Calvino and Fyodor Dostoevsky and John Steinbeck and Julio Cortozar

Heroes:

Harry Partch and Ptolomy and John Cage and James Winn

My Blog

The day after yesterday

So, I'm having a problem. It's a problem called productivity - not that I'm lacking it, but rather, that I have too much to say. I've been writing music for three and four hours every night,...
Posted by Mac on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:43:00 PST

L. F.

dry. crisp. clear. cold. vibrant. earthen. rough. thirteen. twelve. blue. ...
Posted by Mac on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:10:00 PST

Alec Soth - Photography

I don't know if anyone reading this is into photography. If you are, then the photography of Alec Soth was recently recommended to me by brother, who is a photographer. The website is http://alecsoth....
Posted by Mac on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:55:00 PST

pacific coast starlight

I just bought a train ticket direct from LA to Seattle to see my family for Christmas. The train will go right along the coast for most of California and will weave between the coast and the Cascade m...
Posted by Mac on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:52:00 PST

i am a nerd

here are my top ten favorite composers: 1. Dmitri Shostakovich 2. Ludwig Van Beethoven 3. Igor Stravinsky 4. Maurice Ravel 5. Olivier Messiaen 6. Sergei Prokofiev 7. Morton Feldman 8. Toru Takemitsu 9...
Posted by Mac on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:53:00 PST

Messiaen - for those who are curious

I recently changed my song to a piece by Oliver Messiaen (one of my all time favorite composers) and thought anyone curious might want to know what he was about. He was a French composer from the twen...
Posted by Mac on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:54:00 PST

always looking at the world through glass...

I went to a phenomenal concert tonight. However, as I was very carefully and quietly peering in through the door of the concert hall to see if they had started yet, someone barged through the heavy wo...
Posted by Mac on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:50:00 PST

Le Sacre du Printemps

I went to a concert today. I went to the USC Symphony playing Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. That piece has been my favorite piece since I first heard it. I almost cried for the first time in publ...
Posted by Mac on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:39:00 PST

soon to be valley-boy

well. it's time. i'm finally leaving reno after growing up here and all that. i am moving to van nuys, a district of LA, for the purpose of going to grad school. yay! it's kind of frightening to be le...
Posted by Mac on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:50:00 PST

new word for the day

trichotillomania. n. 1. the urge or desire to pull out one's hair. 2. the chronic affliction of pulling out one's hair. from greek [tricho- (hair), tillein (to pull out), and -mania (madness...
Posted by Mac on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:13:00 PST