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Aaron

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Photographer. My friend flickr.
Plus, some old photos: 1. 2. 3. 4.
Music Geek. I am an obsessive music collector. (I mail order vinyl even though I don't have a turntable!) I also sometimes make music: ATSL
And, I like to bike in the city.

My Interests

Music, Art, Yoga, Biking, Drinking etc. Typical New Yorker stuff.

I'd like to meet:

I really have no idea. Interesting people willing to put up with me.

Music:

You hate me for writing all of these down, but this is actually why I joined myspace. (I mostly like music without words, by the way.)Alarm Will Sound
The Album Leaf
Amon Tobin
Apparat
Aphex Twin
the Arcade Fire
A Tribe Called Quest
Autechre
Bauhaus
Black Sabbath
the Beatles
Beck
the Bees ("A Band of Bees"?)
Bettie Serveert
The Big Sleep
Bjork
Blonde Redhead
Boards of Canada
Bonobo
Booker T. & the MG's and Stax records in general
the Books & Zammuto
Boom Bip
David Bowie
Francoiz Breut
Broadcast
James Brown
BS2000
Built to Spill
Can
the Cardigans
Johnny Cash
Catpower
Chris Clark
Clinic
Console & the Notwist & Lali Puna
Cul de Sac
the Cure
Daedelus & Adventure Time
Dan the Automator/Deltron/Gorillaz/Lovage/Handsome Boy Modelling School
De La Soul
Depeche Mode
Devo
Diplo
DJ Shadow
DNTEL & Postal Service
Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene & Apostle of Hustle
the Doors
DoseOne/Themselves/cLOUDDEAD/Subtle/13&God
Electrelane
Ellen Allien
Brian fuckin' Eno & (some) Roxy Music
John Fahey
Fela Kuti
Fennesz
Fourtet & Fridge
Funki Porcini
Funkstorung
Gang of Four
Marvin Gaye
the Good Good
Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters
PJ Harvey
Tim Hecker/Jetone
Holy Fuck
Mattew Herbert
Hrvatski & Keith Fullerton Whitman
the Jealous Girlfriends
Joy Division & New Order
Kid Koala
the Kinks
Kinski
The Knife
Led Zeppellin
Le Tigre
Lullabye Arkestra
Manitoba/Caribou
Massive Attack
Matmos
Curtis Mayfield
Mazzy Star/Hope Sandoval
Menomena
MF Doom/Viktor Vaughan
the Microphones
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
Mum
µ-Ziq
Neu!/Cluster/Harmonia
90 Day Men
Nirvana
Nobody And Mystic Chords Of Memory
Nouvelle Vague
the Occasion
the Octopus Project
O'Death
On!Air!Library!
Pantha du Prince
Pelican
Pink Floyd
the Pixies
Iggy Pop & the Stooges
Portishead/Beth Gibbons
Prefuse73, Delarosa & Asora, etc.
Elvis Aaron Presley
Radiohead (& Venus in Furs & Jonny Greenwood)
Rotary Downs
Steve Reich
The Rollings Stones
Seefeel
Senor Coconut, Atom Heart etc.
the Shins
Six Organs of Admittance & Comets on Fire
Sonic Youth
Sneaker Pimps
Sparklehorse
Spoon
Squarepusher
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Stereolab
Sufjan Stevens
Talking Heads
Tortoise & A Grape Dope
Trans Am
Tricky
Tycho
Velvet Underground
Vetiver
Vladislav Delay
Hank Williams
Wire
White Stripes
Link Wray
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeasayer
Yo La Tengo
Neil Young
and maybe some other stuff.Congratulations on making it so far down the list! Sometimes, I also make music: atsl

Movies:

Black Orpheus, Wings of Desire, Alphaville, Schizopolis, the Big Liebowski, Donnie Darko, etc.

Television:

Futurama, Homes Movies, Good Eats, I watch entirely too much television but I can only think of three shows that I can call great. Damn you, Cable Television.

Books:

Invisible Cities
Catch-22
The Sirens of Titan
Candide
Childhood's End
Tortilla Flat
V.

"The Circular Ruins" by J.L. Borges
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
a lot of Philip K. Dick
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vladimir Nabokov
Joseph Campbell
Guns, Germs & Steel

Heroes:

Joseph Campbell, Italo Calvino, Richard Misrach, Robert Adams, Andreas Gursky, Brian Eno, Richard D. James, etc.

My Blog

Lists.

1. Make list.2. Cross things off. Repeat until list is exhausted.3. Discard list.4. Repeat.
Posted by Aaron on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:49:00 PST

Art Party!

Okay, this is very late notice for myspace, but I have some stuff hanging in a show tomorrow night. They'll be up for ten days.These are the pieces that I'm showing. ....
Posted by Aaron on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:15:00 PST

Sometimes I just dont get it.

Some people need to go on diets to lose weight. I need to go on fanatical cleaning sprees to lose the psychological weight of being a pack rat.And like a diet, after the cleaning is over, I slip back...
Posted by Aaron on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:32:00 PST

Is this a genre?

Christian FenneszMark CliffordKeith Fullerton WhitmanNick ZammutoBen ChasnyTim Hecker...Some that I don't really listen to but make music in the same vein:Pan*AmericanJim O'RourkeLabradfordAix Em Klem...
Posted by Aaron on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:12:00 PST

a.t.s.l.

Sooooo...I made a myspace music page: atslA.T.S.L. are my initials.They were embroidered onto my Land's End satchel/school bag that I used when I was in Junior High. I was made fun of for that; it's...
Posted by Aaron on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:22:00 PST

Etc.

When I wasn't looking Ze Frank's show ("The Show") ended. Here's the Show he did on my birthday, which is about fear.Here is my synopsis: On March 17th, 2006, some guy posted a show at his website wi...
Posted by Aaron on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:59:00 PST

Golden Laptop Calendar.

I'm at work on Thursday, trying to get a whole bunch of stuff done, and this random guy peeks his head around the corner and starts asking me what we do here. I start talking to him and he's saying s...
Posted by Aaron on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:41:00 PST

Er, update.

Okay, so I just bought a ticket for each night of Do Make Say Think because I like the opening band, The Berg Sans Nipple. (I know, I know, who the fuck names these bands? Clearly a sadist.)I heard ...
Posted by Aaron on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:33:00 PST

Travelling and then not travelling.

I was in New Orleans about a week ago. Well, damn, it's hard to sum it all up, but Mardi Gras is pretty amazing, with days of parades, marching bands, costumes, beads, beads and more beads. Beads th...
Posted by Aaron on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:21:00 PST

King Kong pissed me off.

I saw Peter Jackson's King Kong the other night and I have to say it: Peter Jackson pisses me off. I never finished watching any of the Lord of the Rings movies because I would start watching them, ...
Posted by Aaron on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:15:00 PST