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About Me

I enjoy: NPR, The Wonder Years, ice cream, reading, pixie sticks, pocky, SEINFELD, warm red wine, candlelight, fish, cooking, rosemary!, hiking, great music, people, backpacking, mushrooms, chai, green tea, coffee, health, reading, big warm socks, thermal tops, women, space, a tidy room, home recording, kissing, splurging, eating out, sign language, singing, showers, clawfoot tubs, herbs, natural medicine, lemongrass, calendula, food not bombs, organic foods, minimalism, 3am, mist, traffic light yellow, ipod, my train engineers hat, trains, hugging, quiet, sound therapy, soft things, tater tots, reuben sandwiches, hotel congress, the muse (R.I.P.), /., Jones soda, almond butter, pink lady apples, not holding back, sincerity, reliability, linguistics, test, quizzes, exams, philosophy, dinosaurs, flowers, the little prince, foreign movies, chaos, hallucinatory material, language, brevity, terseness, back to the future, mail, postcards, vacuum sealing ziploc bags with my mouth, harmonicas, Lars Von Trier, The Angels of Light, Lawrence Durrell. We Feel Fine . I was born under the sign of Libra and my ruling planet is Venus.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/29/2004
Band Website: Crib of Venus
Band Members: Myself.
Influences: Andrew Bird, The Angels of Light, Antony & The Johnsons, Beck, Bjork, Broken Social Scene, Calexico, Damien Jurado, Elliott Smith, The Frames, Hayden, Iron & Wine, Joanna Newsom, John Frusciante, Jolie Holland, The Kings of Convenience, Laura Veirs, M. Ward, Magnolia Electric Co., Mercury Rev, Mogwai, Mono, Mum, Neil Young, Neko Case, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Drake, The Notwist, ON, The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers, Oval, Pinback, Refused, Richard Buckner, Rufus Wainwright, Sébastien Schuller, Sergej Rachmaninoff, The Sleepy Jackson, Smog, Sparklehorse, Sun Kil Moon, Tori Amos, Travis, The Twilight Singers, Ugly Casanova, Van Morrison
Sounds Like: Dust
Record Label: I love Port Wine
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Limoncello for the summer

I've been wanting to make Limoncello for a long time. Finally I got around to it. Basically I soak lemon rhinds in everclear for 4 days, then mix it with a lot of sugar and lots of water. The first...
Posted by of on Sat, 05 May 2007 05:38:00 PST

NEW PROJECT: Sing you to sleep

Tonight, I had the most bitchin' idea. In order to keep the creative wheels spinning (BTW on which I have installed LCD rims which play Scarface 24/7) I have decided to embark on a new voyage. One i...
Posted by of on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:54:00 PST

SXSW for free!

If you soiled your pants this year, because you can't afford SXSW, you can wipe yourself off now because most of the festival is televised. If you have DirecTV, tune to channel 101 for free coverage ...
Posted by of on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:40:00 PST

The coolest technology in years

Holy crap!!! I was browsing the rumor sites trying to dig up information on the next version of Logic, Apple's audio recording software and came across some rumors that Apple will use Multi-Touch in ...
Posted by of on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:46:00 PST

Ken Andrews: Impressions

Wow. I am nearly speechless. I can't even begin to describe what it feels like to have a dream come true. There he was, Ken Andrews!!! shredding all the awesome shit from his new record and playing...
Posted by of on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:29:00 PST

iStrike no PROSE. Awww shit!

Here's a few poems I found on my external hard drive when I was diggin' 'round today.Pool Boy-YesterdayFull SunshineI saw a marigold project a film of myselfStruggling to pull a chair out of your hear...
Posted by of on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:54:00 PST

Note: "Feathers"

Hey thugs, I posted a new song today. It's one I've been working on for a while, but just polished up this week. It's an important step for me musically, I think, growing leaps and bounds above my p...
Posted by of on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:53:00 PST

mercury

I heard on NPR today that the mercury we ingest through fish comes from mercury vapor that evaporates from the fillings in ones teeth when we are cremated. It gets picked up from the wind and deposit...
Posted by of on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:20:00 PST

New fixed gear bike!!

I got one, finally! I might take off the rear brake, but figure I'll leave the front one just for safety....
Posted by of on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:13:00 PST

Wise words from a 14 year old girl

Who would have thought that 63 years later, the words of a 14 year old Jewish girl would leave its imprint on a 25 year old male living in Arizona. Anne Frank is stunningly perceptive. Witness:"The ...
Posted by of on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:06:00 PST