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Ross

I contain multitudes.

About Me

I'm a bass player. I have a music page: www.myspace.com/macabass I'm fortunate enough to do what I love for a living - playing with amazing musicians. Some of the more high-profile ones are Matt Dusk, Jesse Cook, Eliana Cuevas, and Nicholas Ali who for some reason likes to be called "Brown". I just don't get it. I spend most of my nights at jazz clubs either playing or taking in some of Toronto's incredible local talent. I spend my days practicing, reading, or in front of the computer. I'm also a huge nerd and I can recite most of Star Trek TNG or DS9 upon request. I'm pretty good with Buffy, Angel, Firefly, The Simpsons, and Family Guy too. Don't judge me.

My Interests

Music, art, theatre, literature. I'm just your basic metrosexual.

I'd like to meet:

I'm doing my best to adorn my friends list with musicians, actual friends, and hot girls from California with 5 million friends who I'll never speak to or meet. If you don't fall into any of those categories, I'd love to meet you anyway. I've never denied a request.

Music:

In no paticular order: Led Zeppelin, John Mayer, Bjork, music theatre (I just like it, okay? Back off!), Jill Scott, Keith Jarrett, Medeski Martin and Wood, Jack Johnson, Tom Waits, J.S. Bach, John Patitucci, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Dave Matthews, Ben Harper, Stevie Wonder, Paul Chambers, Ray Brown, Randy and Michael Brecker, Tom Harrell, Donald Byrd, Clifford Brown, Michel Camilo, Jobim, Jaco, Bill Evans, Jason Robert Brown, Stephen Sondheim, DLG, A Tribe Called Quest, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, John Coltrane, Marcus Miller, Kurt Elling, Sonny Rollins, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Paco De Lucia, Ruben Blades, Cachao, Eminem, U2, Elton John, The Beatles, Take 6, Eva Cassidy, James Taylor, Beethoven, Mahler, Mozart, Puccini, Joshua Bell, Feist, Stina Nordenstam, Esthero, Peter Gabriel, Wayne Shorter, Jeff Buckley, Kim Burrell, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Tower of Power, Earth Wind and Fire, Jill Scott, Matt Dusk, Michael Buble, Jesse Cook, Holly Cole, Nat King Cole, Freddy Cole, Cole Porter, Steve Coleman, Coleman Hawkins - just to name a few.

Movies:

Serenity, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Big Fish, Almost Famous, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Wet Hot American Summer, Swingers, Made, Napoleon Dynamite, Sideways, Romeo and Juliet (the Baz Luhrmann one), Amadeus, and anything Kevin Smith did.

Television:

The Daily Show, The Simpsons, The Family Guy, anything by Joss Whedon, Star Trek, Arrested Development. I think the best shows are the ones FOX cancelled prematurely.

Books:

Kurt Vonnegut, Gregory Maguire, Christopher Moore, Richard Feynman. Shakespere in a serious way. I also have a thing for Calvin and Hobbes comics.