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Halcyonandoff

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About Me

If you're going to add me as a friend, at least send me a message first!PhD candidate in the computer engineering department at UC Davis. | Flutist. | Recorderist. | Amateur electronic music composer. | Aspiring violinist. | Open-source advocate. | Anti-corporate. | Pacifist. | Public transit fan. | Coastally oriented.

My Interests

Musical instruments , Gadgety techy things , Science news , Electronic music , Urban living , Languages , Philosophy , The social implications of wireless networking, natural bodies of water

I'd like to meet:

Jennifer Saunders , Drew Barrymore , George W. Bush, Any guy in his 30s with a shaved head wearing a wifebeater.

Music:

Orbital , Paul van Dyk , Vertical Horizon , Pink Floyd , Suzanne Vega , J.S. Bach , Giacomo Carissimi, DJ Tiesto, BT, Chicane, Air, Ochre, Massive Attack, Everything But The Girl, Vanessa Mae, RENT (The musical, not the movie), Zero 7, St. Germain, Scissor Sisters, Boards of Canada, Puddle of Mudd, Trouser Enthusiasts, Kate and CJ, Indigo Girls, Cinematic Orchestra, Spylab, XM Chill (Channel 84), XM System (Channel 82)

Movies:

Amelie, I 3 Huckabees, Run Lola, Run, WalMart: The High Cost of Low Prices, The Corporation, The Fifth Element

Television:

Turn that shit off, man. Ok, Kingdom Hospital was kind of cool.

Books:

The MYST Trilogy , Darwin's Radio , Cryptonomicon , A Wrinkle in Time

Heroes:

I don't have any heroes, until someone single-handedly overthrows the corporate hegemony that capitalism has turned into.