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7ance

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, —that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

About Me


Is one truly defined by what they do? I play guitar and have since I was 12. Stylistically one would have to cross Bruce Cockburn and Malcom Young channeling Son House to arrive at something similar to what I sound like when I play.
I do collaborate with friends. Fame, wealth, personal reckognition - things associated with vanity and ego-stroking, however, do not interest me where my talents are conserned: I'm looking for the perfect song. Promotion is not my forté: writing and playing is.
One might ask why I don't have a MySpazz Band/Music page and the answer is simple: AS IF anyone needs one more band add, ehy? If you like my music let me know and I'll tell you where you can get it for free, 'kay? I've always found that the best art is free to look at and listen to - so - off you go.
You can listen to a few things I'm working on at the moment in the player below if you like. Just click on stuff until something works.
I play an Alvarez RD8 (pure) accoustic. I have used Mako strats, Zoom 515 multiFX and Yamaha RX drummulators. Right now for software I use Mixcraft, Acid Pro, Quartz, Amen, Bassline, Rubberduck, Hammerhead, Leafdrums, TS404, CoolEdit, VSTProccessor, SubBastard and Taureg. I use Dean Markley 80/20's and Elixier Polyweb strings. I'm not an "instrument purist": I don't believe you can achieve the "perfect" sound with a so-called "perfect" instrument. I've owned, at one time or another, over 32 guitars and the best of them were always some factory POS most other guitarists would toss-off for a vintage Martin or Fender. If you're a budding musician, be proud of your korean knock-off or Esteban special; play them until your fingers bleed. You'll get it eventually.
Even More About Me (as if this weren't enough): I collect sweaters. And people. People in sweaters are an added bonus. As you can tell by the last sentence I'm a big fan of superfluous redundancy.
I support worthy causes but I am a carnivore: you have been warned. I don't hug trees because they make really nice tables.
Ignorance I can tolerate, just not when it has a big mouth. I have a dry, cynical sense of humor and I rarely let stupidity go unchallenged.
...Which is rather ironic, really, since I'm the stupidest person I know...

My Interests

Social Rock Climbing. Juxtaposed personal realities.

Pop Monty Python on the dvd player, turn down the sound and listen to this interesting link and that could give you an imaginative sample of my tunnel-reality (you must have WinAmp or other Shoutcast-enabled player to listen - choose 'open').

I practice a form of post-Gurdjieffian sufism which propels one into self-actualization through the hypostases of enneagram progression.

Which basically means that I can juggle...

I'd like to meet:


Bruce Cockburn, but socially as I think he'd probably have more to tell me than his music often betrays. Bruce has been my biggest musical influence and I have to say honestly that since I've listened to him without pause since I was 16, he has also shaped the point of view I've taken of the world - so meeting him would be a nice rounding-out of the path he's anonymously led me down. Timothy Leary one more time. Ahh man...he's dead... Well, David Suzuki would be an interesting fellow to shake hands with. I'd like to play Bach's tocatta and fugue in D minor on Stephen Hawking's voxbox just to see what that might provoke. (Note to the Outer Head Of the Illuminati Calvin Mann: "Freakin' C_______s!"). Actually, I met Tim Leary once on an elevator and got a contact high... Actually, the Outer Head Of The Illuminai, Calvin Mann was there when it happened and I think he fell over from all the acid he ingested from proximity to my proximity to Tim Leary in the Elevator. But Stephen Hawking wasn't there - that was a different SciFi convention and that guy wasn't really Stephen Hawking, he just thought he was and we could all see right through that pretender...

Here's a really cool Ween video

The Mollusk

And something uplifting from Micheal Hedges

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Food For Thought & Action
We will NOT be silenced!

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Music:

I'm a Bruce Cockburn fan. I know, I know - who the hell is Bruce Cockburn? Click here to find out more. You won't be sorry.

Or, watch this wonderful video

Different When It Comes To You

7ance's Other Musical Influances: Tiny Tim (bless his gentle soul). Micheal Hedges, Blind Willie Johnson, Son House, John Hammond, John Hiatt, Bob Dylan, Zep, Hendrix, Louden Wainwright III, Leon Redbone, Leadbelly, Matthew Sweet, Jude, The dB's, Elly K., Kate Bush, Daisy Chainsaw/Queen Adreena, LLCoolJ, Fear, Germs, Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Howlin' Wolf, Ween, Foetus, White Zombie, Enigma, George Clinton & Parliment Funkadelic, Edie Brickell, Collective Soul, Yusef Islam, Billy Holliday, Ween, They Might Be Giants.

The Beautiful Nina Simone

is the goddess of subtlety .

Movies:

My favorite scene from my all-time-favorite movie
Carol Reed's THE THIRD MAN
Starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli
and Trevor Howard.
(I like the version where Joe Cotton does the intro)
Even More Movies I Like: Everything Akira Kurasawa ever did with Seven Samurai and Stray Dog right square at the top. Tampopo. The Women. Rocky Horror. Casablanca. The Wizard of Oz. Secretary. Time Bandits. John Carpenter's Dark Star. John Carpenter's They Live. John Carpenter's Big Trouble In Little China. John Carpenter's ANY OTHER MOVIE HE EVER MADE. Weird old Jess Frank Italian Horror flicks. Anything with Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee or, conversely, Peter Cushing AND Christopher Lee in it. Anything John Huston ever made including Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Man Who Would Be King. Bond: Sean Connery. Godzilla, Gamera, Toho Kingu Kongu and most other giant, japanese radioactive monsters. Fred & Ginger. Rita Hayworth. V For Vendetta made a favorable impression on me! Mike Myers is the shite and I aught to have mentioned Ming Tea in the music section because Matthew Sweet is in it.

Television:

TCM, Robot Chicken & MXC are the only things fit to watch on the cathode blatherbox.



Books:

The Razor's Edge by W. Sommerset Maugham. If you can't discover the nature of human interaction from this book, you never will. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. If you can't divine the comic nature of synchronicity from this book, you never will. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. If you can't develop a healthy, humorous distain for popular culture from this book, you never will (you poor, sad, pathetic puddin'-head, you). Azimov's Index of Science and Technology by Issac Azimov. If you can't figure out the fundimentals of human scientific knowledge from this book, you never will. The Pricipia Discordia (see link below). Godel, Echer, Bach, by Douglas Hofstadder (Just some light reading for a rainy day). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Leaving the Fold: Testimonies of Former Fundamentalists by Ed Babinski . My Self-Appointed Big Brother writes profusely and has recently become a target of internet media attacks! Yee-hoo! Free Publicity! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Me Likey Chickbooks!

Scare the Xtian BeJebuz right the flock out of anyone under 14 with ComiX! I suggest the "All Tract Assortment" for hours of devilish delight, madness, murder, mayhem, eternal damnation and out-n-out-hate-mongering-bigotry with a side order of hellish torments!

Read The Pricipia Discordia
Fix Your Inner Sufi Good

Heroes:

Robert Anton Wilson . Dr. Timothy Leary . Christopher Knight . Jimi Hendrix . All of the Gnostic Saints .

J.R. Bob Dobbs Is My Personal Savior
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My Blog

Popcornbrain Theatre No.1- What The Bleep Do We Know?

Welcome to the first edition of Popcornbrain Theatre, where I attempt to inundate, amuse, bemuse, entertain, piss off, enlighten evolve or devolve you with interesting viddies I find on the net in my ...
Posted by 7ance on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:50:00 PST

Survey Says!: Best Breakfast

WEEKDAYS & SATURDAY MORNING:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Quite simply: coffee (cafe avec crème et sucre, svpl), and fresh butter croissant.SUNDAY MORNING:~~~~~~~~~~~~~Somthing big, huge and heart-attack pro...
Posted by 7ance on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:02:00 PST

Hedonism 101

I've never been in a sensory deprivation chamber. Always kind of wondered what that might be like; four or six hours or so floating in 98.6 degree totally bouyant saltwater, sightless, soundless, sme...
Posted by 7ance on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:50:00 PST

Censoring Stupidity & Blocking Bad Vibes

(sigh)...So I knew it would happen eventually. I knew somewhere along the line I would have to delete / block someone. I thought for sure, though, that it would just be one of the multitude of onlin...
Posted by 7ance on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:29:00 PST

Venturing Out Into Myspazz

So I've finally started 'bouncing', as I call it, on MySpazz (as I also call it). Bouncing is where you hit someone's page and loaf around mingling with their friends, clicking on faces in posts that...
Posted by 7ance on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:25:00 PST

Life On The Fringe

So as I said elsewhere on my MySpazz blog (look down a few entries), I live out on the fringe - out where the cowboys all look like MIBs and the cows have all been tipped dead on the ground showing si...
Posted by 7ance on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:13:00 PST

Chuck Klosterman: Word Vomit from a Pop Culture Hack Posing as Post 2k Neo-Intellectualism

So - My girlfriend picked up this book, Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs from a friend and brought it over to read at me.  She started off with a series of 23 questions in chapter 10...
Posted by 7ance on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:18:00 PST

How Unpredictably Predictable Are You?

So here's a salient fact that I hadn't expected about myself: I am totally un-unique!So I've been goofing off on the myspace search, entering random friends names with whom I've lost touch with over t...
Posted by 7ance on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:54:00 PST

An Awesome Messenger Client that Works. Get Mercury!

Need an IM client that does the trick? Wanna finally see your honey's webcam working as it aught to, but can't because you've got W98 an she/he has Mac OSx with that stupid iSite thingamabob? Do you...
Posted by 7ance on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:36:00 PST

20 Things You Might Not Know About (Real) Men

I'm not much a one for lists, but it occured to me that some women seem to have problems discerning what men - not boys or guys who are just basically looking to tap as much ass as they can find - are...
Posted by 7ance on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:15:00 PST