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Like a Cast Shadow, Esq.

I am but one small instrument...

About Me

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Random people never seem to message me. You should be the one to change that. :)

I'm an attorney just getting his career off the ground. Spent the last three years in Las Vegas for law school. While I miss it, I'm loving my first real winter in five years, so I'm glad to be back East. For now I'm just working as a contract attorney doing doc review, while I get settled into a new apartment and a new city. We'll see where things lead after that, but right now I'm pretty content with my life. Someday, when I've got a little experience under my belt, I'd love to start doing some low cost legal work for local bands and indie labels... support your local scene!

I go to a lot of shows when I've got the time, sometimes three or four a week depending on who's coming to town. I'm always up for discovering new bands. Moving to NY has been heaven in that regard, I swear there's two or three shows I want to see every night here!

I used to play poker semi-professionally. For the last year and a half I've been on an extended break from the tables, finishing up school, studying for the bar, moving, etc. Now that I'm no longer in a state with easily accessible live games, I'm kind of on indefinite hiatus, but it always ebbs and flows for me and I'm sure at some point I'll be back on my game

I listen to music. A LOT. I'm one of those people. The ones who have 3000 CDs (literally). So far it seems like Vegas radio is beyond terrible. So my lovely (despite being beat to crap) 160gb iPod goes with me pretty much everywhere. It holds barely half of my music collection, but its enough for me to get by ;) I used to DJ for my college radio station -- I miss those days!

So yeah. Hit me up!

Also, I don't add people I haven't talked to, so send me a message first :)

My Interests

music, you

I'd like to meet:

anyone and everyone, especially you!

Music:



all of it. But mostly indie.emo, punk, rawk, alt.country, and power-pop. Adam Richman, Alk3, All Time Low, American Football, Angels & Airwaves, Armor for Sleep, At The Drive In, Bad Religion, Blood Brothers, Br& New, Bright Eyes, Butch Walker, Cartel, Cause & Effect, Christie Front Drive, Coheed, Damien Rice, the Dandy Warhols, Dashboard, the Early November, EMF, Escape the Fate, Everybody Else, Fall Out Boy, Frank Turner, Fountains of Wayne, Gatsby's American Dream, Gratitude, Guster, the Higher, Husker Du, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, InSoc, INXS, Jeff Buckley, Jimmy Eat World, Jonah Matranga, Kula Shaker, the Lightning Seeds, Live, Mae, Material Issue, Matthew Sweet, Men Women & Children, mewithoutYou, Minus the Bear, the Mountain Goats, My American Heart, MCR, Nelly Furtado (before she lost her mind), Nick Drake, Nirvana, Old 97s, Our Lady Peace, Owen, Paolo Nutini, Phish, Pinback, Poison, the Promise Ring, the Protomen, the Psyclone Rangers, the Replacements, the Rocket Summer, Romantica, Ryan Adams, Ryan Shaw, the Shamen, Sherwood, Sigur Ros, Social Distortion, Sugar, Superdrag, Thrice, Uncle Tupelo, Vampire Weekend, Verbow, Veruca Salt, Visqueen, We Are Scientists, the Weakerthans, Whiskeytown, Wilco, X, the Zombies, and lots more.

Movies:

I saw three movies in the past year. Really.

Television:

Food Network, ESPN, Discovery, The N, New York One!

Books:

Lots of YA lit lately -- Chbosky (always), John Green, David Levithan and more. Aside from that, Vonnegut, Hornby, Wells, Greenwald, Sklansky, Malmuth, Steingarten, Reichl, lots more. And way more music mags than could possibly be healthy.

Heroes:

WE could be heroes! Just for one day...

My Blog

Best of 07 list

Late as usual, my top 10 albums of 2007.  This year was a particularly tough one to keep up on.  There's still a ton of music released last year that I haven't gotten around to listening to....
Posted by Like a Cast Shadow, Esq. on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:00:00 PST

I don't know if this is ridiculous or just plain scary

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Posted by Like a Cast Shadow, Esq. on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:55:00 PST

Best of 06 List

Ok, I've been waiting for inspiration to strike on writing nice detailed reviews for my Top 10 of 06, but it hasn't happened yet, and time is slip slip slipping away, so in the interests of a modicum ...
Posted by Like a Cast Shadow, Esq. on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:05:00 PST

?

This creeping silence from the maw of iniquities,taciturn roses in these brittle times,smiles on our lips and tourniquets on our hearts,I've caught you in my parallax,we're losing focus,losing focus.....
Posted by Like a Cast Shadow, Esq. on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:50:00 PST

BamBlogzle (Left coast variety)

Two things:First, I put up a bunch of shows I'm going to on my MySpace calendar, let me know if I'll be seeing you there!Secondly, before it gets too far away, I wanted to do a comprehensive review of...
Posted by Like a Cast Shadow, Esq. on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:42:00 PST

Music Madness, Winter 06 Edition!

so I went on another ticket buying spree...if you're going to any of the following shows, say hey!1/28  Amber Pacific / Paramore at the Alley2/12  Bayside/Punchline/The Junior Varsity at the...
Posted by Like a Cast Shadow, Esq. on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:08:00 PST

It's never too late! Best of 05 list!

Better late then never right? I meant to get this together for the end of the year, but heck, a few weeks won't kill anyone. This past year was another fantastic year for new music; I think the la...
Posted by Like a Cast Shadow, Esq. on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:54:00 PST

breaking format for today

I'm sure my crappy writing will be back soon, but a little something different today. Driving back from Kristen's to Las Vegas yesterday, heading on I-210E through California, traffic got heavy and...
Posted by Like a Cast Shadow, Esq. on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:16:00 PST

well?

Am I being too obvious, or not enough?I can never quite tell what to do with this stuffand besides you make me lose my wordsmy brain goes so numb it's all i can doto yammer heartfelt cliches and insip...
Posted by Like a Cast Shadow, Esq. on Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:50:00 PST

another songish thing

cmon can't you give me a line that i haven't heard before cuz i'm not certain if its worse that you're a liar or a bore but if you open up your mouth again we'll surely know for sure so let's hear ...
Posted by Like a Cast Shadow, Esq. on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:28:00 PST