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About Me

I'm a man, just under 6 feet tall, 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes, 1 buddha belly. After 33 years of living in Chicago, and 7 years of talking about moving, I quit my job and and relocated to Seattle. I'm so glad I did. Everything is new again, and I like it.

I'm 35 years old and I cannot grow any sort of moustache, beard, or goatee. I can rock that neck scruff that most guys and even some girls had in 7th grade like a champ, though.

Things that I am into come and go. The things that remain are love of music and the friends I make. I'm also into recording my dreams and thinking about what meanings they might hold. I have a lot to say on the matter, so definitely chat me up if you're interested in that too. The internets not only provide me with hours of hilarity/schadenfreude/people watching, they also allow me to keep in touch with important people in distant lands and make a living.

Zombies are my favorite monster. They're just so squishy. I hope to someday roam the earth, undead, in search of brains.

In the meantime while my heart still beats, I like to spin records and cobble together loops and samples into song like structures, but I never seem to finish any of them. I'm not a composer, but I once scored part of a kung-fu musical. I'm not a photographer, but a photo I took is getting published in a book.

My Interests

steady dorkin', music + writing + films, dreams, snowboarding, being in the mountains, traveling, word sound power, art, bicycling, mythology, computers/the interweb, buddhism and taosim, beats and bass, DJing, video games, food, horror/sci-fi/fantasy/comics/fiction, chicago cubs fan forever.

I'd like to meet:

tarot readers, sparrow feeders, non-believers in death, disciples of breath

Music:

Hot Chip, RIP James Brown, prefuse73, dabrye, Fela Kuti, MF Doom, Amon Tobin, Spoon, Ween, Madlib/Quasimodo, Pixies, Parliament/Funkadelic, Squarepusher, MDC, Photek, pharcyde, Curtis Mayfield, Bad Brains, Dinosaur Jr, Saul Williams, Joao Gilberto, King Tubby, Pole, Bjork, Coltrane, machine drum, ATCQ, nautilis, Aphex Twin, Remarc, Azure Ray, Cosmic Breaks Crew, Bonobo, Daedulus, Operation Ivy, Cat Power, Diverse, Bjork, skinny puppy, Melvins, Slum Village, Augustus Pablo, Soundmurderer, Diplo, Cinematic Orchestra, Portishead, Meat Beat Manifesto, Lee Perry, TV on the Radio, ZZ Top, Kyuss, DEVO, Stereolab, The Police, The Meters, eric b & rakim, Butthole Surfers up to Pioughd

[labels]: merck, hefty, schematic, congo natty, chocolate industries, blood&fire, thrill jockey, basic channel, touch&go, SST, cosmic breaks, warp, rephlex, skam, plug research, counterflow, def jux, alternative tentacles.

a lot stuff that goes boom bip...

Movies:

[Kurasawa]: 7 Samaurai, Dreams, Ran
[Linklater]: Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Waking Life
[Manga]: Akira, Ghost in the Shell 1 & 2, Perfect Blue, Blood the Last Vampire
[Jackson]: Meet the Feebles, LOTR
[Raimi]: Evil Dead 1&2, Army of Darkness, Spider-man
[Burton]: Nightmare before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice, Vincent

Big Lebowski, Fear & Loathing, Donnie Darko, The Forbidden Zone, Pi, Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, Bladerunner, The Thing, 12 Angry Men, Buffalo 66, X-Men, Bubba Hotep, Metropolis, Animatrix, THX-1138

Television:

Daily Show, Colbert Report, Mr. Show, Mythbusters, SCTV, Family Guy, Simpsons, The Honeymooners. History Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel (finally got cable)

Books:

Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure, Tao Te Ching, Rumi, Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson, Lord of the Rings trilogy by Tolkein, Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson, Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia, Cryptonomicon and Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson, Hero With a Thousand Faces and other stuff by Joseph Campbell, lots of Carl Jung, Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy series, Art of War by Sun Tzu, Where the Wild Things Are, Wheels of Life by Anodea Judith, Be Here Now. Book of the Law by Crowley, Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Lorax, The Giving Tree, The Medium is the Massage by McLuhan/Fiore, Siddhartha by Hesse

Heroes:

Shut up, Mom. They're ACTION FIGURES not dolls.

Malcolm Gladwell, Barak Obama, Carl Jung, Bob Odenkirk

My Blog

Hey Musicians!

If you're a musician of any kind and want to add me to your friends list, please send the request to my music space: http://www.myspace.com/squeezeboxmccoy I am not going to add any more music pages t...
Posted by squeeze on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:30:00 PST

new music page

I finally posted some tracks for your discerning ears. In order to convert a regular myspace page to a band myspace page, it was necessary to contact support and ask. This would probably take a millio...
Posted by squeeze on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:24:00 PST

finally landed that friggin job

After 3 hours of technical tests and interviews interrupted by holidays, plus 4 weeks of follow-ups, phone calls, emails, waiting and more waiting, I finally got an offer for the job. In a couple of w...
Posted by squeeze on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:42:00 PST

chicago food love

Chicago is a great food town. Id only been gone for 4 months when I returned for the holiday, but I had a definite food agenda. The general impression I get of Seattle cuisine so far is that people w...
Posted by squeeze on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:44:00 PST

!!!

I saw !!! last night at the Crocodile in Seattle. They were super tight and the levels were good. The lead singer has a hilarious stage presence, a persona eminating from deep within the classic rock ...
Posted by squeeze on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 04:50:00 PST

holy dancehall, batman

go here and laugh
Posted by squeeze on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:49:00 PST

It's official

It's been about 6 weeks since I've left Chicago, the dust is starting to settle and it's beginning to feel like home. I know I haven't been in touch with everyone. Things are leveling out so I'm catch...
Posted by squeeze on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:48:00 PST

KEXP - Amazing radio

Some of you no doubt already know, but after hearing Big Black on the radio I'm stoked. I just have to sing the praises of KEXP. again. It's a publicly funded, Seattle-based radio station with an exce...
Posted by squeeze on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:19:00 PST