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TOPHER

GO TRITONS!!! UC SAN DIEGO !!

About Me

I am a UCSD student and I spend most of my time playing my bass. Don't really myspace too often, but lately a little more.
I like to play piano, guitar, drums and always looking for new instruments.
I like to cook too.

The bands I play in...
HIGH TIDE

...And my latest group
SUN DAZE }

My Interests

Love, Culture, Forgiveness, the Arts, Politics, Human Behavior, Sound Wave Dynamics, Irony, Science, Delicate and Exotic Foods, Evolution, Pattern Recognition, Happiness, Technology, Film, Satire, RFID, Beauty, Strength, Clayford Street, Hearty Comfort Foods, Sleeping In, Conspiracy Theories, and most of all-- the simple things in life.

I'd like to meet:

Old friends and new.. maybe you!

Music:

The Beatles, Mariah Carey, George Martin, Steel Pulse, The Police, the Aquabats, Bad Religion, Dave Matthews Band, Earth Wind and Fire, Warren G, KC and the Sunshine Band, Pink Floyd, Duran Duran, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Michael Jackson, Don Carlos, Quincy Jones, Snoop Dogg, Rod Temperton, Boyz 2 Men, U2, Stranger, Daniel Lanois, Talking Heads, Outkast, Dr. Dre, Mike Elizondo, the Neptunes, Timbaland, Missy Elliott, Aaliyah, Phoenix, Pearl Jam, Godwanda, Justin Timberlake, Oasis, D'Angelo, Daft Punk, Fugazi, Air, The Band, Chaka Khan, the Skatalites, Wu Tang, Metallica, N.I.N., Al Green, The Beach Boys, Otis Redding, The Beastie Boys, Money Mark, Jackie Mittoo, the Muse, Jon Brion, Fiona Apple, 112, The Stones, The Kinks, The Clash, Bill Withers, Shuggie Otis, Cody Chesnutt, Pennywise, The Roots, Elvis Costello, Pink Floyd, Spiritualized, Eddie Money, Gorillaz, Frank Sinatra, Run DMC, Sublime, No Doubt, Radiohead, Simon Dawes, Wu Tang, Nikka Costa, Deftones, Victor Wooten, The Doors, Bjork, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Mos Def, Duke Ellington, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Billy Preston, Bill Evans, Bill Frisell, Keith Jarrett, Glenn Gould, Nile Rodgers, Ben Folds, Miles Davis, Elton John, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Green Day, Danny Elfman, Sunny Day Real Estate, King Tubby, Soundgarden, Supergrass, Smashing Pumpkins, Guster, Television, James Brown, Carol King, Parliament, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frank Zappa, Hall and Oats, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Nina Simone, Poison, Guns and Roses, Sly Stone, CSN, Neil Young, Pat Methany, The Siren 6, Sam Farrar, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, M.I.A., Cymande, Portishead, Tom Waits, Tortoise, Jeff Lynne, Tears For Fears, Beck, Roger Manning Jr., Queen, Jellyfish, Snoop Dogg, INXS, The Who, The Specials, John Legend, T-Rex, Huey Lewis and the News, Jay-Z, Beyonce, UB-40, Eminem, J S Bach, Philip Glass, Chopin, Stravinsky, Bruce Springsteen, Queens of the Stone Age, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Bob Marley, Blackstreet, Peter Tosh, Gregory Issacs, Cultura Profetica, Maroon 5, Led Zeppelin... etc.

Movies:

Watch LOOSE CHANGE! Pulp Fiction, Jacobs Ladder, Lost Highway (anything David Lynch), The Godfather, Die Hard, Star Wars, Scarface, Casino, Goodfellas, U-Turn, Matchstick Men,Adaptation (I like Nick Cage alot), Running Scared, Half Baked, Anything with C. Walken, Chronicles of Riddick, Crash, 300, Desperado, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Hero, Artcore, Manchurian Candidate, Boondock Saints, Lord of War, Syriana, Reservoir Dogs, Altered States, Evil Dead, Apocalypse Now, Dirty Harry, Seven Samurai, Back to the Future, Shaft, Superfly, Platoon, Rambo, The Untouchables, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Leaving Las Vegas, Oceans 11, A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator, Good Will Hunting, Forrest Gump, Stargate, Contact, Goonies, Sin City, Seven, Fight Club, the Usual Suspects, Indiana Jones, Transformers, Kill Bill, Bruce Lee, Rudy, the Beach, Matrix, Pee Wee Herman,

Television:

NFL football, the Sopranos, Entourage, Kieth Oberman, Chris Matthews, Simpsons, Seinfeld, In Living Color, Family Guy, Cheers, the Sopranos, Taxi, Green Acres, Fresh Prince, Tavis Smiley, Transformers, TMNT, ESPN, FSTV, KPBS, Animal Planet, Cartoon Network, and FOOD NETWORK.

Books:

Mostly communication theory but for entertainment I read some of these people's works: George Orwell, Nick Canepa, William S. Burroughs, Aldous Huxley, Al Gore, Ralph Nader, Karl Marx, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Ray Bradbury, Dan Brown, Barack Obama, Bob Woodward, Al Franken, Sigmund Freud, Howard Zinn.

Heroes:

those who were lost along the way...