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George Bowles, sound artist

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About Me

Deep as the ocean, endless like outer space

My Interests

Music, philosophy, art, painting, biking, concerts, recording, photography, reading, technology, rabble rousing

I'd like to meet:

Artists, musicians, writers, philosophers, baseball fans, dabblers, whoever likes to have an aburdly good time now and then.View All Friends | View Blog | Add Comment

Music:

Instrumental: Don Caballero, Subarachnoid Space, Catamount, godspeed you black emperor!, Secret Chiefs 3, Behold... the Arctopus, Estradasphere, Battles, Mystickal Krewe of Clearlight, Tortoise.

Jazz: Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Nels Cline, Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls, Medeski Martin and Wood, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker.

Electronic/Sample-Based: Prefuse73, Amon Tobin, Meat Beat Manifesto, Scorn, Autechre, Aphex Twin, 3rd Eye Foundation, Flanger, Tipsy, Mouse On Mars, Mr. Oizo, DJ Spooky.

Hip-Hop: Kool Keith, Del the Funky Homosapien, Mad Villain/MF Doom, Liquid Swords, El-P, Masters of Illusion, DJ Krush, MC Solaar, Gang Starr, dalek.

Metal: Kyuss, Meshuggah, Melvins, Godflesh, Prong, Today is the Day, Brutal Truth, Carcass, Ministry, Death, Acid Bath, Opeth, Converge, Strapping Young Lad (Alien), Megadeth (Rust In Peace), Gorguts (Obscura), Cephalic Carnage, Pantera, Asva, Mr. Bungle, Deathspell Omega, Type O Negative, Mass, Deadguy, Nebula, Yakuza, Suicidal Tendencies.

Indie/Alternative: Thingy, Pinback, Jesu, My Bloody Valentine, ifwhen, Polvo, Unwound, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, These Arms Are Snakes, The Ladies, Hella, Ghost, Primus, Jucifer, Tomahawk, Heavy Vegetable, godheadsilo.

Rock: Faith No More, The Jesus Lizard, Rush, King Crimson, Clutch, Queens of the Stone Age, Oneida, The Mars Volta, The Fall of Troy, Tool, Soundgarden, Brant Bjork, Che, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Alice In Chains, Fu Manchu.

Singer/Songwriter: Tom Waits, Martina Topley Bird, Mark Lanegan, Fiona Apple, PJ Harvey, Johnny Cash.

Movies:

Big Lebowski, Waking Life, Inherit the Wind, Deadman, American Movie, Army of Darkness, Adaptation, 8 & 1/2, the Professional, Sympathy for the Underdog, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Idiocracy, 25th Hour, Cool Hand Luke, Amelie, Black Narcissus, Hustle and Flow, Star Trek 2: the Wrath of Khan, Children of Men, Predator, Aliens, Terminator, Robocop, They Live!, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Fargo, the Crow, Donnie Darko, Ray, North by Northwest, Dancer In the Dark, Empire Strikes Back, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Mulholland Drive, Stanley Kubrick, documentaries, weird martial arts movies, dark comedies, smart writing, etc.

Television:

the new Battlestar Galactica, Mr. Show, Dethklok, Southpark, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Frisky Dingo, Simpsons, MST3K, Family Guy, Daily Show, Quantum Leap, aqua teen, occasional sports, x-files, twilight zone, Conan O'Brien, David Letterman, Da Bears, baseball, stuff like that

Books:

Hunter S Thompson - the Great Shark Hunt, etc. Joseph Campbell - the Outer Reaches of Inner Space, Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness, Jung - the Undiscovered Self, fantasy novels (Wheel of Time, Dragonlance Chronicles, LOTR), The Futurological Congress (Stanislaw Lem), books on science and philosophy, The Illuminatus! trilogy, Aldous Huxley - Brave New World and Perennial Philosophy, etc. Phillip K Dick - Valis, the Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, etc. Harlan Ellison - Deathbird Stories, Anne Rice - Memnoch the Devil, H.G. Wells - The Time Machine, Watchmen and Stray Bullets graphic novels, The Tao of Physics, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Science of Good and Evil, more

Heroes:

Neil Peart, Ralph Nader, Tom Waits, Stephen Wright, Justin Brodrick, Aldous Huxley, Noam Chomsky, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, William Blake, Martin Scorcese, Richard Linklater, Philip K Dick, JRR Tolkien, Robert Jordan, Bill Hicks, Jimi Hendrix, honest people

My Blog

haikuforu

Morning waking dream Starry night's twilight winds blow Between us nothing
Posted by George Bowles, sound artist on Thu, 29 May 2008 09:29:00 PST

This tea is brimming with earthy vigor

That's all.
Posted by George Bowles, sound artist on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:00:00 PST

How will this year chew me up and spit me out?

How will this year chew me up? Will I be vomited upon the January of 2009 in barely recognizable bits of scattered ideas and forgotten aspirations? Just to put my self back together again? How does my...
Posted by George Bowles, sound artist on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:30:00 PST

some thoughts

It's been pretty damn wintery around here. Snow is still falling outside, it started just about an hour or so after I got home. I think the CTA tied a record today with THREE friggin express trains fl...
Posted by George Bowles, sound artist on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:48:00 PST

Favorite songs and best albums of 2007

2007 went by pretty damn fast, especially once spring appeared in full bloom. We still have months till that comforting thought becomes reality again, but in case you were wondering what I listened to...
Posted by George Bowles, sound artist on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:16:00 PST

The Genius of Metal Lyrics, pt. 1

    I'll be the first to admit, metal lyrics can be among the most cheesy lyrics around. Luckily a lot of the time you can't tell what they are saying... but on the other hand, some of ...
Posted by George Bowles, sound artist on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:59:00 PST

Stop coming to work and save the planet

Stop coming to work and save the planetBy Richard Gray, Science Correspondent, Sunday TelegraphLast Updated: 12:30am BST 22/04/2007For most of us facing gridlocked roads and packed trains, the Monday ...
Posted by George Bowles, sound artist on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:32:00 PST

Fuck Creationism

This article brought to us from our good friends at ruthlessreviews.com    With the re-election of George Bush, there is no doubt that the insane assault on teaching evolutionary theor...
Posted by George Bowles, sound artist on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:56:00 PST

Funniest opening to a story ever

A jazz musician was injured Friday after jumping from a burning motor home driven by a one-time roller skating stripper from Lodi.Goddamn, that's some funny shit....
Posted by George Bowles, sound artist on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:26:00 PST

The Year that was 2006

almost forgot... some of you may have heard of my best of list already, or gotten a mix cd that you may or may not have wanted, featuring last year's best music. well, in case anyone is wondering what...
Posted by George Bowles, sound artist on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:07:00 PST