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My name is John.
I'm a multi-instrumentalist and composer.
I hail from central Maine.
I live music.
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Bushit
general geekdom; working out at the gym; pool; cooking; computers; circuit bending ; Dionysus , etymology and grammar; listening to, composing and sharing an eclectic blend of music (ranging from lo-fi to new wave, jazz, punk, hip-hop, dub, indie, electronic, etc., etc.)
I'm a grammarian -- often to the point of annoying others around me.
Some grammatical suggestions
Among other things, reading, photography, spiritualism,
origami and anglophilia all capture my interest.
I can't write lyrics to save my life.
I'm right-handed - although I use the mouse and trumpet ambidextrously.
I can't dance..
I also tend to be a little random sometimes.
HOMEMADE SUSHI!
Ginger Dawg.
More sushi!
Mediterranean Tuna Salad!
Homemade Pizza Mediterraneana
Homemade Chicken Cashew Stir-Fry!
Playing with fire
Unfortunate Orange
Pirate roll!
Homemade gryphodactyl
Cookies wit' faces!
Homemade vulture
Pool sharks; blood donors; mustard tigers; underground hip-hop heads; Others with eclectic musical tastes; those who refuse to be daunted by the concept of "genre"; animal lovers; great cooks; hedonists; those who aren't afraid to listen to weird and different music; fun people.
adam bergeron,
aesop rock,
air,
ani difranco,
aphex twin,
art blakey,
the bad plus,
beastie boys,
the beatles,
beck,
bela fleck and the flecktones,
belle and sebastian,
the benevento/russo duo,
ben folds (and five),
ben harper,
bessie smith,
bjork,
black star,
blackalicious,
bob dylan,
bob marley,
the brigadier,
broken social scene,
buzzcocks,
cake,
captain beefheart,
charles mingus,
chemical brothers,
claude debussy,
the clash,
count basie,
cream,
the cure,
cut chemist,
dan the automator,
dave brubeck,
dave matthews band,
david bowie,
dj micro,
dj shadow,
duke ellington,
dust brothers,
easy star all-stars,
elliott smith,
elvis costello,
the fall,
the foundation,
frank zappa,
fugazi,
gang of four,
gerry mulligan,
gnarls barkley,
gorillaz,
the grateful dead,
halloween alaska,
herbie hancock,
the hives,
iggy pop & the stooges,
igor stravinsky,
iron & wine,
jane's addiction,
jean walker (my great-grandmother),
jeff buckley,
john cale,
john coltrane,
john lennon,
john philip sousa,
jonathan richman and the
modern lovers,
jurassic 5,
kraftwerk,
kronos quartet,
leonard cohen,
lou reed,
lucinda williams,
meat beat manifesto,
medeski martin and wood,
mike gordon,
mike watt,
miles davis,
minutemen,
mister bungle,
moby,
mogwai,
mos def,
nick lowe,
nine inch nails,
non-prophets,
oliver nelson,
orbital,
ornette coleman,
outkast,
ozomatli,
patrick watson,
paul hindemith,
paul mccartney,
pavement,
pere ubu,
pete townshend,
parliament / funkadelic
(and all related groups)
philip glass,
phish,
pink floyd,
pixies,
pj harvey,
porno for pyros,
radiohead,
ramones,
red hot chili peppers,
regina spektor,
rem,
rob swift,
the roots,
saint etienne,
sex pistols,
sigur ros,
silversun pickups,
slackers' delight,
sonic youth,
spoon,
the strokes,
talib kweli,
talking heads,
teenage fanclub,
tenacious d,
thelonious monk,
throbbing gristle,
thurston moore,
tin hat trio,
tom petty,
tom waits,
trey anastasio,
u2,
underworld,
van morrison,
velvet underground,
victor wooten,
violent femmes,
wayne shorter,
weather report,
ween,
weezer,
THE WHO,
wilco,
wire,
yo la tengo,
the fraggle rock theme song
and many, many more.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Lost Highway; Pulp Fiction; The Big Lebowski; The Rutles; No Country For Old Men; Labyrinth; The Princess Bride; Memento; Fight Club; The Matrix; Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind; Walk The Line; Clerks; Quadrophenia; Man Bites Dog; Darby O'Gill And The Little People hahaha; Vertigo; Charade; Psycho; Down By Law; more to come
Trailer Park Boys; The Daily Show With Jon Stewart; The Colbert Report; The Simpsons; Jeopardy; Monty Python; Fawlty Towers; Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien; Kids in the Hall; SNL; Upright Citizens' Brigade; Futurama; Ren and Stimpy; Sifl and Olly; Beavis and Butt-Head; Family Guy; Count Duckula; Chappelle's Show; Danger Mouse; The Young Ones; The Deadliest Catch; Intervention; The State; Dragonball Z; Food Network...
Tom Wolfe; Collections by Jack Prelutsky and Shel Silverstein; Richard Lederer; Roald Dahl; J.R.R. Tolkien; Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; Noam Chomsky; Edward Gorey; Isaac Asimov; John Irving ; Dr. Hunter S. Thompson; William Gibson; David Sedaris; Stephen King; 'The Chronicles of Prydain' by Lloyd Alexander; John Grisham; Douglas Adams; Tom Wolfe; R. Crumb; Al Franken; Neal Stephenson; Michael Crichton; Ken Kesey; Charles Bukowski; William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Jack Kerouac
Calvin & Hobbes; GET FUZZY; The Far Side; Doonesbury; Bloom County
..and many more.