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paul

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About Me

sax player, composer, freelance writer, cultural critic, wooer of women...Myspace Backgrounds

My Interests

music, literature, popular culture, martial arts, social progress, evolution out of world idiocy...

I'd like to meet:

interesting creative people

Music:

saxophone of course... jazz, blues, R&B, world musics...

Movies:

classics: casablanca, to have and have not, 3d man, spartacus...

Television:

i'm a tv junky, as long as the writing is interesting: my current addiction runs to the daily show and cowboy bebop...

Books:

too many to list... just finished bel canto...

Heroes:

when i was young i had many heroes, but the older i get the less i like that term. the real heroes seem to be the people you don't notice, because they are too busy making a difference to call attention to themselves, and our culture is so obsessed with celebrities that we ignore the real heroes unless we can make celebrities of them...

My Blog

SXSW: My Shows

Hi music lovers.  By the end of this SXSW week you will most likely be sick of music, curled into a fetal ball, just begging for the sweet golden sound of silence. But until then, I have a bunch ...
Posted by paul on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:24:00 PST

March 2 & 4 Shows

Hey everyone, the greasy good times continue with 2 parties this week. Thanks to everyone who came out to my Elephant Room show last Thursday.   This Friday, March 2, we will play at Austin Musi...
Posted by paul on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:38:00 PST

CD Release

Hey out there in cyberland, I've been having trouble posting my music calendar on myspace... I have a new CD coming out with my band Manteca Beat.  If you're in Austin, come check out my shows: F...
Posted by paul on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:24:00 PST

S Is For Social Investment

S is For Social Investment    A subject near and dear to our hearts is SEX.  The subject itself can be looked at in so many different ways, from the purely personal to the abstractly i...
Posted by paul on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:44:00 PST

The Small Things

File this under "World Going To Hell"... It seems like it gets harder each day to have a larger philosophical outlook, a positive, spiritual view of where it's all going and what it all means.  ...
Posted by paul on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:02:00 PST

music this summer

i have some cool shows coming up, here in texas. you can check out my calendar at www.pksax.com.  jazz, blues, R&B, world music, sax lessons, whatever your pleasure... i'll be teaching and pl...
Posted by paul on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

mas musica

Here's my latest, for anyone interested in original music... After a year on the road with Nick Curran & The Nitelifes, I've decided to finish up some music projects of my own. I'll have a new CD ou...
Posted by paul on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Feb. 2004 Lately Ive been skimming the headlines of the Wall St. Journal. It gives me the illusion of power, like Im hobnobbing with the big money that runs this country. Its not unlike playing ...
Posted by paul on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST