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machine_logic

...one young man, and the monster he becomes...

About Me

I'm the guy who gets the phone call from the other guy with the bloody hot dog.

I'm one of 4 parts of the rhombus of awesome.

Company man by day, dj by night.

My Interests

1984, abandoned buildings, abandoning knocked-up girls, abortions, absurdity, adult swim, air guitar, alison goldfrapp's tits, arson, astronomy, audio production, awesome, awkward silences, beating children, beer, being insensitive, bloody labcoats, conspiracy theories, cosmology, curb-stomping my enemies, cybergeneration, cyborg clowns, djing, djnever's basket o lurve, drinking until i'm blind, eating babies, economics, emotional terrorism, ethnic cleansing, etymology, existentialism, fallout, fifth column, firearms, foreign languages, frightening children, gary gilmore's eyes, gay and faggoty, germany, getting girls pregnant, ghost towns, history, homotronic, humor at others' expense, humping your mom, insulting others' musical tastes, interstellar travel, irony, linguistics, majestic-12, marxism, masturbating until i'm blind, meat with eyes, military history, mind control, mk-ultra, musicwerks, needle sharing, nerf weapons, ninjas, obscure facts, other people's interests, pacific northwest, paradoxes, petrichor, physics, pipboy, playa hatin', playing devil's advocate, post-apocalypse, pretending to be foreign, putting interests on myspace, receiving blowjobs, redshift, roleplaying games, ru486, sarcasm, schadenfreude, sci-fi, sea.in.dust, secret societies, self-depricating humor, sexy hobos, shower meat, social engineering, social ineptitude, socialism, sociology, survivalism, taco-flavored keeses, the aquarium, the aviary, the mercury, the paranormal, there-can-be-only-none, throat-punching, tin-foil hats, travel, trilateral commission, ufology, urban exploration, video games, wasting time, zombies.

I'd like to meet:

Human beings. Also, non-human beings. Fellow rivetheads, electrofreaks and music-junkies of all kinds. Socialists. Well-read and educated individuals with whom to have long, drawn-out conversations about subtle differences between philosophies or political ideals. George fucking Carlin. Machinegun-owners. WWII veterans and holocaust survivors. Geeks of all kinds. Conspiracy theorists. Arsonists.

Music:

death house, Detroit techno, EBM, electro, hard progressive trance, industrial, rhythmic noise, sleaze-tech, synthpop, tech-house, trip-hop, downtempo, dark ambient. Traceroute, Haujobb, the Sneaker Pimps, Sonic Dragolo, Fear Factory, In Strict Confidence, Converter, Blackstrobe, The Horrorist, Needle Sharing, This Morn' Omina, Displacer, Gridlock, Mos Def, Exclipsect, Swayzak, Noisex, Icon of Coil, Hot Water Music, the Junior Boys, Tupac Shakur, Skinny Puppy, Nitzer Ebb, Panacea, David Caretta, Sutekh, Deepsky, Unter Null, Echorausch, the Ramones, Zoot Woman, Anthony Rother, dj Shadow, Tarmvred, Elvis Costello, Terrorfakt, Assemblage 23, Analogue Brain, Mono No Aware, Mind.In.A.Box, Pow[d]er Pussy, Boysetsfire, VHS or Beta, The Hacker, Terrence Fixmer, Combichrist, Kraftwerk, Bagman, Radiohead, Soman, Babyland, the Bouncing Souls, Aesop Rock, Mlada Fronta, dj Skinhead, Winterkaelte, Android Lust, Funker Vogt, Natacha Atlas, Tricky, Covenant, Snog, Proyecto Mirage, Z-Prochek, Kiew, Rotersand, Fixmer/McCarthy, Goldfrapp, Infected Mushroom, Front Line Assembly, Tiefschwarz, Satoshi Tomiie, Hooverphonic

Movies:

Spaceballs, the Big Lebowski, the Princess Bride, Sin City, Army of Darkness, Reservior Dogs, 300, Falling Down, the Dark Crystal, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Pulp Fiction, the Last Starfighter, the Devil's Advocate, Carlito's Way, Airplane, Blues Brothers, Monty Python's the Life of Brian, Gattaca, bad cyberpunk flicks

Television:

Red Dwarf, Modern Marvels, the Simpsons, The Family Guy, Nip/Tuck, Sealab 2021, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Tick (Animated, of course), Mail Call, Futurama, 120 Minutes, Lost

Books:

Battle Circle, The Pillars of the Earth, 1984, Brave New World

Heroes:

V.I. Lenin, Chris Corner (the Sneaker Pimps, I Am X), Anthony Rother, dj Shadow, Leon Trotsky, Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Friedrich Nietzsche, Barry Sherman, Bill Hicks, Bruce Campbell, Carlos Allende, Jack Dangers, John Dillinger, Kip Dynamite, Lewis Black, Mr. T, Richard D. James, Steve Buscemi, George Carlin, H.P. Lovecraft, Super King

My Blog

Long time, no post

I guess it's been a few months.  I'm ridiculously behind on playlists, but nobody cares about those anyway. Moshing was cool when I was a teenager at a Suicidal Tendencies show, but not any more....
Posted by machine_logic on Fri, 18 May 2007 03:27:00 PST

03/25/07 FIFTH COLUMN

  This'll be interesting.
Posted by machine_logic on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:39:00 PST

MOVING

I'm moving to Fremont.
Posted by machine_logic on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:05:00 PST

The life and times of a music nazi

When I was a teenager, my friend Will called me a music nazi. I'd apparently always complain when we'd be hanging out and a song came on the radio that I didn't like, and I'd always change it to somet...
Posted by machine_logic on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:51:00 PST

Birthday plans

I think my birthday this year will be much similar to that of last year, though I doubt I'll reach the legendary levels of intoxication I experienced last year.I plan on celebrating my birthday by get...
Posted by machine_logic on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:12:00 PST

twenty seven

    My 27th birthday is December 30th, a week from Saturday. I think I want to do something similar to last year, although perhaps a bit more low-key (I don't want to wake up the next d...
Posted by machine_logic on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:12:00 PST

[Playlist] Fifth Column 11/12/06

Simon, that was horribly awesome.HOLY COW that was fun. It was Tucker...I mean Simon's birthday party, and party he did. GOOD LORD that man got drunk. There was a point at the end of the night where h...
Posted by machine_logic on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:41:00 PST

Rain

I was ridiculously happy about the rain today.  Torrential rain made my truck hydroplane all over the highway, which, while annoying and potentially dangerous, still put a smile on my face. ...
Posted by machine_logic on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 11:50:00 PST

Friendship fading

Sometimes, for whatever reason, I lose touch with friends.  I've got two friends in particular that I really miss but haven't seen in a VERY LONG time, and have no idea how to go about recon...
Posted by machine_logic on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:10:00 PST

[Playlist] Fifth Column 10/22/06

This was our Stochastic Theory CD release party, and it went over pretty well. Funny enough, I didn't play a single track off the cd, as every time I was going to I realized Simon had already pla...
Posted by machine_logic on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 02:08:00 PST