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Ok about me....What about me? Music has always been a huge part of my life and I knew long ago that I wanted to try and make my living being part of it. I play the Bass Guitar and know my way around a Drum kit but now I dont play nearly as often as I should. My Ideal job would be a recording engineer, live-sound tech or to work on music for film industry. I do have a community college degree in music but that means didely to most any studio. I have to get my ass back to school, and thats all starting to fall into place. Its going to take a while, But im dead set on getting there!
My friends have always been important to me, usually more important than I am to me ... Im not very good at spending time alone or doing things for myself but Im working on that. I am head-over-heels in love with my girlfriend, who I met at a KMFDM show this past October. Shes awesome, gorgeous, and makes me laugh but happens to live about 1500miles too far away from me. Thats gonna change soon, once she gets her little buns out to California! ;) As long as were finally together, Ill be happy.
What little other free time I have is spend mountain biking or riding one of my motorcyles (or spending money fixing them up! lol). Im trying to make use of my expensive gym membership. I love books but never make the time to read them, I like collecting them though! I like vodka with pretty much anything and a mojito is always nice. Trying to lay off the beer cause in my old age its calories I just dont need, but I still like it.
Oh ya, I LOVE going to see bands!!!, so heres what ive seen over the past few years ( dont have dates for them all ... Im lazy!) :
Muse @ The Warfield
Franz Ferdinand @ SF Concourse
PJ Harvey @ The Warfield
Story Of the Year (w/ Lost Prophets) @ The Warfield
Trivium @ The PoundSF (3/30)
Soilwork with Dark Tranquility @ The PoundSF (4/14)
30 Seconds To Mars and some other bands I didnt stick around for @ SJSU Arena (8/19)
Franz Ferdinand w/ Arcade Fire @ Princes Gardens, Edinburgh Scotland
The Arcade Fire 2X in SF & Franz again in SF (forgot the date)
KMFDM @ The Metro, Chicago IL (10/12/05) BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!
(yes baby, cause I met YOU and the Band)
Depeche Mode, San Jose, 11/18
Nine Inch Nails , Oakland Arena, 11/19
SOILWORK! again @ PoundSF 12/1/05 (i missed FearFactory but oh well)

My Interests

Music, Drumming, Bass Guitar, Sound Engineering (mixing/recording), Live Shows, Motorcycles, Mountain Biking, good Booze/Beer, Movies, Reading, Wrenching on cars and bikes, Fitness, Gaming (xbox & 360), shootin', being a nerd, Bit Torrents, Netflix, being a hooligan, and last but never least... Sylvia ... my girlfriend who I miss so much. )

I'd like to meet:

Ive already met the only girl I need in my life. Otherwise if you wanna message me I like to talk about music (duuuhh!), motorcycles, cars, racing, computers, cycling all sorts of randomness.
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Music:

Heres some of the artists I listen to(but in no real order of alphabetics or importance):
Soilwork , In Flames , Trivium, Shadows Fall, Dark Tranquility, Arch Enemy, Opeth, Children Of Bodom, KMFDM , PIG , Atreyu , Story Of The Year , Trust Company, The Hunger , 30 Seconds To Mars , Ra , Lacuna Coil , Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Expiriment, SymphonyX, Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica, Carcass, Amon Amarth, Hypocrisy, Fear Factory, Rammstein, Frontline Assembly, Project Pitchfork, Hocico, Wumpscut, Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Zeromancer, Unheilig, Gravity Kills, Deadsy, Garbage, Stabbing Westward, The Faint, Muse , Placebo, Unjust, Guano Apes, Dredg, Pulse Ultra, Sevendust, Disturbed, Killswitch Engage, Satriani, Vai, Stu Hamm, P.O.D., Powerman5000, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Deftones, Rage against the machine, KoRn, Trapt, Hoobastank, Pressure 4-5, 3 Doors Down, Breaking Benjamin, Tantric, Nickelback, Disturbed, Papa Roach, Linkin Park, ... and the list is always growing....
Other music (Indie Rock or maybe not!):
The Mars Volta, @ The Drivein, The Arcade Fire ( GO SEE THEM LIVE! ) , Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead, Bjork, Franz Ferdinand, Modest Mouse,The Killers, Interpol, Jet, Frou Frou, The Postal Service, Tori Amos, P.J. Harvey, Bowie, Bauhaus, Echo & The Bunnymen + many more...
Oldschool/80-90's/Classic:
AC/DC, Danzig, The Cult, G n' R, Pantera, Queensryche, Megadeath, Metallica , Sepaltura, Poison, Winger, Ratt, Def Leppard, Firehouse, Skid Row, Slaughter, Scorpions, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Blue Oyster Cult ...
Electronic:
Massive Attack, Chemical Bros, The Crystal Method, BT, Fischerspooner, Prodigy, The Streets, FatboySlim, Kraftwerk
Rap/R&B:
Busta Rhymes, Erik B & Rakim, Easy-E/Public Enemy/NWA, Kool Keith, Snoop, RunDMC
Jazz & Classical: Bobby Hutcherson, "The glorious 5th by Ludwid-Van"

Movies:

I really love Mindfuk/Strange Movies like:
Fight Club, Donnie Darko, American Psycho, Memento, Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, I Heart Huckabees....
and the rest...
Napoleon Dynamite, Bourne Identity, Constantine, The Girl Next Door, The Salton Sea, True Romance, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Shining, 2001, A Clockwork Orange , Full Metal Jacket, Baseketball, Orgazmo, Van Wilder, Road Trip, Harold & Kumar Go To WhiteCastle, Office Space, Deuce Biggalow, Saving Silverman, The Big Lebowski, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic, Royal Tennenbaums, Army Of Darkness/EvilDead, UHF, Joe Dirt, Cabin Boy, BioDome, Mars Attacks, Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, Big Fish, A Nightmare Before Xmas, Monkeybone, The Princess Bride, Labrynth, The Lost Boys, The Breakfast Club, The 5th Element, Strange Days, Stargate, Boondock Saints, Run Lola Run, Princess & the Warrior, AliG/InDaHouse, Crimson Tide, The Professional, 28 Days Later, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Sleeper, Steven Segal movies (... the good ones! hahaha, and the ones nowadays where hes really fat and they go straight to DVD)
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Television:

Discovery/TLC, Any Science & Learning channel, Comedy Central, Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters MXC!Series: Rescue Me, DIRT!, The Riches, Grey's Anatomy, Rome, The Office (uk&us) and yeah, I watched some of The O.C. ... WHATEVER!

Books:

Currently Reading:
Stuff from the library on Linux, TCP/IP, Reading Music
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Chuck Palahniuk , , Irvine Welsh, Brett Easton Ellis, Douglas Adams, Don Delilo, Anthony Burgess, Huxley, P.K. Dick, William Gibson, Simon Singh, Richard Dawkins.

Heroes:

Marla Streb , Chuck Palahniuk, Stu Hamm, (I have met all 3 of them!)
Valentino Rossi, Christopher Walken, Eddie Izzard, Bill Maher, Ali G (aka Sascha Cohen), Max Barry, William Gibson. Richard Dawkins.
Bands/Artists:
The Hunger, Dream Theater, Bjork, Bowie

My Blog

Windy City

Im heading to Chi-town for a few days , just one month to the day after getting back from my 5 day trip there. A very special somone there needs help gettin' her butt on the plane so Im going to make ...
Posted by Ivan on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:14:00 PST

Stitches Vs. Elbow Pads

Did a little biking after work today with my buddy Chris Tucker. We did a loop at Waterdog in Belmont and Chris fell on one steep/technical descent and cut up his knee a bit, some bactine and we were ...
Posted by Ivan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Friday Night

Well it was cool and it kinda sucked. I was the highest person from here to probably Denver in the east, Seattle to the north and LA to the south. Went up to my buddy christian's office after work and...
Posted by Ivan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST