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Los

The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts

About Me

drummer for Milhouse, Champagne w/ Friends (formerly Audioflava), the mighty GRASS (when the band slips out of hibernation), and previously w/ the Jelly Dots, J Molin, Deep Edward, Shawn Fussell, Sara Hamman, some gospel guy and whomever else can afford my 133t drum $k1ll$.

My Interests

obviously music & drumming. otherwise disc golf, hiking, movies, mathematics, booze, recording and producing, Brady Bunch trivia, big-ass salted rim frozen margaritas, dreaming about Michelle Valles, hittin' local brew pubs while on road trips, preventing early morning phone calls from stay @ home ****s while we're on tour. Both disco & karaoke with really fun party girls (my fave). Oh, and that "business" i'm involved in: fighting chickens, pr0n, alligator purses & wallets, watermelons and illegal cigarette smoking pet monkeys. please don't tell the Chinese OR Dick Cheney!?!

I'd like to meet:

Frank Zappa, J.S. Bach, Beethoven, M.C. Escher, Hansruedi Giger, Salvador Dali, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, W.A. Mozart, Sting, Stewart Copeland, Jonathan Mover, Neil Peart, Jeff Buckley, Anthony Bourdain and Phillip K., Preston & Child.

Music:

Music is my life!i pretty much listen to everything (minus rap & country, but Dwight Yoakum is OK) and can appreciate any good music. For me to *really* dig it, it's GOT to have a good melody. I tend to go through phases where i'm listening to a lot of one particular type of music (jazz, classical, prog rock, fusion etc.) I'm also a sucker for any recording with good players or a killer production.Honorable mentions: Zappa, Porcupine Tree, King's X, Dream Theater, Jean-Luc Ponty, Seal, Sevendust, Jeff Buckley, Spastic Ink, Miles Davis, The Police, William Orbit, Thelonius Monk, Skunk Anansie, Nick Drake, Beth Orton, Coltrane, Dixie Dregs, UK... rrr, just too many to list.

Movies:

similarly...too many to list... but here's a brief sample: Cache, the Motorcycle Diaries, A Scanner Darkly, Donnie Darko, Blade Runner, Se7en, Ghost in the Shell, Old Boy, Animal House, Coming to America, Solaris (the Russian original - not that Clooney B.S.), The Usual Suspects, Reservoir Dogs, Baraka, Snakes on a Plane, Team America (fuck yeah) ;). Pretty much ANY Kubrick, Ridley Scott, Chan Wook Park or any other crazy asian flick, Almodovar, etc.

Television:

Nova (PBS), 60 Minutes, Simpsons, Futurama, Robot Chicken, the First 48, the History Channel, Amazing Grace (kinda), MXC and Lost!

Books:

Preston and Child , Michael Crichton, James Rollins, Dan Simmons, N. Peart, of course THE man, Phillip K. Dick AND (if you have the guts to venture there), horror writer Edward Lee.

Heroes:

many.ask me in person.preferably whilst offering forth a Jaeger shot ;)

My Blog

stuck @ sea for 1 week plus...

my compy is sucking monkey ass so i'll have to make this quick. went on a cruise w/ my nephew BEFORE the hurricane hit. it hit while we were out @ sea. didn't get to go to Cozumel, instead went to Ver...
Posted by Los on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:08:00 PST

more road action

didn't even realise i hadn't included the recent road stuff. 5/3 - TX State Capitol steps - Cannabis Crusade 5/4 - Snyder TX - private party 5/7 - Denver, CO - Herman's Hideaway 5/8 - Fort Collin...
Posted by Los on Fri, 16 May 2008 12:25:00 PST

Shenannigans part II + catching up

ok, i admit...   i'm WAY behind. i've actually been out on ze road twice B4 even finishing this thang. so, you guys'll get the cliff notes version. after LBK we head to Madrid, NM. (note they cal...
Posted by Los on Fri, 16 May 2008 12:18:00 PST

quick check-in

nothing major to report. don't get me wrong; many a yarn to tell when i get back, but nobody's dead or anything. (Danny's just kinda sick). it's thursday morn, gonna head to Tucson and play some disc ...
Posted by Los on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:16:00 PST

Hittin the road Yall...

I'll be out on the road playin' with Thomas Champagne & co. supporting a new CD that we recently recorded. Here are the dates:    ..> Thursday October 4th Jakes Backroom Lubbock, ...
Posted by Los on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:35:00 PST

late FEB / March '07 - gig month(s) of doom all over again

looked like things were going to be relatively dead this February / March. my how things can quickly build up. there were some rehearsals before & during this but i can't remember the dates: ...
Posted by Los on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:48:00 PST

GRASS CD V is ready to roll!!

just heard from Mo earlier this eve and he let me know that GRASS' 5th CD, titled V (strangely enough), has been printed and packaged and is ready to roll. yes, GRASS, the band that refuses to die* &n...
Posted by Los on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:09:00 PST

5 CDs you don't have but should buy immediately...

because i'm a masochist, i was gonna call this "the best 5 CDs of all time" but... (a) it would and became way too hard to narrow it to just 5 (b) one of my nominated "CD"s, i happen to only own on ca...
Posted by Los on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:07:00 PST

CREAM!! - all hail the true GODS!!

fucking before RUSH, before any of them bastards.... muthafucking CREAM!!!  the original power trio!  CREAM! respect that you smelly Pearl Jam wanna-be's (umm...yeah, your favorite aunt thin...
Posted by Los on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:16:00 PST

Beethoven's 6th - pwns your lame ass.

you're even lamer if you don't know what pwns means that said; what a great day. hung over after last nights gig; chillin' @ the hiz w/ no responsibilities. a day to just listen and absorb music. my,...
Posted by Los on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:11:00 PST