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unravel

cry yourself to ash.

About Me

I am the king of the zombies.
I am awesome.

"he looks determined without being ruthless. something heroic in his manner. there's a courage about him. doesn't look like a killer. comes across so calm. acts like he has a dream. full of passion..."
"you don't trust me, huh? well you know why."
"I do. we're not supposed to trust anyone in our profession anyway."

i make turntable de/compositions... and destroy soundsystems (usually my own)...

My Interests

bicycles. turntables. reality. time (chronos vs. aeon). coffee. theory. science. creativity. praxis. sound. circles. revolution. stencils. beatmatching. syncopation. bass. playing shows. drum breaks/loops /loop samplers. recording. frames of reference. going to shows. noises of the city. climbing drainpipes to the tops of buildings. listening to music from all around the world. learning. blast beats. amen breaks. gravity rolls. drum corps(es). grimmrobes. dialectics.

I'd like to meet:

beat junkies.
radfahrers.
record collectors.
music makers/theorists.
gauntlet wielders.
badasses.
my zombie brethren.
anyone with funding for music research.

Music:

"the selective approach, provides the essential conditions for creative freedom. uh oh, i got shit on deck just like a pelican, the beat conductor orchestrates to put you under my spell again. i drop the soul inside your earhole, add a bass line and then i hit you with a fat drum roll. hit it! I'm tacklin gods and dogs on holy thursday. Like David Axelrod, I keep it raw from the first day. i want it in the worst way, would like to pay less than ten dollars. I get together with MPOMcNeill and Anyadat like we music scholars."
carl stalling, alessandro alessandroni, mutamassik, merzbow, man is the bastard, edgard varese, criterion, muslimgauze, filastine, osbourne ruddock, dr. alimantado, vital remains, st. vitus, eric dolphy, charles mingus, henryk gorecki, alfred schnittke, bela bartok, knifehandchop, Koji Kondo, christian marclay, bernard herrmann, drumcorps/aaron spectre, djivan gasparyan, selda, the bug, warrior queen, art tatum, istari lasterfahrer, drop the lime, acid king, skream, kromestar, mackjiggah, cauto, team shadetek, kid commando, dj maxximus, donna summer, mochipet, dj scud, wasteland, 1-speed bike, mad l.i.o.n., starkey, elk, wolves in the throne room, cannibal corpse, alice coltrane (Turiyasangitananda), r.i.p.

Movies:

rashomon. drunken angel. the trial. the phantom of liberty. that obscure object of desire. the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie. land without bread. las olvidados. laszlo moholy-nagy. style wars. downtown81. wildstyle. naked. rumble fish. suspiria. carmen maura. toshiro mifune. anjela molina. max von sydow. francesca annis.

Television:

phase2, rammellzee, banksy, dondi, cope, seen, daim, dalek, zephyr, schiele, preissig, mucha, moser, van gogh, monet, caravaggio, jim lee, erik larsen.

Books:

Vaneigem, Reich, Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Edward SAid, Dostoevsky, sartre, Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carriere, Henri Charriere, Deleuze and Guattari, Debord, Vonnegut, Ward Churchill, Bulgakov, R.C. Lewontin, R.D. Laing, frank herbert, Bukowski, zerzan, greil marcus, Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt (empire and multitude)...

Heroes:

fred hampton, the FLN, EZLN.
you know, the ones from the stories we read about in school///.
grandma and grandpa.

My Blog

shows

these are some of the shows that i have been putting on...
Posted by unravel on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:06:00 PST

flower gardening tips for the blind.

here's my attempt at keeping a blog filled with music/bikes/things i love/experiments/philosophy...SOUNDBOY!
Posted by unravel on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:30:00 PST

open apology to ennio morricone

sorry that the academy awards "honored" your amazing and prolific work by letting celine dion "sing" one of your songs. but at least you got the oscar, finally, right?
Posted by unravel on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:39:00 PST

zombie apocalypse stew, a recipe for disaster

here's a link to my famous soup.and the soup gang i roll with.soup gang!(blogdate: 2-1-2007)
Posted by unravel on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:42:00 PST

miles to go before i sleep

Took the bus down to Denver last Tuesday to see Deerhoof at the Larimer Lounge. Became disappointed to find that RTD changed its schedules so that the last bus leaves for Boulder at 11:00pm. Damn. Fou...
Posted by unravel on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:08:00 PST

letters to mingus

a letter from Nat Hentoff to Charles Mingus. Nat was a jazz radio show host from Boston that mingus actually liked. They wrote each other while charles  was in Bellvue hospital. "CHARLE...
Posted by unravel on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:06:00 PST

premier enregistrement

"De Gaulle was completely demoralized in May '68 because he saw that no one even held a grudge against him. It was what he represented that was rejected, and he could remain in power because no credib...
Posted by unravel on Sun, 09 Oct 2005 01:09:00 PST