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Love is too often only a dream if I am harsh and unkind to myself

About Me

I play the trumpet. Hit up my website www.polyrhythmatics.net

My Interests

music composition, taoism, dancing and dance music, contemporary/new music, computer music, qi gung, trophology, making beats, veganism, america, meditation, tai chi, the history and culture of jazz, csound, drum n bass, straightedge, software synthesis, free improvisation, metal

I'd like to meet:

Trumpet students, fans of my music, people with money

Music:

dj klute, noisia, raiden, jeromes dream, ill skillz, mare, shape of despair, rapture, concord dawn, london elecktricity, roni size, orthrelm, daughters, hugh ragin, booker little, baron, freddie hubbard, skepticism, george lewis, dysrhythmia, rawthang, zs, gridlok, hive, xpander, c-netik, olivier messiaen, honeywell, behold the arctopus, black sun empire, jesu, john coltrane, atheist, ornette coleman, charles ives, devil doll, biolich, technician, wadada leo smith, don cherry, miles davis, gerard schwartz, greg kelley, lucia dlugoszewski, milton babbitt, pharoah sanders, cuong vu, duke ellington, bill dixon

Movies:

pee wee's big adventure, transformers the movie, bill and ted's excellent adventure, battle royale, oh god!, mystery of chessboxing, the golden child, the goonies

Television:

robotech, neon genesis evangelion, the orbots, spartacus and the sun beneath the sea, tenchi muyo, family matters, family guy, the simpsons, roc, married with children, sanford and son

Books:

Tao Te Ching, Hua Hu Ching, Tao of Sex Health and Longevity, World's Great Men of Color, The Kybalion, anything with Drizzt Do'Urden, Lone Wolf roleplaying novels, Dune novels, Issac Asmiov's Robot Novels

Heroes:

ornette coleman, charles ives, j.a. rogers, anthony braxton, marcus garvey, and the guy who went from a red paper clip to a house. that's my boy right there.

My Blog

Krumbsnatcha in Malden tonight

Man and I'm playing a show tonight too! That's some bad luck. It's at Veez, on Main St, so go check it out.
Posted by Forbes on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:16:00 PST

do not rob list

Post here to get on my do not rob list in the event of a national emergency in which we all lose our jobs and what not*   *I’m joking, of course, but post here anyway JUST IN CASE...
Posted by Forbes on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:03:00 PST

Thoughts

Let’s see where do I start. Ok so, I had applied to a doctoral program at Brown University, Computer Music and Multimedia. Since I didn’t make a post about how happy I am that I got in..I ...
Posted by Forbes on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:09:00 PST

How McCain could win

Republican rappers come out with a track called "McCain Bring The Pain" Now should McCain be up in the video I dunno
Posted by Forbes on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:31:00 PST

Chillin at work

You know, listening to Ferneyhough, sippin on some water Wild Wednesdays
Posted by Forbes on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:54:00 PST

Poll: What you wanna hear me do at karaoke

Especially I would love to hear your feedback if you've seen me put it down before. You know I tend to go for the 80's stuff, Ray Parker Jr, Michael McDonald, Jeffrey Osbourne, Anita Baker, etc. Howev...
Posted by Forbes on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:07:00 PST

Blaq Lghtn Music / Productions

Hey everybody-I'm onboarding a new website, Blaq Lghtn from which you can download and order music. Right now I've got two releases available, "I Won't Stop" and "Tales Through Time". We are going to ...
Posted by Forbes on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:07:00 PST

so i quit my job

the situation was getting a bit too weird/crazy/unfun, plus i wanted to just focus on music. so umm..i could use some trumpet students if you live around here!working on music full time is awesome. pl...
Posted by Forbes on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:06:00 PST

i quit kayo dot

although it's an unfortunate situation, i am very happy and looking forward to a lot of great music in the future. check the website in the next couple of months word em up.
Posted by Forbes on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:53:00 PST

blog.polyrhythmatics.net

please, read it, register, comment, as chris lydon says "join the conversation"-f
Posted by Forbes on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:15:00 PST