travis - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hi! I'm Travis! Isn't that just AWESOME!?!?! I'm sure you're quite awed by my shear awesomeness, so how about I tell you just how awesome I am? Well, you see, I'm dangerously awesome. That is to say, I'm so awesome that if a pirate and a ninja were fighting in the town square, they would both stop when I showed up and then bow and fight even harder to impress me. Using things like ninja stars and broken bottles of rum. Rum of course, that I have already finished off, because wasted rum just wont do. EVER! So anyway, people often stop to behold my awesomeness when I'm driving down the street. I would be considered a driving hazard, but the police can never seem to get over how awesome I am long enough to do anything about it. meh, go figure. My partner in crime/awesomeness/groove makin' is my sidekick, Milky White. Here she is,
isn't she awesome? Very! Now, as you may or may not know, depnding on how much time you've had to think inbetween awesome awareness momments, that I play bass. Not only do I play bass, but I also play guitar, piano, and tuba. Not only do I play bass, guitar piano and tuba, but I also teach bass, guitar, tuba and music theory. Awesome, huh? Yea. Last summer I marched tuba with the Blue Devils "B" Corps and toured the mid-west for two weeks!! It was SUPER awesome. And here THEY are...
This year, I marched with the Sacramento Mandarins. I was the contra section leader!!! My last year of drum corps was totally amazing. I will always remember my friends and the experiences I had. And yea...sweet. I'm done!
my aim sn is youlovetravis... width="425" height="350" ..Blue Devils B at Finals.

My Interests

Playing Bass......ummm.....I'm sorry, I wasn't aware there was more to life

I'd like to meet:

People who know the difference between Handel and a doorknob. and this chick...

Music:

Bassists -
Les Claypool, Victor Wooten, Charels Mingus, Ray Brown, Gary Karr, Cliff Butron, John Entwistle, John Paul Jones, Jeff Roffredo, Jaco Pastorius, Paul McCartney, Tina Weymouth, Giovani Dragonetti, Squarepusher
Bands -
Radiohead, Primus, Bella and the Flecktones, The Subdudes, Old Metalica, The Snake; The Cross; The Crown, Angels and Airwaves, The Beatles, Led Zepplin, Bjork, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, The Dresden Dolls, Fall Out Boy, Green Day, I Voted for Kodos, Incubus, Janis Joplin, Jimi Jendrix, JeffersoN Airplane, The Junior Varsity, Ladytron, The Foo Fighters, Nirvana, The Cure, Gurrilas, The Police, Queen, Rolling Stones, The SHins, Simon and Garfunkle, Stone Temple Pilots, Stryper, Wayne Johnson Trio, Rush

Movies:

This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the original with gene wilder), Blazing Sadles, The History of the World; Part One, Fight Club, The Producers, The Aristocats, Pirates of the Carabean; the Curse of the Black pearl, Pirate of the Carabean; Dead Man's Chest, Ocean's Eleven, American Beauty, Treasure Planet, Aladdin, All of the Indiana Jones movies, Goldfinger, All of the Lord of the Rings movies, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (the original and the remake), 28 Days Later, The Castle, Superman 1, 2 & Superman Returns, X-men 1 & 2, All of the Harry Potter movies, Life Acorrding to Garp, Good Morning Vietnam, All Monte Python movies, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Toy Story 1 & 2, Monster's Inc, Appleseed, Vampire Hunter D, Akira, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride, Mystery Science Theatre 3000; the movie, Legend, Lodus Wars, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke

Television:

Family Guy, Futurama, The Venture Bros., Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, the History Channle.

Books:

Brave New World, The Odessy, The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Crucible, The Historian, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Old Man and the Sea, The Harper Hall Trilogy, Moreta; Dragonlady of Pern, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Simarilian, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Harry Potter Saga, The Earthsea Trilogy, Tenau, A Song of Ice and Fire Saga, A Book of Five Rings, A History of Violence, Arkham Asylem, Sin City (all of them), 30 Days of Night (again, all of them, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Princess Bride

Heroes:

Bill Nye

My Blog

gamers MUST read this!

i have stolen this off of my friend's guild website post. it's a paper that he's written for his music theory class....at UCLA....omg...This is a paper I am actually going to submit to my profes...
Posted by travis on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:29:00 PST

drum corps

Drum corps,I find myself at a loss. Drum corps is an enigma. I've never dedicated so much of my time, energy and money for any one thing. I gladly rehearsed ten, to twelve hours a day, every day fo...
Posted by travis on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:19:00 PST

freewrite at 4:00am

this is off of my live journal. bear in mind, i didn't really proof read it or anything. it's jsut a freewrite.an open wound.sitting in my room, in my smoker's garb, with the ember of a half lit cig...
Posted by travis on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:23:00 PST

what most may call emo

my presentWhen the capacity to love is no longer prized as a gem but as a burden, when the ability to immediately unconditionally care or another human being is looked at like a disease, when the four...
Posted by travis on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:12:00 PST

a short play i wrote

hey everyone. i wrote this short play for a class i'm in. 'literature of the holocaust'. i really like it, let me know what you think. and jsut so you know, i'm NOT a jew, but i had to portray myself ...
Posted by travis on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:13:00 PST

sexiest album ever

The dying speakers in my beat up old car resounded with the provocative genius of Radiohead. The album, Kid A. Ive had many, MANY, conversations about "the best Radiohead album of all time...
Posted by travis on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:18:00 PST

a day in the life of a fool

ah. how much more appropriately can i title a blog then by ripping the name off of a song. so i'm hanging out with my old roommate and good friend tomas today. i slept over at his place la...
Posted by travis on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:20:00 PST

the music on my page

so, i would liek to knwo what you, the people, think about the music on my page. it was written, and played by myself (recording by chris lee) and i just wanted to know what people acctually tho...
Posted by travis on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:28:00 PST

alexei is my bro.

honestly. alexei is fucking awesome. he is so willing to just be there. to just be the man. i don't understand how so much crap can happen to someone so awesome. wtf? why do people have to MAKE ...
Posted by travis on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:17:00 PST

SEX BOTS LEAVE ME ALONE!!! UPDATE

ok. so, since i posted my "stop fucking messaging me you stupid sex bots" blog, i have recieved about 15 messages...i am like THIS close to bringing this up to tom. i'm really....jsut sick...
Posted by travis on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:38:00 PST