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Jules

I remixed a remix; it was back to normal.

About Me

music consultant apprentice audio janitor happily married (it happens) freelance musician performed in all the WWII Axis countries best taste in music part Italian, part Brasilian, part NOLA past life as pro opera singer believes in reinvention and constructive destruction loves to learn but hates to be a beginner DDR queen recovering gifted child misses New Orleans known to write music loves to snorkel nauseated by phase distortion always stays up too late the night before travelling speaks many languages (poorly) does not love the sound of own voice does funny cartoon voices loves all cats mixes well hears frequencies dogs don't hear odd memory for numbers writes it down and it's done loves the expression, "if wishes were horses, this beggar would ride"

My Interests

music / studios / gear / toys / cooking / music / travel / stories / old synths / soft synths / Guitar Hero / Katamari / DDR / history / human behavior / music / mythbusters /comedy / ocean mammals / transformation / minutiae

I'd like to meet:

other folks who can appreciate this--

Music:

If it rocks, I'm all ears: Muse / Bjork / Jeff Buckley / YES / Ralph Vaughan-Williams / James Brown and Robbie Robertson are 2 reasons R and I are married / Kronos Quartet / Peggy Lee / Radiohead / Remy Zero / Alison Krauss / Elvis Costello / Sergei Rachmaninov / Imogen Heap / Joao Gilberto / Arcadia / Duran Duran / Queen / Animal Alpha / Dolly Parton / Hives / MIA / Kate Bush/ Joni Mitchell / Ladytron / Shins / Alcione / Blossom Dearie / Patsy Cline / Jonatha Brooke / Macca / Brian Blade Fellowship / Metheny / Daniel Lanois / old U2 / Vines / Ella Fitzgerald / PJ Harvey / Tenacious D / JS Bach / Stevie Wonder / Tafelmusik (best strings in the world) / Donny Hathaway!what you could hear at Snug, Tip's, Cafe Brasil and Cafe Istanbul most any weekend... Ellis zoning at the piano...What's Spike Stent got his ears around? What's Andy Wallace producing? What's Nigel Godrich up to?

Movies:

Dune (seen it over 50 times) / Star Wars / Amelie / Elizabeth / South Park BLU / Lola Rennt / Prisoner of Azkaban / Cinema Paradiso / Some Kind of Monster / Pride and Prejudice / Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Television:

Mythbusters / Patton Oswalt / Dave Chappelle / Family Guy / Little Britain / League of Gentlemen / Aquateen / Gilmore Girls pre-Amy Sherman split / Eddie Izzard / Entourage / Battlestar Galactica / Grey's / Muppet Show / Season 2 Twin Peaks / Mr. Show

Books:

Alison Weir Histories / All Jane Austen / Frank Herbert Dune Chronicles / Audrey Nifenegger Time Traveler's Wife / Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex/ Jorge Amado Gabriela Clove and Cinnamon / JKR / Zadie Smith / Susannah Clarke / Mozart's Letters / Beatles Recording Sessions / Crossword / Cryptoquizzes / Syllacrostics / Herbert-Anderson Dune Prequels-Sequels

Heroes:

Richard / Nick R / Björk / Sylvia Massy / Emily Lazar / Ren / Women's Audio Mission / Don H (thanks for the BBQ) / Joni / Elliot S / Maria Callas

My Blog

Another happerday post

So I have now advanced to the part of the game where things start getting really interesting. I expect the music will speed up and I'll have to be more coordinated and more and more things will get t...
Posted by Jules on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:32:00 PST

I could hardly believe it myself!

I'm happy. For good, I think. I know! I hardly believe it myself. Nothing's "perfect" (or at least the way I thought it was going to be) when the bird of happiness landed on my shoulder. But the b...
Posted by Jules on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:43:00 PST

Mixing *****

So I am having my first go at mixing, since soon I will be expected to create a mix in 10 minutes of what I recorded to tape of unnamed band's unnamed track...(since it is unreleased and in progress)!...
Posted by Jules on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:29:00 PST

Birthday fortunes

Today has been a banner day in the birthday department...an early call from my Mom, a beautiful brunch with a little chamber music, then an epic hike to see the Eaton Canyon Falls (which were just bea...
Posted by Jules on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:09:00 PST

scratch my brain

So...one of my friends from college, the very talented Jeff Albert fka Papa, has a cool website at scratch my brain He's podcasting these days and for those of you who are inclined to jazz, int...
Posted by Jules on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:26:00 PST