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About Me

More forthcoming...

My Interests

Jazz, Reading, Hiking, Gaming

I'd like to meet:

Hayao Miyazaki, Neal Stephenson, Dan Brown, Aaron Copland, many many others

Music:

If you want to find out what's happening in the country you live in, you need to listen to NPR. The best two local stations are 89.3 and 89.9. The TV news you turn on in the morning is entertainment, at best.Actual music: Pat Metheny, Gorgon Goodwin's Big Band, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Peter Gabriel, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Richard Cheese, Les Miserables, Eastman Wind Ensemble, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Diana Krall, to name a few

Movies:

Miyazaki Anime, Lord of the Rings (Read the damn books first), Sci-Fi Movies (First Matrix, Iron Giant, Aliens, Old Star Wars), Musicals (West Side Story, Beauty and the Beast), Terry Gilliam Movies (Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Old Monty Python), just about anything invovling Stephen Spielberg, Comedies like Clerks/JaynSilentBob...if it has a plot that keeps moving, or jokes that make me laugh, I'll enjoy it

Television:

Simpsons, Family Guy, Daily Show, Evening News

Books:

Stephen King's "Dark Tower" Series, JRR Tolkien, 'Great Unraveling' by Paul Krugman, Dan Simmons Sci-Fi, Dan Brown, Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson - especially 'Snow Crash', Enders Game, Michael Crichton, Zombie Survival Guide, Herbert's Dune Series, Shit...I'll even read the Harry Potter books. I've read Asimov, Bradbury, Doyle Brunson's 'Super System', and recently I've started picking up books that deal with politics: Robert Reich's "Reason" is well written, well researched and doesn't become abusive in the way that much of modern political discussion is.

Heroes:

Richard and Ellen, My Parents, All My Students Who Overcome Personal Issues and Family Problems and are still successful

My Blog

Uplanders who just found my myspace page....

Welcome, feel free to check out the stuff I've written. The original reason I created this page was a way to communicate with the students at Santa Ana (my former school) and explain to them the reaso...
Posted by Mr. W on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:14:00 PST

mr. w...what he's doign now...

Well, I thought I'd let you all know what I'm doing with my time. I took a job for a year with the upland unified school district while I'm taking classes for my masters. I teach the jazz bands at the...
Posted by Mr. W on Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:55:00 PST

Stuff I need from you all...

I need someone to post a schedule of what you guys are doing this year, so I can make some plans to attend. Mr. W
Posted by Mr. W on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:49:00 PST

This is for next year's section leaders....

This is a list of next years potential freshmen, I'm now out of the loop in terms of whats happening with the band, I wanted to make sure this list was available in case anyone wanted to make calls t...
Posted by Mr. W on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:20:00 PST

Bachelor Party Woes....that's Woes with a 'W'

OK so this is a story that happened last night. We were in Laughlin for a pseudo-bachelor party for my uncle who's getting married for the second time. So we're coming out of the 'gentlemen's club' at...
Posted by Mr. W on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Wysocki's Big Adventure - Part 2

Part 2: Norway OK so after a day traveling, our first stop was oslo norway. Now the family took a tour in each of these cities, I'll try and hit the highlights. When I figure out how, I'll get th...
Posted by Mr. W on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Wysocki's Big Adventure

OK, so here goes, everything about my trip. First of all, let me tell you that the plan was to post these updates while I'm on the ship. However, the ship's internet connection wasn't that great, it c...
Posted by Mr. W on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

From Russia with Love....

I'm leaving on my vacation in a couple days. Anyone who wants a postcard from Russia or one of the other countries I'm going to needs to either post their name and address, or send it to me as a messa...
Posted by Mr. W on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sierra concert...

OK so we finished with the concert up at Sierra. What a crock. Don't tell an invited guest to show up at 6 if they aren't performing til 8. There wasn't any room for the SA kids to sit down inside, an...
Posted by Mr. W on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Marrage vs. Friendship

Ok this is something of a rant, and I should have just posted it on Matt's blog, but I'm stealing it, so there. He posted this looking for responses: --------------------------------------------------...
Posted by Mr. W on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST