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Crowe

This whole thing is mathematics gone sour

About Me

I'm the entheo-genuine article. Soul-battered Atlantan on holiday in the putrid Garden State, ready to be reunited with my home and my family. Recent transient entry-level cleric; future self-made music producer slash Taekwondo master. Martial artist for 16 years, musician for almost 20, teacher of one or the other for most of a decade. A self-applied mesh of subculture and society, rubbing elbows with everyone from the warehouse to the woods. A decorated Webelos Scout and TIME Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year (shared), ready to move from the traffic circle in Jersey back to the drum circle in the Dirty. Namaste Nukkas, I'm a White Magnetic Mirror . Damn skippy.
My once and future career path involved training adolescents in the time-honored Korean death arts. Currently I can be found peddling my own self-produced urban granola jam album and liaising logistics data at my blue-collar job. I'm one of those bros that knows prose. And spread the good word: I am certainly soon up out this piece.

My Interests

Teaching, music (composition, production, promotion), music festivals, drum circles, concerts, raves (R.I.P.), event planning, jamming, sizzyr'p-sipping, camping, cooking, writing, calligraphy, caricatures, singing, taekwondo, qigong, nunchakus, Mixed Martial Arts, drawing, international affairs, world history, genealogy, Mayan calendar , Moldavite, photography, air hockey, billiards, bowling, freestyle Frisbee, disc golf, Texas Hold 'Em, Alex Gray, Shulgin & Shulgin, Free William Leonard Pickard , philosophy, sociology, counter-culture, sub-culture, Illuminati, Freemasonry, conspiracy theories, Taoism, Gnostics, entrepreneurism, small-business management, editorial journalism, checks against police corruption, advocacy, penology, human rights, civil libertarianism, debate, United Nations, urban planning, public transit, Tetris, SimCity, Dead or Alive, Dance Dance Revolution, obsessive compulsion, sarcasm, dry wit, eating chicken, Atlanta's proposed Belt Line light rail , and Kennesaw's Swift-Cantrell Park

I'd like to meet:

Urgently looking to broaden my circle of Metro-ATLiens or any scattered honeys in the Delaware Valley itching to become one. Looking for musicians: jammists, theorists, and fans. Anyone who appreciates the dying art of dialogue. People who want to collaborate artistically. I do not want to talk to you if you think "conversate" is a real word or "This Is Why I'm Hot" is a real song.

Wigs By G's - The Fake Hair Authorities

Music:

CHECK OUT MY BANDS

Conspiracy - Self-produced MIDI trip-hop electrofunk tracks and other collaborations, inspired by this great Garden State.
MySpace

Sonz of Acworth - Suburban white hip-hop comedy, masterminded by the illustrious and all-amazing DJ Fuquea, author of eight Sonz of Acworth albums to date.
Home Page | MySpace

Citizen Square - Acoustic guitar duo plus me equals some of the most productive real-world music stage experience I could have hoped for, short as it was.
Home Page | MySpace

FAMILY FIRST
Bender
Grady Cousins & The Monkey People Parade
The Dan K. Theory
Deep Blue Sun
The Escape Vehicle
Bill Fleming & Boogie All-Stars
Goddess Rocks!
Donna Hopkins Band
Brian Lavelle
Lost N Found
mc chris
Nattilovejoys
Ralph Roddenberry Band
Sugar Kayne
Michael Tolcher
The Tribe
Jimmy Young Band
ORIGINAL BAD-ASSES:
Jeff Beck
James Brown
*Billy Cobham
Chick Corea
Miles Davis
Deodato
Al Dimeola
Grant Green
*Jan Hammer
*Herbie Hancock
Donny Hathaway
Richard "Groove" Holmes
King Crimson
Mahavishnu Orchestra
John McLaughlin
Thelonious Monk
Jean-Luc Ponty
*John Scofield
Weather Report
**Stevie Wonder
Frank Zappa
Joe Zawinul

JAM BANDS, etc.
*Addison Groove Project
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
The Bad Plus
Bela Fleck
Col. Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
*Galactic
Jazz Is Dead
John Scofield Band
*Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
Keller Williams
Lake Trout
**Medeski Martin & Wood
Moonshine Still
Ozric Tentacles
Papa Mali
Partcile
Praxis
Project Percolator
Robert Randolph & The Family Band
Skinjer
Sound Tribe Sector 9
*Umphrey's McGee
Widespread Panic
Yonder Mountain String Band

RAP/HIP-HOP
Atmosphere
Beastie Boys
Biz Markie
Busta Rhymes
*Cee-Lo
Common
Cunninglynguists
De La Soul
Del tha Funkee Homosapien
Dr. Dre
Dr. Octagon (Kool Keith)
Dungeon Family
The 'Fugees
*Handsome Boy Modeling School
Hieroglyphics
Jay-Z
Latyrx (Lateef and Lyrics Born)
Ludacris
**Outkast
The Roots
Snoop Dogg
Spearhead
Timbaland
A Tribe Called Quest
Wu-Tang Clan

CLASSIC ROCK & PSYCHEDELIA
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Steppenwolf
Steve Winwood

SUPREMELY PSYCHOTROPIC
Aphex Twin
**Bjork
**Radiohead
Shpongle
**Squarepusher
Venetian Snares

REGGAE
Bob Marley
Matisyahu
Nattilovejoys
The Wailers

'70s FUNK/R&B
Average White Band
Cameo
Carl Carlton
Earth, Wind & Fire
The Gap Band
Mandrill
Curtis Mayfield
The (Funky) Meters
Morris Day & The Time
*Parliament & Funkadelic
Prince
Sly & The Family Stone

'90s-'00s ROCK/ALTERNATIVE
311
**Alice In Chains
Audioslave
Beck
Clor
Dag
Deftones
Fiona Apple
*The Flaming Lips
The Mars Volta
Pearl Jam
*Perfect Circle
Primus
Queens of the Stone Age
Rage Against The Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Soul Coughing
**Soundgarden
Stone Temple Pilots
Sublime
*System Of A Down
**Tool
Weezer

ELECTRONIC/TRIP-HOP
4 Hero
Air
Amon Tobin
Andy C
Aphrodite
Danger Mouse
Dieselboy
DJ Shadow
*Gnarls Barkley
Grassy Knoll
Gridlok
Herbaliser
*Hive
Imogen Heap
**Jamiroquai
Jazzanova
Josh Wink
Kid Koala
King Kooba
Lamb
The Latin Project
Mark Farina
*Massive Attack
Ming & FS
Money Mark
Morcheeba
Portishead
Rahzel
Robert Miles
Roni Size
Tabla Beat Science
Thievery Corporation
Zero 7

SEE ALSO
Andrew W.K.
Estradasphere
Fantomas
Michael Jackson (Bad/Thriller era)
Koji Kondo
Mr. Bungle
Rockapella
The Secret Chiefs
Tomahawk
Weapon of Choice
Wesley Willis

DO NOT LIKE
Country
Emo/Poser Punk
Ign'ant Rap
Super Gay House

Bonnaroo
The Echo Project
JamBase

Movies:

Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, Derailed, Shawshank Redemption, Crash, Adaptation, Identity, Waking Life, American Beauty, The Prestige, End of Suburbia , Escape from Suburbia , The Chumscrubber, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Running Scared, The Aviator, Election, the Matrix series, The Devil's Advocate, Requiem For A Dream, Seven, Find Me Guilty, Snatch, Layer Cake, The Big Lebowski, Memento, The Crippled Masters, Walk The Line, Vanilla Sky, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Fifth Element, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Batman Begins, Smokin' Aces, Being John Malkovich, Shade, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Oceans Eleven and Twelve, Fight Club, Ray, Carlito's Way, Wesley Willis: The Daddy of Rock and Roll, It's A Wonderful Life, The Pursuit of Happyness, Stranger Than Fiction, Minority Report, Suicide Kings, 8mm, Kids, Gangs of New York, Thumbsucker, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Donnie Darko, Reservoir Dogs, Idlewild, Office Space, Dolemite, Kill Bill Vols I-II, Rules of Attraction, Spun, the Star Wars films, What's Up Tiger Lily?, Billy Madison, Pulp Fiction, The Ladykillers (Tom Hanks), The Last Ni**a On Earth (Tom Hanks), Hero, Drunken Master I-II, Wayne's World I-II, Spiderman I-II, Wet Hot American Summer, 12 Monkeys, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Super Troopers, One Hour Photo, The Cremaster cycle, Bats, Run Ronnie Run, Team America: World Police, One Big Trip, the Leprechaun films

Television:

The History Channel, Wonder Showzen, The Simpsons, The Sopranos, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Lost, The Practice, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Saturday Night Live, Showtime! at the Apollo, The Daily Show, The Apprentice, Kung Faux, Prison Break, Stella, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge!, The War at Home, The Chapelle Show, Reno 911, The Outer Limits, Taken, Family Guy, King of the Hill, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, music and news, the History Channel, football, My Name Is Earl, Arrested Development, Rome, Cheaters, Judge Judy, The Super Mario Bros Super Show, Liquid Television (Aeon Flux), 120 Minutes, The Dana Carvey Show, Jay & Silent Bob's Cartoon, The State, Strangers With Candy, Mr. Show, Da Ali G. Show, Upright Citizen's Brigade, MTV Oddities (The Maxx and The Head), Beavis and Butthead, Ren and Stimpy, The Critic, Futurama, Are You Afraid Of The Dark?, Read All About It!, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Homeboys In Outer Space, The Arsenio Hall Show, Supernanny, The Office, Unan1mous, The Shield, Freakshow

Books:

The Onion newspaper, More's Utopia, 1984, Machiavelli's The Prince, Plato's The Republic, RZA's The WuTang Manual, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, The 48 Laws of Power, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Sun Tzu was a Wimp, Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, Ram Das' Be Here Now, Rashomon, Shulgin's TiHKaL and PiHKaL, Hoffman's ***: My Problem Child, Book of the Subgenius, Roget's Thesaurus, strategic writings of Bruce Lee, Behold A Pale Horse, The Federalist Papers, Kazumi Tabata's Secret Tactics, How To Make People Like You In 90 Seconds Or Less, Learn to Master Sudoku, Holy Blood Holy Grail, A Marvelous Work And Wonder, Kama Sutra

Heroes:

Hoagies...
And deeth peepa' hurr...

My Blog

Planned town in south Fulton

SERENBE COMMUNITYFor the past few years, developers have been erecting a live/work "hamlet" in the new south Fulton city of Chattahoochee Hills Country. The mixed-use idea typically tastes of built-up...
Posted by Crowe on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:22:00 PST

Harrumphous (adj)

"Harrumphous" is a new word I made up. Adjective conjugation of "harrumph." Pay it forward.
Posted by Crowe on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:55:00 PST

swirling drum bears... |@~

i am the mystic drum windbeating as a heartaway the confines of mlaa capitalization,i repeat myselfi repeat myselfi think shakespeare did,i am an elusive whipporwhillflowing like the dance move i saw ...
Posted by Crowe on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:22:00 PST

Cliff's Notes for ATL development

- BELTLINE prokect to provide transit and greenspace to core of downtown well underway -- LINK- Strong bid to house permanent home to Secretariat of Free Trade Area of the Americas -- LINK- Direct US-...
Posted by Crowe on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:54:00 PST

Stupid, stupid, stupid....

In the movie Idiocracy, there is a movie within the plot titled Ass, which as I understand it is nothing but a titular picture thereof. The prequel of the movie Ass was released for home video this pa...
Posted by Crowe on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:55:00 PST

Jersey drivers, again... and the hell of ShopRite

ShopRite is the monolithic mecca of everything that is wrong with Jerseyans. It calls out as a gathering place for the self-serving, miserable and miserly. People who are slow sit in the center of the...
Posted by Crowe on Sat, 26 May 2007 03:51:00 PST

MySpace reminds me of raves

Over its life, the changes in MySpace remind me of the changes in the live electronic music scene. Not to say I know everything about either, but I think some parallels are glaring:In the beginning, i...
Posted by Crowe on Sat, 26 May 2007 04:11:00 PST

I can't get mad at a British accent

I loathe the reprehensible telemarketing industry to violence, but today I could not be angry at the voice on the phone: a young, sweet and proper British accent did betickle my ears. It made me think...
Posted by Crowe on Thu, 24 May 2007 07:32:00 PST

Three stages of whipped

STAGE ONE - A man compromises a little about who he is when he's asked.STAGE TWO - A man pretends to be someone else when she's around.STAGE THREE - A man abandons who he is for fear of losing her.Sta...
Posted by Crowe on Mon, 21 May 2007 01:27:00 PST

Two vivid dreams

Two nights ago, I had another of my recurring dreams. The setting is a much larger, pimped-out Acworth Beach. People are all over the place, riding the waves. The slide from 20 years ago has been rein...
Posted by Crowe on Wed, 16 May 2007 06:56:00 PST