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Carter

Dolemite.......it's real bad out there

About Me

I play music for a living. This means sometimes I am carted around by a personal driver in Los Angeles and other times I am stranded in Porter Ansas, TX with a road manager that gave up the hotel rooms for extra cash, leaving me to be accosted by a large and equally fierce redneck women(think hippopottomus) whose mating call sounds something like "God damn my foot hurts! The only time I hurt this bad is when I punched my boyfriend in the mouf(sic) and broke 4 of my nails!"(displays her taloned, stumpy hand and looks to me for acceptance), spawned by her recent battle against the more crafty broken whiskey bottle that conceals itself on the ground to attract prey. Her jowels flapped this mantra, resulting in frequent insanity and a futile search for means of suicide to provide myself some sort of relief, but to no avail. Hippopotimi when intoxicated can be very dangerous, and unable to be reasoned with. I escaped within an inch of my life, 2 others were not so lucky. I've since hired a bodyguard to protect me. Dawn: Later, after no sleep and witnessing a aikido assult on an unfortunate 5 foot girl attempting to rouse a sleeping band member by means of slapping him on the chest ferociouly(her name was Emily, she was French Canadian and smelled of the wild) our fearless driver swerved directly into oncoming traffic. It was clear that myself and Grego, the Polish Hammer, would have to take charge and lead the wagons back to the homeland. It was very cute how road manager realized he lost his wallet containing all the gig money as soon as we returned to Austin. And yes, I still play with them from time to time. Other days are calm... msprm name="fileName"

My Interests

Guitar, Performance, travel, badass musicians, language, technology, gear, work, philosophy, social sciences, touring, film

Music:

Jazz, Rock, Fusion, Metal, R&B, Classical. I can give any style of music a chance, provided the concept behind it is strong. Good production can't fix a weak piece of music, and bad production doesn't prevent you from hearing something amazing.Some musicians I enjoy: Scott Henderson, Gary Willis, Scott Kinsey, Kirk Covington, Chris Potter, Wayne Krantz, George Benson, anyone involved on the Thriller record, D'Angelo(VooDoo especially), Michael Hedges, Adam Holtzman, ALice in Chains, Van Halen, Robben Ford, Prince, Kenny Garrett, Michael Brecker, Wayne Shorter, Coltrane, Van Halen, Peter Gabriel, Opeth, Dimmu Borgier, DAATH, Jimmy Herring, Bireli Lagrene, whoever wrote the Picard song, Chromeo, Shuggie Otis, Frank Sinatra, Hall and Oates, Steely Dan, Bill Evans, John Scofield, Shawn Lane and far too many others.A list of people that were kind enough to have the patience to deal with my ignorance at the time to teach me about my instrument: Tim Martin(Roanoke VA), Dave Poole(ATL), Sid Wolfe(ATL), Steve Cunningham(ATL), John Pell(Nashville), Russ Scanlon(Austin), Mitch Watkins(Austin), Trevor Labonte(Austin) and anyone I've ever played a gig with.

Movies:

Berserk

Television:

Iron Chef

Books:

The Glass Bead Game, Shogun, Pillars of the Earth, The Inner Game of Tennis, The Warrior Within, The Four Agreements, American Psycho, Alan Watts, The Miles Davis Autobiography

Heroes:

shooby taylor

My Blog

Identity! Reality! Snow Day!

It's a bit long, but I have the day off. Identity and reality are somewhat interchangeable in my entry here:..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  &n...
Posted by Carter on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:09:00 PST

Life is good

All the great things I have learned in the past week I manifest my own realityPeople don't know how to respond to others with a high status, and some will hate you for projecting it.  ...
Posted by Carter on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:18:00 PST