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Rian

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

I have a love hate/relationship with cars and telephones. I don't like swimming floaties or excessive birthday cake eaters. I like when it rains on the beach. Hopefully meeting people is easy.

My Interests

Music and Sound, music production, sound recording, engineering, sound synthesis, guitars, keyboards, cognition, psychology, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, science, the science of sleep, DJing, record shoping, books, bookstores, web design, robots, writing, screen writing, independent content, creative commons, music software, Cycling 74, MAX/MSP, Lap tops, computers, vinyl records, ipods, music theory, macs, fragmented poetry, songwriting, philosophy, mechanical devices that go bleep and bloop, buddhism, jumping out of windows, film, relationships, people, the beach, deep thoughts, the string theory, words, paradigms, cycles, acoustics, big cities, subways, and pianos

Music:

Radiohead, The Beatles, Neil Young, Beck, Portishead, Al Green, Miles Davis, James Brown, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Monk, Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Cannonball Adderley, Herbie Hancock, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Otis Redding,Curtis Mayfield,Dusty Springfield, Frank Zappa, Sigur Ros, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Wilco, Fiona Apple, Jon Brion, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Talking Heads, R.E.M, The Beta Band, Clinic, Spiritualized, The Velvet Underground, John Cale, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, The Meters, Astrud Giberto, Broadcast, Air, Zero 7, Tortoise, Stereolab, DJ Shadow, Boards of Canada, Mum, Autechre, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Prefuse 73, Herbert, Four Tet, Amon Tobin, Modeselektor, Kid Koala, Jurrasic 5, Madlib, A Tribe Called Quest, Gangstar, Outkast, Anti Pop Consortium, The Roots, De La Soul, Del The Funky Homosapien, Blackalicous, The Beastie Boys, MF Doom, Diplo, Public Enemy, Can, Kraftwerk, The United States of America, Neu!, Serge Gainsbourg, Scott Walker, Olivier Messian, Stravinsky, Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Sergio Mendes, Roy Ayers, Charles Wright, Claude Dubussy, Classical Middle Eastern and Arabic Music, Charlotte Gainsbourg, St. Vincent

Movies:

Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fargo, High Fidelity, Meeting People is Easy, Ground Hog Day, Garden State, Ghostbusters, Pi, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Scratch, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Vertigo, Lost in Translation, The Virgin Suicides, The Life Aquatic, American Beauty, Half Nelson, The Science of Sleep, Woody Allen, Children of Men, Spellbound (not the documentary, but the hitchcock film of the same name), Syriana,

Television:

Lost, The Office, The Daily Show, cough...Gray's Anatomy.... cough, CSPAN, PBS, Nova, Frontline, 30 Rock, Weeds

Books:

Eastern and Western Philosophy, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Siddhartha, 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Dalai Lama, Kurt Vonnegut, Hermann Hesse, The Elegant Universe, Chuck Klosterman, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Haruki Murakami, High Fidelity, Free Culture, Sophies World, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Jorge Luis Borges, A Short History of Nearly Everything, A Brief History of Time, This is your Brain on Music, Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon... for an extensive list of every book I own check out my librarything catalog

My Blog

silence

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~Aldous Huxley
Posted by Rian on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:38:00 PST

SACD and DVD-A

So now that I am back home, I borrowed my Dad's DVD player he bought a couple of years ago, which has DVD-A and SACD built in. I played the Beck's Sea Change DVD-A hooked up to my receiver and the spe...
Posted by Rian on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:52:00 PST

Eugine Mirman on MA

I am leaving Boston in a week, and this video, by the almost always funny Eugine Mirman, really sums up Boston. It's a perfect swan song to my surrogate home, the town I have loved and lived in for al...
Posted by Rian on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:18:00 PST

Elton John wants to close the internet?

This is a sublime little article about Elton John ranting about the internet and how it is killing music and how we should close it for four years. In some strange way, I can see where he is coming fr...
Posted by Rian on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:06:00 PST

the sky is falling..............

Who needs the Beatles or Stravinsky, when we got internet Memes? I am going to resist the temptation of posting the youtube video Chocolate Rainif you haven't seen or heard this yet, please please ...
Posted by Rian on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:58:00 PST

Rian's andy rooney impression

I often wonder about names, especially my own. William Shakespeare famously asked "What's in a name?" There are many different names in this world. Some are large and some are small. The award for the...
Posted by Rian on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:54:00 PST

3 months

The last 3 months of my life....................................Bonnie Mae West Dudney Roberts (My Great Grandmother) August 18, 1912-June 16, 2007...
Posted by Rian on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:00:00 PST

I AM PLAYING ON SATURDAY!

Hi everybody, I am fulfilling a life long dream and playing Ragfest 07 with the infamous and legendary David Ragland and friends. This is the last show for David in Boston, for a while I suspect, a...
Posted by Rian on Tue, 01 May 2007 09:35:00 PST

Jon Stewart on Bill Moyers

Last night, while taking in my late night PBS fix, I caught a fantastic interview with Jon Stewart conducted by Bill Moyers. There is nothing I can say about Jon Stewart that already hasn't been said,...
Posted by Rian on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:07:00 PST

Boston NOW vs The Metro fight to the death

So now there are two choices for pulp pseudo news reading during your morning commute on the T in Boston. The established ultra crappy and disposable Metro, and the new BostonNOW, both are free daily ...
Posted by Rian on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:03:00 PST