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About Me

Only 5' 4" but filled with wisecracks. Be warned. If I make fun of you, don't worry...it probably means I like you. Or it means I just want to make fun of you. I can also be very goofy and self-effacing. For 8 hours a day I scan and retouch photos mainly. I'm very proficient in Photoshop. For hobbies, I make my own circuitbent musical instruments, and make my own music using what I make, along with a program called Nanoloop for the Gameboy, and other "conventional" electronic musical instruments. I like to sew. I own two motorcycles, and I work on them myself. I used to do photography professionally, but now I do it for art's sake. I like military style clothes and the apocalypse. I listen to a lot of dub. I don't eat animals. I like to use outdated words like "gosh," "gee," "golly," "shucks," "swell," etc. I'm tough...not in the "Hey, I'm gonna beat you up" kind of way, but in the "I get all sorts of shit thrown at me and I still make it through okay" kind of way.
You can listen to my music here:
http://www.soundclick.com/october71
Feel free to add my band profile as a friend as well:
http://www.myspace.com/october71
Want to see what I'm listening to right now ?

My Interests

vegetarianism, camouflage, collars, hiding in the light, Silent Hill, Vaughn Bode, circuitbending, nanoloop, photography, old British sportscars, making electronic music, old & little motorcycles...especially cafe racers, sewing, fake hair, cyberpunk, militaria, the apocalypse, glbtq stuff, being mysterious

I'd like to meet:

Please, dear God...anyone but you.

You need my last name or email address to add me as a friend, so unless you already know me, or you're a friend of a friend, you're probably out of luck. Sorry, I don't add everyone that asks to be added!

Of course, you can always add my music profile instead. That's open to anyone.

Music:

My ever-changing Top Ten of the week:

Movies:

Blade Runner, Alien, Buckaroo Banzai, Mad Max, Memento, 2001, Fight Club, Gattaca, The Thing, Unbreakable, Yellow Submarine, Jacob's Ladder, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Night of the Living Dead, zombie movies, 28 Days Later, Dial M for Murderousness

Books:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Communion, Slaughterhouse 5, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Fingerprints of the Gods, Lord of the Flies, Mystic River, Rotten, Umberto Eco's novels

Heroes:

My parents & my sister, my brother-in-law Mike, Ian Curtis, John Lydon, Brian Wilson, Tom Waits, Curtis Mayfield, Gary Numan, The Dalai Lama, Graham Hancock, Brian Eno, Elvis Costello, Jack Dangers, Mad Professor, Lee Perry, Ryan Moore, Joan Jett, Siouxsie Sioux, you know...non-fictional characters, etc.

My Blog

TB-117 Bassline (x0xb0x Redux)

You will have to excuse the poor quality of the photos. I have two digital cameras, and neither one of them is good, and it's pretty impossible to get focused closeups (no zoom). I really need to get ...
Posted by Phoebe on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:30:00 PST

x0xb0x demos!

By popular request... The first one is "dry" (that means no effects), and the second one is with effects by my Alesis Ineko ("G Garage", which adds compression, detune, reverb, and panning). The ...
Posted by Phoebe on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:07:00 PST

x0xb0x finished!

If anyone's interested, you can see the finished x0xb0x ..117 here. Even if you don't, here's a money shot for you anyway: The black knobs that are on there are just temporary; I have nice a...
Posted by Phoebe on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:38:00 PST

Playing Live: January 27, Lowell, MA

http://www.cacophonophilia.org/tour/ for details. It will be at the 119 Gallery (http://www.911gallery.org/). You can expect to hear electro and other forms of techno from me.
Posted by Phoebe on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:33:00 PST

new musical side project

I've been asked many times to collaborate on music with people, and almost always I turn down the offer. It's not because I'm some kind of musician snob or anything, I just have a pretty experimental ...
Posted by Phoebe on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:29:00 PST

dorking, aka more new gear: x0xb0x, the DIY TB-303

I think I forgot to mention this due to all the chaos and stress in my life at the moment, but last week my x0xb0x kit arrived in the mail. I was on the waiting list for it for about 3 months or so, a...
Posted by Phoebe on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:58:00 PST

1071 Audio SW-037 Squarewave Synth

So, the SW-037 is just a heavily, HEAVILY modified Amerikit/Elenco AK900 keyboard kit that I just finished a week or so ago. It's not circuitbent; instead I have added controls in the form of potentio...
Posted by Phoebe on Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:01:00 PST

See me play live! 8/12/05-Providence Industrial Fest

I've been doing a lot of experimenting and working with new equipment (with MIDI!) over the past few months, so you can expect to hear some fresh new stuff from me at the show. I'm also doing my best ...
Posted by Phoebe on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Spring Cleaning

I've decided to weed out my friends list. If I've cut you, it's because we don't talk and/or I don't know you in real life (or other places online). Nothing personal, sorry.
Posted by Phoebe on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sometimes He Takes

This is a story I wrote while I was in college...Keep in mind this was written in my morbid phase, ok? And it is copyrighted, so don't even think about stealing it without my permission... Someti...
Posted by Phoebe on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST