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optimistic_droid

About Me

If you would like a detailed blurb of who I am, experience, and all that good stuff, email me. "Optimistic_droid" is the myspace page for my yearly pumpkin carving photos (No, it will never change...) and songwriting endeavors. I am currently very enthusiastic about a new album of songs that I hope to have finished by the fall!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 30/06/2005
Band Members: Myself, friends, audio-equipment, Macbook.
Influences: MUSIC: Palestrina, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Debussy, Ravel, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Charlier Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Radiohead, Elliot Smith, Bjork, Sigur Ros, Cornelius, Friends.

ART: Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy, Pollock, Monet, Kandinsky, Friends.

FILM: Rope, The Birds, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, The Dear Hunter, Shawshank Redemption, Documentaries.

Record Label: Lalai Dama

My Blog

Performing w/ Josh Ritter on Ovationtv.com

For any Josh Ritter fans in the crowd- see if you can spot me in the horn section performing @ The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. Go to :http://www.ovationtv.comThis concert will also be avai...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:06:00 GMT

2008 Album Progress

Well... the new year has brought a productive mind to the table. I was on a rampage until I hit this horrible cold a few days ago. I don't think that I can remember the last time I had a fever- but I...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:48:00 GMT

I need ears.. quite a few of them!

Lately I've been rummaging through over 20-25 songs that are potentials for an album of original works. I also have a lot of completed songs that I am no longer content with posting (Hence the one so...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:55:00 GMT