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About Me

I'm a hack composer and pseudo-intellectual living in Los Angeles. My main project is the Industrial Jazz Group . I have scored several films and videos, including the award winning shorts "Fish" and "Lunch" by Sarah Jane Shute. I was once a member of the (now-defunct) vocal ensemble, the Evelyn Situation. Some folks also claim that I have written a rock opera, a screenplay, and an innovative arrangement of Stephen Sondheim’s score for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Hmmm. I studied composition with my CD player, and before that, with my turntable.My doctoral dissertation, Decomposition: A Critique of Musical Authorship and Authenticity, may be published someday. I moonlight as a project specialist at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy, where I sometimes work on a DVD production entitled The Untimely Death of Frank Zappa. Occasionally I poke at a collection of essays (on jazz, culture, and aesthetics) entitled The Revolution Will Not Be Linear. In my spare time (huh?), I review jazz CDs for the very popular All About Jazz website. I am also currently transcribing Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht for Project Gutenberg.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Frank Zappa. Thelonious Monk. Charles Mingus. Duke Ellington. Raymond Scott. Sasquatch. Orson Welles. Elvis. Howlin' Wolf.Not one of them? There is still a 95% chance I'd like to meet you, especially if you like music and art (or, to a lesser extent, politics). I have been called easy-going to a fault.(Nota bene: There are a few people I definitely don't want to meet unless under very special circumstances that I'd rather not describe here: our idiot president, Dick Cheney, Ann Coulter, Christopher Hitchens, Bill O'Riley, et al. *Thanks for fucking things up royally, morons.*)

My Blog

Puritan Broadcasting System

What the fuck?Apparently Melanie Martinez, the effervescent lil' host of the Good Night Show on PBS's Sprout cable channel, was fired.(Actually, not apparently, but definitely. What it with me and adv...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:30:00 GMT

It's electric!

Thanks to Daphne, today I present another recent DVD aquisition -- the best of the Electric Company. A big hit with the little girl, it merits some remarks here for a few reasons:1. I realize now that...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:26:00 GMT

visions of jackhammers dancing in her head

So check it out:This week the management company at our apartment complex, in their infinite wisdom, decided to tear up the walkway right outside our unit, and replace it with, I don't know, another o...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:07:00 GMT

How many blogs does one need?

Damn, I don't know. I've already got two, and I can barely keep up with those. (Find one here and the other here.)I'm trying to sort out my online life into "personal," on the one hand, and "band-rela...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 02:40:00 GMT

IJG December recap

Hey! Thanks to all who came out to our recent shows in San Diego and San Francisco. The former was particularly fun, as we had what amounted to a SRO crowd (and, I believe, our first official encore)....
Posted by on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:14:00 GMT