Andrew - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Contact Box Generated from Profile ModsI've been playing drums since I was 9 years old, and have been doing it full time in Juggling Suns for almost 3 years. In that time we've played around 250 shows in over 15 states in all kinds of clubs, bars, theaters, outdoors festivals and random backyards. Over the past few years I have also performed with The Texas Snowmonkey Sanctuary, Days Awake, Green Tag Sale, Squirrel Master, The Breadbox Band, Give Us The Money Lebowski, Unexplained Bacon, The Mark Diomede Acoustic Band, Sonic Gryphnic 11 & Purple Attack Penguin. When I'm not playing shows I can usually found working in Operations at Guitar Center, or home working out while watching the Simpsons.

My Interests

Music, Movies, Photography, Cooking, Exercising, Coffee, Road Trips, Outdoors.......

I'd like to meet:

musicians, songwriters, coffee lovers

Music:

I decided to delete the absurd list I previously had here. My favorite "bands" are Phish, Tool & The Beatles.... you figure that out. There are so many artists that inspire me in so many ways. Some inspire me to approach my instrument in a new and different way, and others may inspire me to make myself an omelette. I believe that there is no such thing as a "bad" genre of music. Each one has some brilliance in it somewhere. Finding the artists with that brilliance is the challenge.

Movies:

Star Wars, Lord Of the Rings, Kill Bill, Goonies, The Usual Suspects, The Neverending Story, Unbreakable, A Bronx Tale, 21 Grams, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells, Fight Club, Starship Troopers, Memento, Tranformers The Movie, Snatch, Mystic River, The Godfather (I & II), many others

Television:

I'm a Simpsons addict. I recieved seasons 5-8 for Christmas on DVD and watched them all within 30 days.I haven't missed an episode of 24 or the Sopranos in 3 seasons.Discovery Channel's Planet Earth is some of the sickest shit I have ever seen.

Books:

The Inner Game Of Music, The South Beach Diet (changed my life) Modern Drummer, Relix, Men's Health, and Maxim magazines

Heroes:

Zakir Hussein, Danny Carey, Dave Grohl, John Fishman, Billy Martin, Josh Freese, Steve Smith, Maynard James Keenan, Jimmy Herring, Trey Anastasio, Iron Chef Mario Batali......many others..

My Blog

Tool Continental Airlines Arena 10-6-06

I don't even know what to say about their shows anymore. Lastnight may have been the best I've ever heard them. It was without a doubt the best sounding show I've seen at this arena (Continental Airli...
Posted by Andrew on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:36:00 PST

The F'n Machine

Just got home from the Machine show at Starland. They got better, and that's f*cking ridiculous because they have always been awesome. If you like Pink Floyd, live in Jersey and weren't at Starland ...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Raging 3 day Halloween Weekend

It started out friday night with a gig at Stockton College in Pomona, NJ. This poor kid was left all by himself to do all the promotions, set up merch tables and run sound for the show! sadly the on...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Passed Out Wookies

If you want to laugh your ass off go to www.passedoutwokkies.com. The site is filled with pictures of wasted people passed out at festivals like Coventry and Bonnaroo.
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Asbury Park Music Awards

I saw some great live music at the Stone Pony tonight (so I thought I'd share). Days Awake has yet to dissapoint and I've lost count of how many times I've seen them. Last Perfect Thing was excellen...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Jersey to Toronto and back in 26 hours

We never really figured out what possesed us to do it. I think it was because we couldn't think of a reason not to do it, but my friend Chuck and I decided to drive to Toronto at 2am Sunday morning. ...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST