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Mit Redneb, Albania's Psychedelic Rock Legend!

Ku asht banja, ju lutem?

About Me

I am a pretentious drunken bastard, an infidel of some sort, a mediocre poet when I can be bothered to write (although everyone tells me that I write well for some reason,) an amateur chef with an inordinate fondness for limes, cilantro, and hot peppers, a pipe smoker when the weather permits it, a voracious reader who nonetheless probably hasn't read your favorite book, a connoisseur of fine Chinese and Japanese tea, the curator of Schnecksville's largest collection of reggae and ska CDs, an occasional homebrewer, a musician who has played everything from Mississippi Delta blues to Balinese gamelan gong kebyar (and many things in between,) a keeper of tropical fish, a pissed-off liberal (who thinks gun control is stupid and never liked the Clintons,) a Yankee and damn proud of it, and an all-around nice guy.

My Interests

Music, cooking, tea, beer, brewing, cacophony, tropical fish, pipe smoking, fountain pens

I'd like to meet:

I am a multiinstrumentalist (guitars, wind instruments, percussion, etc.) looking for musicians interested in various projects including but not limited to a Celtic rock band, the ultra-cacophonic microtonal (preferably xenharmonic, if I can eventually get a cheap geetar to refret) black/doom/noise metal band from someplace worse than hell, and a relatively traditional Scandinavian folk music ensemble, as well as just random jam sessions. Also I would like to meet fellow beer geeks and whatnot.

Music:

Jethro Tull, Current 93, King Crimson, Finntroll, Emperor, Parliament, Funkadelic, Fela Kuti, Junior Murvin, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Nokturnal Mortum, The Skatalites, Pentangle, Bob Dylan, Prince Buster, ELP, Brian Eno, John Coltrane, General Echo, Muddy Waters, R.D. Burman, Enslaved, Ravi Shankar, Harv, Skindred, The Killers, Flogging Molly, I Teoremi, Enter The Haggis, Museo Rosenbach, Bauhaus, The Sisters of Mercy, Judas Priest, Amon Duul II, Can, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Culture, The Clash, Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias, Burzum, St. Vitus, Black Eyed Peas, Sizzla, Beau Sunita, The Mops, The Spiders, V For Vendetta, Jefferson Airplane, Vasen, Frifot, Hedningarna, Erkin Koray, Daklon, System Of A Down, Symarip, Rush, Sly and the Family Stone, Gary Numan, Yes, Traffic, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Slavic Soul Party!, Naftule Brandwein, Fanfare Ciocarlia

Movies:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam, Incubus, Un Chien Andalou, A Clockwork Orange, anything by Kurosawa, anything by Eisenstein

Television:

The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Reno 911, The Prisoner, Father Ted, South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Mythbusters

Books:

Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jorge Luis Borges, Georges Perec, the Flashman series, the works of Byron Farwell, and damn near anything other than Harry Potter

Heroes:

H.L. Mencken, Robert Fripp, King Tubby, Kublai Khan