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About Me

I'm a musician with wide experience, well groomed. I play the trumpet and guitar among other things. I'm an auto-didact. I've performed and/or recorded with: ...and the Wiremen, Glorious Company, Them Against Them, Ostinato, Sarah White, Tanakh, Tulsa Drone, Broken Hips, Spokane, South, Patrick Phelan, Blasco Ballroom, Cordero, One Ring Zero, Bee & Flower, Michael Hurley, Nina Persson, Plasmodium, Dexter Romweber, Rattlemouth, Sparklehorse, Vic Chestnut, GriefBirds, Dirtball, Rainer Ptacek, Cracker, FSK, House of Freaks, Orthotonics, Gongs Of Violence, Half-Japanese, Hollow State. Ape In Essence, Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser, Eugene Chadbourne, Albert Collins, Trans, Thunderbird Davis, the Cavemen, etc. myspace.com/wattywelt myspace.com/themagainstthem myspace.com/gloriouscompany myspace.com/griefbirds myspace.com/andthewiremen myspace.com/gloriouscompany myspace.com/themagainstthem myspace.com/brokenhips myspace.com/andthewiremen"When I don't hear music, something is missing. When I do hear it something is really missing, that's the best I can say about music..." Robert Walser

My Interests

threshold phenomena, my triends, amour-fou, music, decrepitude, motorcycles, literature, yoga, nature, occult, "the other", travel, sensuality, dialectics, philosophy, etc.

I'd like to meet:

Those of any age who have wit, intellegence, and beauty, in that order. Whatever that means.

Music:

improvisation, East Indian, Stickmen, ambient, noise, Cage, classical, "bad", Fado, Dhrupad, Sparklehorse, Bee & Flower, Interpol, The Ex, FSK, Blasco Ballroom, This Heat, Nels Cline, Deerhoof, Ute Lemper, aboriginal, free jazz, Morton Feldman, Beefy, Secret Machines, Interpol, Charlie Poole, etc.

Movies:

Bunuel, Svankmajer, Quay Bros., Noir, Godard, Robert Downey Sr., Nouvelle Vague, Cassavetes, old, black & white, silent, cult, etc.

Television:

nah.

Books:

Angela Carter, Durrell, Ducornet. Breton, Peret, surrealism, Bataille, Harry Mathews, Walter Benjamin, Malcolm de Chazal, Noir, eastern philosophy, aphorisms, L. F. Celine, Poe, Situationism, historical criticism, Rimbaud, dialectics, mysteries, Annie LeBrun, Robert Walser, etc.