The PhanCam, located in my treehouse/office in
Doc's Music Hall
Have you checked out Ether yet? TheEther.info Cognitive orgy. All night long.
Here's a big stupid list about me, because it's easier to read than a big, stupid paragraph about me.
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Homeless, backpack-toting, urban-exploring, concert-running, dumpster-diving, community-work-doing, webmastering, computer programming, vegetarian, Buddhist, Taoist, Ball State computer science ex-studentCommunity stuff:Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Full Circle Arts Co-op
Operations Manager and Code Monkey for Doc's Music Hall
Co-organizer and emcee of Muncie MusicFest
Organizer of Yart '06 and '07 (art sale/festival)
Organizer for The Concert From Hell (series of bigass annual Halloween shows; Voltaire headlined the CFH3 )
Co-organizer for Mother of All Shows series
Midwest Music Summit advisory board / code monkey
Food Not Bombs (Muncie and Anderson chapters)
And a bazillion random concerts and art events all over the place
- Ether (an experiment in collaborative introspection / cognitive gangbang) My Dimly Lit Corner TheMuncieScene.com BSU Student Government Association Midwest Music Summit (back-end contribution) Folly Moon Music Doc's Music Hall Full Circle Arts Co-op Muncie MusicFest
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BSU Student Government AssociationExecutive Council (Secretary of Information)
Community & Environmental Affairs
Blood Drive committee
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Campus Council
Student Rights, Ethics, and Standards committee
Creative Arts committee
Information Technology committee
Traffic Appeals subcommittee
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BSU Student Art Development (president)
BSU Freethought Alliance
Body Modification Community
Feminists For Action
Students For A Democratic Society
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Actor (up until college, anyway)
Photographer
Writer
Cook
Dabbling musician, singer, sketch artist, painter
VERDICT: You're ALMOST an artist, Phantom!
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Help get the Full Circle Arts Co-op fully off the ground and restart the old Creative Opportunity Center (all-ages venue and community center) in the second floor of Doc's Music Hall
Get my doctorate in computer science
Start teaching in a city with a decent art/music scene
Continue promoting and working with the scene
Continue doing web application work for the regional music industry
Find time to develop my own visual and performance art
Use my mad contacts to start touring on the side as a performer
Develop projects like Ether like mad and start an online community of avant-garde artistic community-working programmers
File a frivolous but high-profile civil suit against NASA and be given Saturn in an out-of-court settlement
Live out my years as a crazy old man on Saturn that runs a quaint bed and breakfast for space tourists
Now here's a big, stupid paragraph about me. Congratulations for finding it.
I do a chameleon act across the goth, hippie, nerd, activist, and indie rocker subcultures. I've been accused of being an indie rocker groupie and bipolar. I'm versed in the masochistic arts and have done scarification artwork on myself and others in the past. I drink far too much Mountain Dew and like mixing it with Tanqueray. Steve Geraci and I call that 'Tanka-dew'. I've always been the showman and I've always been organizing ambitious projects since I was a little kid. If I live long enough, I might actually finish one. I've dabbled in everything artistic not requiring special equipment and I hesitate to explore art any further because of the brilliantly artistic friends that I've recently come upon. My trenchcoat is full of extra pockets that I've sewed into it and I pretty literally live out of it and have come to think of it as my cozy, portable single-bedroom house. I usually sleep in a food court or library on campus, but I sometimes sleep in hallways or classrooms or friend's floors and couches. I've done a lot of research into Carroll's Alice books so I'd always be able to easily do research projects on a subject that interested me in English classes. I leave notes around campus. I go looking for adventure and explore places and things that I'm not supposed to. Sometimes I get arrested and feel bad. I dumpster-dive for food for myself and other friends and hungry people. I hang out with musicians, but I'm not a musician. I'd hang out with computer programmers, but it's hard to find someone to have a good conversation about programming with. I've been working on a computer-based art project called Snooze for at least four years. Literal blood, sweat, and tears have gone into it, someone nearly died to help me make part of it, and it's not even halfway done yet. I'd like to finish it. I want to change the world just because I can. I want to do good for people because it's more difficult than wrecking things and causing pain.
I'd tell you a story, but they close this place and kick everyone out in about five minutes. We'll have to find someplace else to talk. Erick says it's about me Well he once killed a man with a guitar string
He's been seen at the table with kings
Well he once saved a baby from drowning
There are those who say beneath his coat there are wings
Some say they fear him
Others admire him
Because he steals his promise
One look in his eye
Everyone denies
Ever having met him
Ever having met him He can turn himself into a stranger
Well they broke a lot of canes on his hide
he was born away in a cornfield
A fever beats in his head like a drum inside
Some say they fear him
Others admire him
Because he steals his promise
One look in his eye
Everyone denies
Ever having met him
Ever having met him