Olaf's band of mighty warriors

About Me

I am originally from New York City/Long Island. Been in the Bay Area for over 16+ years, currently work in the network security industry. I have mixed feelings about Silicon Valley and high tech in general. The technological age is all an illusion. It is designed to steal our thoughts and derail humanity from our higher purpose. At the same time it provides remarkably effective materialistic advantages, forcing our hand at buying into the illusion.

I've been a musician for many years, started playing guitar when I was around 12. I've also taught myself bass, keyboards, and home studio recording over the years. Metal has been in my blood from the beginning but it's not the only style that interests me. Today I am mostly into ambient, electronic, native american and for lack of better description "world" type genres.

I compose and record soundtracks for a few different film studios. Though, nothing major at the moment.

My Interests

I'm into intelligent conversation with interesting personalities. My interests are in esoteric phenomena such as ancient archaeology, spiritual sciences, UFOs/aliens, anything that stimulates the mind, bring it on.

I'd like to meet:

Music:

Movies:

Super hero and anti-hero flicks. Know what an anti-hero is? Didn't think so. No, it's not a villain. Look it up!

Television:

I'm a sci-fi geek. YEA, SO WHAT, MR. SPOCK IS a ROLE MODEL OK?

Books:

I'm a conspriacy theorist and a freak of nature so anything goes.

Heroes:

My Blog

Summoning of the Birds

I went on a hike today and did not take the path i had originally mapped out. Instead, i found myself in a horse pasture on one side and a reservoir on other. These horses looked old but n...
Posted by Olaf's band of mighty warriors on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:19:00 PST

Longjohns on the Freeway

When I changed residences in September '06, my friend and I packed both our pickup trucks with my stuff. Amazingly, everything fit in both our trucks and off we went. I'm on the ...
Posted by Olaf's band of mighty warriors on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:10:00 PST

Buddhism

Living in the Bay Area, I've come across many people into Buddhism who are really cynical, unhappy and judgmental. I speak of westerners into Buddhism, not those who were raised with t...
Posted by Olaf's band of mighty warriors on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:25:00 PST

The Death of Jack Daniels

From the JD web site: One morning in 1905, Jack arrived at work and tried to open his safe in the office but he couldn't remember the combination. He impatiently kicked the safe and broke his big toe...
Posted by Olaf's band of mighty warriors on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:54:00 PST

Taking a Bath

When I broke my foot last month I was forced to shower awkwardly. Most people would not even try to get in the shower on one leg, the other foot in a cast wrapped in plastic bags but that is wha...
Posted by Olaf's band of mighty warriors on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:38:00 PST

Cloneboy

Last weekend there was some great weather so I figured I'd go for a hike up in the hills near Tilden. I always get confused up there with finding trailheads so I put the directions on my palm pi...
Posted by Olaf's band of mighty warriors on Tue, 09 May 2006 05:38:00 PST

My Toaster Oven Caught Fire

My most commonly used kitchen appliance is a toaster oven. I like to cook but get lazy so the stove is not an every day thing for me. I don't like to clean so the larger oven gets even les...
Posted by Olaf's band of mighty warriors on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:46:00 PST

Olaf now owns my kitchen table

I moved into a new place last week and one thing I neglected to do was plan for my cat's comfort. He absolutely has to have a perch to see outside. I always took it for granted because he ...
Posted by Olaf's band of mighty warriors on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:58:00 PST

Roger Waters

At some point, most of us were exposed to Pink Floyd and from that point, formed an opinion. For me, my first listen was Dark Side of the Moon and naturally my reaction was favorable - even thou...
Posted by Olaf's band of mighty warriors on Fri, 12 May 2006 04:15:00 PST

Cooking with Jalapenos

I was cooking up some Kung Pao and thought a yellow jalapeno would be good to add for more flavor. You need to be careful handling their inside skin. When I cut them up, I usually...
Posted by Olaf's band of mighty warriors on Wed, 03 May 2006 10:38:00 PST