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theHelephant

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About Me

The tide will turn as the seasons change, the sun will set as the moon still wanes, the winds will blow and the heavens will rain...As the mountain falls the seas will rise, the sands will shift the lands divide, the fires will burn and as ash fills the sky...The oceans will dry the deserts will drown, the lightning will strike the thunder will sound and as a rain of dust falls to the ground... The tide will turn...

My Interests

Guitar, Music, Gigs, Art-in all it's forms, Libraries, Reading, Movies, Tattoos, Shrines, Museums, Galleries, History, Camping, Road Trips, Dogs, but cats are cool too, the dark side of the force, odd time signatures and alternate tunings.

I'd like to meet:

People with similiar interests, especially musicians.

Music:

Devil...Every week combatmusicradio.com. Lately- Grails, Jesu, Om, Corrupted, Explosions in the Sky, Blood and Time, Piggy Demos, Salome, Project:Failing Flesh, Rwake, US Christmas, Hour of 13, Year of No Light, Middian, Baroness, Grinch, Agalloch, Minsk, Grotus, Deathspell Omega, Intronaut, Angels of Light, Earth, Red Sparowes, Hammers of Misfortune, Oxbow, Knut, Mouth of the Architect, SunnO))), Asunder, Jarboe, Mogwai, Opeth, Made out of Babies, Khanate, Plotkin, Pelican, Ludicra, Mono, Harvestmen, Bad Livers, Tone, Isis, old Rush+Maiden+VoiVod, countless others. Old reliables - NEUROSIS, Melvins, Patton, Fugazi, J.Lizard, Tool, BHSurfers, Swans, FlamingLips, Floyd, Sabbath, Zappa, N.Young, Waylon, Willie, Hank, Ry Cooder, old country and blues, certain jazz and fusion, a bit of noise and experimental, most classical, some soundtracks and alot of guitar nerd stuff.

Movies:

Lynch, Jarmusch, Santa Sangre, Gummo, Brothers Quay, Angel Heart, Shawshank, Delicatessan, City of Lost Children, CohenBros, Waters, Live at Pompeii, Apoca-Blade-Lamb- Lunch-Driver, Videodrome, Requim of a Dream, Braveheart, Lone Star, Fight Club, Sling Blade, Alien, Rivers Edge, Memento, 12 Monkeys, Brasil, so many others...

Television:

PBS, HBO, History, A+E, Biography, Jeopardy, Ken Burns, Daily Show, Simpsons, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks, Young Ones and others when I find the need to turn off my brain.

Books:

I've recently read books on Ian Curtis, Leavenworth Prison, Hendrix, Mumia's banned NPR essays, Iron Maiden, Steve Earle, Pink Floyd, Celtic Forst, Choosing Death, Lemmy, Dance of Days. Within the past two years or so- some of the books I've read: Suttree and The Crossing- C. McCarthy, That Old Ace in the Hole and Accordian Crimes-A. Proulx, King Rat-J.Clavel, Back to Wando Passo-D.Payne, A Man In Full-T.Wolfe, Maximum Bob-E.Leonard, Journey Into Darkness-J.Douglas, Facing Rushmore-D.Martin, A Son of the Circus-J.Irving, Matters of Chance-J.Heine, Flags of our Fathers- J.Bradly, Bookmakers Daughter-B.Abbott, Light in August-W.Faulkner, amoungst others. Some favorite books: Beach Music-P.Conroy, The Cider House Rules-J.Irving, Where the Red Fern Grows-W.Rawls, Where White Men Fear To Tread-R.Means, Crazy Love-D.Martin, White Doves at Mourning- J.L. Burke, The Count of Monte Cristo-A.Dumas, Last of the Mohicans-J.F.Cooper, Shipping News- A.Proulx, and others. My favorite authors are Pat Conroy, Annie Proulx, Cormac McCarthy, John Irving and James Lee Burke and sometimes Steven King.

Heroes:

Nana: Laura Mabel Andrews Thomas{1896-1984}

My Blog

Given to the Rising and some <N> memories...

The latest NEUROSIS- 'Given to the Rising' came out today.  All I will say about this one is that- it was worth the wait.... amazing and to me completley inspiring. I was thinking about when I w...
Posted by theHelephant on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:00:00 PST

Brooklyn Masonic Temple

Those two shows in Brooklyn were amazing. US Christmas opened the first night and brought some Appalachian woop-ass to Brooklyn in more ways than one. At one point during thier set- Nate {the singer/g...
Posted by theHelephant on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:34:00 PST

Bob Dotolo

  My friend- BOB DOTOLO decided he'd had enough pain from this world. He left August 14th and is missed by many. I went off the deep end and am just now working my way back. Mear words can not e...
Posted by theHelephant on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:33:00 PST

Appalachian Psychodelia:The Life and Times of US Christmas

Appalachia. The word conjures up images of mountain folk handling snakes at a tent revival while sneaking sips of moonshine as the banjo and fiddle play tunes handed down from generation to generation...
Posted by theHelephant on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:25:00 PST

Neurosis, Red Sparowes and Grails- GAMH San Francisco

Neurosis is the only band,  I would actually buy a plane ticket and rent a car to see live. Now having said that I will drive quite a few hours to see alot of music that inspires, but&n...
Posted by theHelephant on Wed, 16 May 2007 11:10:00 PST

GRAILS in the District...

Last night I went to see GRAILS play at this little hole in the wall in NE DC called the Rock-N-Roll Hotel. I got there late so I missed the opening bands, but luckily not a note of Grails.  For ...
Posted by theHelephant on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:41:00 PST